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https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1SPK3SdHinaR80iP_0kfSxqQGyKgF78IV&ll=40.73122240663348%2C-74.0063357995831&z=14Marie Aiello

Chestor Dols

New Media and Digital Design 

12/17/18

My mapbox that i put onto google maps its a rough draft the real project is below i had some troubleshooting with the Mapbox https://www.mapbox.com/studio/styles/maiello4/cjpj0hdllhj8z2sqa5xfrzyiz/edit/ to google but i was able to take a tileset and use that to make the google map aswell. 

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SPK3SdHinaR80iP_0kfSxqQGyKgF78IV&usp=sharing

https://ny.eater.com/maps/new-york-citys-15-most-iconic-sandwiches

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Infographic for 10 Most Popular Sandwiches in New York City

My Description of my infographic is a Map of the most Iconic or Popular Sandwiches in New York City. This is going to be visually depicted in a mapped out sandwich cluster or organized imagery of the specific sandwiches mentioned. I will do a map background of some kind and include some description of the sandwich when the mouse rolls over it, revealing its location, host restaurant, and origin. The infographic is going to map out these places in blips that represent the sandwich and the drawing will be done by me on white paper. I drew some tester sandwiches on lined paper and I would love to execute this idea by scanning in my white plain paper map of all the sandwiches, then to use a design application or multiple to transfer that image to the graphic that will end up being the wireframe for my infographic. Then I will try to add color to these location bubbles and map by picking out what suits the restaurant best and the sandwiches aesthetic. It will almost look like I’m advertising for them at the end of the infographic. I hope to make this infographic then on P5.js and code in the image but I struggle at then editing on top of that image. I am worried that my infographic will be a singular image and not a valuable vector piece. 

Where it came from-by Greg Morabito  Mar 26, 2013, 9:15am EDT. https://ny.eater.com/maps/new-york-citys-15-most-iconic-sandwiches which is at Vox Media whos website is here: https://www.voxmedia.com/a/go-deeper/about the host website is https://ny.eater.com/ which is the homepage link. There are “750 Million viewers on their audience page which is on the Vox Media About Page https://www.voxmedia.com/a/go-deeper/about. 

Who made it. Greg Morabito. His team at Eater New York are a group of people that edit and make this content but he wrote it himself and doesn’t mention editors because he is the highest ranking one. also, maintain the Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eater_ny/. The names of a lot of their researchers are hard for me to collect and confirm the current employment of or active journalistic responsibilities. 

How it was collected? By an individual. Eater Senior Editor Greg Morabito PROFILEGREG@EATER.COMRSS. He does not look the way I wanted him too on google images. It was collected by him in 2013 and he must have gone to all the restaurants that sold sandwiches or collected the data from a team but those are honestly just assumptions in hypothizethizing because there are no public records of how they collect and amass their data at Eater or how Greg came up with the idea but it must be based on sales, popularity, gross income and location. 

Who did the survey: Greg Morabito, the senior editor of Eater.  https://ny.eater.com/authors/Gmorabito He wrote the story and I emailed him. I also looked him up on Instagram. The article is using: https://ny.eater.com/maps/new-york-citys-15-most-iconic-sandwiches was written by Greg Morabito  Mar 26, 2013, 9:15am EDT. 

Potential biases are definitely a factor in the data collection for this Eater page.  There is a potential bias in this article because it is a subjective single person viewpoint. He could have a proclivity for certain meats or a pallet for specific sandwiches. 

Potential blind spots in the process of collecting the data. It was written in 2013 and new sandwiches have come up since then. There are also blind spots in the information collection because of the range in a definition of the word “iconic” Greg’s definition of iconic is the only thing driving the data of this article.  There are many things one can not overlook when collecting data and this is my glaring point of skepticism. I hope to make this graphic on P5.js and transfer my ideas from paper to graphic to then code. 

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Most Popular Sandwiches in New York City

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For my infographic 10 Most Popular Sandwiches in New York City

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Data Set

https://ny.eater.com/maps/new-york-citys-15-most-iconic-sandwiches

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Andy Warhol Show At The Whitney Extra Credit

This show was a fantastic and magical exhibit. I went with my younger brother who was visiting from Santa Barbara California. The first floor had his silkscreen portraits of all these amazing influential people. I posed above in front of Blondie, who i tagged in the photo. I took my Instax wide polaroid camera and the blondie photo came out double exposed which I think turned out really cool! I really loved the vibrant beautiful colors Andy uses in his silkscreens. My older brother does silk screening for a living so it was cool to watch videos of Andy doing it in the 80′s. There were amazing pieces that he made in the first photo and I especially loved the Paramount Picture silkscreen, it reminded me of the excitement I felt before watching a movie. I love art that makes you feel something, or uncomfterble and some of Andy’s work does that. The silkscreen of James Dean made me feel something that I think was love. It is hard to explain how passionately I crush on him and Marlon Brando but they really are the hunks of this era.  The entire exhibit was packed and we had to shuffle through it to see everything. There was a part of it that incorporate Augmented Reality with two ipads you could screen the room with that gave the room virtual coral reefs and fun interactive sounds. I have always been a fan of Andy Warhol and to see his art up close felt like I was there with him and with the people he made portraits of. Liza Minelli felt like she was in the room with us and It was magical. I loved how fun and exciting it was to be around all these people with a similar energy to us, but i think I was a little two excited to see the Flowers and embarrassed my brother by acting like a kid in a candy store. The Whitney is an amazing museum and I’m thankful for it’s existence and thankful you assigned such an amazing show to see!

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infographic: Best Beaches

source: google

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS721US721&ei=elrnW-K1HKHBjwSKkLWoCg&q=best+beaches+in+the+world+list&oq=best+beaches+in+the+world+list&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30l2.1110.19740..19855...0.0..0.138.3703.3j29......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0i67j0i131i67.yvgopJ6bQrk

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Want To Fight Inequality? Forget Design Thinking

The weaponized design article was especially frightening to me as this kind of facial recognition technology can be used against us in a myriad of ways. The article talks about how people are reacting to it after they create it and how the original intention is not the direction it is currently going. It reminded me of the video we watched in class about facial weaponization, which frightens me thoroughly as Russia is participating in the mass evaluation of people’s faces and targeting people in the LGBTQ community. As a bisexual, I am afraid that I will be targeted and cyber hacked or have something happen I couldn’t predict. The intent with taking design features and weaponizing them is malicious and based on a set of ulterior motives that scares me. “This is weaponized design: electronic systems whose designs either do not account for an abusive application or whose user experiences directly empower attackers.” There are many qualities of design that are political but I believe we should keep these things separate like church and state. The design is intended to express not oppress.

Lie with Maps was about the distortion of the way we see the 2D and 3D depictions of our globe. It was interesting to learn that there are many maps that are mass produced with incorrect formatting, size, and even placement of the countries. These design flaws by unpracticed cartographers are often unnoticed and trusted and then like telephone, reproduced. It is good to have skepticism when it comes to maps due to all the possible design flaws. It also talks about how many people are map Illiterate which reminds me of a Jimmy Kimmel sketch where they go to Hollywood Boulevard and ask people to identify countries on a map and it's remarkable how many people are on able to do it.They also talked about using maps for political propaganda which has the historical impact because during World War II certain Maps produced by Germany depicted their country as larger than it was which incited inflation of the nationalism of the country. Also, the Arab countries distorted the maps in figure 7.5 stating; “Visual Proof of the Arab lied about Israeli aggression” pg 95. These can have long-standing effects on people as they tend to trust maps and it can leave someone with the wrong idea about the earth’s geography.

Discrimination by Design Was about on inequality in design today. Its first describes a racist Snapchat filter that gives one in Asian appearance, many took offense to this and Snapchat took it off. These tech companies have a lack of diversity with the designers the programmers and it results in a very white Centric media experience. The article also talks about Infamous architect Robert Moses who plowed through many underprivileged homes to make way for a whiter city which still affects New York today and parts of the Bronx. There is so much physical discrimination in this city that it can be depicted in the history of our Maps, for example, Central Park used to be a shanty home and they were all kicked out to make way for Central Park. Also, a designed tool that discriminates is seating public seating that has armrest so that homeless people cannot sleep there which I think is unethical if something is meant for the public it should be able to be used all hours of the day.

After the Ferguson case and activist named Carol try to make a difference and fight inequality. She went to the design class and thought of a bunch of different reactions to the death of Michael Brown. This was the start of The creative reaction lab which is a place where people can freely Express and design their feelings towards inequality.

How designers control your mind through your eyes

The way we simulate information online is similar to The Way We is stimulated in real life and our subconscious keeps track of all of these interactions and uses it similarly as we do our senses. The problem with this is that companies can capitalize on this through design features. Our site is our most tapped into sense and when we see something in real life or online our body reacts similarly to it.

“The first, and most important ways you determine the quality and usefulness of a website:

Color = emotion, personality, attitude, tone, trust

Font = complexity to understand, scan-ability, personality

Navigation = orientation, immediate comfort factor”

I found this part of the article especially interesting as it neatly lays out the ways we view websites. Its also interesting That designers placate human ego by convincing us that we are intelligent through design that becomes more appealing to us through this idea of appeasement of our intellect. Things like add to cart! And buttons that ensue excitement are geared towards our desire to gather and collect more.

Dumbledore’s Army

This was originally the title of a class that Harry Potter made in one of his movies that is now being reappropriated in the activist community. Dumbledor’s alliance caught the attention of JK Rolling in Time Magazine. The merch was being produced by underage workers, like the Harry Potter chocolate. Some were kidnapped and enslaved.

Rumors in Health Care Reform and Political Misinformation:

There was a switching Healthcare in 2010 that had a lot of people looking forward to the future. People from all different political agendas were both concerned and excited for Obama's Obamacare. People were very concerned that pre-existing conditions would be a problem or old age would be a problem and that Obamacare would exclude People based on different afflictions. In 2010 Obama released the ACA or the Affordable Care Act. There were a lot of rumors surrounding this and many people were getting misinformation before the fake news was known about to be detected and for people to have pre-existing skepticism to news articles everyone was believing everything they read.

Bibliography from quoted:

https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/30-on-weaponised-design/

https://medium.com/@designerdarius/how-designers-control-your-mind-through-your-eyes-c34e0def892

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Remix vs. Plagiarism

NaReflect on your personal practice.  How do you feel about the ideas discussed in the links below.  What is the difference between plagiarism and remixing?

Remixing is creativity, Kirby Ferguson describes the basic elements of remixing are copy, transform and combine. I feel like this idea is oversimplified and creativity encompasses attributes of a more structureless and undefinable mode of expression. I also do not think it is ethical to remix a song and profit off of it. I now think of Bob Dylan's music differently and have lost some respect for him for this sort of copyright infringement. The “ain't no use” lyric performed originally by Paul Clayton and then remixed by Bob Dylan makes me feel sad because it was clearly intellectual, creative theft and distortion only makes it more of a slap in the face to the listener. I was listening to a song today at the gym that was so similar to Fade by Kanye West and then I wondered, did he sample this song and no one knows the original and he's made all this money off of someone else's idea? I find it really unethical. Henry Ford’s quote was really profound and I found it interesting he said “creations can only take root and grow, once that foundation has been created.” So true, reflecting on my personal practice, I realize that I sometimes sample things and imagery and just data mosh it to create something else, but the feeling after its completed is not complete. It feels like I took someone else's work and played with it, but I don’t take credit for it I just have fun with it. Like the gifs I make, for example, a lot of it is for my own amusement but there are many traces of other designers in there and that doesn't feel right to me. 

Both Jonathan Lethum and Kirby Ferguson called Bob Dylan out for his copy cat behavior. Lethum describes the story of Lolita as being copied by Nabokov 40 years after. he describes that the rise of combining other information to make new information was like this; “Visual, sound, and text collage — which for many centuries were relatively fugitive traditions (a cento here, a folk pastiche there) — became explosively central to a series of movements in the twentieth century: futurism, cubism, Dada, musique concrète, situationism, pop art, and appropriationism.” This constitutes as plagiarism to Lethum because it is not orginal work. Reflecting on my own work, I need to stop data collaging and visual collaging and start making my own orginal pieces more from complete scratch. 

Bibliography:

https://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix?language=en#t-266395

https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/