{"id":118,"date":"2025-02-28T19:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/?p=118"},"modified":"2025-02-28T19:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:59:26","slug":"flog-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/flog\/flog-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Flog 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, I had a lot of trouble with Hack 3. Unlike my usual experience of having random ideas floating around, I found myself completely stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I explored several failed concepts before landing on something workable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Emailing Affirmations to Myself<\/strong>: Email is probably the worst way to get my attention. If I were to schedule task reminders via email, it wouldn&#8217;t be effective for me personally, though it might work for others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Snapchat for Stop Motion<\/strong>: While interesting, this felt more like an artistic project than the subversive commentary I was aiming for.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Excel for Choreography Mapping<\/strong>: Dancers need visual representations, but choreography is very embodied and mental. Excel might help with spatial blocking but would require confusing layer toggling. I couldn&#8217;t fully convey the meaning without including an actual dance performance alongside it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Finally Worked:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reframed my approach by asking: &#8220;If I had a goal, what would be the worst possible way to get there?&#8221;This required lowering my standards for what goals I could realistically accomplish. I settled on a simple goal: writing in a journal or diary. And what&#8217;s one of the worst ways to journal? Coding it. What&#8217;s even worse? Doing the math to encode each letter manually. That&#8217;s when I decided to work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmos.com\/\">Desmos<\/a> for my journaling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you might expect, writing words in Desmos by individually plotting each character has been incredibly time-consuming. My current prototype is far from ready, but the tedious nature of the process perfectly embodies the &#8220;worst way&#8221; approach I was going for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM-1024x910.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM-1024x910.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM-768x683.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM-1536x1366.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lexifletcher.dcreate.domains\/DIG401\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-28-at-2.58.25-PM-2048x1821.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking forward to having a &#8216;prettier&#8217; project, going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I had a lot of trouble with Hack 3. 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