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Putting things in their place, cleaning up and shutting down for a couple of days.
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Finally allowed myself the time and attention to design and print another bird for the series. After an initial design I tried out twelve small variations to arrive back at mostly what I had in the first place. More refinements during creation of the color separations. All part of the process. It's the European Stonechat.
This makes 30 birds, or 600 prints, done. Only 20/400 more to go.
It's a weekend activity, usually on Sundays. My own daily notes, links saved to pocket and any other posts I wrote during the week are used for input.
a section on music has emerged as the standard last item
title of the post derived from some fragment of one of the links
I don't force myself to add context to any of the links, but will let it happen where it comes
The image was a photograph in the earlier editions. Switched to a drawing or print after a couple of times
A typographic convention emerged, using “—” as seperators
I don't have an actual reminder in a calendar or task list for writing these, already a habit by now?
In the beginning I had already written some smaller posts during the week. The week notes were a week to recap them then. Now, with fewer posts in between, the week notes are more placeholders for potential future posts. As always, whether those will get written remains to be seen.
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Next up a first actual experiment in which we explore CSS columns to create a medieval looking page layout, quickly running into the issue that having an image span more than one column while reflowing the text across columns in the remaining space is not yet possible. Pity, but still good fun to work on this.
Still working through all the very interesting sounds listed here: “41 albums and compilations comprising anything from psychedelic rock to free jazz, improvised music, ethnic, ambient, electronic hybrids of all sorts, both new and reissues.” Check out Moğollar, Praed Orchestra! and João Lobo.
“If a space for creative experimentation existed right now in your workplace, how might today be different for you?”
This hits exactly on the reason we started tacit.studio.
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I've been reposting the work-so-far of my 50 birds project to my instagram account. Scheduling with Hootsuite works well. I just lined up the last ones for this week. Hope to finish at least one more this year to hit 30 completed prints, each in an edition of 20, so that's 600 prints done. Only 400 left to go!
I miss working and thinking and drawing through things with my team on my big whiteboard.
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Austin Kleon has a good post on (variations on) morning pages. Earlier this year I stopped a 100+ days streak of writing three pages long hand each morning. Going to get back to that.
Built and curated an exhibition with my partner in art Martijn van der Blom. It's called SET::SOLID. I'm showing a selection of twelve of my bird prints, Martijn presents twelve unique prints from his Masks series.
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Hanna Darboven & Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. Great picture of Darbovens' desk in there. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt created typewriter art in the 1970's in East Germany which was sent out as mail art. The mail art she received offered glimpes of the world on the other side of the iron curtain.
Facilitated working through a complex site building question. A webcam pointing at some handdrawn diagrams was super useful in keeping the discussion on track.
I've been collecting links on Wardley Mapping for some time now, still need to dedicate time to figure out how/where this applies to the visualizing, mapping things I already do.
Found out that the Common Pochard* had been missing from the collection all this time! Fixed that.
Preparations for an exhibition in the center of town together with Martijn. More on that soon.
Sounds: saw a tweet that asked for goose bump recommendations. Didn't reply there, but:
– Blood on the Motorway by DJ Shadow
– Ashtray Wasp by Burial
– Encore from Tokyo by Keith Jarrett
“If you cut an animal skin into 4 sets of two pages, the number of possible ways of arranging these 4 pieces into a booklet is 6,144.” via @LitteraCarolina.
My account on drupal.org turned 15 years old this week. Quite the ride. Drupal is a large open source content management system. I help design it. More on that here.
Small indieweb tweaks to www.royscholten.nl, just h-card stuff for now. On yoroy.com I even had webmentions and some syndication going for a short while, but it's all very fiddly still. Also, I turned yoroy.com into a static html site (in dutch) so that removed those types of features.
Het goede en gewenste van structured content is ook dat sommige dingen daardoor juist niet meer mogelijk zijn! https://write.as/bildung/onmogelijk
More Luhmann* Zettelkasten geekery. Here's a talk by one of the researchers that are working to digitize this analog knowledge database: . The presentation is German spoken, so I created a rough but mostly complete translation
I was typing out a root-relative link in some Wordpress site this week, and remembered learning about them in “taking your talent to the web”. That was an influential book, it really explained the basics of this new web design thing so well. Another tidbit that came back: gifs stay crunchy in milk, jpegs do not.
The CMS_ui project dedicated some posts of the Drupal views module user interface from 2006, 2008 and 2011. I was heavily involved in that (1, 2 ), it was one of my first substantial contributions to the project as a designer. Still proud of this concept model.
Oh look, illuminated initials. Reviewing my two most recent journals, the abstract calligraphic initial and the medieval ways of stylized drawing are recurring themes. I think I'll explore next steps in both. As a refresher, I have started works from the second Calligraphic Space series to my instagram.
An important part of my work as an information architect is modeling content into content types. Defining these building blocks begs the question: When is a content type?
