Mapping

The mapping project was by far the most difficult project and the one I had the most troubles with. This project consisted of having to map out an area in a unique and graphic way that related to what I wanted to show on the Map. From a recent visit to new york last year I found that it would be interesting to do a map of times square and its buskers and magicians that resided in the area. This also related to my own personal job as a close-up magician therefore I found it would be interesting to see how I could visulaize performance hotspots. Looking at many maps of new York I found that using a playing card would be very interesting as coincidently the middle of the Jack of Diamonds when compared to the cross roads in times square had looked very similar to one another. This would also fit in with the theme of me wanting to map out magicians and where they had resisded or performed in the area.

Reflecting:
Over the course of the week I had found the process very difficult for this project. However once I started looking at ways of relating this to the shape of a playing card I found ideas slowly forumalting and how I could represent this in a very tricky way. Also as magicians were the main citiznes/hotspots of my maps I also played around with the idea of using them in a way that they were represented by optical illusions. This way it would also be as if they didnt want those looking at the map to know where they were, or to make it a challenge to find them which would be a trick in itself.

Contextualising:
When looking for contextual inffluences in my project research I found that MC Escher and Bridget Riley provided a very good idea that also related to my subject of magic. Tesselations work had also made it quite interesting as I had an idea to create the maop or part of the map using tesselations of Top hats which would be very unique. After looking at these artists I was also inspired on how I could make this map more interactive with users by perhaps embedding a lenticular effect that would make it even more of a visual piece.