An experiment looking again at the incomprehensibility of numbers, this time relating to the number of people in the world. The starting point is the notion of being cut off, of feeling alone. With so many people in the world we cannot ever be truly alone. It also explores the nature of coincidence: with six billion other people also on this planet the surprise felt by a sudden coincidence is somewhat diminished.There's some interesting parallels here between the experiment itself and the various media with which I am presenting them to you. The Twitter feed, located at the top right of this page, is an extension of this particular experiment. At present, Twitter has around fifty-five million users. Each 'tweet' gives the reader an insight into what any of those fifty-five million people is doing at this precise moment in time. A window into everyone's private world. How cool - and slightly terrifying - is that?
In other, more technical news, it seems Premiere Pro doesn't like MPEG files with .ac3 audio, so I'm currently getting a fix for that. Slightly annoying but if it gets resolved easily no harm done. Also need to experiment with the microphone on the camera - this experiment was conducted outside, and the recording includes lots of exterior noise.
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