Whenever I go anywhere I tend to think a lot about everything and anything that interests me. I wasn't thinking about my surroundings. I was thinking about whatever came into mind right away. Sometimes I have very random thoughts that are triggered by scent, music, or color. For this assignment, nothing changed. I wasn't really thinking deeply about my surroundings or what was going on. I was walking, observing, and taking some pictures with my phone. Those photos triggered thoughts, which would lead me to question what was in front of me.
Biking and riding the bus simply added other elements to observe. People, for example made me question them and what they did. The bike ride was fast which added a strong element of ephemerality to the interaction with my surroundings. I mean, in essence everything is ephemeral, but that's a whole different topic. Here is my stream of consciousness during the 3 different modes of transportation. enjoy.
Walking:
-The alley smells like rotten eggs
-I'm walking down the alley the entire way.
-Im listening to health while the wind blows against me.
-Julio said my project Sucked, but then Said he liked it. He's lying.
-It smells like fish.
-Just left the alleys.
-Well, they ended.
-So now I'm on Broadway.
-An old girlfriend just texted me.
-There are feathers all over the msoe campus.
-I think they eat birds for lunch.
-Almost walked through a field of crickets. Nvm.
-Just saw Brittany again.
-I'm back in an alley
-Oh, I just got here. Took van buren here.
Bus: -Milwaukee people are so odd.
-these bus billboards are so damn weird.
-this song is so good.
Bike: -my legs hurt.
-my chain is rusty
-i'm tired.
Touching on the Nato Thompson reading, I thought that he made many interesting points about us and the relationship that we have with our geographical surroundings. "We become what we experience" is something that I found to be very true. Throughout the three ways of experimenting this route, I became bored and uninterested, just like the route itself. I was sick of seeing the same thing over and over. I think that an intimacy between ourselves and our surroundings is only existent when we truly want to be intimate with them, when it catches our interest. I really like the idea of ephemeral cultural forces. It's something that triggers the mind in many directions. "If one wants to change the mind, one must change the geographic conditions that shape it." I would have to disagree with that statement, because I believe that a changing in the mind comes from the changing of our lifestyles and thoughts. Anyway, good read.
some pictures from the walk.
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