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Locative Media and Flaneaurs

Locative Reader
www.locative.org
The Wallking Project
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2005/06/the_walking_pro.php
Modernity and the Flaneaur
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/postmo_urban/flaneur.html
Walking as Knowing as Making
http://www.walkinginplace.org/converge/index.htm
The Arcades Project
http://www.thelemming.com/lemming/dissertation-web/home/flaneur.html
GlowLab
http://glowlab.com/news/?cat=63

Google Stuff

Wikipedia Ground Truth entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_truth
tiny video and satellite images of weather patterns
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
Satellite images of France
http://www-grtr.u-strasbg.fr/index.shtml
Bahranis Use Google Earth to spy on Royals
http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/archives/2006/11/bahrainis_use_google_earth_to_sp.html
Atlas Gloves that control Google Earth Through hand gestures
http://atlasgloves.org/demo
flyswatter map of Milan
http://www.gadling.com/2007/05/03/kill-flies-with-a-milan-map/
Google Earth Manual (pdf)
http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/tutorials/index.html

Maps of Paris

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/france.html
(scroll down for the links to paris & related maps)
map of paris

-Paris, Medieval "Mediaeval Paris" From Literary and Historical Atlas of Europe, by J.G. Bartholomew, 1912.
-Plans of Paris (251K) and Versailles 1789. From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1926.
-Paris, Environs of 1866 From A Handbook For Visitors To Paris, Second Edition. London: John Murray. 1866.
-Versailles 1866 From A Handbook For Visitors To Paris, Second Edition. London: John Murray. 1866.
-Paris 1871 "Paris und Umgebung" From Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer Anstalt..., by Dr. A Petermann. 1871.

 

Art Supply Stores Nearby

here are a few leads on art supplies
SENNELIER FRERES
rue de la grand chamier (just 1 block parallel to the prc)
-great shop- lots of wonderful sketchbooks and paper choices, VERY friendly
3 STORES UP ON THE SAME STREET TOWARDS RASPAIL (look for the paint brush and bright sign outsid)
- the shopkeeper is not as friendly but great paper
ADAM
11 Blvd. Edgar Quinet
-metro line 6 around the corner from the PRC

Artists and Collaborations

Adolf Wolfli
http://www.rawvision.com/back/wolfli/wolfli.html
landing: 8 collaborative projects between artists and geographers
http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/VG/landing/
Roxanna Torres
http://www.personalworldmap.org/
Center for Land Use Interpretation
http://www.clui.org/
Trevor Paglen
http://paglen.com/pages/projects.htm
Matthew Ritchie
http://newplace.projects.sfmoma.org/mockUp1204/index.htm
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ritchie/clip2.html
Fake is the New Real
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/
MILK Project
http://milkproject.net/en/index.html
Paula Levine-Baghdad-San Francisco
http://paulalevine.banff.org/
Zeno Project
http://transition.turbulence.org/spotlight/Zeno/
Puget Soundscape
http://homepage.mac.com/brettbecker/soundscape/pugetsoundscape.html

SOnic Walden
http://www.sonicwalden.blogspot.com/
Christian Nold
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/03/emotional.mapping.ap/index.html

http://www.softhook.com/
Reverberant
http://www.reverberant.com/SM/index.htm
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
http://www.forschungsfloss.de/index_e.html

Mazen Kerbaj: Trumpet vs Bomb
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/07/mazen_kerbaj_tr.html
UBU
http://www.ubu.com/

Relevant Blogs and Journals

Space and Culture
http://www.spaceandculture.org/
Terrain
http://www.terrain.org/
Strange Maps
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Muteblog
http://glowlab.blogs.com/muteblog/
index of/
http://www.be-tween.net/index_of/
blogtitle
http://blogroll.jodi.org/
micawavetv
http://publicaddress.typepad.com/micawavetv/

France and Sites We/You Can Visit

Paris Markets
a list of all paris markets and their specialties:
http://en.parisinfo.com/guide_paris/rub5958.html&id_article=6401

Paris subways link
http://world.nycsubway.org/eu/fr/paris/
Museum Night
http://english.pidf.com/page/p-292/art_id-1029/idf-FmaIDFSRV0019188/
Learn French
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/
http://www.bonjour.com/
Paris Travel Guide
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/TravelGuide-Paris.html
Biking to Giverny
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3261590289642131748
Musical Fountains of Versailles
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8213229352508421529
Chartres Study Guide
http://www.lessons4living.com/chartres_labyrinth.htm

Further Reading + Video on Mapping

Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps by Edward S. Casey
The Impressionists' Paris: Walking Tours of the Artists' Studios, Homes, and the Sites They Painted by Ellen Williams
You Are Here by Katherine Harmon
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
On Longing by Susan Stewart
The Lure of the Local by Lucy Lippard
The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era by William J. Mitchell Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan, Yi-Fu Tuan, Steven Hoelscher, Editors,Karen E. Till
Paul Cezanne: The Basel sketchbooks by Lawrence Gowing
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by John Brinckerhoff Jackson
The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography) by Denis Cosgrove
Wandering in the City by Christel Hollevoet
Watching your Step: The History and Practice of the Flaneur by Chris Jenks
ARTISTS AND MAPPING: Situationism and Locative Media by Ana Boa-Ventura
The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram
Marcovaldo or the Seasons in the City by Italo Calvino
All books by J. B. Jackson
The Flaneur (Writer and the City) by Edmund White
Writings by Walter Benjamin
Writings by Baudelaire
Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges

Video and Film:
Ursula Biemann's film, Performing the Border
Chris Marker’s film, San Soleil
Films from Walking Film Festival
http://www.walkinginplace.org/film/index_description.htm
The Gleaners by Agnes Varda