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TODEPOND PONDCAST: Stitch
🕑 Added 2024-06-08 14:16:46 +0000 UTCHello, it's me. And this is yet another weekly episode of the...
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Stitch
This week, Iâve been working on the first exhibition for Torn Leaf, my silly online gallery. The submissions have been truly wonderful. Thereâs a nice mix now, but thereâs still room for some last minute entries. Submit now, or later, if you want to get involved.
My job has been deciding how to order the different pieces of the exhibition. Iâm picking what goes first, and what goes last, and which ones to group together. Itâs been really nice to think through what goes with what, and what clashes in an enjoyable way. Iâm trying to make every piece shine and sing for what it is.
In preparation for the exhibition, Iâve been setting up and testing some infrastructure for being able to stream long videos â some of the pieces are quite long, and can be played on a loop. Some videos are locked to the global time, so that every visitor is watching the same part at the same time. Some videos can be played manually, and should be watched from start to finish. And of course, many submissions are not videos themselves â some are image-based, some are coded, and one piece is a single very very short sound.
Iâm also setting it up so that⌠if you click a submitterâs photo (ie: their face), then they talk to you. Itâll play their pre-recorded message.
I am slightly feeling the pressure to make this into something good, but Iâm liking the feeling of where itâs going. And I want to get the ball rolling on Torn Leaf⌠to lead the way into further exhibitions, where I hope I can get more people involved in the organising of it.
Seet or Arroost
Iâve been writing more of my Seet write-up (itâs a bit of research I did on being able to see the program that youâre coding). However⌠Iâve paused work on it. Itâs more important that I work on my Arroost submission for LIVE / SPLASH, and I donât want to rush out the Seet stuff. Itâs worth doing properly, I think.
Besides, itâs been long enough since I started work on Arroost now. Iâve been riffing on the submission title a little bit⌠Itâs gone through various iterations like âCreativity The Hard Wayâ, âThe Long Wayâ, âCreating Creativityâ, âUnblocking Creativityâ and I like none of them. Theyâre all really cheesy, and donât really capture any intrigue. I did have âNormalise Sharing Scrappy Fiddlesâ but thatâs more suitable for an artistic presentation of Arroost, and I already did that.
Iâve been trying to figure out what order to present things in (in the submission). I want to give the historical context of musical tools, and the creative tools out there that inspired me. And I do need to show how itâs all linked to live programming, because thatâs what the conference is actually about. To me, it clearly is, but sometimes are people funny with creative tools. Because theyâre boring.
Miniature Lab
Iâm also devising my presentation about the tadi web, which will demonstrate some of my lab experiments.
Again, Iâm figuring out how to introduce the projectâ how to explain the tadi web, which has so far just been an odd thing that I sometimes talk about on mastodon. But in this case, I think itâs ok to keep it simple and mysterious. I think that I can just show the demos, and let people wonder what itâs all about, similar to the Normalise Sharing Scrappy Fiddles presentation.
I think the most entertaining parts of the demo could be the Tool one and the Polar one and also the Fish one. And I think they could contrast quite well with some of the more texty ones, including the recent Locker and Leave experiments, which saw quite a lot of users!
Magritte
I gave a mini art history lesson in the middle of most recent Elephant episode of the future of code podcast. This week, Iâve been converting it into video format, adding images, and symbols, and stuff⌠to match the audio. I think itâll turn into a fun mini-bonus-episode, and I hope it can get put on the future of coding youtube channel or something.
Conditional
Our submission for Onward Essays got CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED, which is really nice. As always with my work, feedback was mixed, and none of the reviewers really understood it. They did all say that they enjoyed reading it, and it even kept one of them up at night. But the third reviewer was overally quite negative about the thing, and so we now have to make some edits based on what they said.
A âshepherdâ has volunteered to help us with next steps! And we got a friendly email from them. Itâs the person who was up at night thinking about the essay! So it canât be that bad.
Iâve been speaking with Dave about our next steps (by steps).
Sand sand sand sand sand
Meanwhile, Iâm also working on the next video⌠Top 99 Ways To Make Sand. And Iâm doing more writing and figuring out on how it leads into the following video â which will be the first video after the Sleeping Tode Trilogy â the start of the next series. I hope you appreciate how many spoilers Iâm keeping to myself. Itâs one of the things that motivates me on â I want to get them out.
Hey hey, thank you very much for continuing to support me and my projects! (all of them)! And welcome to all the new people this week. Welcome to the pond! I hope youâre all doing well⌠wherever you are in the world⌠whatever youâre doing⌠I hope you have a great week.
Days since tode fell asleep: 520
Days since bot went missing: 485
Days since berd flew away: 148
Torn Leaf teaser art by zhenya shur
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George McGhee
It's carzy to think I found you because I wanted to find a 3d version of the sand falling games.
