Blindspotting is a self initiated project that looks at mapping your street based on residents' TV viweing habits.

 
 
  On-demand and customised personal TV scheduling is becoming increasingly popular. I was interested in the idea of being able to use customer profile information to create a temporal and spatial map of an environment. TV is often blamed for the lack of communication or understanding between neighbours. What if the things that people watched on TV added to the creation of a quasi-physical communal viewing experience?  
 

I felt that low res video would be the perfect medium for this. There seems to be an inverse proportional relationship between resolution and reality. We trust images more readily the more raw they are (even Piers Morgan does it).

Images at high resolution are often seen to be false.

  
 

I liked the idea of being able to "sex up" the view from your window. If you could make your reality more exciting, why would you need TV?

In this early sketch I "turned up" fulham into something a bit more glamourous.

  
 

The final concept was a sytem that took a live video feed from outside your house. It would then analyse your neighbours' predicted viewing habits, for example war movies at number 7 on a sunday afternoon, and pull in archived content which matched the tags.

This was then composited with the original view and projected on to a blind. As you closed the blind, you would switch in an analogue way between reality and the new TV environment.