Wednesday, October 12, 2011

GPS drawing


For the GPS drawing our group decided to split up into two separate smaller groups. One of the groups walked and one of the groups drove to our pre-determined destination. Each group had a set of guidelines that they could follow to get to their destination, for example having to make at least three u-turns before reaching your destination, or another rule even though it sounds silly was to get coffee. This rule turned out to be way more important but we overshot the destination and had to make a u-turn, so it worked out perfectly. Once we arrived at the pre-determined address we couldn't find the other half of our group. We knew that it was some sort of abandoned building but we didn't know where it was. After searching and we finally found the rest of our group amongst these abandoned buildings conversing with a few homeless men. As cool and as interesting of a place these abandoned buildings were I felt that I was an intruder of these homeless men space. Even though these buildings totally belong to someone else, these homeless men had clearly made these buildings their home. One of the homeless men throwing out threats that it wasn't a safe place to be, or that their was arsenic poisoning in the buildings. Whereas the other homeless man wanted to take us and show us all around the buildings. I thought overall the experience was very interesting, and doing the GPS drawing became more about the destination than the actual creation of a drawing.

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