As I dive into readings for my “architecture of media” project, I find that I am facing challenges in the way I conduct my research. As I was taught years ago, I read and take notes in outline or bullet-point ...Read More
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My neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn is full of old movie theaters that have been repurposed into other important community centers, be it a bank, pharmacy, or even a church. While I’ve bemoaned the lack of a ...Read More
Research Questions Why is there such a fascination with alcohol? What does it mean when we designate certain spaces to imbibe it throughout time? Why has there not been more study on the subject? These are the questions I intend to ...Read More
[[ This is a journal entry that I wrote back during out Zielinski reading. It's about Sappho, the ancient Greek poet whose work I'm trying to memorize. You can read about my progress in this project at sapphonics.wordpress.com ]] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So.... *These are ...Read More
Assignment#1: Individual Project Proposal Title: Orange or not orange? An attempt in making the dead zones more visible. Introduction I purchased my iPhone 3G on September 9th 2009. On that day, I became a new AT&T customer. I had purposely changed mobile servers to ...Read More
For my critique, I decided to examine The Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, or TOAH, (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/). My interest in this timeline/research tool/map stems from how it grapples with an enormous amount of information over time. The ...Read More
The Coffeehouse: A Communication Hotspot in Transition My attention was first pointed at the coffeehouse as a changing hub of communication a while ago, while I was doing some fieldwork of observing the street intersection of Grand Avenue and Clifton Place ...Read More
This post will outline what I hope will be my final mapping project (more on hopes and hopes-potentially-dashed later). I want to start with this chart, which I can point to as a major piece of inspiration behind this proposed project: This ...Read More
As my first process blog post, below is my project proposal. My brain is starting to ache in empathy for Rory, who will probably pull his hair out when he has to help with the "technological wrangling" of those of ...Read More
While I'm saving my actual project proposal for another posting that I will try to get up tomorrow prior to class, I wanted to share some things that I have been looking at over the past couple of weeks whilst ...Read More