Sunday, April 17, 2011

Give me your minute by minute....for a lifetime.

Obituaries are a thing of the past. Now, when we leave this earth the 50 words in the local paper seems insignificant. Strangely, our impact is now measured in the number of Google hits and digital traces we leave behind.

We all know the real reason facebook exists is that it fulfills our desire to snoop and attach meaning. How many times did you face-creep a photo album and attach your own narrative to your "friend's" life?

The first date is usually preceded by the google snoop, just to find out a bit more before going face to face.

Is our reassurance for existence shifting from accumulation of experience and memory into the number digital artifacts we can attach to our name.

me in numbers: 2,010,000 search results, 165,000 images, 103 videos and 168 tagged face book photos.

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Photos here: Julia Carr and Amanda Sheather (primary focus) at 7mins in with Jacinte Armstrong in-crouching at 11mins.

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