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Fieldpapers experiment

Posted by the_big_blue on 18 March 2014 in English.

My partner (arsenal2014) and I went out into the field and chose eight different locations that we thought signified “spaces of wonder”, artistic and playful. I showed my colleague a secret garden, hidden in a canopy of trees between the gym building and the path surrounding the quad. After this we saw the photo collage in the gym of famous athletes who have in the past attended SF State. Then he showed me a tiger collaged out of glass and porcelain looking over the new-built library. We went around the Humanities building and (arsenal2014) saw a sculpture of a boy and a girl holding hands over a globe. Down the path I saw a mosaic in the form of a column and water was flowing out of it. We sauntered around the entire campus and also noted the observatory on top of Thornton Hall. Here is a link to my fieldpapers snapshot: http://fieldpapers.org/snapshots.php?user=lknzrf9m (done a few times because the web link insisted that the image i was scanning was under 200 dpi)

First experience with Open Street Map

Posted by the_big_blue on 12 March 2014 in English. Last updated on 18 March 2014.

I do not have any previous experience using Street Map. I only just learned about it a few days ago but was very intrigued by the fact that anyone could alter and improve the map. I looked at different areas of the world which I was curious about in terms of how developed each was (i.e: Spain, Bulgaria, England, Island of Cyprus) Some of the changes I made were: -Named the Administration Building, the Science Building, Burk Hall, the Quad, the Softball field and Lot 25 on Winston Dr -Added Village Centennial Market, Thornton Hall building (however someone modified it), Swimming Pool in Gymnasium, gym in Leasing office building, Malcolm X Plaza and SFSU Bookstore; SFSU Planetarium Observatory; Hall of fame photo collage in GYM building; waterfall column and the secret garden. Changeset can also be viewed through this link: osm.org/user/the_big_blue/history#map=16/37.7248/-122.4797 One difficulty I had was tracing an existing building because it is not perfectly geometric.