The Re:Project
To help with my final project, will all of you, upon experiencing a moment of deja vu, please email me, or comment to this posting? Let me know the location (address OR intersection) as well as any relevant words describing whether your experience was visual, emotional, geographical, or felt (the latter being the most common). Thanks!
Sarah
thereproject@ipipi.com
http://pomo.cca.edu/~sacohen/thereproject/home.html
Sarah
thereproject@ipipi.com
http://pomo.cca.edu/~sacohen/thereproject/home.html
posted by sarah at 2:06 PM
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Hi, Sarah
Here are my two deja vecu experiences:
1) Title: Montgomery Street = The Dark Space
(The district is in between the intersection of Montgomery Street & Market Street, and the intersection of Montgomery Street & Columbus Ave.)
The experience happened to me two years ago. While I was a new comer to the Bay Area, I decided to take a walk to explore the cityscape of downtown San Francisco. The first location would be the Montgomery Street because there was a great architecture bookstore down on the end of the road. After I got off from the Montgomery BART Station, I moved quickly into the Montgomery Street. Tall skyscrapers were flanked on both sides. Moreover, I was being sandwiched by the shadow of the office buildings. Suddenly, I felt that I was in the space of dark and cold. The people carrying suitcases walked briskly, and passed by over me back and forth serveral times. Their dress and their look were all look the same. I couldn't identify each individual, yet I could only observe their actions. Some were acrossing the road to catch the hurry, and some were talking to their cell phone. There was no air to breath. When I left that Montgomery Canyon, the horrific experience reminded me some of the 1950s Disney cartoons that portrating the evil side of the metropolis. At same time, there was this question came to my mind: was that chilled environment about money?
2) Title: The Talking Window
Location: 18th Street. (In between Missouri Street and Texas Street.)
One time, I was hanging out at Farley Cafe in the quiet neighborhood of Potrero Hill. This was probably around March. The day was beautiful and sunny. I was sitting in an area where my table roughly ten feet away from the window of the cafe. While I was thinking about Hertzian landscape, something just triggered to my mind. I remembered Steve talked about how the billboard will recognize a person. The commercial billboard can call out each individual's identification such as the name to the phone number. He recalled the experience similar to a scene in the movie Minority Report. Suddenly, I began to have this wild thought. What if the window in fornt of me immediately transforms into a billboard or a television screen that will call out every customer' name, will the announcement intrude personal privacy? Or will it affect to the cafe's business. Beside that, what if every surface around me all turn into billboards and screens, what kind of world would that be? How to define a place? Am I in San Francisco? Am I in New York City? Or am I in somewhere else? Suddenly, I felt that tomorrow's world is a terrified world. I imagined myself floating in 3D space. I was locked inside a cage. I felt that there is nowhere to go.
Hope my narratives will contribute to your project, &
hope you can understand my points.
(If you do not understand some parts, please let me know. Thanks.)
Good luck for your final project. :)
Tony
thuang@cca.edu
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