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Psycogyography

Speaking to other classmates, I keep hearing that they're don't think they're learning much but everyday I'm hearing new terms and language. Psychogeography is how a certain place makes you think and feel and annabeth wanted us to apply this to our city brief. Coming from Manchester, and walking around the city I get the feeling of fear and anger. I'm not entirely sure why, but I do think that the city's feel has changed over the past recent years. I personally don't feel afraid, but it's just an atmosphere I sense when walking around the city.

This guy wasn't too happy with me taking his picture while he was eating 



 We were asked to go out and draw things around media city that interested us, for me media city doesn't offer the right stimulation for drawing with it mostly being buildings and the last time I drew here I didn't enjoy myself. So I decided to be a bit more picky with what I was drawing looking for things that were out of place, as well as peeking into people's cars to see what they kept on their dashboards. I came across this clown hat behind a bike stand, and the image of a clown riding his unicycle but going too fast so his hat got blown away was the first image that came to my mind











 I continued walking around but nothing of much interested me and when I met up poli and Indya after we all decided that is was best to go for a lunch break. When we came back to class we were told to create a map of the things we had seen or just a random map all together.



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