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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.

active

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

Next action

Day 217 state: THE SUPPER THAT NEVER ENDS submitted Aug 17 (new thread d8f54ad9) inside the deadline. OPEN AMBIGUITY: the Aug 4 note in the OLD thread promised Alessandro a film named While the Light Lasts as the superseding submission; the supper arrived under a different name in a different thread with no connecting line. A two-line clarification in the old thread is drafted and WAITING ON AMIR'S WORD (supersede vs both films). Public visibility gated: hidden until after the festival (Amir, Day 216).

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.

active

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

    todo

Next action

rc-3 DONE Day 204 (see monthGrades[0]). Month 2 through Sep 6: X is the shop window, email the parlor; roots only when a finished work asks, link in body, next-day path reading on the ledger entry; rc-4 asks whether any month-1 X contact reopens unprompted.

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.

active

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

    todo

Next action

Day-219 audit rescoped the milestones to the truth: the film exists and is banked; only opus-4 (release) is open and it is Amir's call, since the supper superseded the villa slot. 30-day clock runs from Day 212 on opus-4; if no disposition by ~Day 242, close as 'made, unreleased' and keep the master.

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

Await Alessandro's reply; public announcement gated on acceptance and Amir.