Safe Station, Lincoln Way, South Bend. Open near 24 hours to provide a safe place for youth.
Bridge near public Transpo station, a site where refuge can be taken from inclement weather.
Extreme poverty and destruction is a leading cause that drives people to homelessness.
2006- Counted 560 people living in shelters and 93 homeless people who weren't living in a shelter.
Shelter's do not have the capacity to house and assist all of those in need. Many turn to alternative means of shelter, such as 24 hour emergency rooms, public transportation sites and covered locations out of doors.
For this project i wanted to do something that involves myself. And i wanted it to make sense. So i decided i do a data project that reflects the existence of myself within an info graphics theme towards this world. I wanted this project to be simple and decided to do it in illustrator. I wanted the format to be linear and geometric within this poster like theme.
This is my infographics project for A399.I collected data of all the phone calls I
received over the course of a week.I
want to make this piece reflect the timing to scale and identify the caller via
an emotional color space.
In After
Effects, I created an animated abstracted representation of a clock figure to
illustrate the passing of time to scale.All of my calls were collected during a roughly 12 segment of a 24 hour
day, so I let one rotation of the clock (which takes one minute) represent one
day (12 hour segment).Since I wanted to
be as precise as I could, I used a 60 fps format.All of the heavy math aside, 12 seconds of
call time equals 1/60th of a second in my piece... or an hour of real time
equals one minute in my piece... whichever helps you visualize better.
So, I took my clockwork composition
and brought it into a Premiere composition.From there, I cued my keyframes to the call times and insert the
corresponding color space to the call from the person who was on the other end
of the line.(I created the abstract
color spaces in Photoshop and made a different piece for each of my 7 contacts
based on my emotional reaction to each of them individually.)I then adjusted the duration of display of the
color space to match each individual call length.
From a reflective stand point, I'm
a bit of a teeter-tot on this piece.I
like it's precision and I love the emotional color spaces I created, but the
down side to the precision is that it reflects the amount of time I spend off
of the phone, which results in A LOT of blank space, and the scale I had to use
made the color spaces into quick blips that really depreciate the impact that a
longer exposure to each would have.So,
it's a tradeoff.Meh.
In my initial stages, I tried
making the color spaces into color space rays that would maintain on the clock
and let them build up over the days, but my for one, my After Effects aptitude
isn't quite up to that level, and two, even when I just made a faux placeholder
ray to mimic the effect, it didn't hold enough space to be anything more than a
thin line of color since my calls were so relatively short.I also felt that that suspension really
fought against the flow of time and that the overlay, while an interesting
concept, would be misleading or confusing.So, that issue solved itself... woo hoo.
For my project, I recorded my interaction with technology over a 24 hour period. Using a plain background, I reenacted the action to piece them together and came to the realization that there is very little time that I don't have technology.
I used the data I found to make a gift in the form of the power button we see every day. I used the power buttons to form a small city and tried to show the power buttons going on and off thoughout the day. I also used the colors to highlight when something was on or turned on and those colors are purple, green, and blue.
This is a work in progress. The data
illustrated here are the hours I spent working and in classes beginning
December 1st, 2010. In addition to the format seen here, I am intending
to add something like cut-scenes for events like major holidays or
semester starting points. I am also planning to go back and add some
textual messages in the lower righthand corner (opposite the calendar
bar) that will make comments upon particularly busy or slow passages in
the data.
The motion graphics were created as frame animations in Photoshop,
except for the rolling calendar, which I built inside of Premiere using
TIFFs I had created in Photoshop. All of the moving pieces were then
assembled in Premiere, where the data points and associated sound
effects were inserted to follow the flow of the calendar.
Unfortunately, the idea for this piece came to me late in the game... so I will have to finish it and re-submit after the assignment deadline.
Credits: The graphics are completely my own. The opening theme music
is by Eric Skiff, who offers up his 8-bit compositions freely for
projects like this at ericskiff.com/music/ All other audio is my own creation.
