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A New Running Map
The first of a serious of neat little side projects from my usual work on MapBox and the like - a new kind of map (I call it a 'squiggle') and a new pretty map. But, hopefully a lot more than that - I documented the process of creating the map in serious detail, and it goes over re-teaching myself high school trig, writing a scraper for Garmin Connect, trying to fake being a real artist, and figuring out some new map interactions. There's more to come, and ideally this convinces the big groups that hold onto our data to let us get at it to make more beautiful things.
posted by tmcw at 11:34 AM on August 1, 2011 - 4 comments
The first of a serious of neat little side projects from my usual work on MapBox and the like - a new kind of map (I call it a 'squiggle') and a new pretty map. But, hopefully a lot more than that - I documented the process of creating the map in serious detail, and it goes over re-teaching myself high school trig, writing a scraper for Garmin Connect, trying to fake being a real artist, and figuring out some new map interactions. There's more to come, and ideally this convinces the big groups that hold onto our data to let us get at it to make more beautiful things.
posted by tmcw at 11:34 AM on August 1, 2011 - 4 comments
Portrait of Kitchener
I'm the artist-in-residence for the city of Kitchener, Ontario this year (2011). My project is to photograph 1,000 or more people within the city to create a photographic documentary of the diversity of our community.
posted by seanmpuckett at 10:14 AM on May 16, 2011 - 5 comments
I'm the artist-in-residence for the city of Kitchener, Ontario this year (2011). My project is to photograph 1,000 or more people within the city to create a photographic documentary of the diversity of our community.
posted by seanmpuckett at 10:14 AM on May 16, 2011 - 5 comments
Spouse Notes
Spouse Notes is a project that collects notes written from one loved one to another. I thought it would be interesting to share the funny, embarrassing and bizarre messages that my wife writes to me.
My hope for Spouse Notes is to have an archive of awful pet names, Dear John letters and the like. More importantly, I wanted to find a way to preserve these special moments. Email seems to last forever these days, but the random, "Pick up the dog crap!" message scrawled on a post-it note is always permanently destroyed.
I understand that the idea of collecting personal/private missives isn't new or novel, but I do feel that Spouse Notes has a unique niche. Even if it only serves as a destination for collecting my wife's messages, the project is fun aside to my day-to-day work. I do, however, hope to collect more messages like this and this.
The site has received a few random submissions and I thought that perhaps the MeFi group might provide some meaningful feedback.
posted by snowsuit at 10:23 AM on February 19, 2007
Spouse Notes is a project that collects notes written from one loved one to another. I thought it would be interesting to share the funny, embarrassing and bizarre messages that my wife writes to me.
My hope for Spouse Notes is to have an archive of awful pet names, Dear John letters and the like. More importantly, I wanted to find a way to preserve these special moments. Email seems to last forever these days, but the random, "Pick up the dog crap!" message scrawled on a post-it note is always permanently destroyed.
I understand that the idea of collecting personal/private missives isn't new or novel, but I do feel that Spouse Notes has a unique niche. Even if it only serves as a destination for collecting my wife's messages, the project is fun aside to my day-to-day work. I do, however, hope to collect more messages like this and this.
The site has received a few random submissions and I thought that perhaps the MeFi group might provide some meaningful feedback.
posted by snowsuit at 10:23 AM on February 19, 2007
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