network topology
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Archive for February, 2011
Marker Maps
Find a symbol, icon, visual marker or symbolic structure in the city. Pick something that has at least 5 instances within the city – and walkable distance between them. Imagine what links these signs and symbols – map them (on Google Earth for example) and post online for the class.
Her Majesty’s Pleasure:
References to Royalty around the old ‘Penitentiary’
View Media in Public – Her Majesty’s Pleasurein a larger map
The Invader:
The worst invasive characteristics occur in disturbed sites, especially if the disturbance is continued or repeated. Typical areas invaded are, urban wastelands, railways and building sites.
View Media in Public – The Invader in a larger map.
Media In Public: a city drift
‘Flâneur’ – (a wanderer, a roamer)
Stroll the city in order to experience it, as a detached, gently cynical observer.
A passive figure, who observes the dynamics of the city from a disengaged point of view. Baudelaire called the flâneur ‘a botanist of the sidewalk’.
LEP – Objects
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870679"]
Inhale by thecrack
Ujiyi inhale 80bpm
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870718"] exhale by thecrack
Ujiyi exhale
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870962"] justlow 519 by thecrack
Inhale with just the lows, mids and highs filtered out
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870886"] Smallestinhalestrectched by thecrack
Smallest sample of the inhale 0.0.1 – stretched to furthest point slowed down 80bpm
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870885"]
Just stretched a bit further
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16870786"] Suck by thecrack
Suck the initial “attack” of the inhale breath repeated
[soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/16871028"]
Transpose smallest sample 0.0.1 of breath stretched to 300bpm and then pitch transposed 35st with Hi-Q on
One inhale for 1.12 [soundcloud width="100%" height="81" params="secret_url=true" url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/10712320?secret_token=s-OrhZ7"]
One stretched inhale that lasts 1 hour 12 mins