{"id":1535,"date":"2022-11-25T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2022-11-26T18:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:51:37","slug":"a8-smell-notes-pierre-tulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/2022\/11\/25\/a8-smell-notes-pierre-tulk\/","title":{"rendered":"A9: Smell Notes | Pierre Tulk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For this assignment, I ventured into a small alley in-between two condo complexes, close to 63rd avenue and Yukon Street. Because the alley was linear and well delimitated, it would give me a clear &#8216;sample space&#8217; to record the smells I encountered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Doing so was not easy, however. Olfactive science is complex, and one single, isolated smell may be the result of a myriad aromatic compounds. Plus, it was pretty cold outside that day: differentiating smells was not easy. In any case, I divided the broad smells I encountered into 3 categories, represented in the perspective and plan below.:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">In <strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">BLUE\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">is what I identified to be the &#8220;core&#8221; ambient smell: the cold, crisp and fresh air and wet concrete. It was very faint, but omnipresent.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">In <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>GREEN<\/strong><\/span> are the vegetal, green smells present in the enclosed alley: wet humus and soil, organic matter, freshly cut grass (maintenance workers had passed not long ago), decaying leaves, etc. That smell was varying in intensity (as shown in the plan) and was more dominant when the space was enclosed by the house blocks.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: center;\">In <strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">YELLOW<\/span><\/strong> is the strong industrial, chemical smell that was present at either end of the alley: the maintenance workers were packing their equipment and there was a dominant smell of diesel and gasoline there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1585 size-full\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3848.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2917\" height=\"3888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3848.png 2917w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3848-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3848-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3848-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3848-1537x2048.png 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1584 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3802-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3802-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3802-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3802-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/files\/2022\/11\/IMG_3802.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment, I ventured into a small alley in-between two condo complexes, close to 63rd avenue and Yukon Street. Because the alley was linear and well delimitated, it would give me a clear &#8216;sample space&#8217; to record the smells I encountered. Doing so was not easy, however. Olfactive science is complex, and one single, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/2022\/11\/25\/a8-smell-notes-pierre-tulk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A9: Smell Notes | Pierre Tulk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-a9-smell-notes","category-ptulk","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/seeingenvironment2022fall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}