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1hr in front of the TV |
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Author(s):
bumblebee |
Institution:
(unknown) |
Year:
2008 |
URL:
http://tinyurl.com/55tlpz |
Project Description:
This is a simple, curious and imaginative experiment. On Christmas 2006, bumblebee (flickr name) decided to build a visual summary of his son, daughter and cat's movements in their living room over a period of an hour.To have an accurate understanding of their paths in space he used a marked-out equally-spaced grid in masking tape and then filmed the protagonists moving across the grid for one hour. He then reviewed the video and plotted their movements on each minute of the video's timecode onto a 'room map' with corresponsing grid.
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I don't find this particularly curious or imaginative. There are many such plottings floating around, but most are just excuses to make visually pleasing diagrams.
Posted by Matthew on Apr 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM (GMT)
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Viewing this in a semantic sense, I see it as a nice way to extract the comparative usage of the room. It would be nice to be able to view the meanderings dynamically to see the interactions explicitly.
Posted by Jim on Apr 16, 2009 at 3:06 PM (GMT)
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nice please show the code
Posted by romel on Apr 24, 2009 at 5:49 AM (GMT)
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I'm doing a whole series of them in the near future. The idea is to point this basic plotting tech at various scenarios to help explain/describe just one hour in their day. This original version was created as part of my interest in extracting narratives from mapping/plotting and was done as part of my Masters studies into Design and Digital Media. There are a number of basic narratives contained in the original - the simplest one being the actions of the cat moving from heat source to heat source / to food source outside of the room.
Posted by Bumblebee on Apr 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM (GMT)
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Interesting enough matthew. Thats why they call it infographics.
Posted by Chris on May 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM (GMT)
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with so many real problems in the world, in our communities, which undoubtedly affect his children and cat, this guy focus is on mapping how his pet and children move in the room?
Got love all the people in denial in the world.
No wonder we end up with the likes of bush, blair and brown.
Go figure.
Posted by Harry on Jun 21, 2009 at 9:45 AM (GMT)
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Harry, don't be a jackass. Not everything has to political. I don't think you can assume Bumblebee is in denial about the state of the world because he's interested in exploring different ways of visualizing our everyday motions.
We end up with people like Bush running our countries because we vote for them. if you care so much, go wave a sign on the street corner or something.
Bumblebee: I don't know how your action script skills are but it would be really interesting to see this as a flash app, so we can view the progression of the characters within the room.
Posted by Matt on Jun 29, 2009 at 1:16 AM (GMT)
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Not everyone can see the creative in everyday things and that's what makes this great. And Harry, seeing as you're so concerned with humanity I'm sure you have better things to do than insult unsuspecting people. But I'm probably just in denial.
Posted by Jessica on Jul 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM (GMT)
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what software was used to make this ?
its ace
Posted by lo on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:52 AM (GMT)
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Hilarious. Love the cat entry.
Posted by Ed on Dec 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM (GMT)
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How can such a picture be made with some scientific data? is this done with a software??? What is it then?
thanks
Posted by abhishek on Dec 23, 2009 at 11:09 AM (GMT)
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This is interesting to me in that what I've termed as "natural displays of data" should show the same patterns - for example, a photo of the carpet wear in the room. The room is certainly measuring it's own use by various wear patterns.
Posted by LeMel on Feb 19, 2010 at 6:25 PM (GMT)
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What would be interesting for television execs. is to have a pilot of a new one hour drama (or whatever) and see how a family moves in a time line fashion. Sure, commercials - got it. But, what about the entry of a new character or a new subplot. These things are studied to death and this would be one way to get some points across to the producers who are sure that their program is the be all and end all. The sad thing is that they may be correct, but, it is still about money and that will decide what is there to watch.
Posted by Stephen on Jun 15, 2010 at 5:48 AM (GMT)
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