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I really like this article but I don't know why! > Melbourne-based Anton Thomas drew North America by hand Why North America instead of Australia, m8? Potenti
by throwup238 3y ago
I really like this article but I don't know why!
> Melbourne-based Anton Thomas drew North America by hand
Why North America instead of Australia, m8? Potential market size? That's so American :-)
> a freelance cartographer
What the hell is a freelance cartographer, what does he do, and who are his colleagues? Buster Bluth and a bunch of Earth observation satellites? That's one competitive market.
> I was working as a cook in the old port of Montreal. And in classic Montreal fashion, we had littered the apartment with things we found on the side of the road. And one was this big fridge. It had all these rusty, brown stains on it. My housemate Douglas, from Zimbabwe, had been urging me to draw him something as a memento, since he knew I was going to go back to New Zealand. He had painted the fridge with white house paint to cover up the stains and I thought, “What about the fridge?”
That's it, I'm moving to Australia.
I only collect maps that predate the steam engine but I would love to buy a huge wall size print!
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- defrost 3y ago> Why North America instead of Australia, m8? * He'd already just completed an Australiasian map, * There's 23 countries in North America Vs. just the one in Australia (especially now that Prince Leonard of the Principality of Hutt River and Princess Shirley have passed on) .. borders are catnip to some cartographers.
- saalweachter 3y agoMontreal is in Canada, you know.
- throwup238 3y agoDon’t tell them that!
- ismokedoinks 3y agoSame thing that any freelance graphic designer or drafter would do. I've made maps for landscape architects and law firms before, for instance.
- samstave 3y ago> a freelance cartographer This guy doesn't fold to Big Map. Fjords his own path, climbs his own mountains and is not fenced into you're completely plain and flat plateau of mediocrity you call "cartography" No, this man is a pioneer, finding excitement around every butte, jetty and isthmus! He peaks when you valley, he glades when you marsh, and he is a fertile alluvial flood-plain to your cold, damp peat-marsh of a life. A bread-basket of agricultural abundance and agrarian love-making, the seat of civilization! to your barren Gobi desert of a life. Carter the Cartographer! Otherwise known as MAP MAN!
- iudqnolq 3y ago> For Thomas, now—for the first time in his life—a freelance cartographer, who tours the world exhibiting the North America map, geography is a bit of a homecoming Seems like the surrounding context answers your question. This freelance cartographer is someone who supports himself by talking about a cool map he drew.