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The Idea I want to be able to enter or log or document a project at multiple levels (brainstorming, research, etc) and keep it in a place that I find easy to revisit and search, but I also want large custom-category pages for each thing I do (like leather, photography, cirque, etc). I’m not sure if it’s possible for me to make multiple index pages, for example, that have different formatting and rules? It also wouldn’t be terrible if it worked the way wordpress did now; however I think what’s lacking there is this idea of “featured project” customization. ...

i last-minute* mocked up some background visuals for a party featuring ambient music. (i kept them running all night (12 hours) on a backlit screen near the dj booth and never really had to tune them. they were interesting enough to be entertaining while focused on, but didn’t dominate the space). i took a simple existing function from the hydra library and added a few lines for audioreactivity (color and distortion); black background was key to keep this looking more subdued and adding some forgiveness to the projected edges. ...

i finally finished merging all my wordpress content with the hugo site. after a week or so of going over the dev site with the merged content, i changed the dns to point to the hugo deployment today. i used lonekorean’s export to markdown, which was agnostic of hugo and mostly worked except that (1) it didn’t export videos (2) where i had image names that were the same in wordpress (i.e. wordpress allows me to have unique posts with unique images with identical names like “image1.png”, these were overwritten during the export and had to be manually retrieved). ...

the thing about visualization is: it doesn’t just show results, it can also affect your behavior (see also: damage meters in MMOs) thinking about how to represent the work that i do and how it’s connected (sparsely or not, in ways i don’t quite understand) let’s say a graph/connective-node visualization in 5d where 4d are the categories in this blog and the 5th d is time. would my practice change or would the shape of that graph change as i tried to modify its appearance as a whole? ...

as leeann’s been publishing a bit more, i mentioned i wanted to do some updated author photos (since i did her first author photos awhile ago, when i was a much more novice photographer, and wanted to update them). tried to do some projection work here; i think the flatness of the projector was not very flattering to the subject’s face (or maybe it has to be pointed at just the right way, to get shadows to fall in just the right way). ...

Last night we worked on this duo move where the base is sitting and the flyer does a Russian split. Some findings: foot placement is key (the reason I come out so fast here is that I feel like the shirt is sliding) need to grab spansets to increase the “distance” between base’s chest (aka the bottom of the hoop) and the flyer’s arms base needs to start from horizontal and sit up, following the flyer (this way you’ll get a more horizontal split and also the flyer can push against a “vertical” surface)

F. was struggling with finishing a track, so I thought about leading this exercise in terms of what makes a musical composition “finished” or not. Abstraction I was thinking about this problem as the challenge of adding form to the formless, which is something that I have had to do in other modalities: Patternmaking in cordswaining When we outlined both feet to make the sole, then took the average of the two feet (mirrored) to make the pattern Drawing the curve of our upper as we visualized it, but going back and using the bezier curve for the final shape Choreography When developing choreo, I might first move to the music in a way that inspires me, but then I need to simplify those moves in order to disseminate it to others. This might strip some nuance out of the movement, but allows others (and myself) a way to repeat it e.g. the instructions “left arm moves forward, draw 180 arc with your hips, dévelopée right leg” leaves out much detail, but is more concise than, the embodied action(s) Translation/detranslation (telephone signal processing/transmission) The idea I’m trying to get across: even though the idea you have might be highly complex, you need to simplify it in order for it to be transmissible to others (or sometimes, just to yourself at a later date) ...

My work log for deploying Hugo on my instantiation, using https://euantorano.co.uk/hugo-git-deployment-nearly-free-speech/ (this mostly worked for me but required some minor changes). Installing (a correct version of) Hugo on NearlyFreeSpeech #!/usr/bin/env sh set -ex VERSION=0.145 FILENAME="hugo_${VERSION}_FreeBSD-64bit.tar.gz" BIN_DIR=$HOME/bin mkdir -p "${BIN_DIR}" fetch -q -o hugo.tar.gz "https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/v${VERSION}/${FILENAME}" tar -C "${BIN_DIR}" -xvzf hugo.tar.gz hugo rm hugo.tar.gz If you want to change the version above, make sure it exists in the correct combo of version x operating system at https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/download/*. You may then need to modify FILENAME. ...

a sketch of j. and l. at my home studio at the rope/technique lab i host very occasionally. i would like to start this up again with some regularly but need a co-organizer. it’s been hard to find the balance between intimacy within a regular group and enough people to fill out the space (at max we’ve had 15 people, at minimum just a couple) unless i make this a more public event rather than invite-only; i do want to make it more public, but am having a hard time figuring out how to manage the transition into what i would want to be a more formalized setting where i define ground rules for the space. ...

Myles invited me to perform for the rigging component of Magnitude 2025 (a Folsom circuit party on Saturday evening). Rigging The venue was SVN West. We had some issues with rigging (the heights were not ideal, and we had some cross-talk between the chains and the hoop that meant the chains hit the hoop spanset a bit when spinning even when the hoop was pulled out of the way, and because we tried to set the hoop as far away from the chains as possible, it was slightly too close to the (already too-close) gogo stage behind us, which meant that we clipped it at full extension). ...