Since I unfortunately had to deal with some miscommunications and some complications, I was unable to attend the field trip to Go Cars this time for the Locative Studio class. I decided to share my blog post from last time, which includes a few videos from my trip and experience last time I went on the Go Cars field trip.
Hope everyone had fun!
http://shakosrsexylm.blogspot.com/2010/03/go-cars-videos.html
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
First Project- Dead Drop
www.deaddrops.com
After learning about dead drops, I found them extremely interesting, and decided that what I wanted to do for my first project is install a dead drop of my own. Installing a dead drop now would allow me to check on it later on this semester and see if anybody had accessed it.
The first thing I did was check the database to see if there were any dead drops in San Francisco.
http://deaddrops.com/db/?page=view&id=45
I found this one dead drop, over by the New Montgomery BART station. I wanted to go check it out and see what kind of files people had put on it. When I got there, I found that the wall had been repainted, and the dead drop being painted over.
This wasn't going to stop me from installing my own. After reading the instructions on how to create your own dead drop, I went looking for all the materials. There were two ways to install dead drops: using fast setting concrete or using epoxy glue/putty. I purchased two flash drives, and then went to home depot looking for the rest of the supplies. Unfortunately you could only purchase fast setting concrete in 60 pound bags, so I decided my best bet would be to trying using the epoxy glue.
Since I've lived all over the Sunset these past 3-4 years, I decided to install a dead drop in the Sunset near one of my old places. There is a parking lot on the corner of 33rd and Taraval which is right next to a building. The building had some of the wall "out denting" so I decided to glue the dead drop to the bottom of this wall part, and then I got some silicone sealant to try and reinforce the flash drive a bit more.
The next step would be to post where my dead drop is to the dead drop database. The database asks for three different pictures of your dead drop: one up close, one far away, and a picture of the general area. Before reporting my dead drop though, I wanted to give it a few days and see if the dead drop stuck to it's location, and would be there for awhile.
Unfortunately, after going back to check on my dead drop after a few days, someone had already removed it. All that was left was the remnants of the epoxy putty and silicone sealant.
I'm hoping to be able to find a smaller amount of fast setting concrete somewhere (probably online), and then find a better location to install another dead drop, and use a more permanent technique to install it.
Here is a link to download a zip file of what I put on the dead drop:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~evana/LocativeMedia/deaddrop/deaddrop.zip
The Read Me file comes from the dead drop website, and is suppose to be put on all dead drops before installing them. I also put my own folder of random interesting and funny images on there to contribute my own files.
The entry below this one shows pictures of the dead drop near the New Montgomery BART station, as well as the three pictures I took in hopes of posting my dead drop to the dead drop database.
After learning about dead drops, I found them extremely interesting, and decided that what I wanted to do for my first project is install a dead drop of my own. Installing a dead drop now would allow me to check on it later on this semester and see if anybody had accessed it.
The first thing I did was check the database to see if there were any dead drops in San Francisco.
http://deaddrops.com/db/?page=view&id=45
I found this one dead drop, over by the New Montgomery BART station. I wanted to go check it out and see what kind of files people had put on it. When I got there, I found that the wall had been repainted, and the dead drop being painted over.
This wasn't going to stop me from installing my own. After reading the instructions on how to create your own dead drop, I went looking for all the materials. There were two ways to install dead drops: using fast setting concrete or using epoxy glue/putty. I purchased two flash drives, and then went to home depot looking for the rest of the supplies. Unfortunately you could only purchase fast setting concrete in 60 pound bags, so I decided my best bet would be to trying using the epoxy glue.
Since I've lived all over the Sunset these past 3-4 years, I decided to install a dead drop in the Sunset near one of my old places. There is a parking lot on the corner of 33rd and Taraval which is right next to a building. The building had some of the wall "out denting" so I decided to glue the dead drop to the bottom of this wall part, and then I got some silicone sealant to try and reinforce the flash drive a bit more.
The next step would be to post where my dead drop is to the dead drop database. The database asks for three different pictures of your dead drop: one up close, one far away, and a picture of the general area. Before reporting my dead drop though, I wanted to give it a few days and see if the dead drop stuck to it's location, and would be there for awhile.
Unfortunately, after going back to check on my dead drop after a few days, someone had already removed it. All that was left was the remnants of the epoxy putty and silicone sealant.
I'm hoping to be able to find a smaller amount of fast setting concrete somewhere (probably online), and then find a better location to install another dead drop, and use a more permanent technique to install it.
Here is a link to download a zip file of what I put on the dead drop:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~evana/LocativeMedia/deaddrop/deaddrop.zip
The Read Me file comes from the dead drop website, and is suppose to be put on all dead drops before installing them. I also put my own folder of random interesting and funny images on there to contribute my own files.
The entry below this one shows pictures of the dead drop near the New Montgomery BART station, as well as the three pictures I took in hopes of posting my dead drop to the dead drop database.
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.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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