For the brief, I decided to record one day of my life. Taking data from the 3rd August 2010 and having no particular reason why I chose that date, I noted down the times it took to do certain tasks throughout the day.
As the day went on into night, it was apparent that my day had consisted of much more than physical tasks. Occurances and happenings which would change how I felt about the day had an impact on other aspects of the day, which would continue to have a knock on effect on other aspects of the day. Looking back over the day I realised that I couldn't just illustrate simple 'everyday' tasks, I'd have to break each one of these tasks up into their own respective areas.
I also broke my complete day up into two separate ares: 1) Passive and 2) Active or 1) Conscious 2) Unconscious. Including thoughts and feelings into the day opened up Pandora's Box.
Then of course there was the fact that the world doesn't revolve around me (!) and what was equally as important was the lives of everyone else within that 24hrs. 'Death of a Street Drinker', '11yr olds on the pill' and 'degrading treatment for asylum seekers', were some of the tabloid headlines of that day.
I also broke my complete day up into two separate ares: 1) Passive and 2) Active or 1) Conscious 2) Unconscious. Including thoughts and feelings into the day opened up Pandora's Box.
Then of course there was the fact that the world doesn't revolve around me (!) and what was equally as important was the lives of everyone else within that 24hrs. 'Death of a Street Drinker', '11yr olds on the pill' and 'degrading treatment for asylum seekers', were some of the tabloid headlines of that day.
Four days after researching what happened on the day of my data capture, a blog entitled "Love really is greater than death", was printed in the Guardian by Dr Karen Woo. Karen Woo was the British surgeon and medical aid worker who was killed along with nine colleagues in Afghanistan over the weekend bef0re my data capture. Her blog began with the words: "Nothing in life is for sure, nothing that you see today will always be here tomorrow...".
This could not be more relevant to the brief and to what I'm going to attempt to design. Anything could happen in the blink of an eye. Twenty fours hours is a mere blip in our lives, depending on what happens of course. A lot of the time, we'll go through a day without thinking about the last but upon closer inspection, each one is so intricate it's practically impossible to illustrate a complete day.
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