Hong Hao: The Story of His Life
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 01. 9.08
Bucky Fuller did it, keeping a detailed diary of every fifteen minutes of his life. Gordon Bell is doing it right now, recording every minute with a camera around his neck. Beijing based artist Hong Hao is doing it too, but with pictures. According to Josh Spear, he "he collects all the ephemera and trinkets (and sometimes just plain garbage) from his life and documents it. Then it's just pleasurably voyeuristic and odd to look at it all think "this is someone's life." If you were to disappear today this would be the material left in your wake; the stuff you would dispose of says as much as the keepsakes you horde away. It all says everything…and it all says nothing." ::Josh Spear See also Planet Green on ::Hang on to the Memories, not the Treasures
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I have noticed a lot more people doing this recently. I find it very interesting.
I personally have been doing something similar for the past 4 months. After having my moving van (packed with everything I own) broken into and everything stolen; I've begun to catalog everything I buy, as I reacquire the essential and non-essential "stuff" that we seem to collect.
It's made me consider what I buy much more than I did before, I've learned how dependent we are on places like China. I've realized that it's soo hard to be a responsible consumer, which has led me to buying much less.