ANTILOG_01June26a

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ANTILOG_01June26a

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2026-06-01 08:33:35

- I woke up and started continuing my research on Cubism (at computer terminal no. 2); I looked up some sources on some of the things Gemini had told me, which seemed like historical facts, but needed to be corroborated with actual source material backing up the statements; Generative AI is notorious for sounding very confident in the truth of its statements, it's easy to be fooled by things that might not be true; they need to be fact-checked/verified;
- Then I printed out some materials from this line of research on computer terminal no. 1, then went to the main desk to read it, highlight it, and copy out some ideas and some citations from the printed materials, which were mainly citations that I was able to get out of the AI in the end; Now I am back at computer terminal no. 2 where I created some more pages to print out on the other computer terminal, to then take out and read, highlight, and reflect upon at the main desk; I do this for hours; I find it leads to the greatest number and depth of insights and discoveries;
- Here is some of what I've been working on with my recent research into the close collaboration between Braque and Picasso in the Cubist period;

"CUBIST TABLE". Cubist étude by A.G. (c) 2026. All Rights Reserved.

2026-06-01 09:11:50

- I just finished reading some important citations for my current research on the Picasso-Braque collaboration of early Cubism, content which I printed on computer terminal no. 1 and read at the main desk;
- Now I am at computer terminal no. 2 doing more research and writing this antilog, and next I'm going to go back to the main desk and possibly summarize and synthesize the day's work thus far onto some Refcards which I may use to record another video presentation of my Discourse on Cubism;
- I also have to go run a few errands, even though I'm still feeling a little under the weather from a recent virus I contracted; I may stop at my father's house to record some music he needs for a film he's making, and also perhaps some new compositions for my Seasons of The Heart Project; I may have to change the name of this project as "seasons of the heart" has already been used; sohas "seasons of the soul", which might work, but which sounds bizarre to me; I prefer "seasons of the heart"; I may just have to explain in my "liner notes" that this concept is a concept that has been around for ages, that has been rehashed and reinvented a thousand times; I work on it as part of my daily practice of musical composition, etc., etc.;
- Also, before I go, I was researching Benjamin's work on the concept of flâneur in Baudelaire and realized how important sound is for me when I'm going on my daily walks; It's not only the sound that I'm hypersensitive to, it's also the vestibular function or whatever it's called in the inner ear which has to do with balance and orientation in space; I am also hyperaware of this and am easily perturbed in my "internal/inward space" by sounds or by people walking by; it's not that I am perturbed by noise in itself, it's mostly the intentionality that goes with people who are largely unaware of themselves and especially unaware of the sound-space that they inhabit and contribute to.

2026-06-01 15:51:09

- So I eventually left the studio and went for a walk to my father's to do some recording for him, some music and other audio work; when I came back, I went over what I had printed earlier and highlighted and I wrote some Refcards on the subject, then went to computer terminal no. 1 to watch some videos on the Picasso-Braque collaboration; I will take the Refcards I just wrote and transcribe them onto computer terminal no. 2, or that is what I am thinking of doing right now; then I will do more research and print out more content to slowly metabolize or digest at the main desk; my goal today, or one of them, was to make a new video and though I still want to do that, the day is somewhat advanced and I don't know if I'll be able to reach the necessary level of "saturation" if you will, of information saturation, to be able to make a video in an "ad lib" style, which is the only kind of video I'm really able to make, or the ones I like to make most of the time;

- So I spent the last few days thinking deep and hard about Cubism and specifically the Picasso-Braque collaboration as part of my advanced Cubism studies; I want to make a video about it but it's been hard to get all my sources and references, citations, right; they are quite a mess at the moment; most of what I have is highly speculative and that generally doesn't make good academic research; but it's made from the perspective or point of view of an artist also, so that makes speculation useful if it advances knowledge, or at least can influence people's ways of seeing, the mechanics or the "machine of seeing", which is what Cubism as a system was, a "machine for seeing"; In any case I think that people will still want to hear my abstract speculations about it, and I might just make another video at the chalkboard to show myself working through the same kinds of "aesthetic problems" if you will, that Picasso and Braque were obsessed with solving; I believe they called them puzzles, visual and spatial puzzles, or something of the sort.

2026-06-01 18:29:18

- I summarized the day's research onto 7 unique refcards (at the main desk) and transcribed them onto computer terminal no. 2; as I made these refcards, I was referring back to the citations and reference works/source materials that I had identified and read during the day's and the past few days's research on the Picasso-Braque collaboration and other related matters;

- I've also written a lot about and thought a lot about my experimental design workflow management methodologies; I think methodology matters in an interdisciplinary art-research practice; anyway this is a distributed polytextual mode of research and analysis; I worked a lot today with schemas, faceted taxonomies to code/classify/organize my art and research; I also created a comprehensive faceted classification schema for my ALX workflow management methodology; I will begin tagging my content as I write it, especially the refcards; it was a schema for the Refcards-System/Refcards-Project basically;

- Since the last antilog update, that's it, I wrote those 7 refcards, I transcribed them onto computer terminal no. 2, then came back to write this antilog; there were other things, but I can't remember right now; I wrote a separate set of index cards, I think, just on the Picasso-Braque collaboration stuff, making sure I got my sources right; that's why I cam to computer terminal no. 2 was so I could transcribe the refcards out via typing on a keyboard so that it kind of works different muscle memory; they are different media, different modes, plus also it's the task-switching algorithm at work; my goal today, after all, or one of them, was try to make my current Cubism research more authoritative, less speculative; I identified the two main reference works I want to use for my video on this subject, if I ever get around to make it today, otherwise maybe tomorrow, and some other video presentations I want to make; those two books are "Life with Picasso" by Françoise Gilot and "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism" by William Rubin;

- Anyway there are many projects I've been working on lately; I feel really good about my practice, I just need to use my documentary_method.py Python script to write some labnotes for today;

- As I continuously do in my practice, I am now reading over my previous antilog entries to see what labnotes I had written the last few times I came to write here; Here is what I wrote just now as a new labnote:

2026-06-01 20:20:41

- I ended up choosing not to make a new video presentation for now; instead, I did an audio recording I call an "EVENING CONSTITUTIONAL"; it's hard to do all the logging and documenting I wish I would make; it's tough; anyway here is the video I made with the audio notes: