Do you ever wonder how many times you drink orange juice every year or how about how many times you meet a guy with the name of Joe? Nicolas Felton, the curator of feltron.com has been recording the small happenings of his life since 2005. At the end of each year he spends gathering data, he analyzes the information he has and then publishes his finding in a most upscale and unusual way. Most people would write about their personal lives on blog posts or in journals but it's different for Felton, he's the one with the bright neon shirt on in a mob of a black out. He records and displays every year of his life in graphs and charts.
Felton shows the world where he goes, who he meets, and what he does in a year's time all in a minimal number of pictures which all seem to explode with statistics. The monochromatic pages are simple but yet still chaotic, bursting with numbers, places, and names. Bland, organized and filled with blunt straight lines, the perfectly symmetrical website suggests the possibilities of an obsessive author who hypnotizes the world with the story of his life. The intriguing but still yet mind numbing display of data singles out Nicolas Felton's blog and most definitely attracts the number of visits to the website. It's just one other way our modernized society members have been able to display the twenty-first century at its highest peak. Feltron.com is definitely something everyone should check out, even if you're not a math nerd.
This is fascinating. The idea of charting and recording all of the little things in your life is really an interesting way to have a factual view of the way you're living.
ReplyDeleteThis is so interesting. Just thinking about how many times I've done a random act in a year and recording all of those acts seems like so much work yet so interesting.
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