#material memory

[russellmoreton]

DSC_1211 Gildengate by Russell Moreton

[processzine-org]

// packaging as process

Design detail from the Boots 2200 Zoom Super 8

The box is all hard edges and soft wear — cracked label, faded lines. Typography that hums with the optimism of obsolete futures. It’s graphic design that never expected to be archived.

But here it is. Not as nostalgia — but as proof of process. An analogue object with decay baked in. A reminder that tools were once beautiful by default. And manuals were typeset with care.

This belongs in the Glitch Lab not just for what it captures, but for how it was presented to be used.

Design matters. Even when forgotten. Especially then.

[artoperations]

THE SWITCHBOARD METHOD OF PROJECT-BASED, SERIAL ART PRODUCTION

"Work Efficiency At The Speed of Thought"

2023-11-29 12:10:08

The Switchboard Method:

Take n number of tasks;

Choose one task at a time, work on it for approximately 15 minutes, then SWITCH TASKS;

Continue doing this continuously throughout the day, switching tasks every 5-10 or 15 minutes;

Switch tasks pseudo-randomly, that is, choose whatever task is most immediate;

Choose whatever tasks is most relevant to the given time;

Choose tasks that are more ready-to-hand either physically proximate or else close to you in your cognitive space, emotional space, your Fields of Experience or Fields of Discourse;

Act as though you were a MECHANICAL TURK at Amazon;

You will achieve more efficiency this way;

Take an example. Say someone writes 1 novel in 1 notebook;

Now you write 12 novels in 12 notebooks, except you use the SWITCHBOARD METHOD;

The other person might finish their 1 novel in x amount of time;

You will finish in x+y amount of time, y being a constant;

It will take you a little more time to write 12 novels across 12 notebooks instead of 1 across 1, but at the end of x+y time, you will have written 12 NOVELS INSTEAD OF 1;

The SWITCHBOARD METHOD is essentially a NON-LINEAR METHOD OF WORK ORGANIZATION and can provide Great Efficiencies in Time (awaiting mathematical proof);

2023-11-29 19:45:22

I am told this is the assignment problem in theoretical computer science, but usually you have n agents to whom you must assign m number of tasks;

In my case, there are only n tasks and 1 agent;

All that's really important here is the decision problem and efficient allocation of resources;

You would normally look at costs and so forth, cost functions, etc.;

Thats not my problem, though; I got rid of the decision problem and saved at least 1 bit;

It might not seem like a lot, yet computationally, with over 100 projects still actively running in my Art Operation, I needed to save as many bits as possible;

I don't decide what task to work on; I tackle whatever is most proximate/immediate/ready-to-hand;

It doesn't matter what it is,it will absolutely be an enriching,learning experience;

Randomized task assignment just seems optimal to me; I'm able to maintain over 100 complex, interdisciplinary art-research projects, and I'm a One-Man Shop, a single art operator at the Art Operation @ The Historiotheque;

More on this later; this is based on the research for a new project, and series of series, I started earlier in the year, called NOISE IN THE WORKSPACE;

The first series was called SPACE NOISE INJECTION and, you see, while the first series is still only beginning, I started the second series of experiments, called RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS;

After just a few months, I have enough research and experimental data to write a PhD thesis in interruption science;

2023-12-04 03:17:26

One of the ways this Method works is by removing waiting-times;

One does not spend any significant amount of times either Deciding what tasks to tackle OR any significant amount of time building up complex mental abstractions, which software developers often have to do in the course of any given period of Deep Work;

I merely look at the Surface of the Workspace and choose what is most proximate/immediate;

This literally means looking around the Studio Space @ The Historiotheque and choosing whatever is nearest in time and space;

I realize that the 3D Surface of the Workspace is where I get most of my new ideas, from actually working in the Historioteque AND in the Archive;

It's where I came up with the concept of Geogrammar or Geogrammatical Forms, as floating land-masses, as portrayed in my novelistic phenomenology The History-Project as Crackland, the Land of Fissures and as Antiface-Cloud in my sequel The Archives-Project;

The so-called land-masses or fragments are really the exposed surfaces of the Stacks (SEE: The Stacks-Project);

Each of these "Stacks" are built-up over time as sedimentary layers or through a sedimentation process;

I continuously Survey the top-post surfaces of these many Stacks and make mental links or REFCARDS which I file in my Inner Refcards-System, my DATABASE-OF-IMAGES (SEE: Database Arts);

SEE: Images below, of the 3D Workspace as Abstract Cartography (seen from above) and two diagrams of THE SWITCHBOARD METHOD as well as one for The Stacks-Project;

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[yuywonzzz]

I will take the suffering from you.

[backpackingspace]

Odysseus: demanding Athena take off whatever enchantment she put on him the second the situation ends.

Odysseus: who constantly reminds Athena that he has great plans to grow old and die with his wife so don't even think about getting any ideas.

Odysseus: side eye diomedes who has started fucking glowing he has so many enchantments on him: bro you should talk to Athena about getting those removed. You're going to end up immortal or some shit

Diomedes: who has been a solider since he was 5 who has intersting thoughts about his own personhood who has a much more traditional relationship with Athena and would rather literally stab his own eye out with a rusted sword than speak out of turn: I don't know what you're talking about

[itslilacokay]

AVA 11 SPOILERS!!!

hiii heres a screenshot redraw of agent angst (got lazy on the chair a bit hehe

+closer look at orig image

this is the ONLY TIME we see agent go through something so far i think. so obviously i took this chance to draw something like cmon now the material is RIGHT THERE

[witheredgardenparty]

Yanderes as wife guys. That's it. That's the entire thought.

[kobbers]

Currently in Holiday Retail Hell, where I don't do anything but work at ungodly hours, sleep, squeeze in a bit of comic drawin' (if the brain cell cooperates), do the Dragon's End meta before server day change and slam down some dinner before going back to bed.

Azurah finally maxed out her weaponsmithing on her journey to forge Aurene's Bite, after years of not really bothering with progressing crafting professions.

gettin' close on the whole special materials thing, too... (these will need to be 100)

[theunconcernedembalmer]

All the games I've been playing have characters with badass powers so here we are. Badass greenhouse. Or something

[jo-the-intellectual]

Sonadow fanfic authors who forget how integral Amy was (and still is) to Shadows development and that she was the first one to properly reach him, and then write Shadow like he has no idea who she is beyond “Sonic’s friend” or “the girl who likes Sonic”

[amphibianaday]

day 1547 and day 4 of amphibiuary prompt list

[scipunk]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

[california-112]

Smell that. It's perfume. Eau D'Ball.

[sipping-ambrosia-wine]

ngl something that i dont get is the absence of dani phantom crossovers. maybe its just that i tuned in to the blog of someone more involved in those circles or there was a fandom renaissance i missed but afaik the dp xover fics got a crazy boost in numbers relatively recently. and i know danny is the og and people love him but if you want sassy ghost child in varying dial settings of hyperindependent, gore/body horror, medical horror, depersonalization, parental rejection trauma, trauma of dying and then coming back (iirc she legit actually melted into a puddle of ectoplasm) long term teen homelessness, gender dysphoria, strong ties to the ghost community (bonus uh. zero living ties to any one town or setting), then i mean... dani is right there!

[i4nmura]

(★) memories with you; jakehoon

♡︎ capa teste / don’t repost

✎ 18.09.24 | cr. @nishimurallery

[pocketramblr]

you know im thinking. im thinking maybe Yoichi wasn't even that into captain hero as an adult, but AfO kept bringing LITERALLY every conversation back to that because he decided to Be The Demon Lord and so Yoichi like, can't get an argument in unless he uses the same material so he's like 'oh my god i haven't even thought about that comic in ten years but even i know the bad guy didn't win. you should not be basing you whole identity, business model, and world destruction plan on your five-second impression of a comic book bad guy who didn't even win! also you shouldn't kill people!'