Greatest washing-up for 22 years ?

It's worthy to mention it, that i live in a dormitory. As we know, living in a dormitory has some special effects in every people's life who once tried it. For example some of us are ready to leave food materials in the dishes after eating - for days, weeks.. The pictures below shows an example of this event. This happens when people doing everything in the summer instead of being at home and having a few hours to keep their living-area clean. So that, it' happened that i suddenly jumped up from my computer and told my room-mate, "Boldy, (his name) now i will do the washing-up, so let's find all the dirty dishes in our area !" (i told this phrase in hungarian of course..) Then we collected everything from the balcon, and from our room. It took me 1 hour and 5 minutes to wash-up everything.

• 10 plates

• 4 cook dishes

• seweral cutlery

• 3 dishes i aborted to clean. I simply couldn't do that ! %) (no special equipment)

i used 3 kind of washing sponges. One of them had killed in operation. Some adhesive, gluey creep ended it's lifetime. Not the quantity, .. the quality, that counts! I will never get to know, what kind of materials i succeed to remove from those dishes. Maybe photos help us.

SZiget Statistics Team (SZ.S.T)

Dávid Lovas(on the left), and me (iwan) on duty

I'm pretty good at illogical behavior, like going out, under the burning sun in an antigas suit* in the early afternoon and standing under the strongest sun-power exposing myself to the fatal temperature. We managed to do exactly this at Sziget Festival, Hungary, 14,Aug,2008.

We took apart in a project as 'statistics agents' working around our professor's (János, Szirtes) art-installation. We collected people and asked them to take a seat at a table in front of a video-camera. Meantime we stand behind them and noted some parameters about them. Such as : if he/her Hungarian or not, smoker or not, drunk, excited, or has any extra attributes..

The primal syptom that i observed on myself is the fast acclimatization (readjustment is better word) to the changed climate, to the terminated vaporization of my skin. The first half an hour was critical, of course we got totally sweltered in 2 minutes, however we only wore shorts under the antigas suit. But after 20 minutes the increasing suffering/passion stopped and remained constant. After a while i started to feel myself almost good enough. I drunk only 1.5L all along the time while this suit was on me. My firm belief is that i lost at least twice more water, maybe 3 litres or more !

*: "adequate wear to survive a germ warfare". I bought these suits from a Hungarian, who lived in the USA, when the WTC terror happened, and when everybody bought there this kind of costumes by scare at the panic-time.

illness #1 2008

If once my throat gets cold, and i start to cough..then i must be sure, i face a painful and snotty head cold. So the same started at the last day of our vacation in Split, Croatia, by tossing off a bottle of icecold coke after a warm slice of pizza. 2 hours later i felt something in my throat that would better not be there.. You can see the following on the chart. 5 days later my throat started to pain as hell and after the 6th day i find myself hardcore snotty ! As the picture shows on 11th of Aug i blowed my nose only 4 times, - that's corcect - but on the next day it's increased up to 41 nose blows ! If i don't count my hours spent with sleeping (8hours 1minute), the result is: one nose blow in every 23 minutes. Holy crap! thats gonna be a bit boring after a while. And that's just the beginning. My illness is reached it's top on 16th of August, when i used 52 pieces of tissue papers, slept 8:03 so, so on that day i had to blow nose in every 18 minutes ! So let's get satisfied with this personal record for a while (cause i don't planning another illness for at least 2-5 years). All other datas i found normal, i mean i haven't found any connection beetween this illness and my metabolism-pattern (urine, defraction). It's just random (as it used to be %)).

I'm awaiting for comments and reflections about how understandable this whole thing is.. (i 'm working on the upgraded, well designed verion of this currently excel-chart)

the following pictures illustrates a real cough in action. On the last image on the bottom-right, i am not that..you know, so DO NOT even toy with the idea. I am just sick on that picture, right ?" %)

MOME my university

That is me. And behind me, the main building of my faculty. The "B" Building. Center of Visual Communication in Moholy-Nagy Art and Design University (MOME). I start the 7th semester in September. I'll teach Terragen 2 software to 'junior' students.

Why, How long, Am i crazy ??

WHY I PHOTOGRAPHING ALL MY FOOD, TOILET-USAGE AND THE OTHERS ?

1. because i am curious about my own life and want to see how it is changed and varied after 1, 5, 10, ... years
2. i am interested in data-management, so i needed some source data to use for my examination. My own life's data tends to be the most logical and convinient way to collect. In that way "i kill two birds with one stone".
3. if i'm lucky, my research can spot on new patterns and relationship beetween life-styles and body mechanisms, which change our way of thinking about efficient living , in some fields of scientic disciplines or even in healthcare.
   

HOW LONG I WANT TO DOCUMENT MY LIFE ?
Maybe as long as i can do that. 10 years seems optimal. My opinion is: if somebody can do this for 10 years, surely can continue it till the end of life. Depends on the dynamism and capability of the system i work out for it.

IS SOME MISSED PHOTO HAPPENS ?
Yes, rarely, but it happens. On the average every 2nd month i forget taking a photo-shot about a food item. The data-missing occurence is the most often at the GPS-diary caused by the accidentally off-switch or battery exhaust of GPS device. I have to reconstruct the undocumented thing somehow. For example, if i don't take a photot about a sandwich, i have to draw or sketch it, write it down as fast as i can.

AM I CRAZY ?
I don't think so.

AM I AN AUTIST ?
No. I am not enough clever to be that.

DO I DOCUMENT THE "FOOD OUTPUT" ALSO ?
Actionly i tried it..for a short while.. but it's too complicated for me at this time.. %) Defectation is a serious business'. I haven't find out what can i use it for. I need to get know more about it. Me and my environment still not prepared for that. Maybe in the future..

WHICH CAREER I WANT TO CHOOSE ?
Well, that is a good question. I'm interested in neurology, information-technology, philosophy, economy, architect, astronomy and dietetics also. But i have only one life. Maybe i would be a freelance publicist %) but i can imagine myself as a gardener, goliath-crane controller or shepherd too.

"W" killed "V"

I hawe to tell you, that i have 1 (haha..1 more) strange habit. I started writing W-s instead of V-s in all my writed text ! Everywhere: in school-exams, official letters and to friends. Why ? The question is right !

what was the reason of killing "V" ?

1. The first W has writen in an sms-that i wrote to somebody. I "explored" that typing 'w' is more faster then choose the 'v', because 'w' was the first letter when i pushed the number "9" while 'v' is only the 3th letter on the number "8"-button.
2. I found that there are too many Ivan-s on the web, (later i experienced that there are quite much Iwans also (mainly in islamic architecture)
3. Maybe from some more exhibitionist / personality-restorative causes.
   

how it is started ?

I found that it's funny (to me) to write W-s "in ewery word i write", so started to use this new syntax in emails, shool exams, official mailings.. and i just watched how people react on it.

public reflectation: problems with it

Mainly people didn't even mentioned it. Then i started to write "in adwance" some sorry message for the "W"-s and asked the reciever person to tell me if my behaviour irritates her/him. I didn't even find any answers in my inbox with "please stop doing it".
That was totally different in forums. 2 of 3 forums administrator asked me to stop writing W-s or replace them with V-s or remowe my post. In a special case, i blowed a medium sized discussion about my writing style. People diagnostized me as a "split-minded personality" , depressive, geek, EMO, anti-hungarian revolutionist. And i did them justice, and do myself justice also :) So it was a valuable experiment, how people divides into 2 classes: who tolerates these kind of irregularities, and who is'nt.

why is the restoration of V ?

Meantime i slowly started to enclose the "i m not tolerate ewen my irregularities - class". That's why i stopped writing W-s..

Tell me how much % do you understand about this post ?

What i am doing ?! - In essence

I maintain a long-term (life-long?) self-analysis project. Self-documenting by the help of digital gadgets, mostly by digital photos, cellphone, digital-scale, GPS, webcamera, and softwares like excel, access, itunes. I am working on a personal multimedia-database prototype based on flash interface + XML or other (relational)database system behind it. The deadline of the first demo-release is set (by me) to spring of 2010, the date of my diploma at Moholy-Nagy University of Art And Design - Visual Communication department - MediaDesign faculty, Budapest, Hungary.

I capture data from the following parts of my life:

• Food and Drink consumpiton - photo from every piece or plate of food. And every glass of drink without exception since January, 2006
• Sleep diary - photo at the start and at the end of the sleep-periods
• Toilet/WC diary - photo after flush, status of the wc- what is counts
• Yawn, sneeze - photo after the event (hand-signs)
• GPS - footprints
• Body - weight
  
• Phone-activity - spoken seconds per day/in-out/sms/mms
• Clothing diary - which cloth item i wear on the day (socks, panties, t-shit, upperwear, shoes
  
• Computer-activity - spent minutes in front of my monitor by webcam
• Cash balance - in excel, archived blocks, bills"
• Tasks - i have to do, daily - "SLOT-system" (excel)
• Nail growth
• Hygiene - photos washing / tooth-clean / hair-wash
• Sport - cycling, performance-hiking, swimming, running.. ( +sauna )