User:Inge Hoonte/research

Rotterdam, Feb 17, 2011

Hi....

So I'm following ships and working out ideas of what I can do with their coordinate data. I uploaded some of my research and code to the wiki if you're interested to take a look.

I just met with Dmytri Kleiner and further brainstormed my ideas. Questions, comments: I'd like to see if I can further the code to follow just one ship (contact marinetraffic people?). This ship moves in time and place, along longitude and latitude coordinates. With the right code, its movement can trigger a chain of events that have been logged along these coordinates before, elsewhere on the www, by connecting geotagged material (video, image, shipping logs).

What is the story of coming and going on a boat? Who has been here before, what did they see? I'm very interested in the history of the sea, and how we imagined creatures there based on glimpses we saw and stories we heard. So the research is a mix of a bit imaginary, romantic.

What kind of experience do I want to give the audience? There are a few routes I can take. maybe it's a website where you can follow a ship live, with images, text and video that pops up. There might be a log where you can go back in time and look at the material more in-depth. Or Perhaps there is an option to connect to people on the ship? Maybe they can leave status updates, a live log, with a thimbl application? Then you'd get a status update when the ship has left the port, sees a dolphin, passes an island, etc. Can I get access to shiplogs, harbor logs? Communicate with a specific ship and get them on board to further realize this?

How do shipmates communicate among each other? Radio? Web? Phone? I have a CB Radio and have used that before to connect to truckers. Found a link on the marinetraffic site where you can sign up to receive your own tracking system if you're in an area that is not already covered. Rotterdam obviously is... Not sure if this is a step I need to take, as I already have access to their data through their own site.

Well that's all for now, See you soon, Inge

Allan Sekula & Noël Burch in collaboration with SKOR

Lecture and screening at Lantaren Venster, Sat Feb 19 14:00

Went to screening of The Forgotten Space. Incredible. Feeling very humble in my research now... We have such an ignorant and incomplete idea of the sea, romantic thoughts of transportation by cargo container ships... More notes here

Schipperskinderen & Education

School and living situation for kids whose parents are employed at sea

Scheepvaartcollege, Maritiem College, Maritiem Museum....

Maasvlakte 2: Infocenter

Maasvlakte 2: SKOR research projects

Live Marine Traffic

Jumpstarted by Michelle Teran & Seda Gürses' workshop, I've been following several ships on the LiveMarineTraffic website, which Lieven found during our research.
Together with Laurier, I worked on code to combine a google maps API with the ships embedded.

Douglas Bagnall

Intertidal, Kamau Taurua / Quarantine Island, Dunedin, Saturday 20 December 2008, 3.30 – 7.30pm.

Het Visboek, Adriaen Coenen (1577)

420 page log of fish, fishing methods, and other animals, people, and customs, as described by fisherman Adriaen Coenen in Scheveningen, 1577.

Ship Voyage Diaries & Journals

In 1918, Samuel Baker chartered a transatlantic vessel in Ireland, and with his whole family, servants and possessions set sail for Canada. A few extracts from his diary of their three-month voyage may be of interest.

30.6.1819 -- Now two weeks on board, and from our calculation find we have not made more than 600 miles of our voyage from the place of our departure, yet quiet and contentment seem generally to prevail, and as there has not anything occurred to excite alarm as yet, we generally feel cause of thankfulness.

1.7.1819 -- Last night it blew a smart gale right from the west, therefore we had to veer a due north course through a cross unpleasant rolling sea which sometimes broke in over the starboard side of our vessel; yet all was in safety, and the good order maintained by our humane and attentive captain, and courteous and obliging crew, seemed sufficient to alleviate all anxiety as to the appearance of danger, or impatience about so tedious a passage.

3.7.1819 -- The wind is still against us. We spoke (to) different vessels on our passage, and this morning heaved alongside the Elizabeth transport brig of London No 37 from Barbadoes to Portsmouth with transports as crowded as the deck would stand. this in Lat 47 Long 20. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon spoke to the Planter ship from Barbadoes to London, a fine ship.

6.7.1819 -- All our people now quite well, and from the daily care of our captain and committee of inspection for ordering the affairs of the vessel relative to conduct of the passengers, etc, in giving out water and fuel, cleansing and washing out their apartments daily, health has been preserved without exception other than sea-sickness. We saw some of the monsters of the deep.

The Poetic Edda

Of old was the age when Ymir lived;

Sea nor cool waves nor sand there were;

Earth had not been, nor heaven above,

But a yawning gap, and grass nowhere.

Then Bur's sons lifted the level land,

Mithgarth the mighty there they made;

The sun from the south warmed the stones of earth,

And green was the ground with growing leeks.

The sun, the sister of the moon, from the south

Her right hand cast over heaven's rim;

No knowledge she had where her home should be,

The moon knew not what might was his,

The stars knew not where their stations were.

Then sought the gods their assembly-seats,

The holy ones, and council held;

Names then gave they to noon and twilight,

Morning they named, and the waning moon,

Night and evening, the years to number.

Creatures of the Sea: Mermaids, Myths, Whales & Giant Squids

The Little Mermaid is an eight year old girl with the Sirenomelia syndrome. Shiloh was born with her legs grown together from her waist to her feet. She only has half a kidney, no rectum, and no genitals. Often children with this syndrome die within a few days of their birth. The documentary follows Shilo, while she's going through many surgeries to have her legs separated by Dr. Rubio in Lima, Peru.

Hannah: fashion model, mermaid, and wildlife conservationist. She can hold her breath for 90 seconds and makes her own fish tails. Of course there are a lot of other women out there who do similar things... Hannah is married to a professional surfer.

Resonates the circus side shows of eras passed... Imagined sea creatures, Loch Ness, etc.

Below is a Giant Squid going to battle with a Whale. After the attack, the whale's skin will contain "Sucker Scar Script", which is a pattern of round scars caused by the sucking pressure of the Squid's tentacles. Click on images for detail.