Scars, Residues
Scars as evidence of past activities. Upper photo from legs of young female skater at EDIT skate park (Experimental Development Inner-City Tokyo) in Shinjuku, lower photo mountain scar from yours truly lava scree running down Mt Fuji.
Writing from Shinjuku | July 25, 2005 | Permalink
Use - Collection - Proof - Artifact
Always interested to see what people take as evidence of being somewhere, or doing something (for me its sometimes this web site).
A number of the mountain huts on the routes up Mt Fuji offer a walking stick stamping service. Punters buy the stick at the bottom of the mountain and at each station it can be burnt/stamped with the route and the altitude of that hut.
The stick fulfils a number of functions - a mixture of practicality, a gradual sense of achievement as each stamp is added, proof of attaining the summit, and ends up as an artifact/souvenir.
Writing from Mt. Fuji | July 24, 2005 | Permalink
Cellular Coverage & Exploratory Behaviour
Txting from the summit of Mt Fuji.
Despite, or perhaps because of being the tallest mountain in Japan - 3776 meters, someone decided to put base station up here (3G coverage map of Mt Fuji area, index of GSM Association coverage worldwide).
How does installing publically accessible communications infrastructure change the way people treat their environment? To what extent does it encourage exploration or exploitation by day trippers, explorers, settlers?
Writing from Mt. Fuji | July 23, 2005 | Permalink
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