My confusion on how to narrow down my project, or to what scale, decreased a little last week. I was confused about this, as the designers brought some wonderful however abstract suggestions on the table for the design critique, one ...Read More
Last Thursday I took the day to visit the New-York Historical Society Library to go through some of their boxes and files featuring photographs and ephemera of New York City streets and buildings over the past 200 years. A few ...Read More
How does one map the history of radio broadcasting in NYC? And at what point does it become just noise? These were questions I embarked on when drawing on a topic for my mapping project. I had intended to focus ...Read More
I’ve always found it helpful that while in the process of constructing a project, it is important to document the stages you find yourself in order to have landmarks for your future research and also for an archival purpose. The Pecha ...Read More
Shannon told me at the beginning stages of this project that it's OK for me to work with what's available. In my case, that meant focusing on public art projects from Creative Time since NYU has their archive in Fales ...Read More
In order to identify key “obstacles” to save time during the moment of the delivery (per my previous post, the moment of the delivery is the process that starts at the time when the deliveryman receives the package to be ...Read More
As soon as I finished writing my initial proposal, I felt a jolt of satisfaction at finally being able to put my thoughts into words. This satisfaction was almost immediately followed by a sneaking suspicion that my work would end ...Read More
As I mentioned in my Pecha Kucha (I think), this research project has brought up some interesting dynamics for me between analog/digital, low-fi/high-tech. Zine culture is very much about process, about the craft of making. The zine artifact is tactile, tangible ...Read More
Over the course of my research, I’ve found some unlikely sources to be remarkably useful. Since I am writing on newspaper and media buildings, and in some cases covering buildings constructed in the 19th century, it can be difficult finding ...Read More
My project will aim to discover how the restaurant-to-consumer food delivery service has benefited from the latest developments in communication technologies. In particular, my idea is to describe where the limits to timesaving are, in an era where instantaneity seems ...Read More