LIMITED FORK TIME MAPPING:

Exploring interactions with time, environment, moment as collaborators and co-authors. Part of the Limited Fork Theory principle that recognizes the collaborative nature of all things and tries to be more aware of site-responsive making and the creative potential of environments.


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Underwater Sculpture

These sculptures will continue to change and interact with the environment until they are lost forever.

Dive In.

Monday, January 25, 2010

LA Times Maps Homicide Victims

The L.A. Times has a homicide blog that shows where people were killed using Google Maps.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Wind

I have decided to look into wind and its effects on different materials in my time mapping quest. I want to look into the way wind causes motion in objects such as flags and sails. I think the repetitive yet differing motions of the fabric is really interesting as well as the way the speed and shape of these motions changes depending on wind speed and the length of the material.


-Alexandra Kiss

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Wandering

So, for my inspiration to map time I want to focus on wandering.
Not travel, just the things that I find while walking. looking, or simply not paying attention to the matter at hand. I think that I would like to map the things that I notice around me and how I can fit them together. I am not sure that there is a good way to sequence the material that I gather, I doubt it will be based on the time that it was found. More likely, it will map the sequence of thought (or interest) between the different clips that I have- the clips that make me think of other things that I have already captured, coming together to form a wandering collage of time, location and memory.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Group Mapping (a way to approach the possible 24/7 of it --including dreams)

As a form of community mapping, we can capture sketches, photos,
movies, sounds, etc. as we go about the movements and gestures --large
and/or small-- as we go about our lives; the mapping of the aesthetic
potential of accumulations of small things --some praise for detritus
[as in]

The Cursive Guidance of Bonisteel
1. Resurrection of the Balancing Act

(a road map of the elongated shadow puppet
of carrying and caring [yes; I donated to Haiti Relief today])
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By the way, the use of a the free iPhone app, Scribular, for instance, allows us to leave public notes wherever we are, comments on what we see, hear, small; on some of the atmospheres and textures, etc. we (become aware that we) encounter.

Lamps


Sweetness! I just got into this blog and is already surprised other peoples ideas.

Having already researched a bit of lamps for another class, I got interested in them through my research and decided to find something about lamps to represent a time mapping. I felt a desire to show the first lamp ever made and go on with that as a start and slowly show a time map to show the evolution of how lamps are being transformed through time and how the light bulb eventually goes out for every type of lamp.

The first start is the candle... or is it?

Then it moves onto the oil lantern if that even counts as a lantern as well. I'll keep uploading it to show my progress.

-Pk
-PeterKim

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

A more beautiful world.

A friend recently told me about this site. Coincidentally, my map is all about making connections between people who might not otherwise realize them. A perfect match. Enjoy!


Spread Love

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

results of a Google search for time:

Sometimes the search results yielded bits of preview text that were more interesting than the actual links they represented. Below are some of the most intriguing, funny or confusing representations of time (the word).



Jan 10, 2010 ... gah i hate how this show always makes me cry. i watched it for the first time with my grandma and had to hide my tears. i was also like "wtf ...



Diary of A Man Out of Time. (You Shoulda Been There!) ... more shrubs, that sort of thing ... with a 19% cut in salary, back-dated to the beginning of time. ...




Back from PA and had a great time with my parents and friends. Ate lots of turkey, went to Faccia Luna and had awesome four-cheese pizza, got some new cheap ...




Great time at the DNA Lounge. Get here if you can. And hey, spray paint an ABC car on the way over. Posted via LiveJournal.app. ...




I've got the TS-430 and a 40m dipole at the inlaws' in the StPete area, and 40 and 20 are both likely canidates for a QSO. Pick a time and a freq and let's ...




011 ☆→ Lurking within time that never stops... ...love will surely pour down like the rain. Previous 5 Entries · Recent Entries · Friends · Profile ...




What if you don't wake up in time. You really should go back downstairs and get some more work done while they're out of the house. ...




CLICK HERE! Google Chill

This American Life: Mapping

This American Life did an episode on mapping, which you can listen to here.

"Creating a map means ignoring everything in the world but one thing. That one thing could be the bus routes or the air traffic control patterns, it could be homes of Hollywood stars or it could be the cracks in the sidewalk. Maps have meaning because they filter out all the chaos in the world and focus obsessively on one item. And this is the age of maps, although you might not think of that way."

Some of the maps created by Dennis Wood, a cartographer, can be seen on This American Life's flickr page.


Thursday, January 14, 2010

A bit of humor

After talking about folding and disrupting time, I remembered a Skittles commercial I'd seen recently that involved disrupting time (as well as a form of clock). I also think this commercial is just funny, and wanted to share it with everyone!


I've been thinking a lot about music, time, and memory, specifically related to pianos. I find it interesting how pianos are so static, and people have such personal relationships with them. In my house, our small upright piano is decorated with family photos, that change and alter over time, while the piano itself remains unchanged. I've also been thinking a lot about how music can be linked to certain memories or times in a person's life, like a mini time machine for our minds. I've got a ton of ideas jumbled in my head, so once I sort them out I'll have more to say. My map is definitely going to involve music!

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Footsteps

This is a brainstorm map of some of my thoughts on observing and measuring footsteps. It's a bit confusing because there are a few ideas within it and a lot of things that overlap. I first became interested in measuring these things because I lead a very different lifestyle when I'm home in Chicago compared to Ann Arbor. I also just spent 6 months in Europe, which was drastically different.

Basically I'm interested in footsteps and how they pertain to different lifestyles (where, how much, & why people walk the places they do). I want to use pedometers to measure the physical amount of walking occurring. The pedometers can measure steps, km/miles, and calories.

I thought about tying measurements to a specific pair of shoes, people who wear a certain type of shoes, or a pair of traveling shoes. If that is to be the case, the pedometer would take measurements when the shoes are worn. I also thought about just measuring footsteps on a daily or weekly basis irregardless of what pair of shoes the person is wearing. Another important aspect is including people who lead different lifestyles in different parts of the world. I am questioning why I would choose certain people and places.

I also started thinking about different possible outputs surrounding footsteps including (but not limited to): pictures from the perspective of feet/shoes, the sounds of shoes walking on different terrains, maps or coordinates of where shoes have been, the actual number output of steps for the day, scans of the treads of shoes as they wear down over time, images of the shoes, descriptions of smell and feel of wearing shoes, etc.

All of these different types of output made me start thinking about some kind of a user manual for the people who are doing measurements. I thought it might make it easier to keep track of the days and it would be more fun. I would also have something physical that I would get back once it's filled, which is nice. It could be some kind of a book that has different activities surrounding walking everyday. A part of those thoughts came from books like Wreck This Journal, which instructs the user to do things to and with the book.

Timelapse movie: The Alps -- part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.


I know this is one of the most basic ways to represent a map of time, but this video (minus the kitschy classical music) is still pretty neat. Keep an eye out for the Milky Way!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Starting a CLOUD FACTORY approach to time mapping

After photographing cloud streams from factory smokestacks as I passed them in a Nissan Maxima on our way to and from a funeral in Illinois during unusually cold temperatures in which the factory clouds seemed to hang instead of dissipating, I opened my laptop today and found THE CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY.

From this find, I was reminded of The Clouds by Aristophanes.
Here's a brief analysis of the play




I do plan on joining the Cloud Appreciation Society. I'll let you know how the Aristophanes play fits into my cloud mapping as the map evolves.

Here is a map of an earth hemisphere with prominent clouds:


From Universe Review comes this map of common cloud types:


My work has begun. I'll share some images from my cloud factory capture sessions soon.