love them, Michael. I too like the notes attached to the gps drawings. they're a great way to capture memories and overlay your stories onto the streets/physical space.
thanks for the tip on Strava too - will check this out. not sure if this is of interest, but years ago Ivan Pope had a 'gps for artists' workshop on the Isle of Wight and I went along (when I 'lived' in UK), as I'd been seeing 'gps drawings' online (people on bikes riding the streets making drawings from the roads & their gps tracks). I was at the start of lots of work travel trips & had just bought a gps handheld device. over the years I captured lots of tracks from different places, took photos, but didn't always get them mapped together - some are on my old blog. an older version of drupal had a maps/gps track module so I could attach the track data file and it would display it on the blog posts automatically - some I added photos also. but I broke the module/posts years later after a series of drupal updates & have never got round to fixing them (so if you check the links some posts look empty, others just have a couple of pics - 'one day' I'll fix them). I loaded some into google earth sometimes too. and into gps visualizer which just gave me the line drawings without the map underneath - these were my favourites. later that year I did a max/msp course too over a few weekends and during the classes I worked on a gps drawing data music patch (with a lot of help from our teacher, sebastian lexer @ goldsmiths). the patch just uses the gps data as inputs to a processing filter, but again, 'one day' I was going to use them to generate sounds from the walks/drives. anyway, love your drawings & recollections - it's fun working with spatial data, to collect memories in another way. http://aliak.com/gps_data has some of them (lots of track data collected since 2005 but not put online) Ivan Pope presents A Locative Day Out: http://aliak.com/content/workshop-gps-artists-background-info gps data music patch http://aliak.com/content/maxmsp-course-goldsmiths-college-london-gps-data-music-patch-project On 15 April 2017 at 03:48, James Morris <ja...@jwm-art.net> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Any reason you haven't used Strava for this? Combined with Instagram, it > does everything you're talking about I think. > > The Strava app uses your mobile's GPS to log your route, add a title and > description/notes, etc. Instagram photos you take during the activity are > automatically associated (once a/c linked). Various add-ons such as > relive.cc > > An example of one of my rides: > > https://www.strava.com/activities/758410407 > http://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#758410407?c=u10u5crc&z=C&t=1O4qSJ > https://www.relive.cc/view/758410407 > > James. > > > > On 13/04/17 14:13, Michael Szpakowski wrote: > >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/albums/72157676652502324 >> >> >> >> Last summer, after a gap ofsome years, I started running daily again. I >> did this because I had stoppedtaking a small dose of an antidepressant and >> although I was careful to withdrawslowly it hit me hard - I experienced a >> renewed depression and anxiety whichwas much worse than that which I had >> originally taken the drugs to combat. Iwas unwilling, though, to return to >> the drugs if I could possibly avoid this.The running helped me copeand, as >> I get slowly better, continues to do so.In early 2017 I starteddocumenting >> some of my runs using the ‘measure distance’ function on Googlemaps, >> taking a screenshot of theresulting image and posting it to the photo >> sharing service Flickr. I have beeninterested for a long time in things >> that somehow hover between image, diagramand text and this seemed like a >> fruitful example of that. Once I’d made andposted a few these it seemed >> only natural to append to the image somecommentary on my run, things and >> people seen and noted, my state of mind, theweather… a kind of highly >> compressed diary superimposed on the rundocumentation and something which >> fitted with my long standing interest in theway that the internet allowed >> very naturally for long form aggregations ofoften diverse and lapidary >> components. (For years, from 2003 to the presentday, I have been making >> small videos and posting them to the internet, apractice I have compared to >> the Japanese literary form Zuihitsu, literally‘following the brush’ - a >> kind of miscellany.)Each piece takes quite along time to make and I’m very >> conscious of working against the clock tocomplete and post each one. I’m >> also mindful that, although I work hard to makemy texts flow, sometimes, to >> meet my self-imposed requirement of posting on thesame day as I run, I have >> to accept a certain improvisatory quality (whichmight be a polite way of >> saying the texts are not always as polished as I wouldideally like.)I was >> deeply involved inalmost the first wave of ‘net-art’ - it brought me into >> image wrangling andgave me an opportunity to have people look at my work >> and even to get it shownin institutions too. I’m saddened by the now >> overwhelming corporatisation ofthis space which has, it seems to me, >> destroyed many of the possibilities forart which were so exciting in the >> late nineties of the last century and theearly noughts of this one. Much >> digital and networked art now seems to requirelarge amounts of tech and >> funding and to have moved closer and closer toeverything many of us felt >> was disagreeable and backward looking about the artworld. Little of it now >> lives on the net. The kind of enthusiast I was wouldnow get channelled into >> spaces specifically made for ’enthusiasts’, for‘amateurs’ - the kind of >> intermingling that was completely natural back thenhas almost completely >> disappeared.One of my responses ( theother is to work in more traditional >> practices, such as painting) is to try andmaintain a toehold in places like >> Flickr, which although certainly corporateand equally regarded by both art >> world commentators and those who own it as aspace for the masses rather >> than the charmed circles of the art world,nevertheless retain, if one looks >> carefully, echoes of that earlier promise.One finds artists, who, whether >> they would style themselves such or not, aremaking work of depth and >> lasting interest as well as in some sense pushing backboundaries.Finally I >> want to say I haveno idea whether this work is any ‘good’. I know I have a >> need to make it, Iknow that on my good days it seems worth making and it >> seems to me to offersomething that, if not original (what is? what is? - we >> had *that* brought hometo us forcefully by the network, and a good thing >> too), at least synthesises anumber of practices in a way which still seems >> native to the internet as wellas drawing on some interesting tendencies in >> contemporary art, particularly thekind of romantic conceptualism I >> associate with Richard Long and Sophie Calleas well as with groups like >> Collective Actions. If you have a moment pleasetake a look. It’s a big ask >> but if you have time I would welcome your thoughts,whether positive, >> puzzled or negative. best wishesmichael >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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