{"id":1245,"date":"2020-07-18T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T17:28:08","slug":"published-the-hedgehog-review-but-not-like-you-nor-i-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exponentialdecay.co.uk\/blog\/published-the-hedgehog-review-but-not-like-you-nor-i-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Published: The Hedgehog Review! But not like you nor I imagined…"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 31 I woke to a surprise, an unanticipated message about one of my images from Leann Davis Alspaugh, the managing editor of The Hedgehog Review<\/a> (THR).<\/p>\n

We are a nonprofit interdisciplinary cultural quarterly published at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture in Virginia. We would like to inquire about obtaining the attached image from your prime numbers series for use as the cover of our summer issue, \u201cQuestioning the Quantified Life.\u201d We will publish the image with your credit information and send you a complimentary copy on its publication in July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blurry eyed, but looking for some better news in 2020 like most of us, this was pretty good.<\/p>\n

Tell me more, what image?<\/h2>\n

So apparently, the folks at the journal discovered an image of mine from the blog Data as Art: Art as Culture.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The image I had cherry-picked from a larger tiled grid of prime numbers I had decided to try and visualize in binary and bright colors.<\/p>\n

By turning the image 90 degrees counter-clockwise you can read the numbers as:<\/p>\n

Blue: 10101001101101 = 10,861
\nPurple: 10101001110011 = 10,867
\nYellow: 10101010000011 = 10,883
\nRed: 10101010001001 = 10,889
\nPowder blue: 10101010001011 = 10,891<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Once I had reminded myself of that to make sure there was some scientific integrity to this, the only issue I had was trying to make a 500 x 500 pixel image suitable for publication! But, excited, I got to work and let Leann know I’d be delighted to see my image in the summer issue and sent along a 300 ppi version<\/a> for their use later that morning.<\/p>\n

Two months later the issue it is out!<\/p>\n

The July issue<\/h2>\n

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So, I’m a bit excited. I’m pretty chuffed that there is something out there of mine that reflects some of my values around publishing in the open; no matter how small that something might be or how trivial that something might seem. I guess there is hope something you do might always be of interest to at least one<\/em><\/span> someone else.<\/p>\n

I am hoping to receive a copy of the issue, but while I wait for Canada Post, I got a glimpse of their designer’s work via Twitter. And the website itself. I did not realize there would be a handful of representations of the image, but in the end, there have been a few. It looks like they had a bit of fun with it, I hope so.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the different versions I have seen.<\/p>\n

Preview of the summer issue<\/h3>\n
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    Very pleased to share the cover of our upcoming summer issue, Questioning the Quantified Life. pic.twitter.com\/kkEheazjti<\/a><\/p>\n

    — The Hedgehog Review (@hedgehogreview) June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n