This week has been eventful! Our deadline for research was Thursday, so I spent some time finishing my final reflection for my cemetery. While I got the bulk of my research transferred into our data management sheet, I plan to spend a little time going over my work again to […]
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This month has been particularly hectic in my personal life as we’ve been moving to a new apartment. We’re saying goodbye to our studio of 13 years (our first–and until very recently only–home in New York City). So this past week I’ve been feeling extra concerned I’m not delivering enough […]
This week was a big milestone for us. We agreed that April 15 was our deadline to finish our research. When we set this deadline it felt like we had all the time in the world to leisurely research our locations. Now that we’ve reached it, it doesn’t feel like […]
Fun with Images I have been moving between research that is reading and research that is visual. I’ve found several images of the Worth Memorial location which show the site in such a way that you can compare that historical reference to its current state. This is fascinating to me […]
I finally found time this past weekend to visit my cemetery location in person. Even before the pandemic I never spent that much time downtown, but I have visited City Hall Park numerous times since moving here (13 years ago). What struck me most was how little I had paid […]
During the past two weeks, our team has achieved a big part of the functionality we hoped to get to with our timeline. The vertical and horizontal timelines are now interactively dependent, which is really nice to see, since we have only been talking about how we imagine it to […]
This past week has been productive and quite eventful. I took on the task of creating visual images of each team member’s definition of Mapping Cemeteries, which will be included on our Making Mapping Cemeteries site, social media, and potentially our final website. I had a lot of fun finding images, […]
We’ve all made the most of our time this week since spring break. Nadia has made extensive updates to our site on GitHub (check us out!) and has been working hard to put our dreams into code. Our horizontal timeline is meant to place users within New York City history […]
Crunch Time Approaches Last week was Spring Break in CUNY-land and for the most part, our team agreed to honor it as an actual break. I think of this last week as the proverbial calm before the storm that is often the reality of birthing any kind of creative product. […]
