PROJECT CHRONO-STITCH!
As a remote editorial staff, our workspace exists entirely in the digital ether—stretching across the West Coast, the East Coast, and Hong Kong. To explore this distance, we spent a day logging our lives to both document our differences around the world and visualize the elasticity of our shared time!
Below, you can interact with this project through two different lenses: Matched Time aligns our individual routines sequentially by the clock numbers to show how differently we spend our mornings, afternoons, and nights. True Time splices our lives together by the exact physical moment, illustrating just how few hours of overlap we actually share across the globe. Click through and watch watch time expand and collapse...
Contributors: Davina J, Emily C, Jamie L
Our days lined up hour-by-hour
The reality of 3 differing time zones
Davina (WEST COAST): 8AM: asleep… 9AM: wake up (and bed rot 賴床..)! 10AM: breakfast and rhetoric reading! Besides what was shown, I also had a yoghurt bowl with chocolate and fruits, but it was too yummy so I ate it before filming. 11AM: lock in for philosophy midterm! It was an in-person essay, but we got the prompt before-hand so I was able to outline and fully draft a response in preparation. 12PM: lock-in continues… 1PM: lock-in and lunch! This was leftover 𰻞𰻞麵 (biang biang noodles) from a noodle shop housed in an alleyway right next to my dorm. I watched them make it fresh right in front of me! $17 dollars with tax :( It did lasted me two meals, though, so maybe I can say it was only $8…? (cope) 2PM: coffee and exam time! 3PM: walking to my lecture after the exam (it was such a nice day outside!!) 4PM: biology lecture, featuring prehistoric rats 5PM: post-lecture grass-touching 6PM: sunset from the rhetoric lounge! 7PM: gym time! We played badminton (badminton not depicted becasue I was too shy to record in public) 8PM: club social event!! The theme was discord kittens so we all dressed up 9PM: uh.. 10PM: walking back + fit check! 11PM: research and edits for my daily californian article about sexy Colonel Sanders and Long Long Man (read here! https://www.dailycal.org/weekender/commentary/i-fell-in-love-with-a-chicken-brand-and-so-can-you/article_b6678775-8a09-4f38-9f03-8ccf8b267ac5.html) 12AM: lockin over!! Laptop sleeps and so do I
Jamie (EAST ASIA): 8AM: Wake up 9AM: Getting ready w a view 10AM: Commute to school by MTR, takes around 15 minutes 11AM: Tutorial, aka small group seessions (Art history) 12PM: 2nd Tutorial (Comparative literature) 1PM: Professional portrait-taking 2PM: Making lunch (just reheating leftovers, actually) 3PM: Locked in for something or other in my room 4PM: Still on my computer 5PM: STILL on my computer (ponytail edition) 6PM: Sunset-watching on the roof 7PM: Settling in for a couch nap 8PM: (was taking a nap, no footage) 9PM: Took a shower, drying my hair 10PM: Back at my computer (coke edition) 11PM: (Went to sleep, no footage)
Emily (EAST COAST): 8AM: Asleep 9AM: wake up, have breakfast 10AM: making my way downtown, record-breaking snow this winter 11AM: computer science lab! making my way to lunch at Warren dining hall 12PM: Macroeconomics lecture 1PM: More commuting! This time heading west to my volleyball class 2PM: Oooo volleyballs 3PM: Taking the green line back to central campus. I have a love-hate relationship with these trains. 4PM: the snow is so pretty! Locking in for my CS problem set. We’re learning arrays. 5PM: Writing class. I’m considering various topics for my research paper! 6PM: Fit check 7PM: heading to computing society club meeting 8PM: locking in for my other cs class, we have to write a lot of math proofs! 9PM: on my laptop, typing away 10PM: still working…the problem sets take a long time 11PM: just a bit more homework 12AM: finally done! I love sleeping. I get more hours now compared to high school!