Visualisation Project

Tessa and Jacob

Taylor SwiftHer boyfriends, represented as pimples

In a clockwise motion starting from “12 O’Clock”, a timeline of Taylor’s boyfriends from 2009.

The further away they are, the less time she spent with them

The larger the pimple, the more important they were

Data gathered from Billboard music website

< http://www.billboard.com/photos/1484087/taylor-swifts-boyfriend-timeline-10-relationships-their-songs?i=178648>

Relationship Time spent together Impact Statement Pimple type

1. Joe Jonas 4 months First Boyfriend Acne Scar

1. Lucas Till 2 months Short fling Ingrown Hair

1. Taylor Lautner 5 months Longest Relationship Puss

1. John Mayer 3 months Rebound boyfriend White head

1. Cory Monteith 1 month Rumoured Blind

1. Jake Gyllenhaal 4 months Long fling Ingrown Hair

1. Eddie Redmayne 4 months Rumoured Blind

1. Zac Efron 1 month Rumoured Blind

1. Conor Kennedy 4 months Long and bad relationship Puss

1. Harry Styles 2 months Nasty breakup Boil

According to Billboard music website

The Pimple metaphor

Do the pimples make Taylor ugly?

Can the pimples be covered up?

What pimples left scars?

Do the pimples represent her growing up

What does the face say about modern celebrity?

Not a pimple, but an ingrown hair – not a boyfriend but the media make it into a pimple.

Pimples annoy you.

Making it visible

Gathering many pieces of information and making them available in one photo

Views on celebrities

Publishing it

Has all the data in one place

Eye Lust “Vision is no longer the possibility of seeing, but the impossibility of not seeing”

Discourse