Why I don’t use GPS logging on my smartphone

This post is an adaptation of an email I was sending to someone who wrote to me to ask about doing what I do. I directed him to this previous post (What GPS to use) and started off clarifying a couple of things:

HP DraftPro EXL (7576A) Pen Plotter working

It’s been a long time waiting for me down the studio, but the other day, I managed to crack getting the plotter we bought on eBay for 40 Euros working.

How to Georeference K5 Raster Maps from the Berlin Senat in QGis

I was lucky enough to get a present from the wonderfully generous Teri Rueb when she was in Berlin making an mscape project (those were the days) at the Akademie der Künste. Even though it’s out-of-date, I still like the funky old-fashioned state raster of Berlin with every apartment …

Hooray for Distributed Version Control. Boo for Dropbox

I’ve been having problems with Dropbox lately, not updating all files. I still haven’t got to the bottom of that but last night I worked on a Python script down our studio and wanted to polish it up at home but hey presto! It wasn’t there in …

Digital Dowsing 0.1

It’s been around enough in my mind (actually since the Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit [SPS]) to finally talk about it here. A mash-up of the esoteric and the technological - my nascent Digital Dowsing project.

You’re the product, not the customer

Mathieu also pointed me towards this pertinent summation of Facebook, Google & Co:

Memory Palace Operating System

A very inspiring talk tonight in Neukölln with Mathieu Baudier. He was talking about his vision for a file browser where instead of some hierarchical structure on the left hand panel (or in the case of mac, some shortcuts) and a list of files in the main panel, the left …

Leuven Orbital

Monument. Skin. Excavation (Workshop with Martin Howse at HKW Berlin)

Another great workshop with [Martin](https://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=monument). It was part of [Trampoline’s exhibition](https://trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/events/event/exhibition) we are part of at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. I was able to hook up a hard drive read …

Initial results from Crossing Paths in Leuven

We are very excited to be working with Stuk in Leuven, BE on a project that picks up where A Day in the Life, the Walkers of Birmingham left off.