Drift Assessment #3

Describe three surprises or unexpected situations you encountered on your Drifts and in the days that followed. The surprise could stem from your expectations that conflicted with "on the ground" realities, cultural or social issues of which you were previously unaware, feelings and reactions that you did not expect to have, appearances and soundings of things you did not expect, good or bad outcomes of "on the spot" decisions you had to make, or the discovery of "deeper" realities in the materials you brought home

Honestly, I’m from the Metro-Milwaukee area so I wasn’t surprised of anything culturally, but one of my strategies for Drift 2 was focused on trash/junk and I was so surprised to see how much people throw out on a daily basis. It was kind of shocking, how much people use and then just get rid of.

One of the funnier situations that occurred during my drifts, happened while I was walking on Brady Street and I was attempting to record the sound of a foot in a puddle and a man ran up to me and thought that I was trying to electrocute myself. It was kind of suprising, but mostly just funny trying to explain what I was doing for school to this guy.

One of the most unexpected situations through the whole recording of dirft 1 was my predisposition that there wasn't a lot to record because of the small amounts of animal activity and things going on outside because it was winter, but after recording all of drift 1, I was suprised to find all this activity in both the foreground and the background of almost every segment I recorded. Whether it was an icicle dripping or somebody yelling in the background, there was so much sound.