#harold fisk

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Map depicting the changing course of the Mississippi river. Harold Fisk 1944

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Mississippi River Meander Belt

Harold Fisk

1944

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river course dialogue

in order of first appearance:

alluvial valley of the mississippi river: ancient courses, harold fisk in this hole, cat power the next time you say forever, neko case water & air, cat power to think that i once loved you, the drones vengeance is sleeping, neko case cold reactor, everything everything king rides by, cat power the passion, jeanette winterson fox confessor brings the flood, neko case what do you think will happen now?, owen pallett it just doesn't happen, destroyer a private understanding, protomartyr it's gonna happen, parquet courts why be happy when you could be normal?, jeanette winterson and our faces, my heart, as brief as photos, john berger life on the mississippi, mark twain why engineers can't control rivers, practical engineering

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So I have been stuck staring at Harold Fisk's maps of the 1944 geological survey of the Mississippi for the last two days. This article has a source link from which I got the super high res versions of them. Under the cut are some desktop wallpapers (1920x1080) I cropped from them.

I just love them so much.

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Left: A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Right: By comparison, a map created using lidar shows shifts over the past 75 years. Erosion and changes in flow caused the channel to widen in the middle of the image and migrate toward the south. Source; https://www.nationalgeographic.com/.../mississippi.../

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“My vessel is launched on the boundless main and my sails are spread to the wind ! In the whole of the world there is nothing that stays unchanged. All is in flux. Any shape that is formed is constantly shifting. Time itself flows steadily by in perpetual motion. Think of a river: no river can ever arrest its current, nor can the fleeting hour. But as water is forced downstream by the water behind it and presses no less on the water ahead, so time is in constant flight and pursuit, continually new. The present turns into the past and the future replaces the present; every moment that passes is new and eternally changing.”

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

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current gender goals: harold fisk's mapping of the alluvial valley of the lower mississippi river

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This is an exquisite contrast/addition to older meander maps:

Ghosts of Rivers Past

Artist Dan Coe uses lidar data to create portraits of rivers and their past meanders. Used aerially, lidar produces high-resolution elevation data that provides a glimpse of features that are currently hidden beneath vegetation.  (Image credit: D. Coe; via Colossal) Read the full article

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I love old maps — here’s the Harold Fisk Mississippi River map— and what it looks like today. The Fisk maps show how the course has changed over the centuries and millennia—and it’s so colorful!

It almost looks like a Signac painting.

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Fisk Radiolette and Air-King radio, 1930s

Left: Fisk Radiolette, model 33. Black and green phenolic. Australian, c. 1936. Right: Harold Van Doren and John Gordon Rideout, Air-King radio. Plaskon urea formaldehyde. American, c. 1934.

Scanned from the book Art Deco 1910-1939.

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Clint doesn't comment, because the last avengers team he had been on was Kate's West Coast, than before that he hadn't been on one officially for some time. He misses the times when he was with his friend, he thinks the last time may have beeen before he even had his bed-stuy apartment. He can't be certain.

Technically, he had been on the SECRET avengers, but the problem was that it was meant to be SECRET. It felt like forever, and how had Blade ended up there but than he's not a fan favorite nor did he had have specific strengths that no one else had. OKAY. He had trick arrows, but you put him next to Tony Stark or any guy with neat gadgets paired with their super brain?

❝ I mean I have been traveling. ❞ Settled down in LA for a bit, but otherwise. Clint has called the road home more than anything. Even, when he got the call from Steve to meet him in Doverton which turned into a whole Carnage thing. He didn't stay in New York when all of that was over.

He had his little ragtag bunch here and there. West Coast.

He bumps Tony back, doesn't break either of their hearts with the reminders that Clint's an alcoholic who burned a lot of bridges with their friends. Who put on two costumes and went out to fight crime when superheroes were banned. He ignored that law blatantly while Wilson Fisk was mayor. HE CONTRIBUTED TO MAKING THINGS FOR OTHERS.

A special taskforce got approved specifically to take down Clint's Ronin.

HE'D KILL TO BE ON A TEAM WITH HIS FRIENDS AGAIN.

❝ So you'll pitch a tent, sleep under the stars, smell the dirt? ❞ He's grinning like a cat who caught the morning bird. Tony's little scoffs were something that he collected with pride, and that was another win for him. ❝ Robin Hood has nothing on me, bet he couldn't do archery, STANDING on a horse's back, and backflipping off. ❞ One of his many tricks, a not so humble brag.

❝ I think maybe we did, yeah. ⸺⸻ I.. mom... ❞

It's as Tony points that out, that he thinks he may be right. Clint had his own anger, but Barney's was different. He thinks that maybe he and Edith did have their own little thing. Sure, that may have come from Clint's desperate need to be a good son, the perfect son. He tried to work hard, do good, and be better. Do as asked, so that he'd be loved by mom and maybe dad would want to be a better day. Followed his brother around, followed his mother around, and would constantly look to Harold in the butcher shop as a five year swept the floor over and over, trying to see if he was impressed with his help.

IT'S SO TRUE. He rolls his eyes at Tony, because he's got an act and image. A lie to tell himself. Clint went from the guy who wanted to be taken seriously to whatever he was now. Keeping up a dumb act, playing the joke. ❝ Oh no, my reputation. ❞ He mumbles sarcastically, but doesn't reinforce the act. He can drop it.

Clint chuckles when Tony sits forward to stretch. ❝ Old man, ❞ he points out and than starts to it forward as well as Tony offers for him to lie down with him Clint's got nothing better, he was just going to stay up all night and stare at a tv screen, space out in his own thoughts and process the day. The AA meeting not an hour ago and all the emotions.

Talking about Edith. Tony. Carol. Their eyes on him as he said it. The look. The pride.

❝ Nineteen seasons, hundred and sixty four episodes. ❞ He'll probably change it after two or three episodes because even Clint could only take so much conspiracy theory.

❝ Cast up, so you figure that out and make our puzzle pieces fit. ❞

Yes, he'll lie down with him.

Tony smiles and bumps his shoulder against Clint's. "I'm glad you stayed. Need to get you back on a team. This first though. I went to Thor and Steve about restarting the team. I specifically said I missed them. You know. A team? Family. Then I don't know what happened. How did we end up with Blade on the team and not you? T'Challa's in charge but I don't even think that's it. It was just like a thing happened and we were there and then anyone else who was there just ended up on the team."

I'M SORRY.

He scoffs at the glamping comment. "The tech and the camping were separate thoughts. Anytime I'm with you with horses it's like the wild west or fucking medieval England and you're dressed up as Robin Hood. I'm gonna bring my phone with me, but I don't think that'll make it glamping."

He smiled at the new memory. "That was a good one. I bet you two got up to all kinds of mischief that you don't remember."

It was making more sense. Clint was making more sense. Everything from the absolute willingness to do anything Natasha told him to when they first met because he had learned so young that you did what you were told or you were denied love. To the cockiness. To the strong moral compass. Even the fact that he had given Steve so much shit when he first joined the team. He was getting so many pieces of Clint filled in.

"It's so true, Clint. But if you want I can keep pretending you're simple. But I will in fact be pretending."

He yawns and stretches, the joints in his back popping. "Lie down with me?" he asks. "I'll keep being offended by your stupid show, but from a reclined position. What position is more comfortable for you? Cast down or up?"

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Harold Fisk - cartografía la franja de 64 kilómetros del río Mississippi (1944)

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Harold Fisk, Meander Maps of Mississippi River, mapping over time