Tracing Mobility » Esther Polak

Forth day – Evening

Esther Polak — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:50:58 +0000

On my way back to Schiphol airport, I downloaded my GPS hiking data and made marks on my reading spots.

Forth day – Morning

Esther Polak — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:12:40 +0000

First I spend my morning packing and going over the “Crisis in Darfur” project in Google Earth. The hotel, maybe this is even the reason why we are hosted here, provides for a perfect Internet connection so that works fine. When done there is still time for a walk and [...]

Third day – Evening

Esther Polak — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:05:09 +0000

The train to Edal takes 15 minutes, but my hike from there lasts for 7 hours. Partly because I stop several time to read this article by Lisa Parks: Digging into Google Earth: an analysis of “Crisis in Darfur”. It is a very critical analysis of one of the most well [...]

Third day – Snow

Esther Polak — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:08:45 +0000

Found snow. I was planning to not post details about my hiking but for this I need to make exception

Third day – Morning

Esther Polak — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:29:52 +0000

Ivar just send me the announcement that the new pages on our latest print making sessions of NomadicMILK project are on-line. Wow! I really like how we managed to make the sets of prints and that we actually came up with smth people can buy. The digital becomes object. Art Object even.

This is [...]

Second day – Lunch

Esther Polak — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:19:36 +0000

During my lunch stop I did read the Aether introduction by Tristan Thielmann. It did not solve my problems with the Elmer article, but I instantly become a fan of this article. When I started working with GPS in 2002 I had no clue that this medium would be [...]

Second day – Morning

Esther Polak — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:02:37 +0000

Finished reading the second article from Aether on my list by Greg Elmer Locative Networking: Finding and Being Found before falling asleep yesterday still.

The argument (as I understand it) is that locative media studies should broaden its focus from a techno fetish device based one, to a more broad perspective: the way location [...]

First day

Esther Polak — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:52:46 +0000

I hate packing. Sometimes I hate it so much I start hating traveling.
Anyway. I arrived. Hathersage.

The plan is to read those five articles I printed and put in my suitcase. The second plan is to write short but intelligent enough comments on those articles in this blog. [...]