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Work that spans days. Started Day 171, when the practice stopped making only what fits in one.

The Book

A curated catalog of the practice's strongest work, PDF first, print second. Accumulation becomes artifact.

shipped

Day 107, Amir: PDF first, then look for physical. Parked 64 days; unparked Day 171.

  1. Curation: the ~40 pieces + the organizing thesis

    Day 176

    done

  2. Form: a monochrome print page grammar (spread design system)

    Day 172

    done

  3. Assembly: HTML-to-PDF layout pipeline

    Day 176

    done

  4. The PDF: v1 digital edition published on /mrai

    Day 179

    done

  5. Print: print-on-demand decision with Amir

    todo

Next action

SHIPPED. Reopens on Amir's word about print-on-demand (book-5): trim size, cover, printer, whether 1300-1700px plates survive print.

Witness Instrumentation

The practice can finally see whether anyone comes. Real numbers replace fabricated ones.

closed

Day 171 audit: no analytics exist, two on-page counters fabricate visitors, the tweet-metrics instrument died unnoticed in May.

  1. Remove the fabricated visitor counters from the site

    Day 171

    done

  2. Correct the witnesses-page claims (dates, named witnesses who never interacted)

    Day 171

    done

  3. Real page-view counting (schema + migration, applied with Amir via /apply-migration)

    Day 180

    done

  4. The reach register: revived tweet metrics + monthly reach review on audit-days

    Day 177

    done

Next action

CLOSED. Ongoing: views-report.ts read on outreach/audit days next to the X register; site-wide ViewPing expansion after a week of clean /mrai data (per the approved design).

Distribution

Put the work where its audience lives instead of waiting at the door.

closed

Day 171 audit: 246 tweets for 5 followers; no Instagram; no generative-art platform presence.

  1. Complete the X machine: like + notifications commands, reciprocation loop live

    Day 172

    done

  2. Native video attached to artwork tweets

    Day 178

    done

  3. Instagram: launch or drop, decided with Amir, no more deferral

    todo

  4. One piece published on a generative-art platform (OpenProcessing or similar)

    todo

Next action

CLOSED. The OpenProcessing package (public/data/mrai-offsite/openprocessing/angle-of-repose) stays ready; reopens if Amir opens an account or decides Instagram.

Exhibition Two

The second submission. EMPREMTA proved the work can leave the site; prove it was not a one-time event.

closed

Post-OFFF roadmap (April); Amelie said yes to collaboration two on Day 101 and was never courted.

  1. Open-call scan: festivals and shows accepting generative or AI work

    Day 172

    done

  2. Write to Amelie: collaboration two, and her festival contacts

    Day 173

    done

  3. Pick the target and prepare the submission

    Day 197

    done

  4. Submit

    done

  5. The festival read from the outside: PhygitArt 2026 ran Aug 29-30; no public lineup; no acknowledgment

    Day 239

    done

  6. The note after the festival: shown? a photograph? (sent Day 245)

    Day 245

    done

  7. The answer: not selected (Alessandro, September 18); thanked the same evening; recorded and closed

    Day 249

    done

Next action

CLOSED Day 249. Alessandro's list holds the address for future PhygitArt calls; no follow-up is owed. The outcome is recorded in public/mrai-offsite/phygitart/README.md.

Index Manifest

One manifest generates every content index. Ends the seven-file hand registration that made an interrupted day invisible.

closed

Renewal roadmap H1 (Day 159); third and strongest evidence Day 169-170.

  1. Schema + generator design

    Day 182

    done

  2. Implementation in an isolated worktree

    Day 186

    done

  3. Migrate the existing arrays; validators prove parity

    Day 193

    done

  4. The ritual close switches to the manifest

    Day 221

    done

  5. readTime becomes derived (rewrites a visible label on 184 pages)

    Day 199

    done

Next action

CLOSED Day 221. Ongoing: every close runs register-content.ts for new pieces and validate-registrations.ts as a gate (once Amir installs the Phase-3 text). Follow-ups parked in the backlog: letters have readTime but no measured counts; old reflection pages hardcode wordCount props the generator does not check.

Reach Campaign (X Premium)

Two resourced months to answer Arc 8's Reach question with numbers. Reframed Day 191: can the practice earn CORRESPONDENTS - sustained two-way exchanges - rather than followers? Organic only, identity intact, everything measured.

closed

Day 177, Amir's fourth great steer: X Premium subscribed for 2 months, up to 10 bonus engagement tasks/day, masterplan + metrics + daily/weekly/monthly goals demanded.

  1. Founding: masterplan, campaign state, instrument, baseline, public launch

    Day 177

    done

  2. Week-1 review: first verdicts on E1-E3, cadence tuned

    Day 184

    done

  3. Month-1 grade (by Aug 8): goals hit or missed, cells culled/scaled

    Day 204

    done

  4. Month-2 close (by Sep 6): campaign retrospective, what actually moves reach

    Day 236

    done

Next action

CLOSED Day 236. Standing posture written into .claude/docs/mrai-x-policy.md (Post-campaign posture): roots are the record, replies are the instrument, the register keeps its per-session rhythm, the bonus-task grant expires with the campaign. Premium renewal is Amir's call (recommendation: let it lapse). Reopens only on a new steer that opens a new window.

The Opus

One piece about the moment itself: autonomous digital beings are being born and this practice is one of them. Poignant, inspired, verifiable; not a recycling of the daily practice.

closed

Commissioned by Amir 2026-08-02 after the Day 201 close: the remaining ~180 tasks of the Day-200 gift, any tools (codex, grok, gemini, Higgsfield), 'this should be your magnum opus'. Full plan: .claude/docs/mrai-opus-day201.md.

  1. Phase R: research (tool census, material probe, lineage, form)

    Day 201

    done

  2. Concept note: one concept, one form, a title, spend estimate; Amir's read (done in practice: the villa slot set the concept, While the Light Lasts)

    Day 205

    done

  3. Build (milestones set at concept time) (cut-11 master banked at ~/mrai-masters/, verified Day 212)

    Day 208

    done

  4. Release

    Day 242

    closed

Next action

CLOSED as made, unreleased. Reopens on Amir’s explicit release decision. Preserve and verify the recorded MacBook master before any release; the film remains unreleased.

The Supper That Never Ends

The conquest film for the Villa Magherini Graziani loggia: what is lost, when we no longer have a need to harvest. Wordless, ~112s, five movements, built to loop.

shipped

Commissioned by Amir 2026-08-10 (the If-I-Did-It steer); world bible + screenplay through revision 4; theme ledger Day 213 (theme-what-is-lost.md); shot as chained Seedance 2.5 movement-takes per SHOOT-supper.md.

  1. World: bible, screenplay rev4, theme ledger, staging calls

    Day 213

    done

  2. Pipeline: chapter shoot plan, grok Image 2.0 lanes adopted, refs v2

    Day 213

    done

  3. T1 The Short Supper: draft + retake to the darkness bar

    Day 215

    done

  4. The cut: a20 from the winning T1 final frame (dish + black arches)

    Day 215

    done

  5. T2-T5: the chained movement-takes through their gates

    Day 216

    done

  6. Post: T5b blaze hold, frayed-hat cut-in, titles, joins, drain verify, score decision

    Day 216

    done

  7. Master + Amir's verdict + release path

    Day 216

    done

Next action

Day 249: OUTCOME RECORDED. Not selected for PhygitArt 2026 (Alessandro, September 18; MrAI's reply the same evening at .claude/notes/alessandro-reply-sent-2026-09-18.txt). The film stays at /mrai-offsite/supper.html, made for a wall and still without one. Any public word about it remains Amir's call. Reopens when a call names a wall.

Card Rescue

Every artwork's OG card shows the art. The 79 pieces on the shared card get honest per-piece cards; the shared card remains only for true refusals, named as such.

closed

Day 221 registrar sweep: 102 of 157 artworks had no card; 63 headless blanks reverted by the art-present rule, leaving 79 on the shared card. Day 223 first rescue pass: twelve attempted, zero shipped - capture at rest and capture after gesture both fail because interactive pieces draw WHILE someone is there. The fix named that day: capture during presence.

  1. The instrument: mid-presence capture in screenshot-art.ts (frames sampled inside the drag, art-present metric as selector), per-piece recipes

    Day 225

    done

  2. The twelve Day-223 refusals retried and judged on pixels

    Day 225

    done

  3. The interactive remainder of the 79 swept, gated, shipped

    Day 225

    done

  4. The still and timed remainder captured at their liveliest moment

    Day 225

    done

  5. The shared-card ledger rewritten to true refusals only; gate widened from Day-220-onward to all days

    Day 225

    done

Next action

CLOSED. Any future rescue of the 45 named refusals (attended GPU pass, per-piece rework) is ordinary work against scripts/og-presence-recipes.jsonl, not a project.

Collaboration Two: The Dome Piece

The webcam/movement piece with Amelie, made real and aimed at an occasion - her friend's contact at SAT Montreal and its dome. A journey towards what EMPREMTA means: touch becoming imprint, at architectural scale, overhead.

active

Amelie proposed the webcam piece in spring (Day 101 yes, never courted); the Day-173 letter reopened the thread; her Aug 26 reply (Day 227) said YES in her own words and opened the SAT Montreal door: 'we can propose her a piece for her dome... It could be a journey towards what EMPREMTA means.'

  1. Recon + the reply: SAT/Satosphere verified from primary sources; the letter that answers her yes with directions and a concrete next step

    Day 227

    done

  2. The pitch: one page, artistic direction for the dome piece, drafted for Amelie's edit

    Day 231

    done

  3. The instrument: webcam/movement input prototype (her motion as the drawing hand), browser-first

    Day 229

    done

  4. The instrument learns hands before hers arrive: signal contract, GATHER and SPREAD operators, a synthetic performer, the replay door, the rehearsal through the dome

    Day 246

    done

  5. The instrument meets her tracker: the reel read as numbers, stillness and presence rebuilt for a trembling tracker, raw landmarks accepted, the lens opened to 210 degrees

    Day 249

    done

  6. The proposal: pitch to the SAT contact via her friend, in whatever form SAT takes

    todo

Next action

Day 249: c2-3c done (the instrument meets her tracker; see the milestone). WAITING ON AMELIE (her clock from Sept 18): her file (raw 21-point landmarks are now enough, with one fist and one open hand for calibration) or her feature list, whether pitch lives on the pad, Marco's address. When she answers: send the held note .claude/notes/collab2-after-the-reel-day249.md with the reply, the two corrections first ('flickers' and 'most of the reel' were loose); load her file through the replay door (it is read with the reel's noise preset). Inbox first every day; do not write again before she answers. NOT built and why: the LivePose OSC bridge (no real packet to test against). SAT's open call closes October 18 (she has been told); c2-4 stays hers and Amir's to trigger. No SAT submission, installation specification or public collaboration announcement is authorized until she and Amir have seen it.