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Come and join us this Thursday for some Zine Karaoke (Das Flüchtige Zine) and an essential conversation about font scraping (getthefont.com)
[[File:Getthefont.png|Get the Font|600px]]
             
19:00 Doors open & launch H&D Website
19:30 Open mic!! We will present The Momentary Zine installation. Make your own unique zine by speaking into the mic!
20:00 Arjan and Eric will present Get the FOnt, a platform created by scraping github.


Entrance: free     
=== Momentary Zine installation: Make your own zine by speaking into the mic ===
Beer: 2€ or 0.0067 ฿*
Soup: 3€ or 0.0101 ฿* 


[[File:Getthefont.png|Get the Font|600px]]
The event started with a presentation of the H&D webpage, and continued with an open mic session, introducing the Momentary Zine project. Momentary Zine 
[[File:Zinefest-momentary-zine.jpg|Zinefest|600px]]
is an open publishing station, exploring the temporality of a printed matter. At this publishing station everyone is invited to co-create and examine editorial design matters such as cross-media publishing. By using a thermal (receipt) printer, the visitors could become a subject of accumulating a publication and to provide the content for the zine.
     


About The Momentary Zine
Thermo print has the characteristic of temporality, as it vanishes after a while. By hacking the printer software we captured the temporality and the actuality of the event and printed matter as such. The zine content was exclusively accumulated by visitors, speaking into a microphone. Spoken words were translated into a text with the use of a text-to-speech technology. Simultaneously with the text-to-speech conversion, another algorithm ran an automated image search on Google, using  randomly selected words to search for pictures. Both words and pictures were printed assembled into a zine and printed on the spot.


Hackers & Designers build an open publishing station. At this publishing station everyone is invited to co-create and examine editorial design matters such as cross-media publishing.
The installation was followed by an essential conversation about the font scraping, where [[Arjan Scherpenisse|Arjan]] and Eric presented [http://www.getthefont.com/ Get The Font], a platform created by scraping GitHub.
Using a thermal printer (receipt printer) as a point of departure the visitors were be the subject of the accumulating publication and simultaneously active content providers.
 
Thermo print has the characteristic of vanishing after a while. With an easy hack of the printer software we capture the temporality and actuality of the event and printed matter as such. The zine content is exclusively accumulated by speaking into a microphone. With text to speech technology the spoken word translates to text. Simultaneously an algorithm is will run an automized image search on google, grabbing some of the words randomly and adding them to the zine.
                
                
           


H&D IS AN INITIATIVE THAT BRINGS TWO PROFESSIONS CLOSER TO EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A COMMON VOCABULARY AND COLLECTIVE CONCEPTS.
[[File:Zinefest-momentary-zine.jpg|Zinefest|600px]]
           
 
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[http://www.meetup.com/hackers-and-designers-amsterdam-nl meetup.com/hackers-and-designers-amsterdam-nl]
 
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De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
Check depunt.org for more info
 
 
 
*Bitcoin beer price based on the rate of August 31st 2015

Revision as of 12:14, 15 June 2017

Get the Font and Zine Karaoke
Name Get the font and Zine Karaoke
Location De PUNT
Date 2015/11/19
Time 19:00
PeopleOrganisations Hackers & Designers, Arjan Scherpenisse
Type Meetup
Web Yes
Print No

Get the Font

Momentary Zine installation: Make your own zine by speaking into the mic

The event started with a presentation of the H&D webpage, and continued with an open mic session, introducing the Momentary Zine project. Momentary Zine is an open publishing station, exploring the temporality of a printed matter. At this publishing station everyone is invited to co-create and examine editorial design matters such as cross-media publishing. By using a thermal (receipt) printer, the visitors could become a subject of accumulating a publication and to provide the content for the zine.

Thermo print has the characteristic of temporality, as it vanishes after a while. By hacking the printer software we captured the temporality and the actuality of the event and printed matter as such. The zine content was exclusively accumulated by visitors, speaking into a microphone. Spoken words were translated into a text with the use of a text-to-speech technology. Simultaneously with the text-to-speech conversion, another algorithm ran an automated image search on Google, using randomly selected words to search for pictures. Both words and pictures were printed assembled into a zine and printed on the spot.

The installation was followed by an essential conversation about the font scraping, where Arjan and Eric presented Get The Font, a platform created by scraping GitHub.


Zinefest