Inspiration/ References:

• Here is an awesome article about how virtual reality does and does not create presence.
• Virtual presence through a map interface.  Click
• making sense of maps. Click
• Obsessively documenting where you are and what you are doing. Surveillance. Click
• Gandhi in second life. click.
• Camille Utterback’s Liquid Time.
  • (Bueno) Ah, could you imagine what it would be like to have a video recording spanning years?
• Love of listening to other people’s stories. click
• (Bueno) Archiving virtual worlds

Thoughts:

• carnegie Mellon and “making your mark”. People really just past through places and I think there is a kind of nostalgia in that.
  • (Bueno) I think an addendum to that thought is that what “scrubs” places of our presence really is just other people. Sure, nature reclaims everything eventually but there is a fantastic efficiency in the way human beings repurpose/re-experience space.

• artistic photos of old places

Technically Helpful:

• Guy who used street view and has code on git hub: http://notlion.github.com/streetview-stereographic/#o=-.448,.479,-.054,.753&z=1.361&mz=18&p=23.65276,119.51718

• Acii art street view: http://tllabs.io/asciistreetview/

Sound scrubbing library for processing.