Initially I wanted to make a proper, respectable community page, like the one I pitched in my proposal. A landing page for the IMA/ITP Open Source Club, a hub for discussions, events, code repositories, all that good stuff. I had a few ideas for interactive elements, maybe a real-time project showcase, maybe some kind of collaborative coding space. Then I talked to Yu, the current club president, and turns out they don’t really need it. And to be honest, neither do I… The more I thought about it the more it felt painfully dull.
So I kept walking, thinking maybe there was a way to make open source club interesting. Maybe I just wasn’t thinking hard enough, maybe there was something I could do to make it feel alive, maybe… and then I stepped in it. Full weight full force no warning no time to react it just happened I looked down and my shoe was gone not literally but spiritually that shoe was finished and I stood there watching my life choices collapse around me thinking about how I got to this exact point in time and space and suddenly it was so clear so obvious like the universe had been trying to tell me something this entire time and I just wasn’t listening
Forget open source club, forget community landing pages, I’m making a Brooklyn Poop Map
My original vision was that The Watch Your Step Society (TWYSS) would be a fictional community. But technically speaking, anyone who pins a poop location is an instant member. So, that’s how TWYSS became this half-imaginary, half-very-real collective.
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are.na has been a huge help! I’ve basically dumped everything in there.
https://www.are.na/n3xta/brooklyn-poop-map
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https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab720912642b6aedafdb02a76d2a4&extent=-122.4451,37.7694,-122.3865,37.7906
The OG concept: crowdsourcing and mapping where human waste is spotted on the streets.