A 17-Year-Old Created This Insanely Detailed “Map Of Stereotypes”

[Uncle Joe]

Crazy-talented 17-year-old Slovakian artist Martin Vargic has an entire book of maps out now, which features this, the “Map of Stereotypes.”





The level of detail is insane, and the stereotypes, ranging from country-wide to regional, are quite hilarious.




Vargic told BuzzFeed: “The Map of Stereotypes is based on a normal world map I did, which took around three months to make.”




(snip)

“I gathered the data from a wide variety of sources; many were gathered from TV tropes and online forums.”



http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/map-of-stereotypes#.ju8ee4nj4

Maps from other regions of the world are on the link as well.

[Shandris]

1. Well, he certainly got Indiana right.

Even Hillary called us 'Indianoplace' instead of Indianapolis (although that will likely cost her, no doubt). Nothing here but cornfields and the 500.


Oh, and one of the cheapest costs of living in the entire United States, but hey, no one needs a cheap cost of living amirite (outside of Indy and Gary, naturally). Not that that doesn't mean things are expensive...just not AS expensive.

[gratuitous]

7. My friend lived in Richmond IN for a while

He and his wife moved into a beautiful three-story house just off the Earlham campus. This was many years ago, but the same house in Portland would have gone for $300,000 easily, even at that time. The price in Indiana was $40,000. The catch, of course, is that you had to live in Indiana.

[Shandris]

9. And that is, most certainly, the catch! =P n/t

[Jamastiene]

12. It is really cheap to live where I live too.

And no one WANTS to live here. It is cheap. That is why people live here. We can't afford a nicer place.

[Gemini Cat]

42. Earlham College is an excellent school,

however living in Richmond is not so excellent. Scary town.

[pansypoo53219]

53. when driving outside of WI, kept on seeing indiana plates, like everybody was trying to escape.

[pangaia]

28. And MEAT RESTAURANTS lots of DEAD MEAT RESTAURANTS.

Mostly dead steers!!

:&gt ))

[artislife]

2. Wow!

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Damn...until now, the Sparkling Vampires were a deep secret!

How did he know.....

[Uncle Joe]

8. That one got me too, what's going on out there?

Why do their vampires sparkle?

Everybody else just gets pale ones.

[A Little Weird]

13. Lol - Twilight

Don't tell me you didn't read it?!?

[Uncle Joe]

34. Is that the television show

with 90210 having sexual relations with the undead and wild canids?

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Can't tell ya, it's a secret we were sworn to.

[irisblue]

4. kid is very talented

he will go far

[greyl]

5. The map he "borrowed" for the background shows a climate change scenario.

Note the shape of the continents.

The typeface choice and horribly haphazard letter spacing make it something less than art, imo.

[wolfie001]

22. The US is foreshortened because it is way off center and to the upper left.

Africa is much more centered so you can get a sense of its normal shape. The typeface, at least to me, makes this Artwork (and it is) feel like he's trolling those Rand McNally map atlases from when I was a kid. That's part of what makes this such a special piece of satire. I give it two thumbs up!

[greyl]

38. Here's a link to the original climate change map, also done by Martin Vargic.

http://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-map-2014-2

Where's that crow for myself...

[wolfie001]

39. Wow! This kid is amazing!

Thanks for the link.

[lunatica]

32. What's your definition of art?

You don't know but you know it when you see it?

That was my art-illiterate ex-husbands definition. He had a black velvet painting of a blue Golden Gate Bridge. He knew it was art.

[greyl]

37. Visual art involves choices made in service to aesthetics.

The map is a joke, comedy. It uses an actual work of art (the climate change map) as the backdrop, and adds ugly (but comical) text, with what looks like an absence of consideration for how it looks, and no consideration at all for what the background map is actual depicting.

(If you want to talk about comedy being art, that's kind of not how I meant it. I meant this is not a work of visual art.)

[librechik]

6. how does this Slovak kid know about Casa Bonita?

That's real Inside Denver. He labelled South Park correctly too, but that is only to be expected.

[Initech]

24. South Park would have been my first guess!

And Denver should be Beer, beer and more beer!

[Jamastiene]

10. Over Florida, flamingo spawner,

I noticed how accurate they got my area of NC too. It just says KKK over the entire area. They nailed it.

[aquamarina]

11. "Murica!"

Hahaha

[orpupilofnature57]

14. 17 !!!!!!

[Paka]

15. Great find.

[RoccoRyg]

16. cornfield!

I used to live in Springfield, IL and Cornfield is the perfect name for it. Great job, man.

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. LOL! This foreigner pegged us.

[oldandhappy]

19. I think this is amazing. Kuddos!!

[wolfie001]

20. Western Maryland is choc full of heroin addicts

Wow, right in the bull's eye!

[Initech]

25. Northern Nevada, same for meth.

[WinkyDink]

21. Watch out for Florida's Baby-Eating Gators! LOL! Click to see more! Cracking me UP!

[silverweb]

23. Impressive!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Especially for one so young. He has talent - and a sense of humor!

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Wow. Philly caught a break

usually our city is only known for "cheese steaks" or "Rocky". He actually put "Independence Hall"!

[ornotna]

27. Arkansas has it all

Roadkill cafe and incest. LOL

[WinkyDink]

29. Bwah! France has a big "URINALS"!

[NonMetro]

30. I Guess He Doesn't Know Much About Michigan:

He has Petosky in the Upper Pennsula, Furniture on the wrong side of the state, Cornfields too far north, and "Icefields"? Huh? Where? His names for the lakes are rather childish, too. But, at least we didn't get insulted like a lot of other places!

[7962]

31. Ahhh, sexy girls & IKEA!

[SCVDem]

33. There's Scotty Walker's legacy

Look at Wisconsin and find.....Potholes!

Grain Belt beer in Minnesota?

[progressoid]

41. Yup.

http://grainbelt.com/about-grain-belt-beer/

On July 15, 1890, The heads of four brewing powerhouses, Orth Brewing Company, The Heinrich Brewing Association, F.D. Norenberg Brewery and Malt House and Germania Brewing Association, consolidated to form the Minneapolis Brewing and Malting Company. With the formation of the new company, primary headquarters was at the Orth Brewery, although beer continued to be produced at the Heinrich and Germania plants as well. For the company to be competitive, however, it was realized that production needed to be consolidated in one high-volume facility to produce at least 150,000 barrels a year.

Considered at the time to be one of the largest and most modern brewing facilities in the country, its initial cost was $500,000 with a production capacity of 300,000 barrels annually. Additions over the next decade brought production up to a half-million barrels per year. Wooden barrels and glass bottles of beer were transported from the brewery in horse-drawn wagons. Early brands had names such as Gilt Edge, Weiner, Kaiser, London Porter and Extra Pale.

In 1893, the company was reorganized with the name shortened to Minneapolis Brewing Company. It was that year that the company introduced Golden Grain Belt Old Lager to the market. The name “Grain Belt” referred to the geographical area of the country where the beer was brewed. The brand fell in to the good graces of the consumer and soon became the flagship of the Minneapolis Brewing Company. It was a tough first year for the brewery, on August 13, 1893, a fire broke out at a stable located at Nicollet Island, on the Mississippi River. Soon the fire spread to North Minneapolis, taking homes, mills, lumber yards and factories with it. The inferno made its way to the Minneapolis Brewing Company, destroying a malt house, three bottling houses, a pitch yard and a barn. The company’s losses were reported to be $117,000.

[PasadenaTrudy]

35. Breaking Bad for Albuquerque!

[7wo7rees]

36. Anybody catch DC? Baphomet's Lair. (!!!)

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. He struggled for one or two places - his own Slovakia gets '?????', and Latvia 'Meh'

and Slovenia 'No Data'.

I love the name for Ukraine - "Putin's Precious".

[KamaAina]

43. Yale is in southern Connecticut, dammit!

[Blue_Tires]

44. His Virginia is lacking, to say the least...

[Electric Monk]

45. k&r

[joeybee12]

46. Hey! They got Canada right!

[Uncle Joe]

47. This thread is the Walking Dead, I thought it was buried long ago.

[joeybee12]

48. October 5th!

I've had threads resurrected at times...don't know why some people go looking at threads so far back...I usually only stay on the first page.

[Electric Monk]

49. n2doc posted a small version in todays TOON roundup #3, and I remembered this thread existed...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027262608

So, I thought I'd give it a little kick for anyone who'd missed it earlier

[joeybee12]

50. Mystery solved!

Thanks...I think it's a great map!

[beam me up scottie]

51. Canada: Terrence & Phillip, Scott the Dick, William Shatner...

Someone watches too much teevee, but it's still awesome!

[Idaho_Cowboy]

52. I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.

This kid certainly put plent of time into this. The only thing he didn't mention about Idaho is B S U football, other than that nailed it pretty close. -Thanks for sharing.

[Arugula Latte]

54. Spot on, kid!

Kudos for "Hipsteria."