Brief 01｜Quantified Self

by luna Brief Sketch

For this project, I chose ‘boring places’ as the theme for my data statistics and final data visualization.

-RESEARCH​

Brain Map | Picture Record

First for boring things, I think about my room. After brainstorming, I chose the view from my window. Because I live in Erasmus Park, my window is next to my desk, facing a forest. So when I stay at home and do my homework, I get bored. But when I’m resting, I look through the window to see what’s outside.

The first part of my sketch is the view from the window, which I have been photographing since February. And persisted for about a week, shooting at the same location, but the weather outside the window, things and time will have subtle changes, so I recorded them to support the subsequent data visualization.

-DATA VISUALISATION

Idea development

First of all, there are a lot of trees in my windows that block most of the sun, and I find that the sun sets very early in the UK in winter, around 4pm. Usually, if I get up late in the morning, I can see the sunset almost seamlessly. So I made a clock watch to keep track of it.

Then as the weather changes, the view outside my window has a different color. I stitched together photos of the scenery outside the window, drawing different color blocks of the weather. I have come to the conclusion that the weather in the UK is variable with a large percentage of rainy days.

After that, in addition to the natural landscape, there are many small animals outside my window. (Sometimes there are people, which confuses me at times, because I can see my private interior completely through the glass.) Anyway, I think there may be more on this grass in front of my window food. I often see squirrels, pigeons, crows and pheasants coming for food, and I calculate the probability of finding them.

In the end, I think the reflections from the glass windows are amazing. Because outside the glass window is a completely spontaneous natural landscape, and my house is like a viewing platform. But at the same time, I’m not sure if I’m looking at the scenery outside, or if the critters outside are looking at me. This way you can see that the orange part in the middle is the light coming from my house so that I seem to be one with the outside scenery.

Anyway, my project was pulled from my rather boring homework and I’m trying to make this visualization fun.