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May 01, 2006
The 15 minute blogger?
Right now I’m fascinated by Buckminster Fuller, not for his invention of the geodesic dome, nor for his work on how humankind can continue to live on Planet Earth efficiently (although these accomplishments are nonetheless admirable) but mainly for the following fact,
Fuller documented his life every 15 minutes from 1915 to 1983, leaving behind 270 feet / 80 m worth of journals. He called this the Dymaxion_Chronofile. This is said to be the most documented human life in history.
Wow! Just wow! I take it this means every 15 minutes of his waking life, or did he wake himself up every 15 minutes during the night, only to document that he had been asleep? What with my current inability to update my blog even once every 24 hours, not to mention the fact that at the end of today I will have 3 months worth of Wheel of the Year photos to upload onto Flickr, I can’t help but to see this as a challenge. Of course I’m realistic enough to realise that I would never keep this up for the rest of my life but what if I did it for a whole day every now and then? It would be so utterly mundane and domestic at times, in the past 15 minutes for example, I have written this post whilst watching Fifi and the Flowertots and eating too many digestive biscuits but I think this is what he was getting at when he said,
If somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay’90’s, from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century — as far into the twentieth century as you might live. I decided to make myself a good case history of such a human being and it meant that I could not be judge of what was valid to put in or not. I must put everything in, so I started a very rigorous record.
For practical reasons in this modern age, it would probably have to be on paper first and then transcribed onto a blog at convenient times of the day. I have got enough on my plate at the moment but I can’t help being tempted and fascinated by the whole concept.
Does anyone else not think this the most idiotic and pointless task in the history of the world?
Posted by purple elephant at May 1, 2006 08:27 AM