Time Spent Alone

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I just started a new online project at timespentalone.com. The site’s name plays on the peculiar brand of connected separateness that characterizes our era and the fact that I currently live alone. On it, I will be presenting a series of projects that deal in varying levels of joking and seriousness.

Currently, there are two completed projects on time spent alone. Things left behind is a series of photographs and words that capture an early morning experience of solitude on the beach. Each photograph is connected to a phrase in the story, allowing a non-linear experience of the text. Unraveling is a musing on what it would mean if everything we understood where slowly shifting and falling apart. The interactive portion of unravel was built using processing.

While working on the site, I noticed everything looked way better in Safari (and Plainview) than it did in Firefox. I did a bit of googling for browser color profile support, and came up with an oldish CNET article about how Safari added ICC profile support. This is awesome. Unfortunately, lots of people out there don’t use Safari as their main browser. If you’re a Firefox fan, you can get color profile support by installing the Color Management Add-on. If you’re on IE, please switch to Firefox, or accept that the web you’re seeing just isn’t as beautiful as it could be. If you use Chrome, send lots of email to Google telling them to add color profile support to their browser. Wouldn’t it be nice if graphics on the web were finally treated as first-class citizens in all browsers?

timespentalone
things left behind
unraveling

2 thoughts on “Time Spent Alone”

  1. hey Dave, this new project is great. I spent several minutes just watching the satellite view slowly scroll by. Your beach photos are great as well. Your subject really caught my attention as I am having strong urges to spend some time alone reflecting on where my work is taking me. Once again you are showing some solid work. Keep it up!

  2. Hey Adam, thanks for the compliments. I’m really glad that some of the concepts behind it resonate with you. Hopefully it will turn into something both entertaining and capable of eliciting questions from people as it develops further.

    I’ve been watching twenty2wo through google reader, and it’s really exciting to see the creative culture that you’re engaging and bringing to light.

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