Starting to pack up...
...ultimately a quiet day but not without some discoveries. Johanna Drucker's site alone will keep me busy for a while!
It is also possible to create multiple streams (even group streams) - this option might come in handy for future projects.
Looking at ways to "share" the Day of DH using tags. If I share the page url with the tag extension it will only focus on those specific posts. Of course anyone refreshing the page, or clicking on another link, will expose everything else.
A chance search landed me on Johanna Drucker's Substack account (which I didn't know about!) A post on the French artist Altagor caught my attention:
"The glyphic quality of Altagor’s drawings clearly resonates with those of Isou and other Lettrists, and sorting out who invented what feels less important at this distance than recognizing the incredible currency such approaches had at the time."
Just spent some time going over the basics of GDC with C. Also went a little deeper into Lotvonen's Instagram feed (see below) and found some wonderful material. One of the most interesting was a group of students that created civilizations drawn with GDC including asemic writing systems. They then "translated" this all back into handmade books. Some more spreads.
Making progress handling "layers" which is one of the strengths of the tool.
(By the by - the Glyph Drawing Club presentation went well. Turns out several of the participants were already playing with the tool while I talked.)
Starting my "Day of Tiny Tools" here at the Collaboratory.
While setting up had a great conversation with C. about crafting communities and the beauty of crazy retro websites.
The preceding posts cover the ideas and background materials for the GDC presentation on Tuesday Oct 22.
The Friday following (25th) will be a daylong event with me working with GDC and people dropping by to watch or try it out themselves. We're calling this dry run the "Day of Tiny Tools" to test out the possibilities of using the format for the actual "Day of DH" in early December which "...is an event where digital humanists from around the world document what they do." I'll also be figuring out how best to handle all the posting over the course of the day.
I toyed with the idea of picking up where I left off with A Notebook of Sorts but that was primarily an exercise in thinking about, and experiencing, the "handmade web."
Glypher's Stream was set up in preparation for the "Day of DH" which requires frequent posting over the course of a day. I needed something more like a microblogging platform (preferably not mainstream, and even better if it could be considered a Tiny Tool!) hence Streams.