Final Project and Final Paper

For both my final project and final paper, I wanted to look more into geocaching and see what it exactly is all about.

For the project I was thinking of setting up a series of geocaches around San Francisco and maybe creating a treasure map or some kind of game or something out of it. I would then design the map of San Francisco and incorporate my idea's for the game into the map using images, actual pictures i've taken, or maybe objects that I may have placed in some of the geocaches I have found or some of the ones I have set up.


For the paper, I wanted to do a lot of research on geocaching and write about the different aspects of it, such as trackables, bench marks, and caches themselves.



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For my project I think I'm going to go in an entirely different direction and use the above map of Antarctica and figure out someway to map out the area and the idea that it is it's own continent, but at the same time, many countries from all over the world have claimed parts of it for research stations.

Chalk Car

Recently in the Villas next to campus as I was walking to class, I walked past a car that was painted in chalk paint and had chalk drawings all over the car. I thought this was really interesting, and as I got closer, I saw that whoever own's the car had somehow attached a box of chalk to their car by closing the window on it, so that anybody that walked by could pick up a piece of chalk and draw on the car!

I unfortunately didn't get a picture, and have yet to see the car again.
I would definitely draw on it next time I see it and just check it out to see if other people have drawn on it also.

Screen Printing Update

So over spring break I gathered my tracks from four different areas in Golden Gate Park:

-Hippie Hill
-Japanese Tea Gardens
-Music Concourse
-Shakespeare Garden

Last night I went to my friend's house and we made my first attempt at trying to use photo emulsion to create the screen, since my first attempt trying the screen filler method didn't work so well.

Unfortunately, the photo emulsion method take's a bit of time to prepare the screen, and we didn't let the images sit under the light long enough, so the design was never imprinted into the screen.

We will be making another attempt on Wednesday evening to try and make the screen so we can complete the shirt.

The four color's i've decided to use are the process colors, CMYK (Cayenne, Magenta, Yellow, and "Key line" (Black)). I haven't quite decided which track will be which color though.

Here is a picture from the attempt at photo emulsion: