While reading Kevin Ferguson’s methods and analysis of the work he has done with different films, I kept having a recurring thought of “what if I used this same method to analyze my life in some way?” Maybe my life planning and decision-making class has me in too much of a “reflect on my life” mood…or I could be onto something.

At first, I thought about putting all of my home movies and videos of me throughout my life through the same program as Ferguson and getting a beautiful picture. Even if I didn’t have any huge epiphanies about my life, I think it could still make a cool desktop background. I also thought of doing the same thing with just the pictures of me throughout my life. It would be a large project to go through all of them and put them on the computer, but I think the results would be very interesting.

This made me think: would my life sum look more like Alice in Wonderland, just me in the center surrounded by darkness or would it look more like Frozen, where I am always with a friend or companion and we share the spotlight?

Alice in Wonderland

Frozen

Maybe I’m reading too deeply into this, but it really made me think. What do I want my life sum to look like and how does it look right now? In the end, I hope that the sum of my life is full of bright colors with so many different shapes of people and different adventures that you can’t even make any of the blobs out. What do you hope your life sum looks like?

Sources

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/1/000276/000276.html