{"id":2833,"date":"2015-12-20T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T01:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2016-01-10T19:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T10:06:42","slug":"running-art-kyodonews-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/2015\/12\/running-art-kyodonews-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Running: Collaboration with Kyodo News & Local Schoolchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"KyodoA couple of months back I was contacted by a writer at Kyodo News. She\u2019d read about my running art project and thought it would be a good fit for a regular column that she writes, introducing interesting uses of smartphones for elementary and junior high school children.<\/p>\n

One Saturday afternoon I met up with high-school student Taro, his friend Yuji, and his father at Asagaya station. The picture that the boys wanted to trace was a little complex: both being keen soft tennis players, they\u2019d decided to draw themselves in the middle of a match!<\/p>\n

What made this particular course tricky was the limited time and distance that we had to complete it in. We just had a few hours available, which limited the run to a maximum of about 10km. With a picture that contains relatively detailed sections (such as the two tennis players), you really need a large canvas to accurately plot the points that will make up the picture. With this design, some of our points were only 10 or 20 meters apart \u2013 a real challenge considering the limited accuracy of smartphone GPS chips.<\/p>\n

To track the points we used Runkeeper<\/a>; the boys picked up how to do it very quickly, and soon the picture was taking shape. 10km later it turned out great \u2013 especially the data from the wifi-only iPhone 5 that Taro was using. Ironically, the data from my iPhone 6+ which in addition to GPS and wifi had a cell network connection, was far less accurate.<\/p>\n

The course took us down some tiny alleyways, and at one point, into someone\u2019s yard! When drawing the tennis racket at the top, we really needed to register a GPS point about 5 metres to the north of the road, but that was the other side of a padlocked gate. Fortunately, the owner just happened to be there, and what with me wearing my wind-powered LED hat he couldn\u2019t help but notice us. I greeted him, and then explained what we were up to. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t suppose it would be possible to just go over to where that bench is, at the back of your house\u201d I asked. <\/p>\n

He smiled, and pleased to be able to assist us in our artistic mission, opened his gate and invited us in.<\/p>\n

At the end of the run we all admired our art work \u2013 not bad at all! <\/p>\n

My thanks to Kyodo News writer Asami Takada, and our runners Taro, Yuji and Yoshinori.<\/p>\n

The article was published in a number of Kyodo print news publications.<\/p>\n

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