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It now occurs to me that I should probably just end the week on Sunday, or Monday morning, seeing as that appears to be when I consistently write weeknotes. And the writing of them? That’s just more intrepid pushing-through more than anything else.<\/p>\n

It was one of those weeks where time at home was evenly divided with time in the studio, it being a four day holiday weekend and a four day week. Over the holiday weekend I had the good fortune of meeting a completely baller skate photographer who basically took me to *school on the history and practicalities of photographing in the skate park. It was positively brilliant, and I may be overstating it but from my eyeball, I basically wasn’t taking photos until Jay showed me what to look for. Of course, in hindsight I was interpreting this accidental couple of hours through the filter of The Craftsman, which I am re-reading.<\/p>\n

I kept wondering where a bunch of audio parts I had ordered are \u2014\u00a0I’m curious to try out some different ways of mixing audio to make in-ear audio appear to be more ambient rather than closed off and cocoon-y. I’m not sure this is even interesting, except that I’m interested in what it might sound like \u2014\u00a0as if you were listening to a stereo in a room rather than stereo in your earballs. ((Turns out the place I ordered from is about as clueless as it gets with their order handling \u2014\u00a0I called the number on the PayPal receipt and I got someone’s home in Florida who evidently gets lots of these calls from the merchants customers.))<\/p>\n

I found a way to participate in the upcoming 01SJ<\/a> (ZeroOne San Jose) festival in the fall. I had helped Steve formulate the statement for the festival’s “Build Your Own World” theme, but sort of lacked the wherewithal to get the studio to participate in a way that made sense and what with life and all \u2014\u00a0people starting families and all that \u2014\u00a0it just seemed impractical to organize a kind of studio-embedding-in-San-Jose sort of thing. Which was frustrating and made me a little prickly and anxious for practicing designing inside-out rather than inside-in. Originally I was corralling the studio to go up there and do a collective project and instead, after being sort of frustrated with myself and taking that frustration out on the drywall in the man-lodge with a new reciprocating saw, Steve and I talked and I offered to contribute to the catalog, which is better-than-good-enough as I should be writing for this Swiss Design Network<\/a> conference anyway. It’ll be an evolution of the Design Fiction thinking, but written in a more quotidian way.<\/p>\n

Things I didn’t do \u2014\u00a0again \u2014\u00a0that I meant to do: Capture the breeching sequence in COD4 on video to point out the peculiarities of superpowers and as a linkage to these academic papers by Jessica K. Witt that describe the baseball-the-size-of-a-grapefruit and hole-the-size-of-a-bucket phenomena that baseballer’s and golfer’s experience when they’re on top of the game. I’m interested in this superpowers phenomenon and these moments in COD4 when everything slows to a crawl and its like the world has slowed down giving you the chance to have these super human powers \u2014 this is intriguing. ((I’m not intrigued by the violence, but it is part of the game play.)) I also didn’t capture the final faked-steady-cam title sequence of COD4, which I think is a curious exemplar of making something fake appear real, viz. the Design Fiction principles.<\/p>\n

There’s more I’m sure, but that’ll do.
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