Tales from the MAP Room - Tramontana [A MAP publication][T.1]
This is the first post from the Minnows Accelerator Project (MAP). I feel we have enough authors to already make this a stimulating and vibrant collection of articles. Indeed, there is no underlying theme apart from being stimulating and vibrant, with points of view across the cultural spectrum of the arts and sciences.
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Tramontana
The Tramontana is a northern wind; in Italy this refers to the wind from the "trans montanus", beyond the Alps. The French "tramontane" was first used by Marco Polo in 1298 - although for a different northerly wind. But in modern Italian, the word "tramonto" also means sunset, so that Tramontana came to mean not just "beyond the mountains" but also "above the mountains"; and for Italians this meant the North Star.
Polaris is such a beacon for navigators that there developed the 17th century French saying "perdre la tramontane", meaning "to lose one's orientation", or "to be lost". So strong is the desire to be oriented that we have an aesthetic aversion to seeing a map with North at the bottom, as if seeing water flow up a mountain. We are accustomed to seeing our beliefs verified, and thereby strengthened. But the universe is far stranger than most can imagine, and the maps we have made will look as dated as Mediterranean portolans.
Please indulge yourself in looking at some maps upside-down; welcome to some of our "disorientations"!
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Have you been... entertained?
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Ok, finally edited the layout. I think look fine now. Just a reminder that Markdown and HTML mix in mysterious ways and that many HTML attributes are not processed in a Markdown environment.
Tramontana... I like it, pretty hip stuff man (-: Keep the curation going... I gotta check out MAP 6 !
Thanks! If I can create one of these every 3 or 4 days then this is the way to keep the MAP project going beyond one-off contests. And each featured author gets a cut of the rewards.
Anyway, concentrate on MAP6 for now, but I will have a look and see if any of your posts will look good in the coming themes - not really themes, just my preambles!
(-: ok, ty
Nice development!
I like the multilayered approach!
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Thanks! (although I need to edit that layout - annoyingly the steemit preview screen and chainnbb preview and the final pages, all have different widths.)
try writing in ghostwriter first, although it doesn't help much with the images and their placement. But is better to see layout of text in an all inclusive view
(ghostwriter is an app btw)
glad you got it (the layout) sorted
if you want any info, just hit me up
Thanks, I will try it one day. I end up doing it all in html but forget the limited attribute that work - it really is like doing a webpage in 1990!
lol, yes I know the feeling, even though I made my 1990's websites in 2006
This post has received a 0.28 % upvote from @drotto thanks to: @banjo.
Love this and the MAP:-) Thanks for doing this. Upvoted and resteemed.
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