#project discussion

[yarrystyleeza]

oh boy oh shit oh fuck 😳‼️😳‼️😳‼️😳‼️

[thephdpensieve]

Favorite kind of week: Zoom calls, books and checklists

Update for week 18th Nov - 24th Nov

Started my visa application for my upcoming Europe trip (the Workshop is for a week and the location is lovely!). Made a checklist and applied for permission from the university, printed all the forms and collecting other documents. I love the task, but it drains me a bit!

I'm working on a collaborative project with quite an international team and we had our first discussion meeting this week. Excited!

Met with my mentor from the Supernova Foundation (a mentoring network for women in Physics). She's ao insightful and conversing with her always gives me a big picture and a lot of clarity. So grateful for her ♥️

Read a book after a loooong time. It's The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith. I've been waiting for the book's release but couldn't get my hands on a copy sooner. Absolutely enjoyed the read and felt so alive (I missed reading!)

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[tag-cat]

Books and editions

This would be a pretty boring place if we only posted when we had big news or needed more help. Today we’re going to talk a bit about our plans in detail. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress and any details may change over the course of development.

The first thing we need to consider is how to store information about books in our database so that we have something to attach tags to. This is not as simple as it sounds.

When you start thinking about how to identify a book, the title probably comes to mind first. While this would work for most books, with others, it would lead you quite astray. Some novels have different titles in different countries, even when the two share a language and the text remains largely the same. For example, Agatha Christie's "Poirot Loses a Client" became "Dumb Witness" when published in the United States.

Even the author, who usually doesn't change, can be tricky. An author may choose to write under a pen name, but have later editions using their primary name instead of, or in addition to, the original name. Richard Bachman wrote several novels, all of which can now be found attributed to "Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman." With other texts the original author is unknown or disputed: The “Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India” has been attributed to both Álvaro Velho and João de Sá, with some publishers opting not to credit any author at all.

Other aspects of a book are subject to change between editions, like publishers, translators (for foreign books), editors and illustrators. “Pippi Longstocking” was illustrated by Ingrid Vang Nyman for the first English edition in 1949, but a 2005 edition has pictures by Louis S. Glanzman. Later edits might cut or add substantial parts of the story, not to mention the same story being published in different languages.

With so many potential variations on the same book, it might seem logical to just allow each edition of a book to have its own page on our site. However, some books have dozens or even hundreds of editions. We might end up with wildly different tags on what is essentially the same book, as different people tag different editions. People considering reading the book would need to look through all editions to find the information they're looking for.

With this problem in mind, we are splitting our model of books into "works" and "publications" - the latter being an edition, usually identified by its ISBN, whereas the tags will belong to a work. A work can have multiple associated publications, including translations. This is useful even beyond the idea of different editions of a book. A publication could also contain several works, so that an anthology or collection of short stories can have each story tagged individually.

So, now that we have a solution, how do we apply it to the real world? All of the edition-specific information like author, title and publisher will be displayed separately from the content tags. By default, you’ll see the most recent edition of the book that’s been published in your preferred language, but switching between editions will be easy.

Tags will be split into two groups: “Content tags” and “publication tags.” Content tags belonging to a work are the sorts of things we promised in our introduction: Descriptions of characters, plot points, potential triggers, style, narration, tropes and more. Publication tags belong to a publication and will give you information like author, illustrator, publisher, number of pages and medium (like audiobook, ebook, hardcover). All of these pieces of information will be searchable and related tags will be linked together, like "Author: Maurice Sendak" and "Illustrator: Maurice Sendak," or “Breaking & Entering” and “Burglary.” But that’s a topic for a different post.

While we design, program and refine our goals, things will probably change quite a bit, so everything you read here should be considered to be a work in progress. That said, here’s a mock-up of how choosing an edition of the book might work. Tell us what you think! If you have any concerns or suggestions, we invite you to get in touch.

[projectblackwingsubjects]

Hey ! you guys have how much character planned out ? Are you guys open to discussion ? Also I wanna know about subject succubus... Who are they ?

Hi!

Yes, the characters are in varying degrees of planned out. Some are completely fleshed out, some have more information than others but all have been given face claims and some form of information (If there’s a symbol from Max Landis, we have the character)

And, yes we are most definitely open for discussion

Finally, keep an eye out for us tagging you in the project file for Project Succubus, it will be the near future (hint: look for Succubus Project 1′s last name)

[lacewise-projects]

Really excited for a project I have planned. I might even do a tutorial to go with it!

[382eco-blog]

Project Reference Text Discussion: Anne-Katrin Spiess

CO2 NUETRAL BICYCLE JOURNEYS: GREEN HORIZONS, SUBLIME CLIMATE & DEMO ECO M.O

Spiess began this project in 2007 with the intention of negating her carbon footprint when traveling, her intention to journey across the northeast of the U.S. without using any sort of energy derived from the burning of gas. She intended to rely solely on the power she could generate using a bicycle. Her idea was not to shame people for driving, or even using public transport or car pooling, and neither was it to push the bike as a means of clean transport, but rather to utilize her own body as a power factory (which just so happens to emit much less CO2 than a car). She was inspired by an exhibition flyer for “Green Horizons” held at Bates College in Maine. The artist researched the relative output of emissions if she were to undertake the journey by car (as most people would without a second thought).  In order to travel to said exhibition, Spiess decided to travel by bicycle. Thus began the first journey, “Journey to the Green Horizons.” From here the entire effort was split into three separate parts, or ‘journeys’.

Upon completing her first, Spiess installed the bike she used at the exhibition. The subsequent two played off the experiences of the first; Speiss collected photographs and data along the way in order to form a thesis upon her completion. She cited the experience having a “ripple effect” upon her actions and lifestyle.

What I take from this is that she analyzed aspects of her consumptive output and decided to completely neutralize them in terms of transportation, which considering the distances traveled, is quite an undertaking. Many artists and athletes have done similar, taking to biking, walking, or jogging their way across the country. What I find interesting about Spiess’s project is that she did it with the intention of actually getting somewhere rather than just raising awareness. Furthermore, after she started her second journey, she began cataloging different forms of data in order to form a thesis. I like this idea: to observe data and then create something from it, in the context of green living, however, this often means taking something away. And yet, Spiess still had the actual bike she used to travel as an art installation. With my own work, I want to observe my actions and form some conclusion, then use that to either create or catalog my subtraction –– the end result will be ‘art’ at which to look, but the process will have lessened my carbon footprint.

[orangerchloe-blog]

Had a meeting with my tutor today! We talked about creating a book for this project, I’m gonna aim for an A3 size, trying to keep a running theme stylistically but I’m not entirely sure what that will be just yet as my tutor liked the much looser drawings.. We’ll see!