Select one of the locations from your list and go on a derive. Use your questions to guide you through your walk. Take notes of your derive (written, photos, audio, etc.).
This post will include 3 parts:
- Pre-Derive Guide Questions
- think of yourself as a cartographer- you are going to narrate your journey through a given location in whatever combination of modalities you choose to use.
- When on your walk, what should you keep an eye out for?
- Samples Questions:
- What colors do I see?
- How can I describe this area?
- How many people do I see? Who are they?
- What type of landscape am I walking on?
- What do I smell? Do the smells change?
- What do I hear?
- Derive Notes
- written notes
- photos
- audio recording
- Post-Derive Review/Questions
- Sample Questions
- What do I miss? What would I like to look at again?
- What do I remember most?
Cemetery Forrest Lawn
ReplyDeletePre-Derive Guide Questions
1: What captures my attention?
2: What do I feel?
3: What is running through my mind?
4: Who is there?
5: Where am I going?
6: What do I smell?
7: What do I hear?
Answers:
1: What captured my attention about this particular cemetery was that I live near it yet my knowledge on the text is very limited.
2: Walking through Forrest Lawn made me feel anxious in a weird way because in the back of my mind I felt like what I was doing was illegal.
3: I seriously kept on thinking about negative situations that could come from being there. I would try to think that what I was doing was for educational purposes but damn I still felt disrespectful because dead people surrounded me, with all due respect. Even the thought of an apocalypse hit me.
4: Stephanie, Jose and James and I also took a trip there by myself.
5: We were literally wondering through the whole building just scoping whatever seemed interesting but we didn't have a specific approach.
6: When entering the cemetery you cant help but smell the pollen that comes from the flowers you also smell grass and not dead bodies like many would believe. The cemetery is nicely preserved as well as cleaned.
7: You can hear birds chirping and the footsteps you take while walking in the halls, you occasionally hear families or just plain silence.
Derive Notes
It's very sudden when you are somewhere you would have never expected yourself to be, for educational purposes I am here roaming the halls and walking the grass with bodies underneath me. The sadness I used to feel disappeared in the halls of the beautiful white building with art and colors so bright. Although I am in a place where the diseased have been placed beauty is everywhere. I wont lie the sad feeling of knowing that these people are no more does hurt but when I pushed beyond that sad feeling I found that these people that used to be are now living in peace so maybe the grass is greener on the other side.
On a less serious level I also consider that there is a North Gate Market literally across the street. I go there all the time and it doesn't bother me at all but now that I'm in the cemetery I see that life still goes on outside these walls.
I realized that life and death aren't so different.
Post-Derive Review/Questions
1: What did I get out of the experience?
2: What do I remember most?
Answers:
1: What is the meaning of life?
2: I remember seeing the chair/ table where you place the tombs to be lifted into the walls, I even remember a bunch of tomb stones with new born babies that didn't get to live past the day they were born.
Donald Trump’s Ocean Trails
ReplyDeletePre-Derive Guide Questions
1: What captures my attention?
2: What do I feel?
3: What is running through my mind?
4: Who is there?
5: Where am I going?
6: What do I smell?
7: What do I hear?
Answers
1. What captured my attention was the beautiful view of the ocean and the fact that the trail isn’t very crowded with people.
2. I feel an adrenaline rush as I’m jogging up the hills as the suns heat hits me.
3. I’m telling myself how I am jogging through this heat for such a long distance.
4. Kriztian, Jeremy, Johnny and myself.
5. We’re heading towards our destination near the bottom of the beach.
6. I smell the ocean breeze, the dry grass and heated rocks.
7. I hear birds flying above me, lizards crawling, bugs crawling, and the water hitting the ocean rocks.
Derive Notes
I’m walking through this trail and asking myself wow this trail was just for educational purposes. Walking through these trails and looking down at the ocean has made me realize how beautiful nature is. It’s not so far from my home and it was my first time visiting, and I’m absolutely enjoying my hike. Also as I walked towards the golf course and some nice estates I couldn’t believe Donald Trump was the owner of all this beautiful turf.
Post-Derive Review/Questions
1. What do I miss? What would I like to look at again?
I’m going to miss the view from the top of the cliff. I’m also going to miss the struggle it took to finish our trail destination. I would like to look at the waterfall by the golf course again.
2. What do I remember most? I remember taking like 3 breaks because Kriz was exhausted due to the fact this was his first hiking experience.
3. What was the significance of this trip? It made me realize how beautiful mother nature is and how we need to appreciate the surroundings around us.
Forest lawn Cemetery
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1. What do you smell?
2. What do you hear?
3. What do you feel?
4. What caught your attention?
Answer:
1. When I first walked into the mausoleum wall I didn’t smell nothing different until I went deeper in that’s when I started to have a different smell. It smelled like old flower and some kind of weird smell.
2. There wasn’t any noise the only noise you can hear are the footsteps of my group walking.
3. I felt a little scare not just because I know that one day I would also end up here, but the fact that my group and I were alone in the mausoleum walls and no one else was here. I also felt sad how all these people died some were really small others were still young and they died in a very young age.
4. What caught my attention about this was how each selection was different some look really nice and expensive looking and other selection look really old scary, and dusty.
Derive Notes
When I got there the building looked old and I thought to myself its going look all dirty and old inside, but once i open the doors it looked very amazing, beautiful and expensive looking. But the farer I walked there were some selections that looked scary looking it was too old and dirty and had spider webs on them. I also thought to myself how crazy it is walking through all the die bodies by your side.
Post-Derive Review/Questions
1. What did I get out of the experience?
2. What do I remember most?
Answer:
1. How we well all in one point will end up here.
2. A thing that I remember the most was a selection that looked really scary and had a door in the corner that was open a little but you couldn’t see anything because it was too dark.
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ReplyDeleteForest Lawn Cemetery
ReplyDelete1) What colors do I see?
A) Mainly Tan, Brown, Green, beige,and red. But just about every other color can be found here.
2) How many people are there?
A) For the hour or so that was there I saw I saw one person in the parking lot and one person on the inside.
3) What do you I hear?
A) I heard just about nothing through my walk. It was very quite until i cam across the pendulum hanging from the ceiling. Here is where I heard a consistent but subtle thump sound when it would go back and forth.
4) What did I feel?
A) at first it was a little warm, then the further I went the temperature seemed to change from room to room. When I entered the basement it was significantly colder than the floors above.
Derive Notes:
" I see Lots of names, companied by vases on the wall. Some with flowers, some with cob webs. It is very quite. I see one person but then he's gone. I see Many different rooms and inside seems to be family's, all with the same last name. Some rooms are full, some still have vacancy. I feel alone here but accompanied by many..."
Post-Derive Review/Questions
1) What did I get from this?
A) Everyone starts out as a baby, then one day you die. In the end, everyone ends up in the same place but everyone had a different way of getting there. So why not make it an un-forgettable journey and make the best of it.
2) What do I remember most?
A) What I remember most has to be the wall that was full of infants. All of those people died at such a young age. As I looked at the wall of baby names engraved in the stone, I started to realize how sad it was. The wall Over 8 feet tall with baby toys hanging from tombs in the wall.
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ReplyDeleteForest Lawn Cemetery
ReplyDelete1. Pre-Derive Guide Questions
Why am I here?
1. I stand outside thinking, why am I here remembering it is for my school project. Which leads me into question two.
2. Why am I excited to enter into a cemetery?
I am here for a project and am excited to see where this Derive’ will take me.
3. How can I describe this area?
As we drove into the cemetery, far in the lawn, there is a funeral ceremony -taking place, Empty cars filled the driveway, black out fits stand under canopies for shading from the burning California sun. We drove by as we headed to the front parking lot. The parking lot situated in front of the cathedral. My classmates and I got of the car and looked up towards the tall standing cathedral when of the side of my eye helium filled balloon’s fly away as if they had just been released. They had, just been released they came from the funeral ceremony we had just drove by. Another life is gone up to heaven or so I hope.
4. How will the inside of the cathedral look?
Having not even taken five steps into the cathedral, “Immediately I saw wall crypts for cremated remains” both to my left and right easily numbering over thirty. The cathedral designed is of Spanish renaissance architectural structure. Beautiful statute displays fill throughout the cathedral along with a number of art designs. It was just memorizing.
5. How can I describe this area?
The words that come to mind when describing this cemetery would be peaceful, calm, tranquil and beautiful.
6. What do I smell? Do the smells change?
Entering the cathedral, I smell a clean smell hard to explain, as I continue my walk, the smell changes to incense; then again, candle sent fills my nose, further in again the smell changes, to what?? I don’t know. Could it be marble? Everything here is cover in marble. I keep walking and again the smell changes. It changed about five times but not once was there a foul odor.
7. What do I hear?
The noise from the approaching cars lingering through the cathedral stained windows but the beautiful sounds of the pendulum is what I felt inside my body, knowing that this can easily represent beating of my heart.
2. Derive Notes: photo were taken but could not be attached.
3. Post-Derive Review/Questions
1. What do I miss? What would I like to look at again?
I missed a lot I definitely need to go for a second trip all over again.
2. What do I remember most?
What I remember the most is the peaceful and calm environment to morn for the departed.
Pre-Derive Guide Questions
ReplyDelete1.What captures my attention?
What got my attention is that the park was so nice very peaceful.
2. What do I feel?
I felt very relaxing at the park it was very amazing.
3. What do I hear?
I could here the children voices the water and the ducks.
4.How to describe the location?
Lots of green grass a few ponds tress and fishes.
2. Derive Notes: Took pictures.
3. Post-Derive Review/Questions
1. What do I miss?
I miss the relaxing environment at the park.
2. What I remember most?
I can remember most the children trying to touch the ducks in the pond.
Down town Long Beach
ReplyDeletePre- Derive Guide Questions
1. Why did I chose this place?
I chose down town Long Beach because it is truly beautiful, the view is just amazing.
2. What can people do in Down Town Long Beach.
Down town Long Beach has so many things to do. They have beautiful restaurants, night clubs that play all different music genres, bars, movie theater, fun places to go to with your kids, ice cream shops and more.
3. What will I focus on?
I will focus on the night scene and will start from Pine st to The Pike and then go to Shoreline Village.
4. Description of the location.
I see a lot of palm trees all over, lights, promoters at every corner trying to pull crowds to their clubs, police officers walking around, luxurious cars parked out in the streets.
5. Younger crowd, older crowd who do I see the most at this time..
Right away I can tell that the majority of people walking around and in the lines to get in the clubs are younger people in their 20's.
6. Would I recommend tourists to come check it out?
Down Town Long Beach is an amazing place to tour. As I walked around I noticed a lot of people taking pictures around the rainbow harbor.
7. What do I hear?
I can hear music, dj's playing different types of music as I walked right next to the clubs,people singing along to lyrics of songs. I can hear guys trying to get at girls.
Derive Notes:
Everything revolves around pictures. I took lots of pictures and recorder videos but I couldn't attach it here.
Post Deriev Review/Questions
1.What would I like to do that I didn't do?
I would like to go inside the clubs and bars to have a better view of what's going on and maybe take pictures and videos inside there.
2. What do I remember the most?
I remember how busy the streets were, they were so packed with people walking all over. It was midnight and it seemed like it was actual day time.
Downtown Sacramento/ Old Sac Tunnel
ReplyDeletePre-Derive Questions:
1. What do I see?
I see people, art, a timeline of historical imagines, dogs, kids, and musicians.
2. What do I hear?
I hear drums, jazz music, a saxophone, laughter, chirping, and footsteps.
3. What do I smell?
I smell the fresh pine tree scent in the wind.
4. What is around me?
Art on the walls, many people, music surrounds me, and laughter.
5. What captures my attention?
The colorful lights and art on the walls, timeline of black historical figures, and musicians catch my attention.
6. Who is around me?
Many couples, families, musicians.
7. What colors do I see?
I see vibrant colors of the rainbow everywhere.
Derive Notes:
Photos but i couldn't upload them
Post-Derive Questions:
1. What would I like to do that I didn't do?
Actually collaborate with the musicians and sing with them. I would also take my time walking through the tunnel and appreciate everything that was put there and the order it was put in.
2. What do I remember the most?
I would remember the laughter everyone had throughout the tunnel from the little kids to the vary old couples holding hands.
Downtown Sacramento/ Old Sac Tunnel
ReplyDeletePre-Derive Questions:
1. What do I see?
I see people, art, a timeline of historical imagines, dogs, kids, and musicians.
2. What do I hear?
I hear drums, jazz music, a saxophone, laughter, chirping, and footsteps.
3. What do I smell?
I smell the fresh pine tree scent in the wind.
4. What is around me?
Art on the walls, many people, music surrounds me, and laughter.
5. What captures my attention?
The colorful lights and art on the walls, timeline of black historical figures, and musicians catch my attention.
6. Who is around me?
Many couples, families, musicians.
7. What colors do I see?
I see vibrant colors of the rainbow everywhere.
Derive Notes:
Photos but i couldn't upload them
Post-Derive Questions:
1. What would I like to do that I didn't do?
Actually collaborate with the musicians and sing with them. I would also take my time walking through the tunnel and appreciate everything that was put there and the order it was put in.
2. What do I remember the most?
I would remember the laughter everyone had throughout the tunnel from the little kids to the vary old couples holding hands.
I.Pre- Derive Guide Questions:
ReplyDelete1. What should I look for?
- The landscaped is what caught my attention the most. Having lived in a more up to date city, where everything is mostly cemented and technology whereas back on the island its all green. More mother nature feeling.
2. What do I feel?
- I feel like I'm home, this is where i should be. This is where my ancestors once lived, so the feeling is all to mutual.
3. What is running through my mind?
- What runs through my mind is knowing this is where my people, culture, and history lives and for me to be able to stand on this island with the knowledge I have is overwhelming. Its like as if I was in a history class and everything came to life.
4. Who is there?
- My family and I
5. Where am I going?
- Literally going around the whole entire island.
6. What do I smell?
- Since it is an island, I smell Samoan matts that we use to lay on the floor, and I can also smell the ocean breeze.
7. What do i hear?
- As morning arises I hear roosters, birds flying, the sound of hymns sung by the church choirs nearby. Throughout the day its all laughter and the sound of the breeze.
II. Derive Notes:
- Having so much knowledge about a place that you've never been to and than actually having the opportunity to vists that place is a dream come true. Having known that, that very area is where most of your family and ancestors come from is a feeling that is to overwhelming. Being able to see in person where my culture and history comes from is way better than to just hear about it.
III. Post-Derive Review Questions:
1. What do I miss?
- Honestly I miss everything, I miss waking up to the sound of the roosters, the smell of fresh air and even the sight of green everywhere. As hot as it was I also miss that, it was humid so it wasn't bad at all. More importantly I miss my family.
2. What do I remember the most?
- What I remember the most is when everytime I walk out the house you can see huge mounttains, green everywhere, just imagine a rain forest. Just walking out the house and feeling like I was in a rain forest was an incredible feeling.
Questions:
ReplyDelete1.How can I describe this area?
It is very different from what I am used to seeing on a daily basis. There is a lot of stores and the feel is also different.
2.How many people do I see? Who are they?
I see a large amount of people some dress up like anima characters/cosplay. It is also very diverse different types of people visit here.
3. what do i see
People playing instruments, there is a hello kitty exhibition, Japanese restaurants and crowds. Also there are a lot of lanterns and I notice the color red a lot.
4. What do I hear?
I hear a lot of people talking, crowds and I hear the air blowing.
5. What would I like to do that I didn’t do?
I would like to try different food that is there. I would also like to go the center of art and temples.
6. What is running through my mind?
There is so many people here I feel like an outsider but yet it feels good but then again awkward. It is so different but I like the change.
2) Derive Notes
I am walking and cant help to notice seeing the color red stand out A lot. There are many stores and Japanese restaurants. Also many people are here. There are crowds and I can here many people having conversations. Walking around I feel like and outcast but then again there are different types of people here mainly jap/asian though.
3) Post Derive Questions
What do I miss? What would I like to look at again?
I miss the feel of feeling different and like if I'm from this culture. I would like to look at basically everything I would like to look at all stores and go in and out and just find out about all these different things they have and try out all of the types of food.
What do I remember most?
I remember seeing so many lanterns and people. Also the different feel I get when I arrive there.
Queen Mary
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1. How can I describe this area?
-Its a big beautiful ship full of history, stories, war stories, ghost stories. Its always docked, it floats upon the pacific ocean located in long beach California. its a museum plus a hotel. You can get married there or have parties.
2. What do i smell? Do the smells change/
- i smell the ocean. i smell food coming from the restaurants. As i walk more and more different areas smell differently, i smell peoples colognes/perfumes, i smell coffee, but that ocean smell doesn't change it stays the same.
3. What do I see?
- I see people all around, from staff members, to captains in their uniforms.People with their families. Artifacts pertaining to the queen mary. Life boats. I see downtown Long Beach, i see the pacific ocean.
4. What do I hear?
- I hear a lot of people around me talking amongst themselves, i hear the ships horn. l hear laughter, kids yelling, music.
Derive Notes
photos but havent transfer them to my computer still in the camera.
Post-Derive Review/Questions
What I like to do that i didn't to do?
-I would like to do a guided tour. I would like to take the ghost and legends tour but at night.
What do I remember the most?
- What I remember the most is all the history around the Queen Mary. All the artifacts. Being creeped out when i was below deck all by myself. Seeing placards of the ghost sightings. Being outside on the top deck looking at downtown Long Beach from the Queen Mary and just overlooking the ocean, it was nice and peaceful.
the queen mary:
ReplyDelete1. pre-derive guide questions:
1. what kind of people will I see around?
a) old people, people wanting to know historical facts about the legends and rumors of the queen mary.
2. what will I see?
b) many people, mostly elderly people , about 3 to 4 young little kids less than 13 with their parents.
3. what will I smell?
c) humid walls/floors, old furniture, and a Starbucks as your walking in a hall,
4. where am I going?
d) its dark, where am I going I ask myself, will this tour gets really scary? ; dark halls, swimming pool, engine room, and boiler room, down deep 30 feet below the ship.
5. is there ghosts?
e) at least I did not see any ghosts even though there are many legends of there being some.
6. what will I hear?
f) people screaming, jumping, water flowing, floors creeking, and people talking
7. what do I feel?
g) scary thoughts, stomach feels weird, im having goose bumps, a lot of thoughts, worried
8. what will grab my attention?
h) the rumors , the title of the tour I bought a passport for : "the haunted tour"
2. Derive notes:
as im walking into the Queen Mary im wondering what am I doing here , there's not much to do on a ship... its lonely, its day time, it must be boring, why did we drive down here??? well there my answer im here to walk and see what I see just from walking . im here to do my project for school. why not look at the tours they have. HAUNTED TOUR grabbed my attention. haunted? it wasn't even scary at all -_- .
I found out some info of their legends and went to some location I don't think I would have made it to on my own. ( more notes on my phone with pictures which will be posted on presentation.
3. A . what did I get out of this experience?
- sometimes walking at a place you never thought you would can be the most interesting. going to the queen Mary at day or night can give one different emotions and inner feelings. not all legends are true. the queen Mary can be more frightening during Halloween and or at night.
2. what do I remember the most?
- what I remember the most about this walk is going to the swimming pool I never thought there'd be inside a ship, and hearing that there still remains the blood of the girl who drowned there, and kind of seeing that it remains wet a bit . I remember walking through the first tour and walkkign where it wasn't really scary and the guy giving the tour stopped at a corner and popped out randomly with his scary looking face and made me say ahh .
Sorry its late,my computer went out I had to come to my moms to get it done.
ReplyDeleteHollywood Walk of Fame
Pre-derive Questions
1.what captured my attention was all the adult stores mixed into the multiple shoes stores and novelty stores. They were lined up in a sequence all the at down the block.
2. I felt rushed. I think because everyone else was walking fast. When I noticed how fast we were walking I slowed down only to end up walking fast again.
3. There were a lot of homeless people walking, but no where as a many as downtown Los Angeles.
4. My friend Charles and my son Malachi went with me on the derive walk.
5. We walked from Hollywood and Vineto Hollywood and Highland. We didn't have specific destination we just walked.
6. I could smell urine, smoke from the many people walking, myself included, indents, pizza and coffee.
7. I could hear music everywhere,laughter and people speaking many different languages.
Derive Notes
1.I used Snapchat to record our walk. I didn't post them just saved them
Post Derive Questions
Answers
1. I would like to go back at night, because I was not able to get the full experience because I had my son. Also, Hollywood is completely different at night, so I would like to take that same walk at night.
2. What I took from what I saw is the amount of homeless people was dramatically different in comparison to downtown LA. There weren't any baskets lined up along the block and no one ask me for any change, they just left you alone.
3. The best part was when my friend Charles got scared by the Human Robot. Its a man completely covered in gold paint and glitter that stands still until people get close. Then he moves like a robot when they pass. Most people think he's fake so he always get people.
Walk of Fame
ReplyDeletePre-Derive Guide Questions
1: What captures my attention?
2: What do I feel?
3: What is running through my mind?
4: Who is there?
5: Where am I going?
6: What do I smell?
7: What do I hear?
Answers:
1. What captured my attention was see all the traffic to find parking and all the people walking the streets. There were local people going out to the clubs, clubs, tattoo parlors etc... But there was also people visiting from a different states or countries. All there street artist were outside drawing and street performers, they were either dancing or dressed up that night as Spider-Man, batman, joker, and many more.
2. I felt excited to see what the big commotion was about but also nervous because I didn't know if the people and there was a recent news report there, were a couple got run over by a car. And that just got me thinking about how safe is it, will I be mugged in the night. I left Hollywood late around 3:00 a.m. And the sweater I took wasn't enough.
3. What was running through my mind that night was " fuck I have work tomorrow at 6 am" and just thinking of the fact I had to go kinda ruined my night just a little bit. Another thing was seeing all the homeless sleeping on the streets or corners and people just walking by, some where older people but most were young adults. I also felt people looking at me while I would take pictures at stars and the streets and have judgement faces.
4. Three of my friends went with me Michelle, Alejandra, and Adan and people I was were the workers, police patrolling, homeless, the locals and tourists.
5. The place I choose to go was Hollywood The Walk of Fame. I've lived in this county all my life and never been to The walk of fame.
6. What I smelled that night was hotdogs being cooked then and there. Also where was mess everywhere and it didn't smell like anything good and mixed with car fumes.
7. That night I heard people trying to sell me mixtapes, paintings. Then I would be offered to get a tattoo. I would hear my friends asking to take pictures of me with the stars and the people there.
1: Derive Notes:
On my way there I was thinking about all the movies I've seen and all the actors and singers I like, and thought will I see there star ? Do they have a star? And I just want to answer these questions that I thought of. Also remember how that street has been featured in movies and made look nice and talked about by many in a good way. But when I was there I saw the thick line of rich and poor. How you have people thousand dollar bags at louis vuitton and across the street there's two homeless sharing their food. And they just don't show that side in the movies or when a actor/ actress or singer is getting his or her star. So it was interesting being able to see the whole picture and not just a portion.
Post-Derive Review/Questions
1: What did I get out of the experience?
2: What do I remember most?
Answers:
1: I got to see how everything has changed for the time the first star was given to the most recent. And I got to see how it actually looks through my perspective instead of the one I see on tv.
2: I remember getting there and I was just overwhelmed with the amount of people are just that go to take pictures and walk around at that time of night. Because for them it might be the first time seeing the stars and their last because they could be from a different state or country.