Xiaoyang's ITP Life

Nick on the class showed his photo collection of all capuchino coffee he drinks everyday. After see that and heard the story of Nicholas Feltron’s annual report, I start to understand why people start to fast document their daily life. Like twitter, foursquare, daytum, one good thing of this, it’s trackable, most of the data are stored online, you can always go back to look at those pictures, another good thing of those are statics, by learning your ‘past history’ from your own document, people will know themselves better, they will have better ideas of their future plan/decision. It become one of people’s self motivation. like CAD(computer aided design), I’d call it WAM(web aided motivation). Nike + is a great example of it.

For the first week homework, Nick want us to use our cellphone camera/portable camera to document 10~20 photos to tell a story. I thought it’s a simple homework, however, 3 days already past, I haven’t decided what kinds of photos will best tell a story. I start to brainstorm, re think the concept. Information from a photo will tell a story. I was just looking at my poster wall at home…ideas…ideas…

My idea is every time I take a photo, I use three steps to add more informations of it.

1> find a poster which catches my eyes, use iphone take a photo of it.

2>go to the picture folder, view the photo I took and take a snap shot, so I can add time information to the photo

3>open google map on the phone, and locate my position and take a snap shot

after these three steps, I have one photo of one event I interested, I know where I find the poster, I know when I find it.