Garrett Dash Nelson

@en-dash.bsky.social

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a polity is a place

The Louis Vuitton pattern but it’s LW and Lowly Worm
a planning diagram for Boston's Central Artery
Wikipedia article for Daniel Gookin
screenshot of aerial images of round waterbodies in Massachusetts
Screenshot of an Observable notebook with a line graph showing the home values of neighborhoods traversed by the MBTA Fitchburg Line
Web banner reading "The author has never been in Boston. All the information has been extracted from sketches posted in Wikimedia Commons, and from pictures and videos posted in the internet as well."
Newspaper article from 1938 with headline "W.P.A. Is Almost a Separate Social System"
A kid's worksheet titled "meet the digital citizens" with illustrated characters colored in by a child
Text screenshot reading: (c) "Classical architecture" means the architectural tradition derived from the forms, principles, and vocabulary of the architecture of Greek and Roman antiquity, and as later developed and expanded upon by such Renaissance architects as Alberti, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, and Palladio; such Enlightenment masters as Robert Adam, John Soane, and Christopher Wren; such 19th-century architects as Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Robert Mills, and Thomas U. Walter; and such 20th-century practitioners as Julian Abele, Daniel Burnham, Rafael Carmoega, Charles F. McKim, John Russell Pope, Julia Morgan, and the firm of Delano and Aldrich. Classical architecture encompasses such styles as Neoclassical, Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Beaux-Arts, and Art Deco.
a chatgpt prompt asking for an image of "the historian Leopold von Ranke taking a long and exhausted drag on a cigarette," and the generated image
Text from Hobbes's Leviathan: "Another infirmity of a commonwealth is the immoderate. greatness of a town, when it is able to furnish out of its own circuit the number and expense of a great army: as also the great number of corporations ; which are as it were many lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of anatural man. To which may be added the liberty of disputing against absolute power, by pretenders to political prudence ; which though bred for the most part in the lees of the people, yet-animated by false doctrines. are perpetually meddling with the fundamental laws, to the molestation of the commonwealth; like the little worms, which phy- sicians call ascarides."
A map of the world on an equidistant azimuthal projection centered on Boston, with cities labeled at 1,000, 5,000, and 10,000 miles distances.
A web search modal with "Date of publication" followed by a seemingly random list of dates and date ranges
Ben Cosgrove’s hand holding a market basket Chelmsford golden ginger ale can
A tweet from me on Sept 15, 2020 reading "A hallmark quality of centrism is the inability to distinguish between things that are annoying and things that are bad"
Screenshot of the Geographic Names Information System database entry for "Gulf of America"
Summary report for "Gulf of Mexico" from the Geographic Name Information System
Schematic engineering diagram of a kiosk
Excerpt from a report with photographs of the kiosk being used in various ways and the title "Evaluation: A place to be."
Photographs of people looking into a large cylinder which is displaying films
Two photographs of people accessing a telephone on a kiosk labeled "Travel/Social/Health/Public Services"
Excerpt from a printed report, with text under the heading "What's Happening and How Do I Get There" next to a photograph of a man looking at a map kiosk
A diagram of features using curving lines and labels to describe categories like "question/answer machine" and "talking map"
A photograph of steel cylinders topped by white balloons, the design of an urban information kiosk in Boston from 1969
Pie chart showing the number of Americans living in places with high or low likelihood of snow on Christmas Day
text reading: "newsletter with important upcoming dates. As mentioned in a previous email, we will be having a Publishing party for our class on December 12 from 1:00-1:30. This is a chance for your children to share their writing with you. They have been learning about and working on creating their own informational texts. Students have been researching"