Summer tasks (or accomplishments, depending on how you look at it) Configure new laptop (check) Install InDesign CS4 (check) Deinstall CS4 and install CS5 (ergh) Learn inDesign (in progress) Test Blurb print-on-demand (soon) Import 3,000+ image files into iPhoto on new laptop (in progress) Get admin rights for new laptop in order to download Dropbox (check) Organize image files into an official archive on SLU server (in progress) Scan earliest stickers in black notebook from NYC, 2005-2007 (need to find a student now that Joe Pomainville is gone= NTFAS) Scan stickers in red notebook, 2008-2009 (NTFAS) Put most recent 2010…
A beautiful spring day…
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… and I spent a good portion of it working on my sticker database. After weeks of a few sporadic hours here and there to pull everything together, I can now account for about 2,700 individual digital image files for stickers scanned thus far. The most difficult part in this whole process is finding where the files are located across too many different folders on different servers at SLU. My fault. I also have a bad habit of assigning “Final” to whatever documents/projects I’m working on, and if they get revised, I put “FinalFinal.” Or “FinalFinal-Use this one.” And “Final-old”…
New link to street art database
The contemporary street art database is being re-conceived in a much more useful fashion. AT SLU, arts cataloging guru Arline Wolfe has been organizing image files and assigning consistent terms for artist, title, date, location, and most importantly, subject and description fields. Good cataloging = easier and better access. Sounds simple. It’s not. Really not. We’re still stuck with a non-intuitive online display format using ContentDM software, but at some point in the future something better will surely appear on the horizon. Arline now has 200 stickers from Berlin in the new collection with 300 in the wings – another…
Ha ha.
The .png shots I take for this SK blog are too small in size and too low-res to be used in any other printed matter. No surprise. It’s weird, though. I can re-save a .png shot as a .jpeg, and the file size remains the same? I can’t remember. In any case, I created a .png shot at 72 dpi, re-saved it as a 72 dpi .jpeg, and re-saved it again as 150 dpi and 300 dpi .jpegs. You’re not supposed to enlarge files like this, but I’m having Shutterfly make 5 x7-inch photographs to see how they compare in…
Surveillance, monitoring, and control stickers in Berlin
In 2006, the European Union adopted “Directive 2006/24/EC,” authorizing member countries the ability to obtain communications data including source, destination, type, date, time, length, device, and location of device. Data could be retained for six months to two years depending on certain variables. The measures were put in place in the name of national and international security and in response to acts of terrorism, including the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, train bombings in Madrid in 2004, and bombings in the public transport system in London in 2005. In Germany, the…
ctrl + alt + T
Firefox came out recently with a handy free add-on called ImTranslator that allows one to select text from any digital source, hit ctrl + alt + T, and receive an immediate translation. Easy to install and easy to use. If you like it, you can make an online donation to help cover costs, I assume. Here is an example from antifastreetart’s About page: Nachdem dies mit dem deutschen Faschismus vernichtet wurde, entstand im konservativ geprägten Nachkriegsdeutschland mit dem Beginn der 68er Bewegung ein neuer Anlauf, die Menschen vor allem durch politische Plakatkunst zu erreichen. Unter dem Motto „Kreativität gegen Kapitalismus!“…
autonomous
Do I want the right to be self governed? Or do I want the diamond ring? Or the girl? Too many choices…. Wait a minute…. Who is in charge here?
the process is the product
This is a test to see if one can add hyperlinks from a Word doc into a blog post. In this case, we’ll try it here in Stickerkitty. And my friend Joe’s blog Sharp Sand.
Typekit
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Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
More substance
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This may sound obvious, but I’ve been trying to figure out how to improve Stickerkitty more substantively. I’ve wanted to offer more sophisticated commentary regarding the stickers I’ve found in NYC and Berlin, but I’m also nervous about posting “scholarship” that might subsequently be appropriated by others. But you know? Smart blogging is more engaging than fluffy blogging, and so far, this blog has been pretty fluffy. I’ll begin to identify aspects of my favorite blogs and work through this challenge. For example, I’ve long admired Joe Duemer’s blog Sharp Sand. As a poet and teacher, he brings a sophisticated…