ANTILOG_31May26a

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ANTILOG_31May26a

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2026-05-31 04:25:41

- Yesterday, I recorded two videos, one where I stood at the chalkboard where I was in what I called "full-on analog research mode", actually thinking through problems, and another video where I went over some Refcards that I had written after spending time reviewing the first video;
- There is always a review process; I started the day by doing research online on what I am calling computer terminal no. 1, selections of which I printed out and took to the main desk; I read through it, highlighting passages and taking notes in a notebook; then I think I made the first video, which I then uploaded onto computer terminal no. 1; I watched it, then I believe I printed some more notes which I then once again took to the main desk;
- I read those, highlighted them, and then took some notes on some Refcards which I used to record the second video; In that video, I basically just read from 10 unique Refcards; I then uploaded it to computer terminal no. 1, then watched it; then I went back to the main desk, I believe;
- You can see a pattern; I always work in the workspace and then review; it is essentially a process of continuous review or what can be called reflective practice;
- Here are some notes that I took much further into yesterday's workday:

[20h16]

- I just switched from my previous workstations to computer terminal no. 2, the Ubuntu machine. Earlier, I recorded a video extempore/impromptu and then reviewed it, listened to it, then took Refcards (references/citations on index cards). Then I brought those out and took notes in my primary notebook. Then I took the Refcards to this station now where I am writing these labnotes;
- This is the modular, interdisciplinary practice. It is multimodal, multivalent, multifarious. It is emergent, rigorous and comprehensive.
- First of all, early this morning upon waking, I printed some writings about Benjamin's methodology of using index cards or "card files" as they are often called. He is said to have used thousands to write his Arcades-Project. I printed other related materials from early morning research and then brough it to my main desk to read, highlight, and cite in my notebook, which then became Refcards after I recorded the video.
- TO RECAP: I woke up, went to computer terminal no. 1, did research, printed it out, etc., just as I said, after which I read and took notes on, then recorded the video, then watched it at computer terminal no. 1, took more notes, printed out more research, then took that outside, read and had a coffee and took notes. I recorded a second video, then went to watch it at computer terminal no. 1. Then I went back to the main desk, took notes, then I took a walk (I had taken a few throughout the day), then I started reading a book on archives and came to computer terminal no. 2 to write out the following notes, from my Refcards and notebook from before.

[21h58]

- I went back to the main desk and read some more from the book I started reading on archives, then went outside for a smoke, then came to computer terminal no. 1 to copy the hyperlinks to the two videos I made, posted in on Google Keep, then went to computer terminal no. 2 and took the link to the second video and posted it on X, on Threads, and on Bluesky (I had already posted the first video on those networks a few hours back, on computer terminal no. 1. So I am constantly sending myself notes or else copying it out by hand on index cards and in a notebook, and also copying things from videos and other media onto each of the computers, when I do research and whatnot, and usually I print those out on computer terminal no. 1 after which point I go back to the main desk to start the process of continuous review again. In a sense, it is an adversarial review, not in a bad way, it's just that I critique my own thoughts. I call it antisynthesis;
- Then I'm going to turn all this documentation into a post on antilog, a log of changes made, which will end up as Important Updates to both the latest Official Release and the latest Official Declaration of Production-Year, which is currently at Production-Year 2028-2029.

- Before bed, I started doing some research on Cubism, specifically on Picasso and Braque's close collaboration especially during the early years of what some call analytical Cubism; The first stretch of research that led to me making those two videos had to do with Walter Benjamin writing on the subject of what he called three-dimensional writing; here is the link to the first video:

 - I talked about many subjects in this video which was 12 minutes and 41 seconds; I don't feel the need to list all of the subjects I touched upon; The important part was the review process for yesterday's work during the workday; Here is the second video I made, using the Refcards from reviewing the first video and taking note:

- And here, to finish this post on my antilog log, are some labnotes that I just made using my  own documentation_method.py Python script made especially for taking labnotes:

- More on all of this later; I just wanted to make a formal post on my antilog of the progress made yesterday throughout the workday; obviously, there are things that weren't documented or archived, as it is impossible as we know, to capture everything; one must make judicious choices as to what to document and archives; I'm glad, though, as I have been extremely productive; I have made a dozen or more videos in recent weeks plus I've done a lot of documenting; Essentially, I'm trying to incorporate more and more redundancy in the practice, as through this continuous review process that is all too clear, I recognize, in the great redundancy of the beginning of this post, where I meticulously went over my movemements from workstation-to-workstation, medium-to-medium, project-to-project, task-to-task, etc., as I continue to integrate my 15 years of Feldenkrais practice into my daily interdisciplinary art-research practice; Thanks for listening!