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Another fantastic entry from Strange Maps, this one showing the populations of China's 34 provinces relative to countries of similar population. The top ten: Guangdong (113 million) Germany Henan (99 million) MexicoShandong (92 million) PhilippinesSichuan (87 million) VietnamJiangsu (75 million)

Great Wall - First Printing Session I finally got those zeros and ones carved over the weekend, and this morning I printed both the mountain and binary blocks: Then I added a bokashi across the top to complete a snowy mountain scene: There will be some characters in this space added later, but first I'll be working on the bottom portion of the print.

By Dr. James R. Ruolngul ABSTRACT Expectations run high after the successful conclusion of the India-ASEAN FTA negotiations that had been dragging on for years. Considering the total population of India and the ASEAN countries, the volume of trade between them, the enormity of their GDP and the

New Delhi, Sept 12 : India wants to open up the untapped, backward but resource-blessed North East states to the economically fast-paced Southeast Asia to spur trade, which can eventually uplift the region to match the nation’s growth trajectory.

Here’s some great information on traveling from UK to China on a train the whole way. clipped from www.trans-siberian-railway.co.uk This website covers a 7,650 mile adventure travelling by train from the UK to China.

In  the posting The Principles of Personal Productivity (on the Mac), I introduced the fact that: The keyboard is faster than the mouse. So let me repeat this: The keyboard is faster than the mouse. And just in case you missed it, here it is again: The keyboard is faster than the mouse.

Magazine cover designers never disappoint me. I can always count on a map or two every month. This month I present magazines with the word "New" or "News" in their title. How about that? The New Republic August 13, 2008 Cover story: Trading Places by Alan Ehrenhalt The demographic inversion of the American city.

Far Outliers' two most recent excerpts touch upon the catastrophic failure of Tanzania's one-country socialist project in the 1970s and suggests that the brekadowns in states in the former Communist bloc and in Africa had more than timing in common. Over at Inkless Wells I've read that Canada is probably heading for a federal election soon.

China Mountains In this print I want the area above the Great Wall to look like snowy mountains, so I start with the satellite map screen capture I showed you yesterday: and I open it in Photoshop. Photoshop is an amazing program that I firmly believe can do anything at all, but what I want to do here is very simple.

Beginning the Great Wall Print Click image to enlarge For the past 5 or 6 weeks I've had very little illustration work, which has given me an opportunity to feel what it would be like if I were a full-time printmaker. I like it! But lately the day job is ramping up again so I'm back to being a printmaker in my spare time.