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<h1> Retro Analog Nostalgia </h1> | |||
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Revision as of 16:42, 3 July 2014
Retro Analog Nostalgia
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/udam2/a-memory-between-us-a-postcard-kit-when-you-travel
Print Cake
Presented at V2 from June 24 to June 29 2014, News from Nowhere exhibition
Description
Print Cake is an installation/performance where cupcakes are decorated with a snippet of William Morris' News from Nowhere printed on edible paper and edible ink and sold for customers/visitors.
There are two kinds of cupcakes: the standard and the customized. The former costs less than the latter. For the customized version, customers choose a color and a word, through a simple interface (a one-page website running on full screen browser without navigation bars). The word generates a snippet of text (taken from News from Nowhere). This text is placed onto a designed template and in combination with the chosen color is printed on edible paper and placed on top of the cupcake. In the standard version no choices are possible – they all have the same color and just a few variations on the text snippets.
Sketch
Design
Print templates
The ornament was designed by Artyom Kocharyan for this exhibition.
System
Orders
Front end
Back end
Database
#code from stackoverflow by Haymond Hettinger
from re import finditer
from itertools import tee, islice, izip, chain, repeat
file = open('pg3261.txt', 'r')
#News from Nowhere in txt format, downloaded from gutenberg.org
text = file.read()
def kwic(text, tgtword, width=10):
#'Find all occurrences of tgtword and show the surrounding context'
matches = (mo.span() for mo in finditer(r"[A-Za-z\'\-]+", text))
padded = chain(repeat((0,0), width), matches, repeat((-1,-1), width))
t1, t2, t3 = tee((padded), 3)
t2 = islice(t2, width, None)
t3 = islice(t3, 2*width, None)
for (start, _), (i, j), (_, stop) in izip(t1, t2, t3):
if text[i: j] == tgtword:
context = text[start: stop]
yield context
#print list(kwic(text, 'pleasure'))
#instead of simply printing, I printed in SQL syntax so that I could easily run a SQL INSERT INTO directly in PHPMyAdmin to populate the DB
lista = kwic(text, 'pleasure')
iterator = 245
#last ID in the DB
f1 = open('sqlfile.txt', 'w+')
for item in lista:
str_it = str(iterator)
f1.write( "(" + str_it + ", 'pleasure', :'" + item + "')," )
iterator = iterator +1
f1.close()