Themsen/PD2

+ = mischief managed

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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

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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)

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2015-04-17

10:00-11:00

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

11:00-13:00

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• + 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)

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• Buy for current practice:

Sterilized injection needle for colonization of mushroom spores
Liquid latex (Harold's)
+Glue gun (Xeno)
Spray can, white (only high gloss at Action)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation (Ask Max Dovey first) Electronica
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell (Schaapje)
+Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent (Action)
+Sealant spray, acryclic (Action)
+Latex applying sticks (Schaapje)
+Working gloves (Schaapje)
+Protective glasses (Action)

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15:00-18:00

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• +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"

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18:00-19:30

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

19:30-21:00

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

21:00-00:00

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Relax, buddy.

2015-04-18 = Construction Helmet

11:00-12:00

• +Extend on daily short aims

12:00 - 13:00

• Buy for current practice:

Sterilized injection needle for colonization of mushroom spores (?)
Liquid latex (Harold's, pricey) - replaced with Silicone
Spray can, white (only high gloss at Action)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation (Ask Max Dovey first) Electronica
+Metal wire (iron/steel)for shell (Schaapje)
Glue stick for glue gun (Xenos)
+Fixation liquid for charcoal (Harold's?)
+12 charcoal sticks (willow)
+Charcoal eraser
+Poultry fence wireframe

14:00 - 17:00

• Begin on sculpture dummy

Form reference clay model
+Don working gloves (tying 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) 
Stuff metal wireframe (I dont know with what)
Heat glue gun with glue stick
Apply glue to object and glue onto frame
Unscrew parts from machines when needed
Apply silicon/latex

17:00 - 19:00

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• 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

19:00 - 21:00

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• Visit MyWDKA
• Apply to sculpture workshop
• Visit metal department at WdKA
• Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
• +Download and setup python module Montage

21:00 - 00:00

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Relax, buddy.

2015-04-19 = Thinking Cap

• See video on making of wireframe shells
• See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces
• Build static dummy, without latex (got no metal wire - delayed)

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• Extend on current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description

What
How
Why

• Extend on current practice: mushroom sketches' description

What
How
Why

• Tie former PZI projects to current practice

• Analyze former practice's relation to current practice and future practice

What
How
Why

• Relate mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice

What
How
Why

• Relate current practice to future practice.
• Extend on future practice: Fungi Media description

What
How
Why

• Relate future practice to inspirations and the motivations behind their choice, starters:

Organic randomness & Constructed randomness 

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Unassigned

• 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]]

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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

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12:00 - 13:00

• Buy for current practice:

Sterilized injection needle for colonization of mushroom spores (?)
Applicable silicon
Spray can, white (Harold's)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation (Ask Max Dovey first) Electronica
Glue stick for glue gun (Xenos)