Twelve past six -- project 365: Day 198: The GC has its moments

Sunday 23 June 2013

Day 198: The GC has its moments

The Gold Coast (Miami), at midday

Day 198 (22 Jun) Saturday. No musical commitments today so that gives me a chance to head down the Gold Coast to visit my mum. We're going house viewing, as we do from time to time.

Bit of sleep in, bit of a read to start the day around 6.12am. Quite good to be getting out of town since all the Lions (Rugby Union) fans have descended upon Brisbane for a test tonight against the Wallabies. Lots of people in red jumpers around.

Reading, at 6.12am

The news, at 6.12pm

The house we're looking at today is down near my old high school where I was a few weeks ago. Quite nice, but naturally I was distracted by the beach. Always enjoy spending the day wandering around the place with mum...browsed through a few shops and had lunch at our favourite Mexican restaurant at the other end of the Coast. Back to mum's for afternoon tea and I was just about to leave at 6.12pm when the news was on.

The rest of Saturday night was spent marking and listening to a performance of Dame Edna with the Sydney Symphony...Carnival of the Animals and Juanita the Lobster...goodness.

I believe the visiting football team won. Julia Gillard remains prime minister.

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What am I doing?

Twelvepastsix, or 6.12, is an experiment in observation. I've long been fascinated by patterns in numbers, patterns in life. The 'SevenUp' series is perhaps one of my favourite documentaries. I'm fascinated and inspired in equal parts by the history captured in this style. The project 365 which I have discovered through Twitter, allows me, I think, a way to capture my experiment, on a much smaller scale.

My thinking was originally centred on choosing a time each day, the same time, to observe and understand behaviours in a small way. I toyed with a few ideas but decided on 6.12am/pm, for reasons set out in the first post: 6 December 2012, naturally.

The project will double as a brief journal of each day's events as well, to capture the small detail in its larger context. At year's end, I will be interested to see, just to what extent our days can be as habitual or as extraordinary as we recall.

The 'rule' is reasonably simple: I take a photo of whatever I am doing at 6.12, only the timezone may change depending on circumstances (where photography might be discouraged, forbidden or banned, for example). Most days should have two photos; most days should exist, notwithstanding crossings of the international dateline.

Finally, while this blog is inspired by community of presenters, producers, listeners and tweepsters of Brisbane radio station 612ABC, it is not endorsed by, or in any other way, affiliated with them.

Enjoy, and perhaps think...if only I'd captured 'that' moment.

Sunday 23 June 2013

Day 198: The GC has its moments

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