man maps north korea from couch
Sort of surreal seeing someone you know well in a WSJ stencil relief. Here’s an article about Curtis Melvin’s (currently a PhD student at GMU) project to map infrastructure in North Korea. It’s extremely interesting – if a little intimidating given the sheer amount of information present. His website is one of the few linked to the right; but here’s a direct link to the project.
is it possible to see the wsj stencil of curtis online or only in the print version?
[...] my friend curtis melvin is in the wall street journal for his mapping project of north korea. as tony says, strange to have someone you know get a WSJ stencil [...]
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