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 map for earlier mentioned project

+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

colonize plastic boxes with sterile mycelium from bought king oyster mushrooms

sterilize hands (Wash)
sterilize knife (Open flame) 
sterilize cardboard growth medium (30 min cooking)
sterilize plastic boxes (dress with alcohol and wash)
extract sterile mycelium from bought king oyster mushrooms
put inside kitchen cupboard to keep dark and warm (20-28 degrees celsius)

form list of links from laptop (& later mac computer)

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

Build static dummy, without latex ~~(got no metal wire - delayed)~~

+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~~