addie and lots of coffee.

So I've been dealing a lot with death the last year; A LOT with the c word this semester (cancer). As a result, I've become interested in the theme of morality and the idea of temporal humanity.

Cancer often gives the patient a sort of countdown. Doctors tell you how long you have, and often as a result people change the way they think ("Since I have only two months to live, I want to travel the world or I want to tell him that I love him."), which if they had not been given this countdown would of possibly continued to live their lives in the same safe pattern they had before (ask a cancer survivor how their life changed when they 'knew' they were going to die).. with no shift in thought to encourage them to change or live for the feeling of living.. as a result, I am curious to know if a person/user is given this knowledge of temporality and it is brought to the front of their thoughts will their lifestyle shift? will they boldly follow their hearts or dreams or continue living the way they are living?

After talking with hatti about my idea of making some sort of life countdown clock we started to sort of unintentionally collaborate, and next thing we knew we had a rough idea of how to making a really fucking rad programming/installation project,

and thus our computational media final project has been born.