Mapping Harassment in Yelahanka

An ongoing project that is looking into capturing data on harassment inside Yelahanka, Bengaluru

Generative silly space cities with Structure Synth

This is a blog on my explorations with Generative/Procedural structures in Structure Synth

Panoromas, Conversations around the Arkavathi

Why Panoramas For starters, its a pretty good feature on my Fuji. For the main course, its wide format allows me to capture a uniquely framed landscape which is just another landscape on a regular aspect ratio. And for dessert, since it has to be stitched in-camera from multiple shots, movement is preserved as an artifact on the photo. It embolises that stagnant scene with the artifacts that blow an air of ‘edgy’ mystery into it. ...

Moments from exploring the Arkavathi's dependants

This is a blog on my experiences from exploratory trips to the river basin and places around the Arkavathi

Data is beautiful even without 'sense'

There is an entire world of data visualisations in the form of graphs and animations out there. Cleverly crafted, helping us to discover beautifully nuanced patterns and happenings. Check out the DataIsBeautiful subreddit to peek into the world of amazingly insightful visualisations that are produced everyday across the world. summary: An ongoing project that is looking into capturing data on harassment inside Yelahanka, Bengaluru Utilising the interstices between what we consider true, worthwhile and what we see as being abstract uselessness, I’ve begun to play around with popular and the standard forms of visualising data: Maps, Network Graphs, anything-graphs. And making them useless, with a tinge of normalcy, seeing that the data is true. Whether it is the locations of earthquakes across the world for a month, or weather data across a the world, or the conversations in the movie Inside Out…..the data is true and is represented without lies. But does the representation make any sense? Probably not. ...

Visualising line of sight in 2D

How do you visualise line of sight on a 2D map? This is an exploration into doing that by visualising rays of vision. Street signs are mapped. The layout of a neighbourhood is also drawn. The cursor is you moving around in the neighbourhood. If it is a readable street sign, your vision turns green, if not, it turns red. The readability of street signs had been manually documented by me. ...