Themsen/PD2

Daily Aims List: Legend

+ = 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)

• +Collect receipts from last excursion

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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.

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¤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 support (Schaapje)
Glue stick for glue gun (Xenos)
+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

Form reference clay model
+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) 
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

• +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

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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 while reading. (over a beer, make it comfortable)

19:00 - 21:00

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• +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

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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

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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?)

• +Work on Montage in ImageMagick with Mikhail (short tutorial on python scripts, continued tomorrow)

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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)

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• 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
• Build static dummy, without latex (got no metal wire - delayed)
• Ponder on why everything went wrong

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• (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)
  • Write about former practice's relation to current practice and future practice (What, How, Why)
  • Write about relation of mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice (What, How, Why)
  • Write about relation to current practice and future practice. (What, How, Why)
  • Extend on future practice: Fungi Media description (What, How, Why)

• Ask Steve on how to improve daily short aims list

• 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)