ARCHIVING
With a simple Internet search , one can find a multitude of comparisons proclaiming just how vast the population of Facebook is : in 2012 it was bigger than the entire world ’ s population was in 18043 , in 2014 it was almost as large as the entire population of China4 , and in 2015 it was said there are more Facebook users than there are Catholics5 . What ’ s more to take from this , is that this population of over a billion people is actively documenting and uploading their daily lives , and one could claim they are , to some extent , editing out what is important and what is unimportant to share . Today , the act of documentation and digital archiving arguably validates experience for many people , it was what pokes the finger and claims “ this is life worth living .”
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So what happens when you take this act of validation and bring it to the vernacular glance , as explained previously ? I revisited my route home from Bajza utica to my apartment in District 9 , and along the way I attempted to document the experience as much as possible with my camera phone and an audio recorder . The recording was then transcribed and placed along a timeline with the photos , but not too long afterwards the fractional element of these documents became apparent . Obviously enough , the technology was not capable of capturing the entire experience , and while the spaces that were captured became certain and escaped the mundanity of everyday life , those that were not captured , validated , and plunged into the digital archive remained mysterious .
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0:05 ok let ’ s uhh 0:09 tell Ricky too … cafe behind 0:12 let ’ s uh 0:19
0:20 like the gluing and 0:46 yeah that ’ s fine yeah and we ’ ve got the futon as well 0:50 futons , futon , we ’ ve got a futon in our flat 0:57 california ! 0:58 how was your day so far ? 1:09 I wish it was Sunday cause that ’ s my fun day , my i don ’ t have to run day 1:23 no i recognize it 1:36 I wanted to ask you , do you know if we will …
2:19 after one month I have the 2:20
2:31 UH , fuck ’ s sake 2:39 but of course we have to think about the time 3:02 I was thinking , for 3:32 like , an hour ago , asking about the map 3:39 maybe we should just pick like 10 of them 3:38 we ’ ll be fine ! 3:54 ok cool 3:59
4:00 szia ! 4:18 I think we ’ re quite lucky 4:22 fucking awful 4:29 never heard back 5:18 can I let you out ?
5:24 ah , my hero ! 5:47 from here up you look like a spy 6:00 eyebrows are like exactly the same 6:15 oh , lovely ! 6:27 which ones are like 8:07 are you going to join us after ? 8:20 i think he was like , waiting for me to say something 8:33 but he ’ s coming back inside 8:40 sixty five days 8:56
9:25 what are you doing until ten tonight ? 9:33 I completely forgot it was Ronan ’ s last night 9:40 they were like “ yeah totally !” 9:51 well normally it ’ s at 10:01 and a beret ! 10:09 i ’ ll see what happens !
10:24 tonight is the night 11:53 you ’ re a funny little car 12:14 and he was like stumbling around with a bloody head and everything 12:19 I really like those trousers , really nice 12:45
12:58 “ Kérem vigyázzanak , az ajtók záródnak !” 13:03 hello ! 13:15
13:33 what ? 13:34 the one of you on saturday where you ’ re 13:46 asked me if he can sleep on our couch ! 13:57 “ Kérem vigyázzanak , az ajtók záródnak !” 13:58 i ’ ll be really silent when i leave 14:03 yeah you ’ ll have to leave at like … 14:06 if the metro is even going 14:12 you shouldn ’ t sleep 14:31 yeah I can ’ t 14:39 only open for nine more days 14:42 don ’ t they ? 14:56 “ Kérem vigyázzanak , az ajtók záródnak !” 15:06 i should go and see her like first thing tomorrow 15:36 why are you making that face ? 15:45 because i ’ m pink ! 16:01 “ Kérem vigyázzanak , az ajtók záródnak !” 16:05 what ? 17:12 maybe we just didn ’ t understand him 17:14 “ Kérem vigyázzanak , az ajtók záródnak !” 18:04 bye friends , see you later 18:14 “ Kérem vigyázzanak , az ajtók záródnak !” 18:25