Final Project Proposal

I am deciding to do my final project on radical history audio tours of Oakland. I will be launching a website shortly that will enable users to upload locations, audio and qrcode that can be posted at the location. Scanning the QR code will result in a link to the audio file.

As a result, my paper will focus on the importance of location based radical history and putting those places in to context. I am already looking at a book called "American Babylon" which goes through a radical history of oakland.

I hope to make this project a long standing one that will get other people to collaborate on as well.

Derive of West Oakland

Derive Of West Oakland on Prezi

Modern Derive: Journey to the end of night.

Journey to the End Of Night The city wide game called "Journey to the end of night" is a classic cop and robbers type game that spans throughout a city. The task is to get from one point of the city to the other while avoiding catchers. Those who make it, win! Above are photos from flickr that show the wandering aspects of JTTEON. The game allows the player to hide and run around the city to avoid capture, through this wandering is key. Its a strategic wandering to avoid loosing. Also the capture must have a wandering that will allow them to capture the maximum number of players.

Wandering Idea

My project will be a wandering of a route i take everyday, my bike ride to bart. Its a very simple route as you can see above. To create the derive, i will use a method of chance based on colors. At each intersection, If i see a color on the red spectrum, i will turn right, if i see something in the blue spectrum i will turn left. Otherwise i will go straight. I plan to track my route using GPS and perform my derive on a bicycle due to time constraints.