monday: morning->introducing each others-backgrounds and interests (crossing domains, finding one's "field" too narrow) getting familiar with git+irc+pads (troubleshooting session/helping each others) intro to tools used for depackaging the book (ocr plus image cropping) sharing unexpected results from imagemagick multicrop issue of stealing from public and responsibility to republish + copyrights ->creative constrains?should we bother? we are republishing already pushing the raw images and texts on git; pulling it all locally; put texts on pads for collaborative notes, keywords etc (longer than expected, lesson learned!) new padylon starts taking shape division of the texts (each person picked pseudorandomly a text that will be prepared for tuesday)(palace of justice trip postponed) ///////////lunch///////////(including finding the guest lost in the neighborhood :) 15h presentation from Merijn Oudenampsen--small discussion/reaction presentation from Joke Robaard--small discussion/reaction consensus and dissensus.contradictions.layers within project, its lifetime, its reception (the art bubble etc) bigger group discussion till closing time!-->notes of afternoon talks/discussion http://192.168.1.222:9001/p/new_padylon_merijn (limited-should get others' notes too)
tuesday: morning-> couple of hours of personal reading of the picked texts, preparation of small presentation (keypoints and personal interests/links) [the idea was to give each others a minimal orientation in the material present in the book, without having to go through all textes] 12h->start with first (wigley's text)--the presentation is deviated, it becomes a discussion, hard to impose rigidity over such a flexible project.but still.. metapoint: to leave things detouring or to bring them back to main track? not a clear decision thereby till lunch we have a rather messy touring between text presentations and talks--slightly more than 2 texts touched in one hour; nevertheless some nice ties were made between texts and previous day discussion
//////lunch///// (some opinions exchange between participants: how to proceed?lagging too much?need to get to tools!text-image-links-discussion-play-dysfunctionality/ problem of decentralizing the project-one,two,many tracks are possible, but we need to find a different way of working.embracing discussion detours brought us perhaps to far from our initial idea of combining theory and practice-on the one hand is good, but on the other hand it feels a bit too disorenting for a collective project )
+- 15h collective moment of meta-how to proceed? skip the next presentations and move to tools? else? decision to go on with presentations but to reaaally keep them short and postpone the moment of discussion to another time.5 mintues max per person-stress on keypoints and personal links (towards 15:30/16 we planned appointment with botnet group for playing with networks (in view of "trip") ) in little more than half an hour 8 texts are done!but no time for discussing them feels a bit unpleasant(?) only scattered notes taken on pads about possible discussion points (but how to get back to them?how to re-enact them after momentum is lost?) *gather notes people took,maybe make a bit more elaborated text about raised points some people wants to focus on network aspect of unitary urbanism-others on colors-images-formats-metadatas etc some improvised group splitting- some joins 2084 to play with mesh/autonomous/nomad networks, some joins the 3d architectural tool group to see possibilities to work with images (that have been a problematic and a bit neglected point since the beginning). some speculation about semantic links, xanadu, filesystems. some research bots, others look at websites, others propose the creation of analog situations to enact new babylon(an idea to play at palace of justice maybe?) people are scattered and clustered (and tired) jump from theory to practice has been perhaps to drastic? 17h bits and sounds presentation. some joins, others kept working. network group has some basics on flashing the routers with open-wrt and later played with camera with embedded webserver-- set a laptop as local server for pads and other things-->but we now need to come up with a game, or other ways to make it a collective experiment at palace of justice wednesday afternoon.video/images/sound? some ideas about navigating a single text (something inspired by text-based adventure games)that would also link to other media and content image group-->http://192.168.1.222:9001/p/new_padylon_images there was no coming together at the end of the day, so we still don't know what people are up to, we'll discuss it in the morning, see how the subgroups can communicate and interact (and their tools and experiments too) wednesday: till 11:30 touring worksessions update each others-- brainstorming:
texts images navigation through semantic links (relative or absolute, symbolic) hyperlinks as a fiction a way to be re-apropriate by someone else « simple way » (for the user or for us?) timeline -->add after wigley and us to it
texts layer notes layer
repetitions (as a repetition and as a copy) > texts and images story of the texts and images steps publications
images add metatdata (in the jpeg)
Loraine is preparing the material to be usable (git)
tesseract used to try and make ocr out of the scanned pages
tesseract file.jpg -l eng -psm 1 outfile.txt
to make an hocr (including position of the text)
tesseract file.jpg -l eng -psm 1 outfile.txt hocr
------------- presentations on texts--drifting out of text (but not out of context wigley's-
/// TODO ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// - copying metadata in .txt files corresponding to the images - intro Wigley: put in the git (check the notes numbers) and dashes, etc. - last part (timeline) - README simple
This torrent contains the raw material of/for/from New Babylon, a project started in the 50s by Constant Nieuwenhuys. The material has been depackaged from Constant's New Babylon: Hyperarchitecture of desire, a book edited by Mark Wigely in 1998 on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated to New Babylon in Rotterdam. The book was in fact meant to be the catalogue of the exhibition and thereby printed in limited copies. This scarcity and the absorption of this project in the art bubble transformed the book into an expensive collector item.
This torrent contains textual and visual materials from New Babylon, a project started in the 50s by Constant Nieuwenhuys. The material has been depackaged from Constant's New Babylon: Hyperarchitecture of Desire, a book edited by Mark Wigely in 1998 on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to New Babylon that Wigley curated in Rotterdam. The book is in fact the catalogue of the exhibition, thereby printed in amounts suitable to that event. The book has quickly become a collector's item as the diffused interest in the material contrasted with the scarcity of the printed copies. Some of the textual materials contained in the book are actually in the public domain. These can be found, together with many other texts from the Situationist International at: NOTBORED - http://www.notbored.org/SI.html BUREAU OF PUBLIC SECRETS - http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/ nothingness.org - http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/all/ yet another SI Archive - http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/situ.html
This torrent contains the raw material of/for/from New Babylon, a project started in the 50s by Constant Nieuwenhuys. The material has been depackaged from Constant's New Babylon: Hyperarchitecture of desire, a book - catalogue, printed in limited copies. The book was edited by Mark Wigely in 1998 New Babylon in Rotterdam. This scarcity and the absorption of this project in the art bubble transformed the book into an expensive collector item. Hereby is provided its content, some of which is also available at http://notbored.org/. Spread around and
main text for the README
This torrent contains the raw material of/for/from New Babylon, a project started in the 50s by Constant Nieuwenhuys. The material has been depackaged from Constant'sNew Babylon: Hyperarchitecture of desire book. The book - catalog, edited by Mark Wigely in 1998 part of New Babylon exhibition in Rotterdam was printed in limited copies ( ), that became an expensive collector item.
Hereby is provided its content, some of which is also available at http://notbored.org/.
Second README
instructions/contribution: (modify this)
If you are interested in joining NewBabyloners: 1) Send email to url. 2) Join #FiFOFiles or contact ddream on IRC. 3) Contact a member on one of the member boards.
We are currently looking for New Babyloners to join the network of the research on Constant etc. names ???
make torrent file BUT FIRST WE NEED TO WRITE A README TEXT!!!that tells a bit about source material but not much about what's happening here.just raw materials and later release our version/elaboration (that refers back to raw materials)
///ideas possible translations of the materials, tools to distribute formats to re/distribute find image details of construction of model (not city landscape but crafted variable structure) nnb176-000
/// PUBLICATION aaaarg.org monoskop.org libgen.org (Library Genesis: weird russian database where we can find eBooks – you can download the whole library + website) tor, freenet.org (anticensorship, distributed networks – made for html and images, the lighter the material the better)
/// STRUCTURE OF THE DATA
Faire des liens relatifs vers un CSS Page statique Page non-statique: charger des données avec Javascript Ex: eBook reader Jquery récupérer tel et tel fichier html
Texte? Couper d’une manière ou d’une autre
Comment faire des liens vers des parties spécifiques
Search
TEXTE ===== .txt Markdown: conventions visuelles + sémantiques (code) Vocabulaire d’email traduction vers html / …
Write metadata in a separate space (not into the text), like in the upper part of the doc
Title Date Authors Source Origin Traduction Tags RDF
Collection de textes
IMAGES ====== .txt fil under the image
Caption Tags Origin: book Constant
XMP (serialized jpg) dialect of XML for images edit the metadata without going through Photoshop
Dublin Core Associate them metadata file with jQuery
with open("captions.txt") as file: files = file.readlines() for f in files: filename = f.split(' ', 1)[0] content = f.split(' ', 1)[1] filename = filename.replace('jpg','txt') print filename, content with open(filename, "a") as tt: tt.write(content)