Themsen/PD2
Inspirational Quotes
+ = 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
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
==11:00-12:00 Extend on daily short aims
12:00 - 13:00
- Buy for current practice:
Sterilized injection needle Liquid latex Spray can (white) Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation Metal wire (iron/steel)for shell Glue stick for glue gun
14:00-16:00
- Begin on sculpture dummy
Don working gloves Make metal wire frame Stuff metal wire (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
LUNCH
16:00 - 18:00
- Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.
18:00 - 20:00
- Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
- +Download and setup python module Montage
20:00 - 21:00
Relax, buddy.
2015-04-19
- See video on appliance of liquid latex to plastic/metal surfaces
- Build static dummy (got no metal wire - delayed)
- Tie former PZI projects to current practice
- Analyze former practice's relation to current practice and future practice
What How Why
- Extend on current practice: mushroom junk sculpture's description
What How Why
- Extend on current practice: mushroom sketches' description
What How Why
- Relate mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice
What How Why
- Relate current practice to future practice.
- Extend on future practice: media fungi's description
What How Why
Unassigned
- 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'
- 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 textExtend on current practice's relation to past practice and vice versa