Monday, November 14, 2005

Final Proposal

For my own reference:

yousendit link for the PowerPoint file.

Monday, October 31, 2005

the worst podcast

like the worst witch! here it is. UGH.

bonus material: the monster mash, as performed by quincy's finest.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

ideas for podcasting assignment

I am pretty bereft of ideas for this. The only one I have been thinking of is: a cultural history of my favorite knock knock joke, with instructions, critique, and a demonstration by it's originator. I am having a pretty hard time justifying this as an art project, though.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

another map of experience

"We can say, then, that the randomness of a dérive is fundamentally different from that of the stroll, but also that the first psychogeographical attractions discovered by dérivers may tend to fixate them around new habitual axes, to which they will constantly be drawn back."

"The influence of weather on dérives, although real, is a significant factor only in the case of prolonged rains, which make them virtually impossible. But storms or other types of precipitation are rather favorable for dérives."

"The exploration of a fixed spatial field entails establishing bases and calculating directions of penetration. It is here that the study of maps comes in — ordinary ones as well as ecological and psychogeographical ones — along with their correction and improvement."

"The lessons drawn from dérives enable us to draw up the first surveys of the psychogeographical articulations of a modern city. Beyond the discovery of unities of ambiance, of their main components and their spatial localization, one comes to perceive their principal axes of passage, their exits and their defenses. One arrives at the central hypothesis of the existence of psychogeographical pivotal points. One measures the distances that actually separate two regions of a city, distances that may have little relation with the physical distance between them. With the aid of old maps, aerial photographs and experimental dérives, one can draw up hitherto lacking maps of influences, maps whose inevitable imprecision at this early stage is no worse than that of the first navigational charts. The only difference is that it is no longer a matter of precisely delineating stable continents, but of changing architecture and urbanism."

-Guy Debord, Theory of the Dérive

Friday, October 07, 2005

emerged alive and happy.

emerged alive and happy.
now is the time for showers and grilled cheese (i'm so bourgeois)!



emergence-ystumpthis one looked fluffyso that's where i was
highway

geoicon

i hope i don't stumble

i hope i don't stumble onto a ritual murder...



these barriers look kind of ineffectiveoh, puddlesforked path!trees are into falling
oh, crossy treespretty prettyan upright sortoh, fallen trees
eventually i realized that a path led to the highwaymore highway (i live on the edge, baby)the tree and i shared a momenthark, a light

ducks!!

ducks!!



ducksduuuuckssuch a pretty overpassduuuuucks
more river bluesit ends?a windy street that i though was connected to a highway or some such truck

my return to the street

my return to the street

is this a face?nice!psshtequipment
who knows when you'll need a roadside chairthese signs were all over the placehighway fence!a gap in the fence? the highway could get free!
geez treesoh, twistyi just enjoy sidewalks, is allwhat kind of plant is this?
oh, miss staceunderpaaaassunderpass fun

swans!!

swans!!



swans!swaaaaansswaaaaaaaaansa nice view
treeeea way down?the descenti'm just going to keep coming back to it
chair!underpants!are those more birds i espy?view from the bottom
it was a neat streamthat darn bridgerods! (not 12rods HURRRR)i was delighted that my journey took me to at least one not-quite empty 40
take me to the river, crew teambroken treean interesting bordermy exit