A [?]Postdigital Encounter with PostDigital Encounters

'Bus-lagged' and in a new time zone (I'd thought it was 7 hours apart, but fortunately thought to ask Charlotte the time at 1 in the morning, and when she replied 9am I knew I'd got something wrong!). So not much sleep, several pages of drawings, a new film with an interview of a rather special kind, and a 46 page powerpoint sent and resent by Pando to my own magical creature helper in the form of Charlotte on mouse control over at the Watershed's Cinema 3, and we did it! Without more than a couple of soundless moments (or four).


My presentation ‘Treasuring Media: Geo Art Cache and User Participation’
is online at the Postdigi website, along with loads of interesting stuff from the other presenters. As I'm in the habit of recording my skype calls (for Clean), there's a recording of the live thing too, so you can (almost) follow slide by slide as Charlotte did - extending the encounter to another time and place. I'd be glad to hear how it works? Play the Audio Boo and watch away! Oh, and don't forget to send in a colour grid with the cache key you receive (in the presentation) and quote that cache key with your grid. When enough grids have come in the creature will respond and the same cache key will unlock new treasure on the website.. Until then, it's over to you from me (and MC).


[Hey.. when's blogger going to enable bi-location for blog post ids?]

Hunter Gatherer, Birdshill

4 caches (smells, sees, hears, feels) hidden in Birdshill Park and awaiting online approval from geocaching.com!

Hunter Gatherer Birdshill Feels

I made this colour grid at http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=49.995808,-96.882149 using http://twitter.com/gathererapp

Things I feel here are:

Blurry leaves through bark textured branches

I notice:

Smell of bark and earth, beautiful fresh tiny growing oak leaves

The colours in this grid are like:

Blissed out with oak tree feeling

Caching Grids and Gathering

 

I made this colour grid at http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=49.995842,-96.882042 using http://twitter.com/gathererapp

Hunter Gatherer - remote

// Aha! Time catches up now from remote places - the camel has surely arrived! (10 days after I arrived! Someone told me a couple of days ago that it takes a day per hour of timezone crossed - I'm a bit behind the times! (7 hours from UK to Banff. Maybe my camel took the weekend off.) This is the original post that the bane of blogger 'lost' . I wonder how different it was to my replacement... and how to I categorise this in the posts - from the date of posting, loss or rediscovery? Let's go for a now back then. So if you're reading this from then, this could just be how premonition works.... Spaces of thought folded back in time. Actually, there's a clue I give myself (23:59)//


Whilst I've been here I've also been working on content for the website of my UK project Hunter Gatherer. The caches were all completed in a busy period with two Yorkshire trips in the couple of weeks before leaving for Banff. But inevitably there's more... the first task was sending final info on cache locations and 'care' to Chrysalis, the project commissioners and co-ordinators, to manage in my physical) absence. Then there was the rest of the content for the Gatherer3 website which Sean is compiling to integrate the 'blip' display mechanism he's built, and hence the gatherer gallery and map view, alongside the films, info, audio and photos that will tell the story as the creature emerges.

It's a lot of work. Enjoyable but continuous. And interesting in some aspects to do from afar, but equally I'd like to be finished, so as to get on with bringing Canadian magical creatures to life through material and interactions gathered here...

The great thing is that the website should be able to multipurpose and accommodate magical creatures of many kinds. It was most exciting to write the text and make 'future-casting' colour grids for the Canada Commons and 'future projects' of geoartcaches that may spring up as the creature travels the world.

My plan is to build and hide caches in the man places I am staying this summer. If any local cachers read this and fancy taking on surrogate care of an extra (friendly, living) cache - please let me know!