creaturewalk: tagging bipedal specimens

Hello! If you are one of the 28 people I tagged, look for your number here (indicated on your tag).

I’ve tagged you because you are a creature specimen that caught my eye. Your message is at the corresponding number below. If you’d like to leave a comment at the bottom of this [...]

Michael Bull: an analysis (1)

The question posed for this analysis is based on the reading of Michael Bull’s publication: Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life.  Bull’s premise is that  an auditory understanding of people’s behavior through an analysis of personal stereo use helps to shed light on the understanding of urban culture. We [...]

Style Wars: an analysis

Style Wars is one of the first documentaries produced on hip hop culture, shot by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant in New York City in 1983.

Style Wars introduces young artists struggling to express themselves through their art, and their points of view on the subject of graffiti. Other perspectives include that of New York City [...]

creaturewalk: mapping social territory

Artists are generally members of multiple social groups because we are naturally curious about anything and everything around us. For this reason, I had a hard time choosing one particular ’social’ group or ’scene’ — many of these groups reside online, or connect by long distance or by mail or happen after traveling to [...]

creature walk: ephemeral

Footprints are fleeting. They are an indication of someone or something that has been there before. We can look at a footprint and determine species or destination, body weight, type of shoe, whether the person had a limp, how long ago an animal passed through the area. Footprints are temporary and ephemeral. [...]

desire lines: discovered

I suspected that city parks, with their meticulous planning and careful attentions to the pathways and travel habits of humans, would have the art of paved surfaces down perfectly. But I soon discovered with this exercise in searching for desire lines, that even well-designed inner-city recreational areas are great places to find evidence of [...]

desire lines: exploration

Unsucessful attempts yesterday to locate some interesting desire lines led me to do just a little more exploration with regards to their description and popular definition. According to the folks at wikipedia, a desire line is a path developed by erosion caused by animal or human footprint. The entry describes the path as [...]

creature walk 3: sight

I am a common Inca ground dove *. Today is cool and blustery and the wind makes it hard to balance on the rocks next to the railroad tracks. The sun is not really out and this is a dangerous time because this place does not normally know sunlessness. With no sunshine to heat the [...]

Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides

Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist who gets his inspiration and material from the natural world, is the narrator in the film Rivers and Tides. The documentary follows him as he creates his work from the things he finds outside in nature and provides insight into his philosophy, his methods, and his cooperation with nature.

Process, [...]

This American Life: Mapping

This American Life: Mapping was an audio program presented on thislife.org and presented five ways of mapping the world. One story was about individuals who make maps the traditional way (cartography)—by diagramming locations for our reference. And the other stories were about people who perform some non-traditional cartography: they map the world using smell, sound, [...]