Category Archives: Walking

Drawinglife, the openFrameworks GPS visualisation application, open sourced

Three years after having that initial conversation about our work with Peter at an openFrameworks workshop, he has opensourced the visualisation animation application on github here. What started out as an application to simply animate our GPS tracks (as used … Continue reading

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Missing Journeys

In making the graph above, showing all our journeys for the years 2007 – 2012 (D is Dan, S is Soph, numbers on the ‘y’ axis are thousands of km), I used a custom-written piece of python software which detects … Continue reading

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Excursion in Gleisdreieck Park with Martin

At last, after a record dark start to 2013, Berlin is waking up to bright, clear mornings and the smell and sounds of Spring. Martin and I decided that we would have an excursion together today, after a long gap. … Continue reading

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Drawing Machine 2

After two intensive days building, making the lounge look like a bomb’s hit it while Soph is away, I’ve got a working machine for some aleotory drawings of journeys. I might have to add weight to the swinging drawing surface … Continue reading

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Digital Dowsing report 4

I’m just about to make the cuts I need to make to free the LED/receiver pairs from the mouse circuitboard. then ‘all I need to do’ (famous last words) is attach the black plastic rotary cogs to the dowsing rod … Continue reading

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