This site is about the hill inscribed with a "P" on its southern side. The hill is located north of Palomar Community College in San Marcos California. I call it Palomar Hill. The main idea behind the project was to capture information about Palomar Hill throughout the day (March 7, 2008) and keep the temporal and spatial information together.
This is achieved by dividing the site into three sections. The first section represents the morning on Palomar Hill, the second section represents the afternoon, and the third represents the evening. Each section corresponds to a route I traveled on Palomar Hill. The first route was traversed in the morning, the second in the afternoon, the third in the evening. The content of each section corresponds to the data I collected from each route. I tracked each route separately with a GPS data logger and used that information to geotag images and sound clips collected for the webpage. I also uploaded the .kmz files for each section, so the visitor may download and further explore the routes and pictures associated with each section. For those unaware, kmz files can be opened with a free application called google earth.
Besides being a website about a particular place, the site attempts to convey some general notions about perceptions of space in time. The first thing the index page does is detect the visitor's local time. If it is morning, the site loads the morning section, if the afternoon, it loads the afternoon section, and if evening, it loads the evening section. The three sections each contain their own set of images and sounds. The content of each section is displayed in the same style and format. On the index page, the largest picture at the top of the three by three table of images is a screen shot of google earth with the route that was taken when the content being displayed/played was collected. The nine images chosen for the first page of each section are intentionally broad in perspective. Clicking on an image takes the visitor to a page that displays other images taken from approximately the same location. This is meant to give the visitor the opportunity to experience multiple perspectives from any of the nine images/positions for each section.
A refresh of the index page will randomize the positions in the table of the nine small images. The randomization is based upon the latitude and longitude (photographer's location where the image was taken) image from the images. The table of images should not be understood as a two dimensional representation of the three dimensional space of Palomar Hill. It is a sampling of possible perspectives one could have when visiting Palomar Hill. The randomization is supposed to show that there is no privileged perspective in an open environment like Palomar Hill. The view of the golf course to the eastis just as likely of being perceived as the power plant to the west. From the top of hill there are no obstructions of perception. The sound samples playing in background on the home page of each section were collected at various locations on the route during the time of its associated section.
As was mentioned above, clicking on any of the nine small images takes the visitor to a new page that displays images that show the different perspectives one could have from the position of the small image. The images on this new page are randomized; clicking on "Collage" or refreshing the page randomizes them again. Clicking on "Normal", displays the images in a table. Clicking Home takes the visitor back to the home page. The collage created from the image randomization is more of an attempt to create art with an algorithmic foundation than to represent any sort of concept on space, time, or perspective.