http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4190 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Tue, 14 May 2013 15:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4190/comment-page-1#comment-7158 Saheli Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:31:10 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4190#comment-7158 I kind of wish I had the rendering skills to make a 3 dimension version of this kind of map for, say, California---several such maps, floating over each other, different partitions depending on your operating axis of identification. It's always intriguing to me how different subcultures carve up regions for themselves, and distance become a matter of convention. Who I'm with actually viscerally changes my sense of how long it will take to drive or BART somewhere, or whether it's reasonable to talk about going to LA for the weekend--or flying to India for three weeks. I kind of wish I had the rendering skills to make a 3 dimension version of this kind of map for, say, California—several such maps, floating over each other, different partitions depending on your operating axis of identification. It’s always intriguing to me how different subcultures carve up regions for themselves, and distance become a matter of convention. Who I’m with actually viscerally changes my sense of how long it will take to drive or BART somewhere, or whether it’s reasonable to talk about going to LA for the weekend–or flying to India for three weeks.

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