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March 03, 2008

RE: Tracking our little heres for the long now

Over at the Long Now blog, Stephanie Gerson writes:  "Artist collaborative plan b makes location-specific works and performances exploring the dynamics of narrative and time."  She goes on to explain "They visualize GPS data by translating time-stamped coordinates into lines, and creating time-lapse animations superimposed on maps of their location...Their animation for Berlin...reveals dense straight cords and right angles, representing routes driven daily, and light meandering squiggles, representing walks with their toddler who stops to examine each flower, dog, etc. If Dan and Sophia continued gathering data, they would see the squiggly lines became straighter and darker as their daughter grew up."

This got me thinking about the importance of these squiggly lines...how I want to encourage Miles (and myself) to always travel with "light meandering squiggles."

Clampants | March 3, 2008 12:16 PM