The map I have created is meant to illustrate 24 hours of my life; specifically from 10pm on Saturday the 30th of October to 10pm on Sunday the 31st of October. It is a rough sketch of the lower part of Manhattan, combined with clusters of photos that give a glimpse of the different locations in which I spent my time in. The various arrows represent the different means of transportation I utilized.
The title I chose for this blog-post does, quite ironically, not go well with my personal taste, since I strongly dislike champagne. Nevertheless, I chose this quote from the song “Money to Blow”, since it symbolizes a certain nightlife-focused lifestyle. It is suitable for these 24 hours, but I do not feel that this song represents my overall lifestyle and general mind-set.
I decided to start the 24 hour map at 10pm since, like implied earlier, both Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st largely revolved around the night-time. In other words, most of my activities took place during the night.
As I assume is evident in the images on the map, I did, in the hours they display, spend a significant amount of time preparing for- and celebrating Halloween. The phenomenon of Halloween is something I have been familiar with for a while. I did however, not know that it had such an important place in the culture of NYC. I had never experienced Halloween in the US before, and I was quite shocked to see that many people would spend enormous amounts of time and money on Halloween. The apparent general obsession with “all-things-Halloween” was also very fascinating to me. An example of this, and my choice to end this post, is the song “This is Halloween” which was on replay in my hallway as my neighbors were decorating, about a week ahead of the dates shown in the map.
The map I have created is meant to illustrate 24 hours of my life; specifically from 10pm on Saturday the 30th of October to 10pm on Sunday the 31st of October. It is a rough sketch of the lower part of Manhattan, combined with clusters of photos that give a glimpse of the different locations in which I spent my time in. The various arrows represent the different means of transportation I utilized.
The title I chose for this blog-post does, quite ironically, not go well with my personal taste, since I strongly dislike champagne. Nevertheless, I chose this quote from the song “Money to Blow”, since it symbolizes a certain nightlife-focused lifestyle. It is suitable for these 24 hours, but I do not feel that this song represents my overall lifestyle and general mind-set.
I decided to start the 24 hour map at 10pm since, like implied earlier, both Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st largely revolved around the night-time. In other words, most of my activities took place during the night.
As I assume is evident in the images on the map, I did, in the hours they display, spend a significant amount of time preparing for- and celebrating Halloween. The phenomenon of Halloween is something I have been familiar with for a while. I did however, not know that it had such an important place in the culture of NYC. I had never experienced Halloween in the US before, and I was quite shocked to see that many people would spend enormous amounts of time and money on Halloween. The apparent general obsession with “all-things-Halloween” was also very fascinating to me. An example of this, and my choice to end this post, is the song “This is Halloween” which was on replay in my hallway as my neighbors were decorating, about a week ahead of the dates shown in the map.
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