What is a Line - epiphany!

Well i say epiphany, it wasn't really my idea...again. Fred to the rescue...

I was stumbling over several design sheets wondering how i could make all this information about the flight-paths of aeroplanes interesting when Fred peered over my shoulder and simply said "why look at the sky? If you look up there all you will see is planes, why not point it at the world, that's much more interesting"... or something to that effect, and gosh darn he was right.

Pointing the camera at the world opens up hundreds of possibilities; after all a lot more goes on on the ground than in the sky. He said why not just document everything you see. I combined this with what i was previously doing with recording data within a frame and i was on to my next stage of development.

However i could not simply just sit about with a camera taking photographs of the same spot and random times. So i set up a system which would mean i got consistent and fair results. I decided i would take down information over 6 different time lengths;

1. 5 mins
2. 2 mins
3. 1 min
4. 30 secs
5. 10 secs
6. 1 sec

I would take a photograph every 10 seconds for 1. 2. 3. and every 5 secs for 4. 5. 6.

All i had to do then was decide where i would take photos from. I decided i would have it somewhere in the city centre as there would be a lot of variety of things happening. So i needed to find somewhere that wasn't so busy it would be impossible for me to record all the data but somewhere with enough happening to get the impression there was a lot going on. So i had another few words to add to my project. I was now

'recording data within a frame, at a specific location and over a specific period of time, representing the data with line.'