Themsen/PD2

Inspirational Quotes

+ = 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
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

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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.

2015-04-18

12:00 - 13:00

• Buy for current practice:

Sterilized injection needle
Liquid latex
Spray can (white)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation
Metal thread (iron/steel)for shell

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LUNCH

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13:30 - 15:00

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• Read the appropriate assessment/presentation paragraphs in chapters 5-7 of the Handbook for protocol and criteria for presentation/reassessment on.

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• Use 'Cookbook' on PZI Wiki to learn about Image using Python
• +Download and setup python module Montage

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Relax, buddy.

2015-04-19

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

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• 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

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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]]

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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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