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Word clouds generated by analyzing language used by travelers describing the experience of a border or borderland between Europe and Asia.

Washington Post article — reflections on the significance of it all

A page layout from Poland of Today

This visualization captures my walking patterns around Cambridge (it does not include driving, running, cycling, etc). The data was collected in Moves (an iphone app) and "put on the map" using move-o-scope (move-o-scope.halftone.co). The data set…

This map of the city of Astrakhan' was produced by Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin and was included in the second volume (1774) of his work "Reise durch Russland zur Untersuchung der drei Natur-Reiche."

The Caucasus section of the Volkerkarte von Russland map.

A photograph of the young Vladimir Nabokov taken at KaDeWe, Berlin's department store, during his 6th year of exile, as the writer's handwritten caption indicates.