Psychogeography Project

As a group we decided to use our day to day travels to capture the changes that happen around us and analyse what are the causes of change. The changes we noticed the most was topics of conversation, the weather and in general people's body language.

We kept a diary of events that happened to help us analyse each individual photograph and draw conclusions as to what the photograph tells us about people and how they are effected by different events in day to day life.

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DIARY

Saturday - 1.55pm - Bus station fairly busy, typical sounds of people in conversation and buses pulling up etc. As you can see people are queueing up with quite a few bags - Christmas shopping presumably. We could hear people discussing what they'd brought in their trip to town and overall general conversation, but even so wasn't extremely noisy

Sunday - 11.30am - The picture shows that the bus station wasn't very busy. Bus routes aren't so continuous on a Sunday as it's a 'chill day' on the weekend. The atmosphere was very quiet, just typical sounds like the odd buses brakes screeching, people coughing, rustling of the Sunday newspaper etc. Overall it was fairly quiet to correlate with the typical stereotype of 'Sunday'.

Monday - 6.30pm - During the rush hour the bus station was extremely loud, people queueing for the bus and several people complaining about the late buses, the cold weather and politics. The atmosphere was restless and we assume this is due to the timing of rush hour on a Monday. In a nutshell, the bus station was hectic and noisy.

Tuesday - 5.00pm - Once again as the day entered rush hour the bus station became moderately noisy, yet not as noisy as the day previously. The main product of conversation once surrounded the topic of weather. People began discussing in groups which were mainly youths. Even so, the much older people at the bus station weren't as chatty and tended to sit on their own, choosing to ignore one another rather than engaging in conversation.

Wednesday - 2.30pm - It became apparent especially around just after lunch time, particularly today that elderly people gathered at the bus station around this time to avoid the 'hustle' of rush hour in order to get home and avoid disputes with boisterous youths. Once again the topic of conversations were the Christmas season, shopping and cold weather. Again people tended to carry numerous shopping bags (presumably Christmas shopping). In general, the atmosphere was fairly pessimistic.

Thursday - 4.15pm - The atmosphere of the bus station was fairly quiet and cold as shown through what people were wearing. People tended to become more serious which was ironic due to the cheerful Christmas decorations which should cheer up people and get them in the Christmas spirit. Youths scattered around bus station as we assume they have just finished college/university, and they were huddled in groups talking amongst themselves. People seem quiet alongside the dark weather and the overall feeling of dullness. Typically people were quiet and isolated until the bus appears then they interact with the queues and get a little louder.

SUMMARY

Overall, as we analysed all photos over the space of the week it became obvious their are clear factors as to why people act the way they do at the bus station. Factors such as time of day, the weather, who their with and the atmosphere could change peoples actions within a instant. For example, when the bus station was busy due to rush hour people clearly became frustrated with the late buses and rush hour tends to come after people finish work therefore we assume most people just want to get home and into the warmth and away from the cold weather and forget about work issues
for the day. By using Prezi we could develop an online day to day interaction to see the difference between the photographs and the use of an iPhone allowed us to upload these photos in an instant. The internet has benefitted this project by making it more sociable and accessible anyway we went.
 In a nutshell different factors can change the situations we find ourselves in, whether its the people, atmosphere, weather or timing.

Pecha Kucha: Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing is a range of sources delievered as a service through the electric grid over a network usually the internet. The 'cloud' is a set of hardware networks, storage and interfaces that enables the delivery of computing as a service. Cloud computing is a development of web 2.0 and so web as a platform offers websites the use of maps and email. For example Facebook is a web application but with more websites usually advertisements. I use facebook everyday and so I find the advertisements that surround my page almost form my personality. There are several forms which are:

PUBLIC - Traditional mainstream resources the general public use
PRIVATE -  Operated soley for a single organisation
HYBRID - Two or more clouds bound together
COMMUNITY - Sharing the infrastructure between several organisations for a particular community

However I find the problem with cloud computing is the difference between what a business is providing and what a consumer requires therefore the data is conflicted. For example, recently I have been recieving several advertisements for phone when in fact i'm tied down to my contract for another 18 months.

Cloud computing is effective but also flawed, it based on assumptions and has poor architecture for 21st century software and the pressure will remain until its constantly effective.