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Meeting Points

A study of escape routes by foot, in all directions. Up to an hour. Wintertime. Moving discreet, not getting noticed, not running, staying cool. No trespassing. Keeping outdoors, avoiding ski tracks, deep snow, thin ice.

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The coloured circles show how far the protagonist have walked from his starting point after 1 minute (small red circles), 5 minutes (orange), 15 (yellow), 30 (green) and 60 minutes (blue), on each of 32 routes.

by Torgeir Husevaag

robertogreco:

The London Perambulator is full length documentary by John Rogers.

John Rogers’ film looks at the city we deny and the future city that awaits us. Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city’s fringe, its Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man whose life is dedicated to exploring and archiving areas beyond the permitted territories of the high street, the retail park, the suburban walkways.

The ideas of psychogeography and Nick’s own deep topography are also explored.

(via David Smith)

Schaeffer, an American zoologist, observed that an amoeba placed on a cylindrical surface always moved in a spiral path around the cylinder. To further study spiral movement, Schaeffer blindfolded a right-handed friend and instructed him to walk a straight line across a country field. Schaeffer plotted his friend’s track, which described a clockwise spiral form until the blindfolded man happened to stumble on a tree stump.

via Modcult

youmightfindyourself:

Why can’t we walk straight?