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"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/
Codium fragile
So pretty, but I think it is a pest species spreading around the world. Originally from Japan.
Drown, in the sea. Freshened with fresh rain drops or drenching splashes. Like swimming in the deep water.
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this rug was one of the first things we picked out together for our new apartment. it's my favorite part of the room.
“Solenopora” jurassica Nicholson in Brown, 1894 - fossil red algae in limestone from the Jurassic of Britain. (field of view ~2.8 centimeters across)
Rhodophytes are red algae - they are the most common and widespread of marine macroalgae, but they often go unnoticed because of their frequently-dull coloration and nondescript growth forms. Over 7000 species of red algae are known in the Holocene - most of them are marine, plus some freshwater forms. Rhodophytes are also known in the fossil record. Very old fossil red algae have been reported from the upper Mesoproterozoic (~1.2 Ga) of northern Canada.
Red algae vary in color - not all are reddish. Rhodophytes can be red, pink, pale pink, lavender, purple, brownish-red, whitish, and yellowish. Fleshy red algae are usually weed-like to mossy to fuzzy in appearance. Calcareous red algae have skeletons with calcium carbonate (CaCO3 - calcite or aragonite). Calcareous red algae are important reef organisms - they include branching forms and crusts. Upon death, the hard part skeletal components of calcareous red algae become biogenic sediments in reef and peri-reef environments.
The remarkable fossil shown above is a "Solenopora" jurassica red alga with its pinkish coloration still preserved. It’s in a matrix of Middle Jurassic fossiliferous-oolitic limestone from Britain. Samples of this material have been nicknamed "beetroot stones". Biomarkers consistent with a rhodophyte affinity have been extracted from British beetroot stones (see Barden et al., 2015).
Previous studies have suggested that Jurassic fossils identified as Solenopora are not congeneric with the type species from the Ordovician of Estonia, Solenopora spongioides Dybowski, 1878. British Jurassic specimens are therefore assigned as "Solenopora" jurassica.
Classification: Rhodophyta, Rhodophyceae, “Solenoporaceae”
Stratigraphy: "Fieldbrash Deposit", Middle Jurassic (probably from the White Limestone Formation, Great Oolite Series, Bathonian Stage, upper Middle Jurassic, ~165-168 Ma)
Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site at or near the town of Cirencester, southern Gloucestershire County, western England (southern Britain)
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Reference cited:
Barden et al. (2015) - Geochemical evidence of the seasonality, affinity and pigmentation of Solenopora jurassica. PLOS One [= Public Library of Science One] 10(9): e0138305. 21 pp. (journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal...)
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.
The lake in the Sepulveda basin (Not Balboa; the other one. Does it have a name?) drains at the south, and the algae floating on swirling water made some interesting patterns. I took several pictures, and I'm still deciding if I like them.
NOTE: this picture is currently being linked from a site named "STL Beds" that has included this picture in an article about changing the water in a waterbed. I have no affiliation with STL Beds, and no opinion about the accuracy of the article or the merits of STL Beds.
moss? not quite. more like "algae", or "lichen".
the whole wall is covered, ten feet by six.
here in tallahassee. florida, usa, there is 60 inches of rain a year and
days in january of 70 degrees.
I took this photo after about three inches of rain fell, in two days, so the wall got really wet. The falling down shed is well rotted, probably held up by the stored material inside of it.
Note the shadows of the late afternoon creeping across this wall.
a closup, *almost* machro phot, perhaps *A* machro photo, as the camera was about a foot away from the wall, no magnification used.
Almost like artwork. the darker green has a very interesting pattern.