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Revising Humbead’S Revised Map Of The World: Taking A Virtual Folk Music World Into Virtual Reality, Michael Kramer Apr 2022

Revising Humbead’S Revised Map Of The World: Taking A Virtual Folk Music World Into Virtual Reality, Michael Kramer

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Humbead’s Revised Map of the World reimagines the globe from the perspective of the West Coast folk scene and merging hippie counterculture. First printed in 1968, with subsequent iterations produced in 1969 and 1970, it was created by Rick Shubb and Earl Crabb, two Bay Area folk music aficionados. Like Saul Steinberg’s famous New Yorker magazine cover View of the World from 9th Avenue, published in 1976, Humbead’s is meant to be a funny artifact that cartographically distorts Euclidean space and Mercator projection in order to suggest a more accurate “mattering map.” It presents a folk pangea in which centers …


The Penn & Slavery Project Augmented Reality Tour, Kathleen Brown, Alexis Broderick, Vanjessica Gladney, Meaghan Moody, Dallas Taylor, Matt Tidridge Jul 2021

The Penn & Slavery Project Augmented Reality Tour, Kathleen Brown, Alexis Broderick, Vanjessica Gladney, Meaghan Moody, Dallas Taylor, Matt Tidridge

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