Daily Aims List: Legend

+ = mischief managed

(text) = comments

~~text~~ = not working -ever, or right now

¤2015-04-15¤

+ Write "short" text on background of personal motivation which lead me to Piet Zwart

+ Organize & add content to user wiki page according to frame of RWRM module

+Write description of most recent work

What
How
Why

+Write research strands, add links to related content

+Write description of future work

What
How
Why

+ Screen record session in Conway's Game of Life

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Organize presentation about chosen media objects according to notes in sketchbook

+Extend on/type interpretation of Heidegger into .txt document ( I made a recording of + + Conway's Game of Life as I typed into it)
+Visit and document at www.electricsheep.org

¤2015-04-16¤

+ Present work on (media) object according to illuminations of Heidegger

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python

+ Read the appropriate paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria.

+ Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (root & imagemagick, installing pip)

¤2015-04-17¤

10:00-11:00

+ Check on cultivation of mushroom colony (still nothing... recolonize?)
+ Check on plant cultivation (1 plant survived the germination period)

11:00-13:00

+ Extend on daily short aims list
+ Add daily short aims list to PZI wiki

13:00-15:00 (16:19 - took longer than 2 hours)

Buy for current practice:

+Glue gun (Xeno)
+Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent (Action)
+Sealant spray, acryclic (Action)
+Latex applying sticks (Schaapje)
+Working gloves (Schaapje)
+Protective glasses (Action)

+Collect receipts from last excursion

15:00-18:00==

+Upload photographed mushroom sketches, link PDF in WIKI
+Scan mushroom sketches in PZI scanner, send to email
+Edit photographed mushroom sketches in Photoshop (contrast/light, levels, desaturate)
+Upload scanned sketches to PZI Wiki page, name it "Monumental Mushroom Sketches"

18:00-19:30

+Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script (Joseph helping @ circa 20:00)

19:30-21:00

*Outside event: 20:00 - 22:00 Printroom - On Pixels and Cathedrals: http://www.printroom.org/

21:00-00:00

+Relax, buddy.

¤2015-04-18¤= Construction Helmet

11:00-12:00

+Extend on daily short aims

12:00 - 13:00

Buy for current practice:

+Metal wire (iron/steel)for shell support (Schaapje)
+Fixation liquid for charcoal (Harold's?)
+12 charcoal sticks (willow)
+Charcoal eraser
+Wireframe for shell surface

LUNCH

14:00 - 17:00

+Begin on sculpture dummy

+Don working gloves (tying wireframe should be made without gloves)
+Make metal wire frame (learn how to solder or use metal links in order to make it look less flimsy)

+Take photo of progress
+Record video of progress

(Glue gun must have glue stick before construction can commence)

+Rethink sculpture approach

17:00 - 19:00

+Print Student Handbook (again)
+Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.
+Take notes while reading. (over a beer, make it comfortable)

19:00 - 21:00

+Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python (found no more helpful posts on image, migrate to ImageMagick site)
+Download and setup python module Montage (already in ImageMagick)

21:00 - 00:00

Relax, buddy.

¤2015-04-19¤ = White Cap

10:00 - 14:00 = Slow Morning

+Visit MyWDKA
+Apply to WdKA sculpture workshop (found no sculpture workshop, focus on wireframe/wire art)
+See video on wire art

+Watch Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity (only evol-code, no image sampling :( )
+Create account at electricsheep.org
+Enter "animate your own electric sheep" at electricsheep.org (1st try: "Access Denied You are not authorized to access this page.")
+Google search and enter page from another direction
Download Fr0st (doesn't seem to have a live commuity, last post from 2012; deals in *.py though)(for Win)
+Download Apophysis (a more livelier community at Sourceforge, has tutorials, plugins. For rendering fractal flames)(for Win)
+Test-run Apophysis (UI is a bit glitchy, but it stabilized; running higher than 50x50px preview of samples is laggy on laptop-duh)
+Download Oxidizer (for Mac OSX, @ PZI)
+Put (comments) in bold
+¤Make dates clearer¤
+Underline dates instead of titling them (Shorter overview list)
+Make legend of daily aims list

14:00

LUNCH (retrieve cash)

15:00 - 20:00

(over a beer or tea with music, make it comfortable, begin with at least three sentences on each What, How & Why)

(You want them to know what you're doing)

+Form collective practice overview document (Word/OpenOffice)

(Too long list, too condensed, couldn't make a good text out of this, merely rehashing what I've said before, make it freer!)

@PZI

+Test Oxidizer (still makes single frames, no animations. Maybe render before animation?)

20:00 - 23:00

+Work on Montage in ImageMagick + script tutorial with Mikhail (short tutorial on python scripts, continued tomorrow)
+Clean up daily aims list

¤2015-04-20¤

+Dread my indecision and ambitious dreams

PC Homonculous statue
Cybernetic Space: In Practice
Mediating Fungi: fungi sculptures which make images out of the passersby, resizes the images to 100x100 & makes the images into 1x1 gifs and adds them to a image grid, then makes generative music out of it as each picture adds 100 new notes for each image
Making something mediadesign-like with my drawings
Python Image Manipulation: montage of gifs
Image to Sound: Image reading with sound output depending on pixel values (checking on numpy)
Extending on Skype & Cigarettes
Wireframe sculpture from Mushroom Sketches
A mediadesign game involving Simon says

+Watch to Draw Interior Spaces: 2-Point Perspective [Star Wars Fan Art ]

¤2015-04-29¤

+Study Elleckes thesis
Draw mindmap of Elleckes main points
+Edit interview transcript
~~Meet Steve Rushton~~
Look up exhibitions related to chat
Look up sources related to online reenactment
Read and take notes on (possible)literature related to topic (digital miscommunication, like Skype & Cigarettes)
~~Ask Steve on how to improve daily short aims list~~
+Create mindmap of Ellekes subject (her subject had changed fundamentally and no longer involved her father, her main topic is to bring sculpture practice to photography)
+Continue reading Maccluhans "the medium is the message"

¤2015-05-03¤ - Experiment & Struggle

+Make wire art by tying together the metal wires of cables into a mycelium-like mesh (I'm too unskilled for this, I added liquid latex to parts of the mesh but it made the copper mesh go green)
+Experiment with creating rhizomatic patterns in a flowchart program (I tried, but I didn't receive any inspiration from doing it.)
+Finalize order of http://vandervlis.nl/lenovo/ with debian distro preinstalled (A very pleasant reception from the seller 5 stars) Michael also likes!
+Research mycelium http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/Lect03_b.htm

¤2015-05-04¤ - Kill My Darlings

+Visit WdKA interaction studio for idea on putting mushrooms into a augmented reality environment, as well as work on scanning, editing and printing mushroom sketches into a book (Academy closed)

+(_KILL MY DARLINGS_)

+buy grown bag of king oyster mushroom mycelium & fruit bodies from Markthal and experiment with ideas:

Map of connectivity worldwide, place mycelium on areas with most activity http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-every-device-in-the-world-thats-connected-to-t-1628171291
Experiment with how the speaker input reacts to the mycelium, and whether the mycelium reacts back

+buy plastic boxes for bought king oyster myshroom cultivation

+Order Paul Stamet's "Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms could Save The World" from fungi.(.com?)
+Download document on media literacy and mass-communication ('SUMMARY OF INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATION BY STANLEY BARAN')
+Research mushroom hacks: http://hackaday.com/2010/06/24/mushroom-terrarium-automation/ , http://hackaday.com/tag/mushrooms/

+Look into conversation theory, Gordon Pask (Still a bit over my head; it's about the significance of horizontal conversation in the practice of learning)

+Get hyped up on coffee

+Get cardboard to use as growth medium for mushroom cultivation

+Replace cardboard with sawdust for mushroom cultivation

+colonize plastic boxes with sterile mycelium from bought king oyster fruit bodies

+sterilize hands (Wash)
+sterilize knife (Open flame) 
+sterilize cardboard growth medium (30 min cooking)
sterilize plastic boxes (dress with alcohol and wash; they might be contaminated, lets hope not!)
+extract sterile mycelium from bought king oyster mushrooms
+put inside kitchen cupboard to keep dark and warm (20-28 degrees celsius)

+attend group critiqu session (Alot of good ideas! notes taken)

¤2015-05-05¤

+form list of links from mac osx at PZI Wiki (& later laptop computer)
+read parts of van dijks 'network society'
+make mycelium-like mesh out of metal wires in cables (could be useful)
+visit kristof kintera's "you are the light of my life" at kunsthal (another good and playful exhibition with machines)
+help first year Stone Shi with R-dam house hunting

¤2015-05-06¤

+bring bag of king oyster mycelium to PZI (warmer there)
+form list of links from laptop at pzi wiki
+Buy cables in second hand shop
+Experiment with making mushroom-like statuettes (?) out of thick steel wire (Two made)
+Buy glass containers in second hand shop
+Bring work home:

+Glue gun
+Acrylic cavas
+Cables from second hand
+Glass containers
+Chip board (x2) from printer
+Steel wire coil
+Acrylic paint
+Paint brushes
Door bell (Forgot it at school, d'oh)

+Send Jan Van Dijk's "Network Society" to email

Unassigned pile-up

~~Transcribe 3 sentences from paper~~

Relate future practice to inspirations and the motivations behind my choice (What, How, Why)
~~Organic randomness & Constructed randomness~~

Review what needs to be added/worked on and add it to the bottom of collective document (I'm not sure how I should present this)

Assess Media Artists relation to practice

Visit metal department at WdKA (don't think I have yet)

See video on making of wireframe shells

+See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces (Weird 80s inspired sales-video, applying 20 layers to 1 statue)

+Build static dummy, without latex ~~(got no metal wire - delayed~~, applied latex to copper wire. The ammonia sure made it greener)

+Ponder on why everything went wrong

~~(extend on 3 sentences)~~

Write shortly about (be blunt, simpler, write on paper):
- +Former PZI projects' relation to current practice
- +Write about current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description (What, How, Why)
- Write about current practice: mushroom sketches' description (What, How, Why)
- Extend on future practice: Fungi Media description (What, How, Why)

+Borrow videocamera, perhaps tripod
+Record mushroom sketching session on camera
+Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'

+Print texts Latour & Garcia
+Read texts for An Encyclopedia of Media Objects, Latour & Garcia [[1]]

+Study Solange's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week

What
How
Why

+Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week

What
How
Why

+Reread Annette's tips on interviewing
+Write questions (double the amount you'll need)

+Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
~~Download and setup python module Montage (20150417-19:18 = can't install Montage for some reason)~~
+Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script

Upload everything necessary to last day's work on my student Wiki

~~Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text~~

~~Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa~~