Photos From The Road

Cold Splinters wrote a few times about Mikael Kennedy and Sean Sullivan's Ramblers Bone, the Wolverine-sponsored road trip the two guys took this last spring. Mikael was even generous enough to give us a few exclusive photos to post.In any case, the final culmination of the whole thing will take place TONIGHT, November 29th, down in SoHo, so come on out and enjoy yourself. And despite the fact that Mikael's best photos are of me, it's a hell of a show (I know, I helped put it up yesterday), so maybe I'll see you there....MP3: Elvis Presley - True Love Travels on A Gravel Road

A VISIT WITH PETER PARNALL

I don't know why it's taken so long to post these photos, but last summer I found my way up to southern Maine to visit one of my favorite artists in the history of artists, Peter Parnall. He showed us around his house, talked our heads off about working with Byrd Baylor and told us a few stories about the little people that live in the woods behind his house. More to come, but for now, check out the photos (taken by Kalen) after the jump. 

Cabin Time

Geoff Holstad, who used to write a post once in a while on this here rag (ahem), is off on his second Cabin Time adventure as we speak. If you're not hip to CT, here's a little more info:

Cabin-Time is loading up a caravan of vehicles to leave from Grand Rapids, Michigan, picking up 18 artists on the way through Chicago and Minneapolis to finally land in a small hand-built cabin outside of Grand Marais, Minnesota.  Nationally and internationally regarded artists are coming from around the U.S., the list of which can be found on the C.T. site.Cabin-Time is a roaming artist residency to remote places.  The first C.T. trip was with seven Michigan-based artists this past January, to an 8-bunk C.C.C. cabin in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.  The artists spent 5 days making work both independently and collaboratively, entirely off-grid in Michigan's northwoods.  Photos, videos, and work made during and responding to the residency can be seen here.

Have fun out there. Congrats, GH.MP3: Todd Rundgren - We Gotta Get You a Woman

Bonnie Peterson

Hetch Hetchy Blueprint (54" H x 68" W): 1908 map on blueprint of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir site showing lands owned and to be acquired by the City of San Francisco.Muir Trail Lakes, Peaks, and Passes (72" H x 84" W): Heat transfers of Sierra maps, painted and embroidered with trail notes from backpacking trip, photographs on satin, silk, brocade and velvet, stitched.  The borders are embroidered with John Muir's descriptions of the high Sierra from the late 19th and early 20th century."Of Bogs and Benthos" (52" H x 72" W): Scientific graphs, limnology terms, lake chemistry concepts, demographics and climate change challenges are presented. The work is part of an artist/scientist project made possible by: The University of Wisconsin – Center for Limnology, the Trout Lake Research Station, the National Science Foundation, and the Long Term Ecological Research Program.++++++++++++**Much more here.

Ramblers Bone

If there is a heaven for hitchhikersthe road to angel falls in Zionis the road they dream of

Every morning I wake up to the sight of a lonely New Mexico desert, a landscape that's worlds away from the apartment I call home. Bummer. The photo is part of Mikael Kennedy's Odysseus and it's quite possibly my favorite thing that I own. (Brian Wilson, your 1 of only 100 signed copies of the hand-written sheet music to "Our Prayer" is a close second.)  Mikael and I have been buddies for a good while now, and two months ago, while spending the month living in Marfa, TX, Mikael flew down to visit and spend a few days in BBNP. It was our first time working together (I wrote an article for Garden and Gun while he took the photos), but certainly not the last.While Mikael was down south, he was all smiles, enjoying the nothingness of southwest Texas and getting his head straight for the adventure he's on now. And holy hell is it an adventure. The project, called Ramblers Bone, involves a sponsorship from Wolverine that allows both Mikael and Sean Sullivan to take a road trip through the western part of these United of States. Not bad.As promised, Mikael sent me a few pictures from the road (Zion to be exact) with the little ditty above he wrote to accompany them. If you're craving more - and I'm guessing you are - you can see more photos after the jump and follow the entire adventure here.

IMUS MAP

Past winners of American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor, the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society, include National Geographic, the CIA Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which, according to Slate.com, is "basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore." The map took Imus 6,000 hours (seven days a week for two years straight) to complete.Read more about Imus' map here, which includes relief shading instead of the standard hypsometric tinting (darker colors for lower elevations, lighter colors for higher altitudes). This gives the map a more accurate portrait of America's terrain.