MAPPING YOUR WORLD

finding the principles of composition around you

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
mapping your world through emotions and behavior rather than through landmarks or geography.

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
mapping your world through emotions and behavior rather than through landmarks or geography. meant to take you off your predictable paths in order to bring more awareness of your surroundings.

DRIVE
(French)

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
mapping your world through emotions and behavior rather than through landmarks or geography. meant to take you off your predictable paths in order to bring more awareness of your surroundings.

DRIVE = DRIFT (French)

(English)

PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
mapping your world through emotions and behavior rather than through landmarks or geography. meant to take you off your predictable paths in order to bring more awareness of your surroundings.

DRIVE = DRIFT (French)

(English)
an unplanned walk through a city or landscape where you let your own curiosity and artistic eye dictate the path. The goal is to encounter a new and authentic experience.

THE SITUATIONISTS

THE SITUATIONISTS
In a drive one or more persons ... let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they nd there... Guy Debord, 1958

THE SITUATIONISTS
In a drive one or more persons ... let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they nd there... Guy Debord, 1958

THE SITUATIONISTS
In a drive one or more persons ... let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they nd there... Guy Debord, 1958

Guy Debord described psychogeography as the study of specic effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of individuals in the rst issue of Situationniste Internationale (1958).

Where do you go? What routines do you follow?

Where do you go? What routines do you follow?

Where do you go? What routines do you follow?

Where do you go? What routines do you follow?

what would it be like to take a different path?

Where do you go? What routines do you follow?

what would it be like to take a different path?

Consider an alternate path to get to your final destination. Go somewhere youve never been, or take a road youve never tried.

Think about a new starting point, or go in a different direction.

Let your eyes wander to direct your path rather than just getting to your destination.

using the edges of the frame

frame within a frame

rule of thirds

LIGHT

pattern / texture

filling the frame / cropping

line point of view

using the edges of the frame

FILLING THE FRAME / CROPPING

line

pattern / texture

light

frame within a frame

rule of thirds

point of view

want some

strategies ?
(p.s. These are also listed on our blog)

the drive app (* works on Mac and PC, Android, iPhone, iOS devices, Windows Phone 7, Samsung Bada HTTP://DERIVEAPP.COM/INDEX.HTML the near future laboratory drift deck HTTP://WWW.NEARFUTURELABORATORY.COM/PROJECTS/DRIFT-DECK/ other ideas:

use dice to count steps write instruction cards

text a friend spin a top

you will get film today or TOMORROW - make sure to sign out the camera you are borrowing you will keep track of your settings on a guidelines sheet film is due MONDAY, dec. 17. - or before! your contact sheet analysis will happen on your drive map! for this roll - and now on! - you will eventually turn in 3 prints and their test strips yay!

SIGNING OUT A CAMERA

SIGNING OUT A CAMERA

SIGNING OUT A CAMERA