The application form of Connect Live 2019 asked for an entry in this board. So my first message is very simple. For me it is no big difference in exploring painting, woodcarving or Google Maps.
I started the slackline in 2014. Serious studies say, that one of the side effects is, that the orientation in space will improve. After one year I felt much safer on the bicycle and on the motorbike. And I did know many more streets in Ubud, Bali, than I ever knew before. Sure, finding new roads was much easier with Maps. Then 2018, by chance, I joined the worldwide acting “Hash House Harriers” (They call it: a drinking club with a running problem). From this weekly meetings I learned, that there is always a path in Bali, you wouldn’t expect. Between rice fields, crossroad, along so called subaks, the small waterways. Anyway, I extended the activity to at least three hours daily walking. As you can imagine: Drawing and painting while walking is no choice. I could have started dictating a novel into my phone, but I’m not a writer. So happily I found a pleasant way of entertaining myself on the walks: Making photos of locations and reaching the top position, the cover shot on Maps. Only one rule for me: no food!
I created a few locations as “trekking areas” and filled them repeatedly with photos, digital composings, very short videos and gifs. Watch it on an Android device/smartphone. And forget the single photos of trees, dogs and landscapes. See how especially the gifs behave, when you screen the overview and flip the content.
This kind of movement sketches could as well be used for fine dining restaurants, car repair shops and dentists, any places where people do something, move something.
Here you see three little experiments:
Räuberwald, Münster
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RUzje
Pellegrino’s Walk, Ubud
https://maps.app.goo.gl/SJh3S
Ubud Rice Fields, Ubud
https://maps.app.goo.gl/wwKEu
Hope you get inspired!
Pellegrino
Cheers
Pellegrino