+ = mischief managed

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:

Sterilized injection needle
Liquid latex
+Glue gun
Spray can (white)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell
+Plastic boxes, rectangular translucent
+Sealant spray
+Working gloves
+Protective glasses

See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces
Build static dummy (got no metal wire - delayed)

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"

Borrow videocamera, perhaps tripod
Record mushroom sketch session on camera
Upload and link electricsheep.org & conway's game of life-video to An Encyclopdia of Media Objects, as 'Anti-Heideggerian'

18:00-19:30

Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
Download and setup python module Montage
+Ask Joseph/Julie/Manetta about montage python script

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.

+Print former PZI projects
Tie former PZI projects to current practice

Analyze former practice's relation to current practice and future practice
Extend on current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description
Extend on current practice: mushroom sketches' description
Relate mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice
Relate current practice to future practice.
Extend on future practice: media fungi's description

What
How
Why

~~Continue working on adding further links to outlines of RWRM text~~

~~Extend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa~~

+Organize physical texts into folders
+Buy:

+Folders(plastic translucent, HEMA)

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
Study Allyson's practice on her WIKI page for interview at RWRM next week
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
Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.

Themsen/PD2

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