My first day in Amsterdam was quite an adventure. The houses are very close to the central station. I have to take a ferry to get to the north, that enhances the north feeling 🙂 I’ve been assigned a very cute though basic house for the first 3 days. The house I was originally planned […]
Author Archives: Danielle
Amsterdam here I come
I’m on the train going to Amsterdam for the second part of my project. I must say I wasn’t really looking forward to it. Not so much going to Amsterdam but doing all the measuring for a whole week. It’s pretty intense somehow, it cages you… I’ve also discovered that it’s a hell of a […]
Power cut
As I was collecting the data this morning (it’s Christmas) there was a power cut. It was in a large part of the estate and may be a large part of town. I rang the alarm number and they said the cut would last till 1 pm… Luckily the batteries of my laptop were charged so […]
Eureka!
Right, I’ve just discovered how the gaps in the picture series appear. When there’s not enough light to take a picture the camera makes a long low beep. I thought that was just a warning but now I’ve discovered that it just fails to take a picture. So for yesterday I managed to complete the […]
Picture drama
I just downloaded about 400 images from my camera ALL of which are corrupt! What a mess. So for this morning there will be a lot of pictures ‘not available’… They look kind of cool, if they weren’t ruining my project I would actually like them. Glitches are a form of art in some circles. I think it […]
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Yesterday I inspected my harvest of the first day of measuring. It was a little disturbing. I found out I had way to little pictures from my cam. Somehow I missed a couple of hours worth of material… I filled some holes with copies. But I spent hours doing so. Also calculating where the camera […]
Measuring has started
Today I’ve started with my week in Breda. I woke up a little too late for my taste but I suppose I just was tired… So from 10.10 the measuring has started. I had some problems getting my the pictures from my camera to my laptop. It refused to transfer the files. There were about […]
It’s alive!
I’ve almost got the whole application working. Yesterday I managed to animate the map and the heart icon. Because I keep moving around (and the GPS logger isn’t always exact) the map is continually shifting a little. Together with the moving heart-beat ‘snake’ you really get the feeling this work is alive. And of course […]
Night time
Yesterday I made 480 black pictures for eight hours sleep. They are numbered 961 to 1440 and can be pasted into the picture folder for display in the application. It looks kind of cool, a whole folder with black squares.
Animated
Yesterday I continued working on the heart-beat graph. I’ve managed to animate it. The speed of the animations varies with your cursor position. The speed ranges from 1000 milliseconds to 1 millisecond. When the animation goes faster the string of dots seems to be alive, like some snake like creature. Fascinating to watch. The dots […]