Hello.
Welcome to Josephta.me, the personal website of, erm, Joseph Tame. I’m a Tokyo-based Brit orginally from Herefordshire, now living with my wife in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. I’m a freelance digital media producer, consultant, inventor, entrepreneur, public performance artist and marathon runner. Sometimes I combine all of these into one.
The Art of Running: Putting my name on the map
Tonight’s run was relatively short, but quite tricky to carry out.
When creating #ArtOfRunning pieces over such short distances, there’s not much room for mistakes. Even a small detour can be disastrous for the overall image. For this route I cached the pre-plotted map on my iPad at as high a resolution as possible, and then ran, iPad in hand, counting junctions and matching building roofs with what I saw on the street. Despite having no 3G network, the iPad did a pretty good job of tracking my position via wifi – that was until, at the top of the T, my wifi router suddenly stopped working for no particular reason. Still, by then I’d got into the groove and was able to complete the run without.
It’s the first time I’ve written anything with GPS. This particular area of Tokyo works well for block letters, due to its grid layout. There’s not too may areas like that around here.
View the original data on Runkeeper here.
[...] in shapes. Besides the Google Plus symbol, the site boasts maps of him running in the shape of his name, a baby elephant and a heart around Tokyo, “the city I [...]
novel? maybe. pointless? definitely