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Jules' walk: The process I used: I began to walk from the Rock Shop, not knowing what I was going to follow, but knowing that something would guide me. The first directional sign I took was an arrow on a light pole that was crudely made of masking tape. I continued to follow arrows as I saw them, turning where they told me to. I was finished with my walk when I came to a dead end. There I found a cute pair of chairs and nearby the remnants of a refreshing beverage. To take my walk: Turn right out of Aleta's Rock Shop. Keep your eyes open. Follow the arrows as the pictures show. Otherwise you could create your own walk, allowing colors, sents, directional signals, etc to guide you.
DERIVIZZLE by jesse hora Supplies: eyes - pockets/bag - affixing materials/any medium you like Walk and cleaar your mind. dont think about anything, just let the randomness happen. notice everything and nothing. Grab anything you feel like you want to use in a piece/design.i prefer to make mixed media design using the computer and scanners. you can do anything with found objects. PURPOSE. to amke you aware of you surrounding and to create pleasing design that tell a story. thanks. peace.
My walk starts at the studio, and heads toward the railroad. You walk west from the studio on on side streets and when you come to the railroad, follow it. You then cross the railbridge over the grand river, after seeing the water filtration plant from behind. You then approach the studion from the rear, hop the garage wall from teh street behing plainfield, and enter through the back door.
My walk is simply to pick a start location, lay down flat on the ground and look up. Take in a perpective that you typically don't see. Every 5-10 steps repeat. You will be amazed at all the things you don't typically see even in an area that you are very familar with. Stop or start wherever you like. I suggest taking a camera or a sketch book and documenting and framing up the interesting things you will find.
My walk is a self contained porcelain devise. Small and delicate porcelain boxes are given to the walker. The piece of paper inside designates a time frame for the walk to take place and the other direction is to collect. The walker goes out in their own path and is guided to discover small objects to collect and place inside their box.
walk.google.com This walk will designed by Google and Goolge Maps and your ability to come up with words spontaneously. In order to create this walk, you will need accesss to the internet. Go to http://www.google.com. Google will be your access to the WORLD wide web, to help you better understand your LOCAL neighborhood. The instructions for this walk.google.com will be specific to the Creston Neighborhood. After accessing http://www.google.com,, enter “49505” + “Grand Rapids” in the search box. 49505 is the area code that covers the Creston Neighborhood and Grand Rapids is the city which Creston Heights resides. In the search box, you will have entered “49505” + “grand rapids”, now enter a third word. Here is an example – “49505” + “Grand Rapids” + “balloon”. After you have entered this third word into the equation, hit “Google Search”. The search will result in a page of internet sites that reference the equation you have searched. For each equation find a location within your search results that is located in the neighborhood you are concentrating on, based on the locations zip code. Record the address. Do this ten times, each time changing the third word in the search equation. After recording ten different addresses use the internet to access http://maps.google.com. Upon accessing this maps.google.com, click on the “directions” tab. The site will ask for starting point address [i.e. Starting Point: 1515 Plainfield Grand Rapids, MI 49505. Ending point: 3000 N. Monore Grand Rapids, MI]. This process will give you direction from the first address on your list to the second address. Right down the direction and then repeat the same process for the second and third addresses on your list and so on and so forth. After this process, you will have a wonderful walk through your neighborhood
designed for cars (jenns)
I didn’t fully understand the walk project but I talked with Rachael and came up with something that I think is interesting and purposeful. The concept is sort of a reverse soundtrack. I combined a bunch of audio clips into an aporximately 15 minute audio file. The walker is to start at the Rock shop, listen to file on headphones and wait for the first clip to begin. The walker will then begin to walk away from the shop, actively seeking sites or happenings in the area that fit the mood that the song/audio clip has inspired within them. If the walker has a camera, each image/occurrence that they find to match the mood of the song can be documented. The purpose of this exercise is to highlight the multi-faceted nature of a given area. I think it is very easy to form a single identity for a neighborhood/area/space and this walk encourages the walker to look for characteristics of the space that match the shifting and diverse moods of the audio. You can download the audio at http://www2.gvsu.edu/~steptera/civicwalk.html Peace -Anthony D. Stepter
THE RHYTHM AND RIDDLES OF RUBBISH (ANNE'S WALK)
ROLL TO THE RIVER LIKE WATER (Paul)
AIM: to explore our relationship to the building and its surroundings through intropsective experience. to examine the difference between visual and audio experiences and the way in which they change when translated into verbal/written language. kate 2/28
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