Carto Narratives
Going to Carto Narratives in Zurich soon (11th june - 13th june) to participate in a workshop with some great people, William Cartwright, Jeremy Wood, Sebastien Caquard... loads of others I've still to have a good read of their proposals. Read mine on augmented reality/hyper real/emotion + joy
http://cartonarratives.wordpress.com/projects/
Share your views of Bachelard as I am reading up on how he perceives people can enhance their happiness from spaces... and how they engage with a space... many more other people but still getting my head around him, and how he fits with my project...
Visualthinkmap on Pinterest
Please forgive if I haven't been blogging as often as I could but you can keep a regular update on here:
http://pinterest.com/visualthinkmap/interesting-things-on-the-web-shift-space/
Much like I used too on tumblr: http://visualthinkmap.tumblr.com/
Checkout an Interview of me with Shrieking Violets & Shift-Space
Checkout an interview of us (shift-space.co.uk) describing our practice, zines, little gems app, vb workshop and general views on education/visual practice...
http://www.theshriekingviolets.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/alice-in-apps-land-workshop-from-zines.html
Alice in Apps Land - Future Everything/Victoria Baths
Working in a collective with my colleagues, Shift-Space are very excited to be a part of the futureeverything festival taking place in Manchester in May. Natalie aka, the shrieking violet has invited us to run some workshops as part of the fanzine convention taking place on the Saturday and we also plan to have our own display of zines and other printed ephemera.
‘Alice in apps land: explore your smart phone and your environment’, presented by Visual Think Map in collaboration with Shift Space.
During this workshop you will discover the local landscape through digital stories and learn more about apps and the functionality of how your phone can enliven the world around you. Through an interactive and engaging tour of the area near Victoria Baths you will discover and digitally collate, using your phone, a variety of people’s memories and your own as we introduce you to new apps and narratives, including old photos and memorabilia of the area. We’ll finish by making an interactive map where everyone can share what they’ve made and then print a map. DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR PHONE AND WE’LL SEE YOU THERE!
Splitscreen: A love Story
This is a very cool video. Two lives, synced, with timing/composition/speed/angles. Wow.
I wanted more. The angling for the plane is measured, the turning of the bus, the lovely jump in time zones/locations as a cyclist seemingly jumps through a crack linking these two locations.
Love it! Originally saw it on amazing films interludes on channel 5 (uk)
Route 66 Story Map
This is a great project on mapping the history and narratives of a journey/terrain. A sort of map that is more interesting than the territory that Houellebecq proposed.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=k&om=1&msid=103763259662194171141.000001119b4b42bf062c2&msa=0
Looking to use video and record data on a journey, much like Stephen Shore has done on his journey's across america but only through photography. Just multimedia and more forms of it. I'd like to merge the projects Poetry Atlas & History Pin and maybe this atlascine.org that I recently saw but not just Canada.
See http://artcarto.wordpress.com/cartography-narratives/ for more about Story Maps.
More about the project 'Jay Crim and Shekar Davarya spent the summer of 2002 driving across the country on Route 66, collecting interviews with the people who live, work and travel on the old road. The audio, video and images on this map are the result of that summer, and offer a glimpse into what life was like on the now-decommissioned highway and what remains for those who still travel the road. The America's Highway project was intended to create both a history lesson on America of the past as well as a travel guide for visitors on 66 today. The work was supervised by Professor Bill Leslie, History of Science Department and Mike Reese, Center for Educational Resources, The Johns Hopkins University.'
Mercato
Love this illustration/collage by Chris Kenny called Mercato. Piecing different parts of maps together to create a new terrain, a new territory.
| From tangible book |
How apt to title a map by the name of Mercato too, as he was the one that produced our standard atlas we percieve the world as today, 'Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Belgian geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator, in 1569.'
Find out more about Chris Kenny here: http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_bio.php?mainId=51
Prote.in Journal
Cool url and even cooler news print journal. 'The quarterly Journal contains all the best from the Protein OS. It pulls together the very best of the network from the past three months. Previous issues are catalogued below.'
| From Prote.in |
Finally got round to posting this was their third issue and it was packed full of some beautiful data visualisations and interviews and lots to read. It even contained a free poster of the latest work (was a while ago I got this, just got round to posting) by Peter Crnokrak who was featured in http://vism.ag/vol2 see page 12 - 15 called 'Everyone Ever in the World', great work btw Peter.
| From Prote.in |
Beautifully composed/designed with a great healthy use of space that sits perfectly with the newsprint feel. Clean type it, its in colour too with some great projects from their dose of quarterly creative intake from the eyes that i'm about to check out, such as:
Sam Winston's Birth-day - does some brilliant typographic explorations such as Sam's 'The Monster Story' or 'The Dictionary Story' (i think the second was called this...)
Henry Luong's Seinfeld Data Vis, looking similar in circular compostion to those made by Peter Crnokrak [LoP]
Mapping America, also looking cool.
You can see all their issues for free, online in the same approach, possibly through Issuu.com too, approach to the flash viewing of http://vism.ag
Check it out!
http://prote.in/journal
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