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Sir Ducksbane
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Last Logged In: September 30th, 2010
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Misuse of Maps by Sir Ducksbane

March 17th, 2008 12:02 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Navigate a city or region using maps that do not represent that space.
For example, you can use a map of Central Park to traverse Loving County, Texas, or a map of the London Underground to find your way through SF MOMA.

Compare your expectations with your experiences.

At this point I feel like I kind of have two homes, one at school and one where I grew up. I decided to compare these two by using a map of the area around my school in Somerville, Massachusetts to navigate around the area behind my house in Oakham, Massachusetts. As I was making my way back my camera ran out of batteries, so the trip is not quite complete. If I get a chance, I might go back out at some point to get some pictures of the swampy region of Somerville and the old beaver construction in Davis Square.

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Here's the map I followed with my route marked


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Starting from my house


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Going down Electric St


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Turning onto Packard Ave


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Now heading down Powder House Blvd


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Powder House Square


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Going by some railroad tracks


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I work in a building around here somewhere.


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Turning onto Boston Ave


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Some busy traffic here is making it difficult to cross the street


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Maybe I can cross here?


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Walking on thin ice here


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Finally a crosswalk I can use to get over the street


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Here's the crosswalk


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Heading down Boston Ave


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Here's College Ave


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Getting onto campus now


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Going through the Tufts campus


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Still walking through campus


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Going up some stairs


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Now I've reached the quad


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There's a nice view of the Boston skyline from up here


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Boston skyline


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Heading back through campus towards home


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I don't remember campus being this swampy



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posted by Tøm on March 17th, 2008 12:18 PM

Woah, that's some nice landscape out there.

The captions made me chuckle, especially the Powder house blvd photo.

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posted by praximity on March 17th, 2008 2:01 PM

big thumbs up
that's definitely what i had in mind
thank you for not crushing my dreams on the first task i wrote.

its outside the scope of this task, but i couldn't help but imagine you going to class or work, basically going about your daily routine, in the middle of all those trees.

it'd be really interesting to see people recreate their environments in completely different settings as a kind of extension of this task.

maybe i need to write a new task.

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posted by .thatskarobot on March 17th, 2008 3:11 PM

beautiful boston skyline, lol

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posted by rongo rongo on March 18th, 2008 12:40 PM

That's neat.