With the weather warming up, spring is the perfect time to start daily work on Take One!
I finished up Poster #6 a couple days ago, and I spent today brainstorming where to post it. Previous posters have had sturdy cardstock pages/tabs, but this one is built from thin, glossy images cut from children’s books. I’d like to post it somewhere out of the weather. Best idea so far: under a bridge/overpass in a park. I will have to look around for a suitable location!
More →I walked around South Pond in Lincoln Park today, to see if there’s a good location for Poster #6. I couldn’t find anything that looked protected, within range of passers-by, and unlikely to be removed immediately. (I did, however, see some Horned Grebes diving in the shallow water along the Pond’s shore.)
More →In addition to looking for a good site for #6 today, I updated this website to include daily logs.
More →I installed Poster #6 today! It’s near Ravenswood’s “Malt Row,” though it’s not directly outside of a brewery like some of the other posters. Instead, I found a location under a railway bridge. Hopefully this doesn’t affect the foot traffic too much!
More →I fixed up the script that automatically uploads the website, and I also updated the website with new photos of #6.
More →My big project for this week is to work on the Tabby TUI. Today, I settled on using BubbleTea and related libraries.
More →I continued familiarizing myself with Bubbletea today, and I took new photos of #6 in the wild.
More →I made progress with Tabby TUI today, creating a working prompt and scrolling log pane. This is basic stuff, but it will be a huge improvement to the current UI.
More →Today’s Tabby TUI development focused on styling log messages. Gotta have a pretty screen!
More →With Tabby’s new TUI frontend looking more-or-less complete, I turned my attention to some of the “glue” holding it together. Today, I started working on writing a custom log handler to display notifications from background jobs on screen.
More →The name of the game today is documentation. I’ve been working on Take One and Tabby daily, but I haven’t been writing my daily notes. (Oops!) With this note, I’m all caught up!
More →Today, I raided my collection of screen prints to find material for the next poster. I settled on a set of screen prints from November 2024 that explore the concept of “depth” through layered, cloud-like imagery.
More →A bit of a mixed bag today. First, I continued to work on the Tabby backend. Then, I started sketching some layout ideas for the next poster (#7).
More →I continued sketching new layouts for #7 today, focusing on small formats.
More →You guessed it: I continued sketching today. It’s been a tiring week, so I have been taking advantage of train rides to work to do some quick, calm creative thinking.
More →I took a slight creative detour today. Instead of sketching new formats for Take One #7, I sketched some ideas for a zine that has been percolating at the back of my mind. The zine, tentatively called “Rubbings” would feature just that – rubbings of textures collected around the city, assembled into unique booklets. Today, the formats I explored have clearly taken a cue from Take One. I sense an interesting creative crossover!
More →No major work today; continued to mull which of my sketches would make an intriguing poster #7. I’m tempted to go with a square grid, which would reference the top layer in the “Depth” prints: a dithered image of clouds.
More →Today’s big goal? Update the log online. Mission accomplished.
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