Losing it…

I’ve been very slack at updating my blog in the past few weeks. In fact I’ve been a bit slack in terms of my work too and it’s bothering me. I’ve been working for quite a few hours every day, but I’m just not being terribly efficient at the moment. I think I need to start getting up earlier (and going to bed earlier). I need to try and be more focussed; getting more work in done in the same amount of time (which, at my current rate of productivity is easily doable).

This sensation is actually pretty typical. In at least the past two classes I’ve had “dips” during the middle few weeks of the term where I’ve felt bad about either about my work or my effort levels. It’s something I’ve always broken out of so I don’t expect it to last long, I just needed to tell someone :)

I’ll try and get my recent work and critiques posted first thing tomorrow!

IOGraph

9th March 2010 - 1 hr (from 17:03 to 18:07)

My dear friend Paul, alerted to me IOGraph this week – it’s a rather simple but lovely program that records your mouse movements across your desktop and outputs a PNG. Why? Well, why the heck not!

You can also add your desktop background into the image to clearly show where your mouse pointer spends most of its time – I just added the major traffic routes (Maya, basically) as notes on Flickr.

I think the results are quite striking – what do you reckon? I might well try a little experiment once I finish work where I try and run it every day for the 3 months that I’m off and then animate the results somehow… Could be cool!

10th March - 6 hours (from 9:33 to 15:35)