User:Aksellr/Assessment-1

First of all, let it be noted that I take most of my notes on pen and paper because that helps me process information way better. I'm trying my best to recollect as much as possible in here, but it will mostly be though keywords and small paragraphs rather than through a strict documentation process.

Special Issue 25

Radio Shows

• SI25 Broadcast 8: Lost Music :

The Week 7 Radio Show (or Week 10, after rescheduling) is all about Lost Music ♫♪ ! "Lost" as in: Lost to time, music from ones youth and past stages in life; The nostalgia and the emotions that can be bound to certain pieces of music. And "lost" as in: Lost media, or the losing of a particular way in which we listened to, engaged with, shared and experienced music back-in-the-day; Before the advent of the streaming platforms and the decline of physical media, bootleg CDs and the pirating of it all. ☠︎︎

We asked people from the class to give us songs based on various prompts such as /guilty pleasure/, /a song that makes you cry/, etc, and made a website out of them (thank you Kiara!). We also burned CDs with the fragmented playlist on them (CDs are burned by prompt).

• Keywords from the show:
  • Nostalgia
  • Social Dynamics
  • Vulnerability
  • Contextual consumption of media
  • Physical Copies of media

• SI25 Broadcast 6: Protocol to Free Britney

The Week 8 Radio Show revolved around the concept of copyright and ownership in the music industry, especially in regards to covers and sampling, as well as the insidious side of manufacturing identity of musical talent in the pop industry. Additionally, the show referenced Cultural Icon ♔ Britney Spears ♔, and her iconic song Gimme More, as well as numerous versions, covers and snippets of the song, as example of the aforementioned themes and concepts.

We had some issues during the broadcast, such as not being able to connect multiple laptops to connect the soundboard, and had to improvise using the Wiki page opened in 2-3 windows browser at the same time.

• Keywords from the show:
  • pop culture
  • Copyright, licensing, bootlegging, sample culture
  • Oral Tradition VS Capitalism
  • Soundboard

• SI25 Broadcast 12: Final Wrap

Since this radio show was the last of them all, we wanted to have a playful approach to the broadcast. We decided to go back through the previous shows, but also through what made this semester so special, and build different concepts and ideas over that. We also made a pop quizz by the end of the show, + cake! 

• Keywords from the show:
  • Fake scripting
  • Class meeting content
  • Social Dynamics in a given and finished group

Class Meeting Structure

While organizing the event (and even before that during Methods classes for instance), one of the main issues we faced as a group was communication. How do we communicate efficiently? How do we make sure everyone's opinion is heard?

Sound of Marmelade

We base the jam session on the initial prototyping class with Joseph where we gathered noise making materials and then we made our own piezo cables. Experimenting the whole time and then gathering for 2 jam sessions which were awesome. For the event, we needed a space of approx. 3.5m² The vision was a cozy circle of rugs, pillows and low tables. Picnic-like jamming set-up. Synths and recording material as well as the cabling of all the instruments had to be prototyped during prep meetings.

The Jam Session happened during the event between18:30 on the 20th, but people were welcomed to try and experiment with the whole set-up earlier!

It ended up being quite successful. We made 2 rounds of jamming, with different people, different instruments and rhythms.

PR Team

A small collection of visuals for the Sounds of Making event.

Post-Production team

A team was made after the Special Issue 25 event to try and regroup all the content of the radio shows, reflexions that happened, content used and so on. We used the wiki API to get all the content from the radio show pages

• Still working on the Special Issue 25 Website

Side Stuff

The Question List

General Ideas

• I love to knit.
• How do I mix XPUB practices with manual crafting?
• Knitting is basically bitmap or binary code.
• How to make that work together?

I already knew I wanted to work on something more manual and crafty coming here, especially on some more forgotten craft, invisible labour, etc..

Since I started knitting semi-recently, I thought that it would make sense for me to find a way to connect XPUB and knitting, because first, why not? and second, because it will keep me motivated in both sectors. Now, the difficulty lies in finding a way to have a more curated and unique approach of the topic(s), since knitting isn't exactly a recent invention, and nor are knitting machine and punch cards programming.

Punch Cards and Intarsia

Data punch cards as knitting charts, for coding messages. Using the Star SG-10 fonts charts as intarsia knitting charts? → File:Star-SG-10.pdf

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That's what I made out of it! I had to make the grid 10x18 instead of 5x9 to acomodate for the half pins of the Star SG-10 matrix printer!

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Idea for making 5x9 grid knitting chart:

make a clickable grid + a screenshot button

Code inspirations:

grid: app.js ??→https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/clickable-grid-forked-pm9lxq

screenshot: https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/

Knitting Chart Semi-Generator:

exp-1 : https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~aksellr/knitting/knit-exp-1/test-1.htmlneed to use a grid of 10x18 instead of 5x9

**I need to check what Eleni did for one of the 3DS dungeon room!!**

Fonts?

I'm still at core a graphic designer who loves fonts, pixel fonts, grid fonts, any fun fonts. I went back to the old sketchbooks and found those, and I think I can definitely knit those!

I also sketched those during class at some point, and it got me into making a new vectorised inktrap font, so maybe this is also usable:

This is not knittable in that state, but pixel drawing brought me to wanting to go back to font designing, so I thought it was worth mentioning at some point during that presentation.

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Knitting influences the way I work in graphic design in 2 ways:

• Since knitting only requires minimum "assets", like 2 stitches, yarn, and needles, I started having a more minimalistic approach for the was I design. You can make thousands of different sweaters using those same assets, and they can be as intricate or as simple as you'd want.
• You can change some parameters to add more complexity, but it's not always necessary.

Using Old Sketchbooks and Pixel Art:

Technical issues with intarsia, but we're getting somewhere I guess.

I recently started working on some pixel art/drawing again, either using pen and paper and tiny notebooks, but also using Aseprite. I used one of my old sketch to practice intarsia on a vest I was knitting, and though not perfect, the result is actually pretty fun!

References:

Vera Van de Seyp https://veravandeseyp.com/

Stephanie Vilayphiou https://monoskop.org/St%C3%A9phanie_Vilayphiou

Patterns

Patterns are like script, as they're a way of describing how to build a complex 3D garment using only a few lines of text. Some are very straight foward and technical and assume you know all the basics already, and some are more conversational and explain all the steps. You define variables at the top, such as the needle sizes, the type of stitches, the weight of the yarn, and then the process is described under it!

Keeping my patterns here. Most of them are not free, but free to use for XPUB since I put them here I guess.

Oversized Knited Flat sweater (ENG) → Knitted Flat Sweater

Measurements are kind of off, the length of the front and back panels is super super long, so it gives a very weird fit

Oversize Raglan Sweater (FR) → Raglan Sweater n°9 by My Favorite Things Knitwear

Favorite Raglan Pattern so far, the fit is great. I could've gone down a needle size, bit it makes it extra cosy

Oversize V-Neck Vest (ENG) → V-neck vest/slippover n°2 by My Favorite Things Knitwear

In progress → A lot of panelling, so be prepare to knit flat a lot! I added a little bit of antarsia at the bottom/back of the vest

Notes

In relation to ascii? Bitmapping?