🌎 stacks + packs + maps
ISSUE #179
MAKING
The paper goods are stacking up for the inaugural Zinestack Paper Drop, and I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the Welcome Packs before they ship out next week.
I’ve shared a few glimpses of what’s inside the Welcome Pack, but there are still some surprises tucked into each envelope. Supporting Members will receive the Welcome Pack, while Paper Drop Members will receive the Welcome Pack plus three seasonal Paper Drops, including the very first one – shipping in September.
Consider this your invitation to get in on the ground floor of Zinestack and receive the first stack before anyone else!
Supporting Member — $5/month or $50/year
Receive the Zinestack Welcome Pack. Available worldwide.Paper Drop Member — $150/year
Receive the Welcome Pack plus three seasonal Paper Drops. Paper Drop shipping is currently limited to U.S. addresses.
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LOVING
The David Rumsey Map Collection is a single-subject online Curiosity Cabinet on steroids. More than 149,000 of its 200,000+ items have been scanned and digitized at an astonishingly high resolution.
My favorite section is the interactive globes. You can spin and zoom your way around terrestrial and celestial globes from different eras, getting close enough to inspect the hand lettering, illustrations, symbols, and artwork. There are globes from the 1600s and 1700s, a facsimile of a 1492 globe, and even a contemporary map of the moon.
It is part design archive, part history lesson, and a wonderful place to wander and get lost in.
A facsimile of Martin Behaim’s “Erdapfel,” the oldest surviving terrestrial globe, created in 1492. This facsimile was made by E.G. Ravenstein in 1908 and is considered the best available reproduction. The original globe, painted by Georg Glockendon, is held in Nuremberg, Germany.
THINKING
Sometimes I think I think too much. And then I realize the irony that thinking about thinking too much is just more thinking.
– Jen