The rules of the game:
There are six checkpoints scattered around Brooklyn and Manhattan. The first person to get through all six checkpoints without getting caught wins. You may not use bicycles, cars, or taxis to travel from checkpoint to checkpoint, but you can use public transportation or walk. Game participants must wear a white […]
I rode the subway from Williamsburg in Brooklyn back to the Upper West Side where I currently live.
While in Williamsburg I attended Conflux, a festival for psychogeography. At the festival I took a smelling tour of the neighborhood with The Smelling Committee. The Smelling Committee was an interactive group project. The group leaders gave each […]
Today I experienced Times Square in the rain. There were umbrellas and puddles everywhere.
When I was in high school I played the clarinet in the jazz band. First I played in the symphony band for a couple years, but then I switched to the jazz band because I had a crush on the jazz band […]
The visual version of surround sound, featured at Monkey Town.
In the back room at Monkey Town there is a theater with four screens, one on each wall. While I was there, researchers from The Institute for the Future of the Book used the screens primarily to show us a presentation about their work. One of […]
I don’t want there to be a beginning because then there has to be an end.
But today is a beginning: it is the first day of the Carleton College new media off-campus study program in which I am a student. The program is ten weeks long and travels to New York, London, Amsterdam, and Berlin. […]