redefining psychogeography.....

As my first attempt wasnt a success, i have decided to give it another go....after do some research again..and whilst disscussing with the group whats best to define psychogeography..i have chosen Guy Debord's interpretation of what psychogeography is.....

"Only an awareness of the influences of the existing environment can encourage the critique of the present conditions of daily life, and yet it is precisely this concern with the environment which we live which is ignored."

I thought this was the perfect definition of psycho...as we became to call it....it is all about the ignored and undiscovered place/area....


http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.evans

having a go at editing.....

im not usually the one who likes to be on the technical side, i rather be one of those people who sit back and give an input, of what goes in, what goes out, and just generally say how the feel should be...but i was willing to give it a go..i was at first kinda scared to do the editing, becasue i thought it would be compicated, but i was wrong....once you get the hang of it, its actually quite simple..more fool me..heheh......i quite enjoy the editing part now, knowing how to do it.....

i was given along with kibibie to edit the past and future page of elephant and castle....it's real interesting to see the old and the new revamped elephant and castle images.....its weird to think that in a few years elephant and castle won't be recognisible.....it literally is having a make-over....

final thought......

i didnt really think that much of blogging, i thought it would be something i would find boring, but it turned out to be ok...it was interesting learning something new and having a new skill....i enjoyed doing the group wiki, because normally when we have to do group work, i normally stay with my friends and people you know....but it was nice to work with other members of the course and get to know them......it was fun while it lasted......

the end of an era...kinda.....

last ever blogging class has happened...with it being the last, stress came with it..only a week to go and hand our final group wiki in, it reallyy was all hands on deck for this week....most of the work was done, it was just adding the finishing touch's, which is always the worst part, because that always seem to take up the most time, and instead of focusing on the main work....eventually we got back to what we had to do....

Jas being hyper from her shift at the airport, became a bossy boots (in a good way), and kinda gave us all things to do, which i think was good, becasue we would have probably all been sitting at the one computer and trying to get everything done, but instead we all had tasks, and got on with them....me and Marissa, proof read some of the wiki..to make sure everything was good and there weren't many spelling mistakes......and then i got onto editing my page.................

group........

we have also decided to add another two pages towards our wiki....to make it more fun and add additional information, that we would not have put in the main wiki....were on course of getting it done...this week, we are going to go and take pictures of the group, for the group wiki page...and close up pictures of the places we have chosen to talk about, i.e. the surrounding areas of elephant and castle...from that we will be able to comment on the pictures in the following blogging class...clocks ticking away.......arghhh.....

slowly but getting there...our group....

as the title suggest slowly but getting there with our group wiki.....i think we are on track to finishing it on time, hopefully....at the moment it feels its all in the air, becasue were still discussing how the wiki is gonna look, which is important, its got to look good and be understanable by others, but i think we have been spending too much time on the presenation rather than actually putting infromation onto the wiki page. the look and feel of the presentation can be done at the end, once all is completed, but i have faith in my group we are going to complete it on time, and be looking good.
after another close disscussion with the group, we thought that the easiest way was to split the titles/ sub-headings on our wiki and do it at home,and bring it in the following week, therefore giving us more time to focus and give a good wiki..

group progression

We officially began designing our wiki page...we collected a few images of the internet, to show the different types of psychogeography, but also keeping in tune with our quotation, that we have chosen to sum up psychogeography....its amazing and fascinating when you type in the search engine, undiscovered places, that you get so many beautiful and striking places, that you didnt even know exsited in the world....
As a group we were able to do the front page of our wiki, and suprisingly all agreed on the colour and how the layout of the wiki/page should be, because normally there is allways someone disagreeing with something, but seems we have a very reasonable group, which is good.....
I think we will be able to complete our wiki, in our next lecture, as theres not alot more to do, apart from define what psychogeography means to us as a group, upload the pictures of elephant and castle, and us the group.......so near enough done.....