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Daily Aims List: Legend

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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


¤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


¤2015-04-29¤

  • 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)
  • Continue reading Maccluhans "the medium is the message"



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)
    • Write about former practice's relation to current practice and future practice (What, How, Why)
    • Write about relation of mushroom sketch practice to sculpture practice (What, How, Why)
    • Write about relation to current practice and future practice. (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

12:00 - 13:00

  • +Buy for current practice:
Sterilized injection needle for colonization of mushroom spores (?)
+Applicable silicon
+Spray can, white (Harold's)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi for video/audio installation (Ask Max Dovey first) Electronica
+Glue stick for glue gun (Xenos)