A chart and some thoughts. That is all.
I’m revisiting a past subject again. It’s back to colour and Grace Cossington-Smith from a few weeks ago. I expanded the colour range a bit more, and used the histogram data to work out proportions of colour for each work. It was lovely to hear from some people when I looked at her work in week 5. Someone lives very close to Grace Cossington-Smith’s old house, and her kids did a little excursion to see the house and see her work at AGNSW. Some of you also told me that her work was also a favourite at AGNSW and you also swing by to say “hello art!” when you are there.
Used my trusty tools of ImageMagik, R/ggplot and Illustrator. I spent a really long time in front of a computer screen this week at work, so left this to the very last minute tonight. Most of today I spent mending things. It was nice to do things with my hands, as well as shift a few big things in the mending pile.
Next week I hope to do something related to the upcoming Sydney Film Festival. It’s my first “serious” festival attendance, with the purchase of a ticket pack. A friend at work encouraged me to go along, and I am very grateful for the encouragement. I’ve always found the program a bit overwhelming, and really have only gone if someone had already bought the tickets, or if I picked one movie I wanted to see. I’m quite excited to go. I’ve really been getting into seeing films again at the cinema since NYE 2022/23 when my friend said her resolution was to start going more often, and we agreed to see a movie together every month. Since then I really have caught the bug, and see a few more movies a month, on top of our regular “movie club”. So doing something with SFF data seemed like an interesting idea. I have the data structure in my head, but I still haven’t had time to think properly about how to visualise it. It was originally going to be what I tackled this week, but I really needed a bit of a break from computers.
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This newsletter was created on Gadigal Land. Just up the river from where I live, pictures and marks were made on rocks to share stories about the world with others, and they were put there tens of thousands of years ago. I want to acknowledge that this tradition of story telling and using images to communicate and pass on information is nothing new - and the Custodians of this unceded land were here, and doing it first.