Giskin Anomaly

01/15/2013

After two years of adventurous fun in Balboa Park, Giskin Anomaly is no longer available. Have Pandora and Drake gone on to further adventures? Only time will tell!

07/05/2012

BEHIND THE SCENES: In the park, on a mission: actress Laura Hunter captured on video experiencing her voice work on Giskin for the first time! http://youtu.be/FWEyB9dJOFg?hd=1

http://www.misshunter.com - I play Kimiko in Balboa Park's Giskin Anomaly Project (http://www.giskin.org) and this was my first time checking it out live!

06/30/2012

Giskin gets on the map: you can find it using the Horizon Project Navigator, which tracks emerging technologies worldwide. http://navigator.nmc.org/project/giskin-anomaly-do-you-hear-voices

"This ‘historical fiction’ game was created for the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. Visitors use their cellphones to listen to the voicemail messages that Drake and Pandora, two amateur sleuths, leave for each other... then follow in their footsteps as Drake and Pandora recover intensely personal ...

06/30/2012

Laura Hunter, the voice of Kimiko, listens to her character's thoughts in a ghost imprint from the year 1941. Laura vblogged about it here: http://www.misshunter.com/?p=996

06/30/2012

BEHIND THE SCENES: Article by Chris Haller of Engaging Cities on Giskin – how to give a park a new flavor! http://engagingcities.com/article/giskin-anomaly-survey-project-transformed-residents’-perception-historic-park

When you think about the parks in your city, you have probably noted that each one has its distinct flavor. There’s the park with the bike trails where you know you’ll bump into several of your neighbors on a Sunday morning. You distinguish between the parks with the baseball diamonds and those with...

05/22/2012

As always: (1) fully charge your phone, (2) bring your earbuds, (3) start at the Old Globe ticket window, (4) be alert for adventure!

05/22/2012

Erhard Giskin loved Sunset Magazine, and thus would be glad to see his Survey in the May issue. The day trip for that issue is Balboa Park, and the Giskin Anomaly Survey is one of the "quirky finds"! Amen to that. http://www.balboapark.org/bpoc/blog/giskin-anomaly-sunset-magazine #.T7s_wb_Qw2c

Our parkwide cellphone adventure Giskin Anomaly is featured in the May 2012 issue of Sunset Magazine. We've had 9997 calls into the Giskin phone system so we anticipate that this mention will put us over 10,000 calls.

04/12/2012

PANDORA SAYS: Balboa Park can be noisy. Bring your earbuds just in case!

04/10/2012

This just in from Drake: the huge World War Two-era map of the Pacific inside the Balboa Park Club. He heard that during the war, this room was an officers mess (dining hall) and the sailors followed the island-by-island campaign on this map.

04/10/2012

The earliest known version of a Giskin Anomaly Detector, in a photo sent by young inventor Erhard Giskin to a cousin in South Africa circa 1938. "What these anomalies may be, I have not discovered," Erhard wrote, "but for certain, they are anchored to a particular spot, as if radiating out from the ground." (That's Erhard holding the Detector, approximate age 20 years.)