Mind Map

Social Mind Map localized

Just as a beginning to a more localized idea of social space, very interesting direction, needs more exploring and further development. (having probs getting larger images)

biking to campus

On the way to campus I head north first and often vary the side streets, zigzagging through neighborhoods. On the way home I simplify it by heading down University Ave because it's mostly downhill. Don't get hit!

Commute

I could ride this itinerary with my eyes closed..Only because I usually do it before 5am in the morning.

Habitual Path - Google Earth

I believe this link will work:

Habitual Path - Grass, Dandelions, Sweat

Social Space 8_Hye Kim

I enjoyed Mindnode program as a mind-mapping to understand the reading. It helps to see all information visually in my order. I tried to understand "social space" in various perspectives, but its concept is still ambiguous.

Mind Map - Wed. 9/22

LeFebvre Reading Mind Map

Reading Map

Topics from the converstation and reading that I found noteable: the idea that we need tools to mearsure and quantify when mapping; these tools are a social construct an therefore are not 100% "true"; language is one of these tools; as long as we are processing our thoughts with the languages we know we are interacting with social space. Every map adopts a language, verbal, visual, tactile, ect... When creating our maps we should think about what we are constructing and how "true" it can be.

Mind Mapping

Like Jorge said, the conversation was stimulating and I think we got into some interesting conversation about what constitutes social space, if a space can be a social space when there's only one person present, and whether or not you can experience a space/place without thinking about your experiencing it...(this was point made about natural space becoming social - does it evolve once you begin to cognate your presence?)

Anyway here's some mind maps...

Mind Map on Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space

This mind map was created during our group discussion of Lefebvre's reading. We did not cover the whole reading, but the conversation was as engaging and interesting.

My derive:

I took my roommate's son (12) and dog (1.5) for a walk. Then I left them at our house when they were tired and went my own way.

I texted photos of the points where we stopped at the interests of the dog, the boy, or me to people in our class. My phone number is 478-397-3570 if you want to see these pics. but i'll just describe them below. you can also ask the designated people to text the pics to you or show them to you from their phone.

1. dog meeting dog behind fence (sent to cristina)

2. boy and dog in front of palm tree (sent to josh)

3. dog barking behind fence (sent to hye)

4. dog sniffing ground (sent to lu)

5. boy and dog struggling (sent to rachel)

6. toddler playing with blocks (sent to cristina)

7. frail cat walking in yard (sent to josh)

8. park with swings (sent to rachel)

Sunday derivin and a 3ft. map

Sunday Derive video

3 ft. video

The first video is my derive in which I wanted to capture a little bit of the essence of being on the road... the music, the wind, the randomness of sites and feelings, the changing sky and weather patterns - this is truly a love relationship for me - one that never fails...I have been a wanderer by nature - as a kid it was however far I could run, walk, ride my bike - I'd run away at least every week just to see how far I could get and how much freedom I could find in those journey's... now although I still love biking, running and walking there is something very special in the open road...To know that I can pack up tonight and surprise my grandmother in Boston tomorrow - just to see her face...or go to the mountains just to change my perspective a bit and add a little something to the week - there is a processing, clearing, cleansing aspect to these spontaneous journeys that never leaves me questioning my unscheduled methods. Psychogeography - I felt that I knew it personally and connected to it instantly.

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My 3ft. video was an observation of a small patch of fish in a nearby creek---it turned in to a meditation for me just watching their movement, their natural flow, their patterns. I, hovering above them, observing their whole world...this 3ft space is their world and all the movements were their traces of life. I also enjoyed feeling out the audio tracks, layering in nature over nature..it was relaxing and also meditative - the overall them I guess for my swimming fish friends.

Butterfly map

i forgot to upload an image of this map,
the original is 60 inches long so this has
miniatured it & lost the details -
getting a size limit on the blog but that's okay.
duh, i can click on it and it's bigger!

Tree Direve

I went to Loblolly Nature park by my house and was first taken a giant spider suspended over the wooden walk way. This directed my attention to the trees it's web was attached to. After that first direction, I continued to look toward the life in the trees as direction once off the provided path. What I found really interesting was upon leaving, I realized that there were in fact three giant spiders and not one suspended across the walkway. I believe the process of looking intently for an hour or two changed what I could see around me.

Test for Google group email Notification

Derive On A Bike

I decided to go for a bike ride and do my derive. I am really not familiar with Gainesville yet so this was a nice way to cruise around and see what exactly makes up the area I was wondering through. I have included as well what the text on the map says since the text is pretty small. Enjoy.

I took off riding my bike and was drawn to the colour of this van. “Sweet Water Brewery...great beer,” I thought. So I decided to head where the van was pointed.

Cacti in the yard, never seen that before. But I took a left and rode through the neighborhood. I came upon this empty lot. Out of place considering the type of land consumption happening for housing here.

Across from the empty lot was a contemporary, minimal house. Almost passed by this one since it seamlessly fit into its surroundings.

I have never thrown my shoes over a cable before, always wanted to but never did. Not sure its that gratifying.

Down from the shoes I came across some post boxes in colours I have never seen before. Two in the same neighborhood along with everything else I observed. Interesting area with many charms.

Logan Marconi

McDonalds

Something from last week. These are the two maps I made to reflect my unforgettable experience at one of the most famous (fast food) restaurants of America. One is a map of quotes I heard while I was there, the other one is a map of emptiness. There are dynamic elements in the latter, which does not show here.

localized derive

http://plaza.ufl.edu/mitzi/derive/index.html

Three Derive

Hye, Cristina and Lu went a place together to experience Derive.
A whole day is a kind of Derive.
Fun chatting, a cup of coffee, fast driving, hot sun, closed clothes store, grocery shopping........

Experience Three Derive
http://digitalmedia.arts.ufl.edu/~hyeyoungkim/Derive/derive.html

Go to Individual Derive
Hye
http://digitalmedia.arts.ufl.edu/~hyeyoungkim/ThrowBall/ThrowBall.html

Cristina
http://cristinamolina.com/cristinamolina.com/derive.html

Lu
http://digitalmedia.arts.ufl.edu/~lucao/windowMapFa10/

A Dérive with Stacy & Jorge

Stacy & Jorge dérive'd around campus. Now is your turn to dérive' our dérive.

look for the hidden links

Derive: Alachua, FL

Follow this link to witness the epic journey undertaken by Kenny and I in the small burg of Alachua, FL.

DERIVE

Dérive in Philadelphia

While I was away in Philadelphia this weekend I figured what better place to conduct a dérive than a city you've only visited once as a child.

My journey began on South St. - what would be equivalent to the downtown area of Gainesville. A farmer's market was set up in the main square. I decided to keep walking and arbitrarily chose a direction. I was aware that it would be easy to start a "historic Philadelphia" tour of various landmarks and monuments so I tried to avoid following any tourist routes and signage.

I walked around what I would later find out to be an area called Society Hill (a ritzy part of town) and began to notice a variety of things that peaked my interest.

One of the first things I noticed was how clean the neighborhood was (especially when compared to the other parts of the city I had seen over the weekend). When I came upon my first bit of graffiti, and gold graffiti at that, I immediately took a picture of it.


This was stuck onto the side of a newspaper box.



Around the corner I noticed a horse drawn carriage but couldn't catch up to it to take a picture. I noticed the house next to me had this great window front to it.




From there I noticed a small cobblestone road with these neat metal poles that had horse heads on them. I figured they were probably for tying up horses to (or even locking your bike to).



From there I noticed a massive overgrowth of vines covering the window of a house. The sudden block of green between the red brick houses caught my eye and prompted me to go down St. Peter's Way.







I noticed there was an old fashioned light post with a neighborhood watch sign attached to it indicating that I was in Society Hill.



On the other side of St. Peter's Way was this neat metal sculpture.



Down the street from the sculpture I decided to change directions and while crossing the street, I tripped over this odd brick that was sticking out from the rest of the street.


Next to the protruding brick was a house with this mosaic doorstep.


Beyond that was an actual tree growing next to a sculpture of a tree.


There were a lot of house that had extravagant sculptures in front of them like the two pictured below.



After wandering through the neighborhood a little I came to an opening. I had reached Washington Square - a small memorial to the first president. In the square was a building with three different shutter colors that caught my eye.


In the park I found this very picturesque scene of an abandoned umbrella. Just beyond it was a busy city street called Sanson St. - or otherwise known as Jeweler's Street because of all the jewelry stores on it.


By this time I had decided that my dérive was over and that I wanted to head back home but on my way I couldn't help but snap this picture of a funny sign.

Kanapaha Park

For my map exercise, I chose to map out Kanapaha park, here in Gainesville. My first map, made to make the viewer feel familiar with the park was a tradional map. I simply mapped out the physical features of the park, the basketball courts, play-ground, pavilions, etc. The second map attempted to map out all trees on the park grounds. The mapping of trees is ambiguous and the viewer would have no knowledge that this was Kanapaha park and therefore only has value to me, the creator.

Hospital Map

Two 1min. video maps are now posted on:

http://www.reevesmachine.com/blog/DMA.html

Enjoy

Sound Map

I decided to map the ubiquitous shopping plaza. I chose the Publix Town Center, which I had never visited, but was strikingly familiar to any of the other strips I often frequent to do my grocery shopping. Since it was the early morning when I arrived, there were hardly any people around, and the sounds of "nature" still overpowered what would normally be drowned out by the sounds of busy shoppers. I decided to pick six locations around the plaza, and map my presence upon the space by recording the sounds of my body and use of specific objects found in the area (i.e. my footsteps, dialing the telephone, crunching of dried brush against the pavement). To listen to the samples collected from my site you can visit this link: http://cristinamolina.com/cristinamolina.com/map.html

Maps from two different perspectives

http://digitalmedia.arts.ufl.edu/~hyeyoungkim/

What is a familiar experience and what is an exotic experience?

I think that it depend on what you are looking for.

People can see as much as they want and they try.

If you see landscape through windows, you are safe but the scene could be similar everyday.

If you try to open the window and reach your hand into the world, you can find something which you never recognize before or never feel before.

I believe that everything starts from myself.

Mapping experience on last Wednesday

I grouped with Budd to make a "greeting" map which means we touch shoulder of people passing by and say "hi" or "hello", and every 3 or 5 people we make a turn. This happened around FAC building but we reach as far as Criser hall. This map is dynamic rather than static but with good recording, this map can be totally meaningful on different levels. Through the greeting, we get to know reactions, apprearances, density and even character. So if this map has to be made in a graphic form, it can be a flowing beatiful picture and that's just one of the representations. Dynamic mapping is more complicated than static mapping and one of the issue is how to track the dynamic factors to make the map. Well, I think if we can figure this out, dynamic mapping can be even more powerful. And also, since this mapping gets involved with people, it is even more interesting and worth more investigation.

I followed Jorge's map at the same time. His map is about people density on American Plaza. The map looks good and the percentage marked is like star, which makes the map very enjoyable. Though the real situation changes since "Creshna"(?) left and made the plaza with less people when I got there, the map triggers very strange feelings when you see a whole different situation than the map. Actually, the feelings I got by comparing the map and the real world attrat me A LOT. The psychological gap, the expectation drop, or, just some kind of "disappointment" or even "lonelyness" (with the density reducing) can be a very potential issue about "art mapping". Should we create our rules ( or definitions of our map) and follow the rules to record, to make map? Or should we take advantage of the preassumption of map users that they think we follow the definitions of the map and at the same time give the users something different, "disappointment" or even "astonishment" by giving them a totally opposite map? That can be really interesting for "art mapping".

Gum and Man Holes

I went to go visit this small park on University. Unfortunately, the park did not live up to my expectations and I was very disappointed, It was fenced in grass!

On my walk back I started to pay close attention to the ground and how everything was laid out. I noticed that the where many different manhole covers. So, the next day I went back to the man hole covers armed with a stick of graphite and large sheet of paper. I created a map by making rubbings of the man holes.

For my second map, I noticed that there was a certain section of pavement that had numerous gum spots. I wanted to connect the gum spots similar to creating a constellation. I took at photo of the gum and created a gel medium transfer and used mylar and ink to create the lines.

Where's the Karate Kid?

Christina and I went around and mapped the outdoor public art from FAC to Turlington Hall. Christina used her iphone with google maps to create a map that located all the art. At each location she would set a “pin” that would locate her exact location and she titled each pin with a description on the piece. I took photos of all the art. We were planning on using the pin locations and the photos together to allow a person to see what they wanted to visit first. Do to time limitations we were unable to make our dream map, but I realized that just a brief description and directions how to get to the art would be enough information for anyone to follow the map. We e-mailed the information to each location to Josh’s iphone where he hopefully located all the art.

I followed Kenny and Mitzi’s map. They had a simple key on the map that I soon realized represented the bathrooms. But I was wondering, if I did not know how to read a map key would I have figured it out? I already knew the there were different sex bath on different floors of FAC, so I wonder how much information was my previous knowledge that I brought to the map?

I also followed Kristen’s map. I was a little confused with the scale of the map. I had a hard time locating all marks. I never did find the “Karate Kid” that day, but I did se it the next morning when I got off the bus. I might not have understood the map right then, but it did make me think and I was more aware of my surroundings the next day.

Personal Marks

I was inspired by a sticker "tag" found on a light post south of FAC next to Inner road to create a map charting the intentional marks made by what appeared to me to be a single hand. I started from the graffiti tunnel working north to FAC and west to the food court. I found four different types of marks; spray paint "tags", sticker "tags", stencil "tags", and then a red line made with spray paint. I mapped the frequency and type of mark by creating a key which illustrated a representation of the mark and placed these marks in a spatial representation of the area. What I found the most interesting were the red paint lines. I assumed because of their frequency and uniformity that they were made for some utilitarian purpose, perhaps by the city or school. But at the same time the purpose of the lines remained a mystery. The lines where found on the sidewalk, road, light posts, and on two trees. Also, because they were produced by hand and not by a stencil they shared a similar athletic found in the spray painted "tags". Outside of the designated graffiti area, I wondered what the individuals where thinking when they made their marks. Where they claiming a territory, or setting up a cryptic scavenger hunt? Though I ignored the marks made by institutions such as sticker advertisements, UF signage, and obvious city utility marks, their presents heightened the autonomous nature of the marks I was mapping. I never think about who put up the street sign, or what they look like as their motivations are stated within their institutionalized mark. They likely wear a uniform and have no personal motivation to make these marks other than obligation. But who is it that made the marks that I was charting? Do they also believe they have an obligation to disrupt the landscape with their marks, or to communicate with pedestrians. I felt like the placement of the marks started to revile their intentions if not their identity.

Rachel's Map

My first impression of Rachel's map was informed by touch and interaction. She had wrapped her paper map around a stick and then wrapped that with leaves and flowers. The map's incasement of vegetation reflected the overwhelming overgrown vegetation found in the location that she had mapped, a small nature preserve within the UF campus. Her representation of the area was a drawing illustrating the site and calling out key landmarks inviting us to retrace her path.

Map it up, babygirls

I collaborated with Lu to map greetings. We used the number of people we were able to greet as a way to know when to make a turn. The density, reluctance, speed, chance sidewalk placement of the people we passed makes this map one of constant flux. While the starting point was fixed, the destination is to be filled in anew each time this map is followed. Lu and I then repeated this map separately, which caused different personal perceptions/fears and different reactions.

I followed Logan's map, which was a series of images leading me into a bathroom. His map seemed stamped with the images he presented last week, gestural and minimal, heavy shapes with lots of white space. The gestures were easy to follow, however. Logan gave me just enough information (and nothing more) to find his treasure-- those footprints in the men's room in FAD.

Where To Use The Restroom And Relax

Mitzi and I decided to map out the restrooms in the Fine Art Buildings. We started on the first floor of FAC and worked to the top floor, then repeated for all Fine Art buildings. Keeping in mind the notion that in order to map, you must completely ignore the rest of all surrounding and space, focusing only on what is of importance for the maps purpose, we chose to eliminate all identifiers of the buildings and floors. The only identifying structure was a symbol system witch correlated to green triangles for a men's rooms, pink/purple squares for a woman's restrooms and orange circles for family restrooms. Also, those who are more familiar with the layout of the Fine Art buildings probably would eventually realize the layout of buildings were that of Fine Arts, perhaps the only other easily identifiable visual aspect of the map.

For the second half of the exercise, I took Josh's map out for an adventure. Perhaps this was a slip in the exercise's rules, but Josh began to describe his map first, stating he was mapping all the shady spots on the North Lawn. So, I set off with the notion of nice, relaxing places to sit and enjoy the outdoors. I was surprised at how easily I was able to orient myself in physical space in realation to the map and I quickly found myself sitting under the largest trees with the largest amount of shade. Though, I think I sat down next to a family of squirrels that were rather concerned at my presence and then proceeded to making rather loud howls for little squirrels. It really was a peacfull and relaxing trip, and I found myself saying I needed to just down down in the shade of a nice tree a little more often.

Footprints

The other week I happened upon a set of footprints in the second floor men's bathroom of FAD. These footprints are in front of one toilet facing outward from the stall and one behind the flush lever. So I mapped this because I thought it was funny and interesting that this is the only place, as far as I know, that has footprints. Makes me wonder if some art student put these there as a joke or an art piece. Perhaps both. I choose map according to identifying shapes as you walk from FAC to FAD.

I followed the Touch-Greeting Map where I had to say "hello" to 5 people then turn right following for 6 turns. This was a very awkward map to follow since you have to touch a shoulder and say hello. Some people respond with "hello" and some just give you a glare of "WTF?" This map is made by greeting from the density of people. So its truly full of surprises. The second map I followed was quite confusing since there was no clear direction but locations to see. I walked around trying to orient myself to the location and find each sight to see. However I wasn't completely successful in completing the map.

Make A Map

For my mapping exercise I decided to map all (or almost all) of the shaded areas that you could sit under on the Reitz Union North Lawn. The idea came to me while walking around and feeling sort of miserable under the hot sun. I didn't want to stick around the Fine Arts area so I kept walking west until I came to the North Lawn. Many people like to sit under the trees there so I decided to map that, or at the very least diagram it. Part of the map was drawn from the ground and part of it was drawn from the 5th floor of the Marston Science Library.

As for the map that I followed, it was a strange spiral shaped map (when I created a trail in my head) of all the public sculpture/art objects that were erected on campus. I was pretty familiar with the sculptures but there were a couple that I hadn't noticed or didn't figure out right away. The geo-tagging function was interesting because I could see the longitudinal and latitudinal location of each sculpture but my phone's gps was a little off so it was kind of hard to follow. Also, I noticed that the order of the coordinates that I received in my email dictated the shape of the trail - something to think about when directing your explorers through your mapped space.

Josh

Personalized Map_Hye

Hye's Personalized Map

I am interested in making "Personalized Map."
What does make personal? It may be personal choice, preference and taste.
I went around UF campus and found 6 trees which I liked.
And I marked the trees' locations in campus map from #1 to #6.
I draw the six trees briefly on the paper.

I realized that some choices of the tress are intentional, but other choices of trees are random or accidental. My choices is subjective, but not absolute, and it has to be in the context.

I just wonder that if I can make a map through researching personal preference like common interest, hobby or cultural background.

It was fun experience that Zach navigated my personal map and found most of the trees.

I made the map for myself, so it was not friendly map. His response were more descriptive!

Response about Zach's hand-drawing map.

The hand-drawing map is fun, interesting and friendly rather than a print regular map.

I felt that I can find some treasure from his map. It is easy to navigate and recognize the place.

He wanted me to draw more details, but I thought the map had enough information.

He brought me "where I am", so I was looking for "what I can do here?"

I tried to find human activities and trace passengers and buses.

In his map, there are tress, benches, bus stops and trashes.

I want to record traces of people, who are not belong to space, but be there at this moment.

There is no permanent map and map represent a place at this time.

Depending on duration of time, a map can be changed or updated every moment.

Overall I enjoyed reading+discussion+exploration by myself+exploration by Zach.

Mapping Excercise

I mapped the density of people at the Plaza of the Americas during Krishna Lunch time. After seven years attending Krishna Lunch daily, it is interesting to me how the location of the Krishna Lunch Parlor shapes the distribution of people in the plaza. The distribution have changed as they have changed their location throughout the years (i.e., three main locations in the last seven years); and changes when it is cloudy, and they change their location to protect their food in case of rain.

The Touch-Greeting Map helped me realize how people are not as used as they used to be to being greeted by strangers. It is interesting also how this particular map correlates with the density of people around: a higher density of people on a given path will make you change direction first, while a lower density of people on a given path will make you change direction later. In the end, this map maps that, the amount of people that crosses your path. Some people walk away from any kind of interaction with strangers. Fortunately, you always find people whose moods change positively after being greeted by a complete stranger. I have always believed in exchanging smiles as a way of sharing happiness.

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