GPS T-shirts

I came up with the idea of taking my tracks from the GPS device, taking a screen shot, tracing over it in Illustrator, and coming up with a design for the path. I then transferred the design to my screen so I could attempt to screen print it onto a shirt.

The method I used was called the fill in method where I printed out my design of the track and traced it with pencil onto the screen. I then filled in all the areas of the screen with ink filler that I didn't want ink to get through. I let it dry overnight and then tested my screen print on a piece of paper and it was a mess! There were a whole bunch of areas that the ink had bled through. I asked one of my friends who I knew had experience with screen printing for advice and he suggested putting tape over the areas that were messed up or where I didn't want the ink to get through. I did it again and tried it on a piece of paper, and the image was a lot more successful but not as smooth as I would like it.

I plan to test out and learn some other methods of getting my design on the screen so I can have a smoother image and eventually come up with some cool t-shirts like:

Vacation Shirt:
-Track all your road trips/vacations
-Track both the route there and back as one track. Trace over both in illustrator to get the design.
-Screen print a white t-shirt with new tracks each time you go on a new trip, using different colors for different trips.


Golden Gate Park Shirt/ Area Shirt:
-Explore different parts of Golden Gate Park tracking myself
-Make each area a different track.
-Make a different screen for each track and put the tracks on the shirt, using a different color for each track, in this case, representing a different part of the park


Here are some pictures from my first attempt at screen printing:

Winterguard and Movement

This weekend I was excited that we practiced outside because I was able to have my GPS device in my pocket during one of the run throughs of our show.

Our show is titled "Sleep" by Eric Whitacre. The show is written by Ben Wilkinson and co-written by Jaime Roman.

I took a screen shot of the path on Google Earth, took a picture of the screen of my GPS Device, and also drew my own path using my Bamboo pad in photoshop using my memory of where I go during the show.

Google Earth:


GPS Device:
(Not yet available)

Photoshop Drawn Path: (blue dot marks starting point)




Each image turned out to look pretty differently. If I had another opportunity to re-trace my path in the show with my GPS device, I would probably change the frequency of how often it makes a point to every second instead of every 5 seconds to get a more accurate path.


We also did our movement portion of practice on the beach. We practice "across the floors" which are doing different dance moves while traveling across the floor. We got a picture of the pathway in the sand after doing our across the floors and came up with this:

Weekend Video Map

When I saved all my files into one file, for some reason I can't get my tracks to show up on google earth. But the push pins are the places I went on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I had traffic school and Sunday I had practice.

I took my tracks of the routes I took and traced them in illustrator, coming up with these:

The first one is an Image of my drive from San Francisco, to John Swett high school for practice, then after practice I drove up to Benicia for a little to see my family, and then Drove back down to San Francisco.

The second image is a map of me leaving my house, driving to traffic school, and then driving back home.

Go Cars Videos

Videos taken during Go Cars in San Francisco on February 11, 2010



















Overall I really enjoyed Go Cars and had a lot of fun. I definitely would recommend it and would definitely do it again. I would like to travel and try go cars in another city other than San Francisco. Go Cars really let tourists see a city the way the locals see it, rather than just seeing all the touristy things that everybody sees.

The only thing I didn't like about go cars is that it was pretty hard to navigate back to the trail once we got lost.