So i've been talking about doing this for a long ass time, but i've finally got around to it.

A couple years ago I got a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS unit from Jen as a XMAS gift. I started taking it with me EVERYWHERE, and i tracked EVERYTHING. First i just started screwing around with the track data, and then later i started making pdf maps of everywhere i'd gone.

Now these maps take on a timeline. After seeing Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin at UCLA, i realized that the data I'd been recording could be much more beautiful.

I wrote a script to reduce all the timestamps to the number of seconds into a day. SO... a timestamp that told you it was Oct, 12,2005 00:01:15 would be reduced simply to 75. This was show that this timestamp was 75 seconds into that particular day. Using this method, i could enter all my data into a database and then make selects of blocks of data that represented everywhere i was at a particular second of the day. ALL the locations I'd been in at that moment in time of the day, for the last 2 years.

I focused on the LA area where i spent the majority of my time, and i made PNGs of 15 second blocks. I used GD to load the previous image and superimpose it over the current image at 99%. This created the trail effect of the location dots.

So now really what i see is that over the last 2 years, the clock on my GPS has not always been set accuratly. :P

Its still a work in progress, but this is the first animation.