how does it work?
- You get mappiness from the App Store, open it, and sign up
- We beep you once (or more) a day to ask how you're feeling, and a few basic things to control for: who you're with, where you are, what you're doing (if you're outdoors, you can also take a photo)
We have to create a psychogeographic map ..
The idea of it is to document life's unseen bouts .. well seen but not really looked into at times.
I decided to do my Map on my beloved Iphone 4 :)
I downloaded an app called Mappiness.. don't be fooled by the above description .. the app is horribly annoying. Well i am a student and half my life is spent indoors .. library.. labs.. lecture rooms.. halls or partying.
The app beeps twice or three times a day and asks "How do you feel? Please tell us as soon as you can.
At first its very exciting you cant wait to get into it.. well i couldn't .. when my first beep came I was so ready for it .
The App asks really personal questions at the beginning .. getting to know who you are , your health, marital status.. household income .. number of people living in your house and then asks you to agree with terms and conditions of(the invasion of your privacy) the program.
It asks about feelings, relaxation and being awake in a graph rating kind of format .. gage your happiness basically . Then it asks about people.. who you are with, where you are and what you are doing =
If you are outside you are asked to take a photo of your surroundings. unfortunately i was hardly outside when i took park in the Mappiness survey. i cannot remember exactly how long i did it for but twice to three times a day i had to answer questions .. It was like looking after a baby and a non-existent one because i did not know exactly where the information was going . (yes they tell us its for a survey but who are they ? )
Over time you are able to view a graph of your feelings and it gives you a percentage or graph rating of what kind of happiness you have within!!... LIES ..
Also shows when you are happiest . who you are with, where you are and what you are doing ..
I found myself having to walk about and go to places just to make my Mappiness exciting. =]
As you cannot access the information once its gone to Mappiness heaven - for those with Iphones and other phones that can do the same .. Take screen shots to prove that you actually took part in this beeping phenomena. !!
the slide show below shows my progress on Mappiness .. Enjoy !!
(sorry but the perfectionist that i am decided to turn this into a slide-show last minute after seeing that it looked slightly messy- & i did this on flickr the pictures looked cool but this is neat)
I have a beautiful old vintage-y Lumix camera..
And all i ever do is take a bunch of pictures .. I'm making a pictorial document of my life..
So I was walking from a friends house one day after a discussion on how we should photograph our first love FASHION , and it occurred to me that it was quite a pretty day and the images would look exquisite on my blog .. off to the land of photography .. i made a second psychogeography map..
I call this one 'The Walk Home from my Friend's House' it should really read halls but this is home now.
My friend lives in Victoria Hall but the idea came to me once i had already left her area.
I started photographing from Castle View/ Magazine Sq area all the way to Liberty Park halls on Eastern Boulevard.
The Walk Home from my Friend's House
Enjoy
(turned these pics into a slideshow last minute as well because it looks less spacey)
the dates on the photos may read differently because i have used images i took in the past to fill out any gaps =]
Only added the map to make it look better otherwise my images mapped the way. added April
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