Oakland Storytelling map

Now, Ive been to Oakland, I hopped off the train on my way to San Francisco, spent probably 5 minutes walking around the block, and got back to the train. Just didn’t find it that exciting. But this website shows that behind a city that might not be as instantly appealing as San Francisco, there are stories behind. The website has a map that contains different story points, and each story point links to a fun interesting story posted by someone one living there. It just teaches you that its also people that make out a map or a city, and are contributors of its own distinct soul.

--- Emmanuel

Oakland Tours are the Bombdizzle by Scott Faust

This is late. Yay. This is probably my favorite site I've checked out so far. It seems made for users, by users. It has multiple tours based on themes of all sorts of interests. It gives you the chance to map your own tour by giving a story, and everybody can check out your tours and comment.

'Scape the Hood - San Francisco

'Scape the Hood

'Scape the Hood is a locative storytelling project conceived for the 8th annual Digital Storytelling Festival. A group of storytellers, artists, and technologists put together a narrative archeology experiment, combining digital storytelling and emerging technology by overlaying a virtual landscape on the physical world. The audience walks the streets and listens to the neighborhood stories while experiencing sights and sounds from both the physical and the virtual world.

Project Artaud is a part of 'Scape the Hood, and is the first major GPS-enabled locative media project in San Francisco (Mission district). Artaud brings the stories of the artists and art organizations from inside the building and out onto the street to show what it is like to live and work within a concentrated community of artists.

- Pete Herron

css layout reaction

The CSS article helped me to better understand the reason for using CSS. The class lecture made CSS seem much more complicated than the tables we have become accustom to. However, after reading this article I have a better understanding of the purpose of CSS and the simplicity it will create when I have multiple pages. Ross Shannon explains what a div tag means and what it can do. I will be able to return to this article in the future and reference it for div tag codes.

Ashlie Iacocca

Oakland Storytelling Map

The organic city is a pretty cool site. It encourages people to find and tell stories about local places in the downtown Oakland area. People use this website to tell the stories and they form into mobile media that can be experienced while walking around downtown Oakland.

-Cole Price

Yellow Arrow

http://yellowarrow.net/v3/

Yellow Arrow is a cool interactive site that allows people from all over the world to create a worldwide mapping system. Users take pictures and videos of any location and text message them to the Yellow Arrow website where they are uploaded and mapped on the site. What the site has turned into is a complex map of thousands of locations submitted by users. These locations range from favorite restaurants in New York City to a specific graffiti piece on a street in Melbourne Australia. There are also more complex projects on the site, like a collection of short documentaries mapping Washington D.C.'s punk rock scene.

Check it out!

-Sam Lipman-Stern

On locative media, Cardiff, the parking lot...

Janet Cardiff's work seems to be so much about structure. It is really interesting, the way in which she talks about shifting structures, using and subverting them in different ways. I particularly enjoyed her audio tour involving sounds from a theater (Ghost Machine, 2005) previous and during a performance. I started mixing the excerpts at my own will and observing how she was creating a meta-performance from the one she attended. The structure involved in going to a theater is one that has become subconscious at this point, but it is a tradition that has its origin somewhere, like any other tradition. I suppose it is impossible for anyone to address all of these things in a work, every piece needs some structure to support itself. It seems a very interesting and complex problem to work through and has to do with the ways in which we as audience members remember what happened in the ephemeral moment of the performance and what happens with performance art; where does it go after it is done; does it go in the mind of the viewer, or does it dissappear? Or does it become just ghosts?

I also wanted to share pictures taken at the location I selected...the parking lot:

MArcelo

Edward Tufte is appointmented by Obama

Edward Tufte is the author of several books about information design. The first I remember with a visually/ graphically stunning cover was: Envisioning Information (1990). One of his newest books is Beautiful Evidence (2006).
He recently was appointed to the White House to a panel called Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. His expertise will be used to find and map/chart data on how stimulus money will be used.
I thought this related a bit to our discussion on mapping. And it's worth looking at Tufte's visual work.
Here's his website: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Rini Keagy

Locative Media

Ted Fields

LongIslandBirds.com

I have visited Long Island each summer for as I can remember. Bird-watching on the North Fork is a terrific experience and is always rewarding. As there will be many different habitats on the small strip of land there are many key locations to bird-watch, and this site does an excellent job portraying all the different sites have to offer.

Project2

http://astro.temple.edu/~tuc24665//Obama/Index.html

-Sam Lipman-Stern

Bone tool help from Alex

I just watched this youtube tutorial and it helped a lot with some issues I was having with the bone tool. Enjoy

Extra Credit - Viral Video

A thing I made on how I feel about Jay Dilla the late hip hop producer, MC and all around B-Boy. I saw a lot of these tributes arise since his death and I wanted to know if I had anything to contribute to this movement of posthumous appreciation. It's called 'Junk' (as in Beat Junkie...?).

RIP Jay Dilla (1974 - 2006)

- Jay Mohan

Auto Tune the News---

This is a really cool group that does just that. Auto tune the news. They have a couple of episodes. One of my favs below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI

---- E. Hernandez