Jeff Shyluk's Worlds of Wonder

Back in March, I mused about the possibility of globes based not on Earth, but fictional worlds. Some weeks later, Jeff set to work making that dream a reality. Tonight, Mongo and Krypton arrived, and as you can see in the video above, they are stunning.

Please note that in the video I messed up the URL for Jeff's blog. It's really http://shyluk.blogspot.com/.

Here are some images:

You can see how Jeff created these globes on his blog, JSVB (Jeff Shyluk's Visual Blog):

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Part Nine
Part Ten
Part Eleven
Part Twelve
Part Thirteen
Part Fourteen
Part Fifteen
Part Sixteen
Part Seventeen
Part Eighteen
Part Nineteen
Part Twenty

States Earl Has Visited

I almost shouldn't count North Dakota, since my parents took me there when I was an infant and I don't recall anything about it.

Sometime reasonably soon I'd like to visit Texas to see the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Florida, to see Cape Canaveral; Washington, DC, for any number of monuments and museums; New York, for the same reason; Louisiana, for New Orleans; Massachusetts, for Boston; Maine, to see Stephen King's house; Illinois, for Chicago; and Wyoming, for Yellowstone. Oh, and South Dakota for Mount Rushmore. 

Domain of Earl, May 2012

I've always loved maps, particularly political maps. I also love exploring our world. I thought it might be fun to combine these two geographic obsessions into one amusement: what if I carved an imaginary empire by drawing straight lines between the farthest-flung cities and towns I've visited thus far?

Thus I present the Domain of Earl, a benevolent but unrecognized empire composed of borders drawn between Fairbanks, Alaska; Dawson City, Yukon; Lynn Lake, Manitoba; Timmins, Ontario; Hull, Quebec; London, Ontario; Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; Honolulu, Hawaii; Singapore; Seoul, South Korea; and Tokyo, Japan.

The nice thing about an empire of this nature is that I can vastly increase its size with a simple trip to the Mayan Riviera or the UK. Also, I have no pesky subjects to worry about or wars of conquest to manage. Eat your heart out, Napoleon.