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this is 99% invisible i'm roman mars I'm sorry, but if you don't love maps, I don't think we can be friends anymore.

I think there are people nowadays who admit that they don't love puppies and kittens and children, but nobody's going to admit

that they don't love maps.

Maps are awesome, as art, as story, as representation of truth, as representation of lies.

Really interesting visual information.

It's a little bit like a puzzle.

You're solving it, really engages your brain.

But it also is an invitation in a way nothing else is.

You know, music, somebody else is playing it.

But the map, it's a score for you to live your own life to go there and do that even if you're looking at 12th century

Siberia or something and this is the kind of map I really like along with maps of my own neighborhood.

And if your only experience with maps is a AAA road atlas,

then Rebecca Solnut's new book will blow your mind.

This is Rebecca Solnut with Infinite City, a San Francisco Atlas.

It's both a collection of maps and a proposition that any city is infinite,

because it can be described in infinite ways.

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