Venice

Venice has lots of water everywhere. You can’t miss it, really. But it’s fun. Especially between mid September and April. That’s always the fun part of the year if you live really close to the sea. Sea floods! Yay!
With so much water everywhere this is kind of a problem if you have to move from [...]

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I love the world

This commercial for the Discovery Channel is amazing.
Never gets old huh? Nope.
It kinda makes you wanna … break into song? Yep.
I love the mountains, I love the clear blue skies
I love big bridges, I love when great whites fly
I love the whole world, and all its sights and sounds
I love the ocean, I love real [...]

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camouflage

I was playing with ArcView a few days ago. I loaded some data and watched. Because the .shp file is huge it loads slowwwwly. This is also why it’s so great. I cannot decide if this is art or GIS. :-) It’s nice. Watch the video below and try to guess the country :-)

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maybe this will help…

Can I get my exam results, please? I can’t wait any longer.

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geography of stupid questions

Various people are asking me a question: what does a geographer do? They all assume, that I’ll be a teacher. NO, I won’t. Then, they want to know where geographers that don’t teach, work. This gets pretty annoying, after you explain it to a third person in a month. But I guess one of my [...]

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phones: calling a person or a place?

I’ve been reading some articles for my thesis and found an interesting quote:
“Mobile phones permit us to phone a person directly,
not to phone a place in the hope that the person is there.“
– A. Malecki, 1993*
Do you call persons or do you call places?
 
*Malecki, A., 1993. Digital development in rural areas: potentials and [...]

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A geographer

Exupery said this: “A geographer is a scholar who knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts.”
Now a few facts:

I’m studying geography so I guess this makes me a geographer.
I have to learn rivers, mountains, cities, caves, lakes and things like that for a test.
Not for the whole world … just [...]

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Oops, wrong turn.

I live in an old medieval town with narrow, zig-zagging streets (imagine Venice, just without water canals). There is a logic in the ground plan: two main streets with lots of smaller, more or less perpendicular streets. No matter where you go, you always end up on the coast. Yet, tourists seem lost and frequently [...]

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