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Snow algae (Chlamydomonas nivalis), also known as watermelon snow or blood snow, was first thought to be meteorite dust. During a British expedition in 1818 to locate the Northwest Passage, Captain John Ross came across large patches of red snow near Greenland’s Cape York. It was incorrectly identified as iron-nickel meteorite detritus until Scottish Botanist, Robert Brown, suggested the red coloured snow could be due to an algae. Today there are over 60 known species of snow algae.
This is the algae I sampled today and from which the preceding micrograph in my photo stream was taken.
Photographed using a Sony Alpha 7R using a Nikkor PB-4 bellows and a Nikkor-Q 135mm f/4 bellows lens.
Drown, in the sea. Freshened with fresh rain drops or drenching splashes. Like swimming in the deep water.
Wet & Forget was applied to many surfaces in Mackinac Island including, wood roofs, stones, siding, and the oldest stone wall in Michigan. Most of these surfaces were covered with moss, mold, algae, and lichen.
29 frame focus stack, 10x microscope objective at 10 micron step intervals using StackShot www.flickr.com/photos/13084997@N03/4279012996/
"The best way to predict our future is to invent it."
(Alan Kay 1971)
Open Sailing aims to design and invent future lifestyles to overcome any possible natural and manmade disasters stimulating people’s ingenuity and sense of solidarity. Might it be global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where we are sniffing the ‘Apocalypse’, finally realising our human part of responsibility as the earth is crumbling. 2012 is a year when a collection of apocalyptic events are rumored to happen. We are taking 2012 as an ideal dystopic symbol we design for. 2012 is tomorrow, we must design quickly using these constraints and invent bootstrapping DIY technologies.
Open Sailing method is to convert apocalyptic threats into design constraints. From our compiled set of threat maps, we found that oceans are the safest locations. Ocean survival architecture became our new starting point, but we need to go further than surviving : how can we live together in this new fluid configuration and remain a hyper-connected intelligent social being? We are trying to make a truly “open architecture” : pre-broken, under-defined, reconfigurable, moveable, pluggable, organic, fluid. Can we reach a harmonious dynamic state of interdependence with each other and the earth? Is this the next step of civilization progress? Will we dissociate our concept of progress with infrastructure and metropolis?
NEXT STEPS IN 2009
Finding motivated knowledgeable collaborators and funders (february).
Prototyping technology equipment for ocean living, UK (march ~ april).
Testing the Open Sailing in the Atlantic ocean, Morocco (may).
Public presentation of Open Sailing researches (june)
Model made by
Martin gautron : martingautron.com
Hiromi Ozaki : hiromiozaki.com
Adrien Lecuru :
Cesar Harada : cesarharada.com
Photography direction, Cereinyn Ord : cereinyn.com/