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so i don't exactly know what we were supposed to do because MyMaps is really bare bones but also kind of a pain to use. I thought I would do an audio thing with pictures because everywhere I go there is music associated with a place or memory. So I wrote about that but I couldn't put the song in the map which was my original intent. I also started off thinking I would link to places I'd been recently which is I guess what I did but I didn't really put a time bracket on it. Hannah you said last week you wanted us to dive right instead of just sticking our toes. I feel this week I stuck in my toenail and not much else. I've been thinking of ideas I want to do but they don't seem possible to execute without a lot of fancy gadgets, time, and money. But i know i'm also copping out.

MyMaps Help

Hey gang. Does anyone know how to do anything cool with Google My Maps for next class. All I can do is make points and write comments. Is there a way to add pictures or audio?

Food Court Musical

Ok I swear this will be the last one of these I post but I love these people. As for the conversation about putting something in the public sphere......



Here's the link to the website that has a bunch - http://improveverywhere.com/

Yuta's photos version 3.0

Glass of Water

So I'm learning a lot about the state of the world's water and it's kind of freaking me out. I'm reading this book "Blue Covenant The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water," I recommend it. Anyways, there was an article in the NY Times on the 8th about drug traces in the nation's drinking water.

I decided to use excerpts from the article for this assignment. I printed this on a water glass.

An Associated Press investigation shows a vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans.

The New York state health department and the USGS tested the source of the city's water, upstate. They found trace concentrations of heart medicine, infection fighters, estrogen, anti-convulsants, a mood stabilizer and a tranquilizer.

Yet officials in New York City did not go on to test their drinking water.

“Drug Traces Common in Tap Water” The New York Times. March 10, 2008.

I went to Union Square during lunch time on Monday and put the glass on one of Lawrence Weiner's Manhole Covers which say, "In direct line with another and the next."

Quite a few people stopped and read the glass. After about 20 minutes a teenage girl knocked over the glass and a group of people crowded around looking very distraught and seemingly looking for the owner of the glass. The glass was put upright and the group scattered.

adventures in stalking

So I've tried a couple different strategies of stalking. On Friday i got on the train and decided i would just pick someone out and follow them. i spotted a woman in a bright red hat because i figured it would be easy to keep an eye on her. we were on the A-train and rode it downtown from 125th (where i got on, she was already on the train) to 34th st. at this point we got off the train and started walking towards the empire state building. after about 3 blocks she went inside an office building. i went to follow but got stopped by security. i needed an ID to get into the building and the woman with the red hat was out of my life forever.

i still had some time so i decided to pick another random person off the street. this was a guy who might possibly have been 7 ft tall. i followed him to Starbucks where he emerged with a large coffee beverage. he too then went into an office building and security shut me out once more.

i decided stalking in midtown on Friday mornings is not a good plan

so on Saturday i was at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens for the Making Brooklyn Bloom day of events. It was pouring rain and as I waited for my partner to arrive I decided to stalk a couple walking though the park. It was cold, windy and gray and I felt like I was in a movie playing the role of the cheated on girlfriend, 007, or the creeper stalker. I felt really weird taking pictures but i snapped this one on my cell phone I guess just as proof that i did this. I was really nervous that they would hear my phone take the picture because its obnoxiously loud. I was nervous the entire time that they would get wise and figure me out as we were basically the only people in the park and I had a giant umbrella so i wasn't exactly dressed in camo. i stayed maybe 20 ft away (i have no idea really, i'm bad with guessing distances).

I felt awkward because they were obviously a couple being "couplely" holding hands, stopping to kiss at a particularly attractive tree and i felt like i was totally violating their private space but they were in public so then i thought its free game. which freaked me out to think of people who watch me in public. i think what this assignment did was to make me feel incredibly paranoid that maybe i have a stalker! i think i'll become a hermit.

Gabcast is kicking my butt

so i cannot for the life of me find my "BlogID" so i cannot get Gabcast to work....is anyone having any luck??