Biography/map project – all the places I’ve spent the night
A few weeks ago, in those crazy moments between turning off the light and actually falling asleep, I had an idea to make this map as a way of preserving memories: a map of everywhere I’ve spent the night in the UK. View Places I’ve spent the night in a larger map I’ll call it [...]
Navigating the fictional but real world
In Liverpool in 1998, I bought a book from a publisher clearance style bookshop called ‘The Breeders Box‘. It’s set, primarily, in New York, around Greenwich Village – where I have never been – and for the first four, five times I read it, I had to imagine what the area looked like, how the [...]
Southport is on the map
The Google map to be precise. On the default screen when you go to maps.google.co.uk – the level of scaling to show pretty much all the UK in one screen, Southport is listed alongside Liverpool and Preston – but numerous cities around the country, like Sheffield, York and Bradford, are missing. One zoom point further [...]