Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Dead drops
Pictures of the dead drop from the directory found downtown sf, and pictures of my attempt to install my own dead drop in the sunset.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Beyond Locative Media
After reading the Beyond Locative Media article, there were several things that I found interesting.
First off, "location aware, networked, mobile devices make possible invisible notes attached to spaces, places, people, and things."
This means several things: "computer games move outside and get subversive, sex and love are easier to find, real space can be marked and demarcated invisibly," and stuff like augmented reality become possible.
Also, the article talked about how locative media basically has two types of mapping: either virtually tagging the world, or tracing the action of the subject(s) in the world.
Another thing I found interesting was how they talked about adding switches to street lights so that they could be turned on and off at will, allowing people to wander in subway stations and around at night.
One last thing that I found interesting/kind of scary was that "since the US Army controls GPS satellites, in using them we allow ourselves to be targeted by a global military infrastructure..." It's scary to think that by just carrying around our cell phones, there are people out there with access to the right technology to be able to track wherever we are at any given time.
First off, "location aware, networked, mobile devices make possible invisible notes attached to spaces, places, people, and things."
This means several things: "computer games move outside and get subversive, sex and love are easier to find, real space can be marked and demarcated invisibly," and stuff like augmented reality become possible.
Also, the article talked about how locative media basically has two types of mapping: either virtually tagging the world, or tracing the action of the subject(s) in the world.
Another thing I found interesting was how they talked about adding switches to street lights so that they could be turned on and off at will, allowing people to wander in subway stations and around at night.
One last thing that I found interesting/kind of scary was that "since the US Army controls GPS satellites, in using them we allow ourselves to be targeted by a global military infrastructure..." It's scary to think that by just carrying around our cell phones, there are people out there with access to the right technology to be able to track wherever we are at any given time.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
QR Codes
After having a workshop learning about QR codes, we split up into groups and each group came up with a different way to use QR codes, such as make a game, or tell a story with.
Our group came up with the idea of using QR codes to go on a "treasure hunt." We linked QR codes to a picture of a location on the campus of SFSU, and on each picture there was a star marking where the next QR code would be found. Our first QR code was easy to find, which marked the start of the treasure hunt, and then lead whoever was reading the QR code onto finding the next one. We had about 5 QR codes linking together, before just going back to the first one.
Pictures of codes and "clues" soon to come.
Our group came up with the idea of using QR codes to go on a "treasure hunt." We linked QR codes to a picture of a location on the campus of SFSU, and on each picture there was a star marking where the next QR code would be found. Our first QR code was easy to find, which marked the start of the treasure hunt, and then lead whoever was reading the QR code onto finding the next one. We had about 5 QR codes linking together, before just going back to the first one.
Pictures of codes and "clues" soon to come.
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