@sumit on 2012-09-29

  • @skry I guess so, but you'd have to ask them #
  • Off for a day of arty cartography #mindthemap #
  • Michelle Brown, @ltmuseum curator: contemporary art integral to exploring notion of personal journeys in the #MindtheMap exhibition #mtmsym #
  • Took 18 months of fraught discussion for London Transport to approve The Great Bear, Simon Patterson's famed remix of the tube map #mtmsym #
  • Initial inspiration: a gallery space built over the Piccadilly line whose "doorways had become trapezoidal" #mtmsym #
  • 20 years later, "The Great Bear" seems like a history painting: e.g. refences to George Bush Sr., Oliver North. #mtmsym #
  • "Saptarishi" revisits the concept. But many of the Chinese dissidents along DLR are the same, and the media line is all Murdoch now #mtmsym #
  • Saptarishi also homages forgotten figures: astronauts orbiting the Circle Line, eminent Victorians and silent actors on Overground #mtmsym #
  • .@jwoodx "quickly regretted" deciding to ride every bus from Elephant and Castle when making London Overland http://t.co/FfR5LM9c #mtmsym #
  • It took seven days riding for 10 hours a day. "By day 6 it did become enjoyable" #mtmsym #
  • Quality of line: GPS drawings have 2-second time resolution, so corners are cut off, says @jwoodx. And dithering shows up as a cloud #mtmsym #
  • "It was not my idea to gaffa-tape the GPS receiver to the dog" http://t.co/J1XtfZ67 #mtmsym #
  • #GPSDrawing reveals the ruts we make and made for us, the cumulative history of our lives & that maps record time as well as space #MtMSym #
  • .@jwoodx draws with GPS but doesn't like navigating with it: "We're not looking where we're going any more" and forgetting way marks #MtMSym #
  • Would @jwoodx draw with a rival system to GPS? "It's like using a new manufacturer's pencil; why not see if the lead's different?" #MtMSym #
  • Where does Susan Stockwell get notes for her money maps? "I buy them on eBay. It's quite cheap if you don't buy collectors' money" #MtMSym #

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