Studio Journal: 24-Hour Narrative

Our first project in Design III was a 24 hour narrative. The goal of the project was to represent some aspect of our life over a span of 24 hours. After much contemplation, I arrived at a solution that satisfied the criteria for the assignment. During a day of design work, I took screen shots of my computer window at specific times that I thought would give an honest representation of the different projects I was working on. I started at 9 in the morning and ended at 9 the next day. At first, I was not going to include breaks or nighttime, but then realized that these variables would actually provide for a much more interesting image. After I had all my screenshots in chronological order, I began to figure out a way to compile them together. There is nothing more linear in the world than time, so I figured a long piece that resembled a timeline seemed like the obvious direction to go. Then I realized I had to take the project a step further and decided not only to depict the projects I was working on during that time, but also to represent my creative flow as I was working on them. In Photoshop I compiled all the screenshots together then began to warp them in a way that I would describe as a heart monitor print-out of my creative flow. During times of high creativity the screenshots bulge out and during times of low creativity they implode. Also, during break time or sleep, my flow is represented by the black form as seen in the included image. The final piece was 200 inches long. For the included image, I chopped it up into 3 sections so that I could fit it onto the blog.