[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="360" caption="The perfect metaphor for the need to be still when wading through lots of research! (Photo by Flickr user ex_magician)"][/caption] At this time last week, I was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of content I had and ...Read More
After narrowing down my data set, I started to sketch out the social and material networks of specific zines based on the data -- not by geographic points, but by connections. As expected, I found that the zine titles that ...Read More
Like others in the class, this week I had a realization that I had to re-evaluate the scope of my project. I’d approached my project really broadly at the outset, contacting zine librarians, collectors, archivists etc. across NYC. My ...Read More
In the introduction to Andrew Blechman's Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Birdr I discovered the chinese pigeon whistle. This is an instrument made out of bamboo or gourd attached to a bird's tail feathers. ...Read More
As I try to narrow down my project, I find that I’m trying to isolate what I’m mapping into a series of threads, or stories, I would like to tell. I’ve done a lot of reading and research and would ...Read More
As I realize that we are approximately two weeks before our deadline, I still wanted to share with the class the four tools that I have been using to create my map. My number one tool is my very traditional notebook ...Read More
Organizing Text and Numerical Data Juliana’s great post about Visualizing and Organizing data inspired me to follow up with my own post on the subject. I too have been using Excel spreadsheets to kept track of my research data. ...Read More
One of the major primary documents I'll be incorporating into my mapping project is a series of photocopied handwritten index cards that I only recently finished deciphering. The nearly illegible and poorly re-printed script belongs to Bayrd Still (1906-1992), an ...Read More
(Answer: 62% of respondents prefer summer deliveries -- “It doesn’t even get hot here.”) During the holidays, I received an email from Shannon about deliverymen articles in last week’s New York magazine ("The Everything Guides to deliveries"). At first, I got frustrated: ...Read More
I think I am finally done with collecting data and artifacts for my map. Last week I went back to Fales Special Collections at NYU and looked at The Public Art Fund archive. I was very grateful that they let me ...Read More