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Thread: *** Feb/March Lite Challenge: Mapping a Myth CLOSED ***

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    check ... so, where is EST, I'l like to enter it into my iphone in "world clock" - but it asks for a city ... will the voting still be for 5 days, concidering the moving of the deadline?
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    New York City is EST

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    Yep, New York is EST which is of course totally unrelated to the location of the person that will be doing the closing....

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    *lol*... but of course, wouldn't think of you favoring your location torstan ... and as it happens, I have allready added NY to my iphone as I have two friends living there - so couldn't be easier Thanks both
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    Actually that does bring up an important point. As the US does daylight saving differently to most of the rest of the world, EST is currently GMT -4 rather than GMT -5 as normal.

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    *lol*... well, as long as the time is fixed to NY, I guess we just have to adjust our watches accordingly ... and then we can try to get the US to follow the rest of the world afterwards... *lol*
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    Good luck with that.

    Half my electronics come from home (UK) so it took a lot of care to figure out what time it was yesterday morning...

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    So, you're not a native to NY?
    I've changed countries too, from Denmark to Sweden - so not that big of a change - and my company is still in Denmark so I go there often.
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    Nope - I move around quite a lot.

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    Moutarde did a lovely illustration of a myth, complete with source materials and what appeared to be a nice fantasy research context. Lovely picture of a scroll that might be described as a map, technically well executed and integrated with the context. But it just didn't seem well suited to the purpose of being a map.

    Greason Wolfe went to the other extreme, opting for what appeared to be a fully geologically accurate illustration. It was very photographic and well executed, but it seemed to me to be lacking "mapness".

    tilt did what best matched my mental model of a "map" of those presented for the challenge. It showed the important features of a place for the purpose of describing a myth. Was it technically the best executed from a technical standpoint? Probably not by the current standards of most of the guild folks. Did it look like a photograph? Certainly not. It had a few of the external flourishes that would mark it as a picture of a map (some of the shading on the map appeared to be trying to invoke a parchment-type background and it was clear from the symbol style that it was intended to look like a picture of a woodcut from an old book), but those flourishes were all very subordinate to the map.

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