In a one year period, I walked about 1000 miles. I get a lot of whoas and wows over that, but really, it could have been higher. Considering dead batteries, forgetting to put it back on after charging and thinking it was dead a couple of times (it died just after the one year mark in February - I just got a new one today), 1000 miles was a conservative mileage.
I had an idea to photograph the soles of my shoes and make some sort of image out of that using the number of steps I had taken (3mil plus), but that was going to be super time consuming.
Working with the idea of my shoes, I considered making imprints of my soles using some sort of white powder on black paper (going back to my desire to map my yoga mat at the beginning of the semester).
I came home one night and used diatomaceous earth to create impressions of my feet on black art paper. I was a bit saddened and felt like I was wasting perfectly good paper that I had purchased for another project, but it was the only paper I had that would allow me to do this. (I did find out later that with a chamois, I can actually remove most if not all traces of the DE from the paper).
I then hung the imprints at various intervals around my room and allowed them to "record" my day to day life. A brush here and there disturbed the dust and left traces of our lives on each imprint.
I scanned them and am currently assembling them into an animation.
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