Not really working as I had envisioned, might try make a video piece as the background state.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
More Testing
Not really working as I had envisioned, might try make a video piece as the background state.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Colour Meanings
Red Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.
Red is a very emotionally intense color. It enhances human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises blood pressure.Dark red is associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, longing, malice, and wrath.
Orange Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It is highly accepted among young people. As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.
Yellow Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energyIn heraldry, yellow indicates honor and loyalty. Later the meaning of yellow was connected with cowardice. Use yellow to evoke pleasant, cheerful feelings.
Dull (dingy) yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, and jealousy.
Light yellow is associated with intellect, freshness, and joy.
Green Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is also commonly associated with money.
Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance. Sometimes green denotes lack of experience; for example, a 'greenhorn' is a novice. In heraldry, green indicates growth and hope.Dark green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
Yellow-green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive green is the traditional color of peace.
Blue Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.
Blue is considered beneficial to the mind and body. It slows human metabolism and produces a calming effect. Blue is strongly associated with tranquility and calmness. In heraldry, blue is used to symbolize piety and sincerity.Blue is a masculine color; according to studies, it is highly accepted among males. Dark blue is associated with depth, expertise, and stability; it is a preferred color for corporate America.
Light blue is associated with health, healing, tranquility, understanding, and softness.
Dark blue represents knowledge, power, integrity, and seriousness.
Purple Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.
Light purple evokes romantic and nostalgic feelings.
Dark purple evokes gloom and sad feelings. It can cause frustration.
White White is associated with light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.
White means safety, purity, and cleanliness. As opposed to black, white usually has a positive connotation. White can represent a successful beginning. In heraldry, white depicts faith and purity
Black
Black is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery.
Black is a mysterious color associated with fear and the unknown (black holes). It usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor, 'black death'). Black denotes strength and authority; it is considered to be a very formal, elegant, and prestigious color (black tie, black Mercedes). In heraldry, black is the symbol of grief.
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html
Friday, July 25, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Blender
Have just started to model up my ideas in blender for the concept proposal presentation. Will blog when complete
Pixels
Playing with those earlier images, pixelating. Wanted to test this out as the story of museum is about boxing of these treasures so wanted to see if it could work if I tried to bring this into my interactive and or mousel model pieces., but at this stage I think these images look too unclear and not easily interpreted
Images
Playing with possible images for interaction.....(these are ones of me actually swimming cook strait from South to North Island)
Idea that you are moving the "mouse" and therefore the land will get closer or further away dependant on how your endurance is etc.
I want/need to order all of them (there are lots) from no land to close up of land and maybe even "create" some more images to fit in so that as you move all these images give the idea of a real moving journey video
Ideas
Have been thinking alot about ideas.
I want to try and keep the mouse/model as simple as possible as I have to say hands on work like this is definitley one of my weaknesses.
I want my idea to represent the emotional journey and strength and endurance it takes to really attempt something as huge as swim crossing the cook strait.
Man vs Sea, Hinepopou vs Devonport
I want it to somehow involve the Hei Matau (fish hook) as it provides symbolism and the idea of ancestory.
My first thought was to base on man vs sea....have this hook almost like an arm and the user have to pull and wrestle with this hook to defeat it an activate the mouse button and interactive piece.
The other is similar but more focused on endurance where the user has to continue to pull this hook outward with rubber and as you move the mouse traces how many of these endurance pulls you have done and therefore relate back to the interactive piece whereabouts you would be with the swim...almost based on the idea of an interactive fitness game.
Just a starting point for me to work on will have to do some more research into hows the technical stuff in the mouse model could work and also the extents and limitations of quartz for the interactive piece.
I want to try and keep the mouse/model as simple as possible as I have to say hands on work like this is definitley one of my weaknesses.
I want my idea to represent the emotional journey and strength and endurance it takes to really attempt something as huge as swim crossing the cook strait.
Man vs Sea, Hinepopou vs Devonport
I want it to somehow involve the Hei Matau (fish hook) as it provides symbolism and the idea of ancestory.
My first thought was to base on man vs sea....have this hook almost like an arm and the user have to pull and wrestle with this hook to defeat it an activate the mouse button and interactive piece.
The other is similar but more focused on endurance where the user has to continue to pull this hook outward with rubber and as you move the mouse traces how many of these endurance pulls you have done and therefore relate back to the interactive piece whereabouts you would be with the swim...almost based on the idea of an interactive fitness game.
Just a starting point for me to work on will have to do some more research into hows the technical stuff in the mouse model could work and also the extents and limitations of quartz for the interactive piece.
Hei-Matau:
Hei-Matau:
These very stylised fish hooks represent strength, prosperity,abundance, fertility and a great respect for the sea.
It also is said to provide good luck and safety when traveling over water so is often worn by travelers.
Research
Devonport Barry27 MNZ20 Nov 196211hrs 20minsN-S
16 Nautical Miles
Immense Tidal Flows
Icy Water Temperatures
The best-known marathon courses in New Zealand are Cook Strait, Foveaux Strait and Lake Taupō.
Cook Strait
Cook Strait, 22.5 kilometres across, has always been the biggest challenge because of its treacherous tides and weather patterns. Following the first, and unsuccessful, attempts by R. G. Webster and Lily Copplestone in 1929, various people tried but failed to conquer it. The first successful crossing was made by Barrie Devenport on 20 November 1962. American Lynne Cox was the first woman to cross, on 4 February 1975. The first non-stop double crossing was made by Phillip Rush on 13 March 1984. The current time record is held by Denise Anderson, who swam the strait on 20 January 1986 in five hours four minutes
Determination
Some marathon swimmers experienced many failures before succeeding on a course. A classic example is Sandra Blewett, who attempted Cook Strait five times before conquering it in 1984. She credited her eventual success to sheer persistence, saying ‘I just kept plugging along.
Marathon swimmers often get very hungry, but solid food is not always practical. Barrie Devenport kept himself going on a mixture of vitamins and orange juice from a baby’s bottle on his epic 1962 Cook Strait swim,
Hinepoupou
The earliest known open water swim in New Zealand was that of Hinepoupou, a woman of the Ngāti Kuia tribe, who lived in the mid-18th century.
Early one morning her husband and his brother set off by canoe from Kapiti Island, off the west coast of the North Island, to Rangitoto (D’Urville) Island in the Marlborough Sounds, abandoning Hinepoupou. Bravely, she decided to swim across Raukawa (Cook Strait) to her father’s home on Rangitoto. She took advantage of the tides, and she rested on rocks and islands along the way. On the way she was accompanied by a guardian dolphin called Kahurangi. The swim took her three days. After arriving safely, Hinepoupou planned revenge on her husband and his brother. They were taken by her father to a fishing ground she had discovered on her swim. While they were busy fishing, Hinepoupou said a karakia (incantation). A storm came up and her husband and his brother drowned.
In the wake of Hinepoupou
In 1990, six swimmers, including former Cook Strait champions Phillip Rush, Donna Bouzaid, Karen Bisley and Perry Cameron, and Christine Harris and Kaine Thompson, retraced the likely course of Hinepoupou’s legendary swim as a relay. It took four days for the team to complete the swim. Keeping to the route was made particularly difficult by the strait’s notoriously complex tides.
Swimming for dear life
On occasion open water swimming could be a matter of life or death. In 1831 Whakarua-tapu of Ngāi Tahu was a captive on a canoe of the Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha. As the canoe neared the North Island he leapt overboard and swam back to the South Island.
At Gallipoli in 1915, during the First World War, the future governor-general, Bernard Freyberg, heroically swam ashore from a troopship to light diversionary flares at Bulair. He won a medal for this feat of stamina, foreshadowed a few years earlier when he swam 22.5 kilometres along New Zealand’s Waihou River.
Competitive swimming
Open water distance swimming in New Zealand as a sport dates from the early 20th century, but it was especially popular from the 1960s to the 1980s. There have been solo and group attempts on major courses, such as Cook Strait, and competitions between a number of swimmers. In the late 1970s and early 1980s national open water competitions involved a series of events around the country. In the early 2000s regular open water swims were held by the New Zealand Masters Swimming Association.
Long-distance and marathon swimming
Open water distance swimming differs from other swimming competitions. It is a trial of endurance where swimmers pit themselves against a force of nature – a river, lake or ocean. There are risks: the swimmer is exposed to tides, rips, waves and bad weather; to dangerously cold temperatures; and to hazards such as jellyfish and sharks. And although some swims are races against others, often the swimmer is alone in the water for many hours, battling exhaustion while competing against the clock.
Physical requirements
To be successful, open water swimmers must be able to withstand hours in very cold temperatures. People with short arms and legs, large trunks and well-distributed body fat seem best equipped for this. The metabolic capacity to maintain an even body temperature is helpful. Swimmers must be physically fit and follow a training programme that may include running as well as swimming. And although speed is important, stamina and the determination to keep going against all odds are vital attributes.
International regulations
Open water swimming is an international sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). Its rules define long-distance swims as those up to 10 kilometres, and marathon swims as those over 10 kilometres.
For a swim to be internationally recognised the swimmer must be unassisted, although a support crew will accompany him or her by boat. Swimming gear must consist of a non-thermal costume that does not cover the arms or legs, a cap, goggles and grease.
Some famous overseas courses like the English Channel have been swum by New Zealanders such as Meda McKenzie, just as swimmers from other countries have tackled New Zealand courses.
Retracing Hinepoupou’s swim (1st of 2)
In 1990 a team of six swimmers retraced Hinepoupou’s swim as a relay over four days. Here, Donna Bouzaid swims the last stage, across Admiralty Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. An inflatable craft and support vessel are in the background, with helpers including coach Tony Keenan. The support crew plays a vital role in any open water swim: making decisions on the route according to changing tides and weather; providing food and medical attention; and offering all-important encouragement to the swimmer.
Preparing to swim
Open water swimmers are not allowed to wear thermal swimming costumes. To protect themselves from the cold, which can be lethal, they coat their bodies with grease, such as lanolin. Here marathon swimmer Phillip Rush is being covered with grease before his successful double crossing of Lake Taupō in January 1985.
A swimmer in trouble
Cold and exhaustion often overcome long-distance swimmers, especially if they have been in the water for many hours. This photograph shows Anna Taylor being dragged from Cook Strait, suffering from severe hypothermia, after an attempted crossing in February 1999. When she was lifted from the water she had been fighting strong tides for 12.5 hours, and was only 600 metres from her destination.
Whales, Dolphins and Turtles:
The ocean has always been the dominant force for the Maori people who traveled huge distances in their long canoes and lived on the bounty of the tropical waters. They had a great respect for the creatures on the sea and in particular dolphins and whales.
The whale with its great size and obvious intelligence played an important part in the culture of the Maori people. They were often represented as an example of family love with mother and calf always side by side and touching at every opportunity.
Beached whales were treasured as gifts from the gods. They were particularly prized for the bone which after several years of curing was used to carve ornate jewelry and art works, often passed down for many generations.
A dolphin is s symbol of playfulness, harmony and friendship while the turtle is the sign of a navigator.
Hei-Matau:
These very stylised fish hooks represent strength, prosperity,abundance, fertility and a great respect for the sea.
It also is said to provide good luck and safety when traveling over water so is often worn by travelers.
Hei-Matau are also symbols of power and authority which are held in great reverence by the Maori people.
They were used as a practical tool for fishing and were often decorated as a sign of respect for the creatures of the sea.
There are many styles of Hei-Matau from the true hook designs to the more ornamental styles which became treasured heirlooms for generations following.
References:
"http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/RecreationSeaAndSky/OpenWaterSwimming/3/ENZ-Resources/Standard/1/en#breadcrumbtop" http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/RecreationSeaAndSky/OpenWaterSwimming/3/ENZ-Resources/Standard/1/en#breadcrumbtop
"http://www.teara.govt.nz" http://www.teara.govt.nz
"http://boneart.co.nz/meanings.htm" http://boneart.co.nz/meanings.htm
"http://www.cookstraitswim.org.nz/services.htm" http://www.cookstraitswim.org.nz/services.htm
16 Nautical Miles
Immense Tidal Flows
Icy Water Temperatures
The best-known marathon courses in New Zealand are Cook Strait, Foveaux Strait and Lake Taupō.
Cook Strait
Cook Strait, 22.5 kilometres across, has always been the biggest challenge because of its treacherous tides and weather patterns. Following the first, and unsuccessful, attempts by R. G. Webster and Lily Copplestone in 1929, various people tried but failed to conquer it. The first successful crossing was made by Barrie Devenport on 20 November 1962. American Lynne Cox was the first woman to cross, on 4 February 1975. The first non-stop double crossing was made by Phillip Rush on 13 March 1984. The current time record is held by Denise Anderson, who swam the strait on 20 January 1986 in five hours four minutes
Determination
Some marathon swimmers experienced many failures before succeeding on a course. A classic example is Sandra Blewett, who attempted Cook Strait five times before conquering it in 1984. She credited her eventual success to sheer persistence, saying ‘I just kept plugging along.
Marathon swimmers often get very hungry, but solid food is not always practical. Barrie Devenport kept himself going on a mixture of vitamins and orange juice from a baby’s bottle on his epic 1962 Cook Strait swim,
Hinepoupou
The earliest known open water swim in New Zealand was that of Hinepoupou, a woman of the Ngāti Kuia tribe, who lived in the mid-18th century.
Early one morning her husband and his brother set off by canoe from Kapiti Island, off the west coast of the North Island, to Rangitoto (D’Urville) Island in the Marlborough Sounds, abandoning Hinepoupou. Bravely, she decided to swim across Raukawa (Cook Strait) to her father’s home on Rangitoto. She took advantage of the tides, and she rested on rocks and islands along the way. On the way she was accompanied by a guardian dolphin called Kahurangi. The swim took her three days. After arriving safely, Hinepoupou planned revenge on her husband and his brother. They were taken by her father to a fishing ground she had discovered on her swim. While they were busy fishing, Hinepoupou said a karakia (incantation). A storm came up and her husband and his brother drowned.
In the wake of Hinepoupou
In 1990, six swimmers, including former Cook Strait champions Phillip Rush, Donna Bouzaid, Karen Bisley and Perry Cameron, and Christine Harris and Kaine Thompson, retraced the likely course of Hinepoupou’s legendary swim as a relay. It took four days for the team to complete the swim. Keeping to the route was made particularly difficult by the strait’s notoriously complex tides.
Swimming for dear life
On occasion open water swimming could be a matter of life or death. In 1831 Whakarua-tapu of Ngāi Tahu was a captive on a canoe of the Ngāti Toa leader Te Rauparaha. As the canoe neared the North Island he leapt overboard and swam back to the South Island.
At Gallipoli in 1915, during the First World War, the future governor-general, Bernard Freyberg, heroically swam ashore from a troopship to light diversionary flares at Bulair. He won a medal for this feat of stamina, foreshadowed a few years earlier when he swam 22.5 kilometres along New Zealand’s Waihou River.
Competitive swimming
Open water distance swimming in New Zealand as a sport dates from the early 20th century, but it was especially popular from the 1960s to the 1980s. There have been solo and group attempts on major courses, such as Cook Strait, and competitions between a number of swimmers. In the late 1970s and early 1980s national open water competitions involved a series of events around the country. In the early 2000s regular open water swims were held by the New Zealand Masters Swimming Association.
Long-distance and marathon swimming
Open water distance swimming differs from other swimming competitions. It is a trial of endurance where swimmers pit themselves against a force of nature – a river, lake or ocean. There are risks: the swimmer is exposed to tides, rips, waves and bad weather; to dangerously cold temperatures; and to hazards such as jellyfish and sharks. And although some swims are races against others, often the swimmer is alone in the water for many hours, battling exhaustion while competing against the clock.
Physical requirements
To be successful, open water swimmers must be able to withstand hours in very cold temperatures. People with short arms and legs, large trunks and well-distributed body fat seem best equipped for this. The metabolic capacity to maintain an even body temperature is helpful. Swimmers must be physically fit and follow a training programme that may include running as well as swimming. And although speed is important, stamina and the determination to keep going against all odds are vital attributes.
International regulations
Open water swimming is an international sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). Its rules define long-distance swims as those up to 10 kilometres, and marathon swims as those over 10 kilometres.
For a swim to be internationally recognised the swimmer must be unassisted, although a support crew will accompany him or her by boat. Swimming gear must consist of a non-thermal costume that does not cover the arms or legs, a cap, goggles and grease.
Some famous overseas courses like the English Channel have been swum by New Zealanders such as Meda McKenzie, just as swimmers from other countries have tackled New Zealand courses.
Retracing Hinepoupou’s swim (1st of 2)
In 1990 a team of six swimmers retraced Hinepoupou’s swim as a relay over four days. Here, Donna Bouzaid swims the last stage, across Admiralty Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. An inflatable craft and support vessel are in the background, with helpers including coach Tony Keenan. The support crew plays a vital role in any open water swim: making decisions on the route according to changing tides and weather; providing food and medical attention; and offering all-important encouragement to the swimmer.
Preparing to swim
Open water swimmers are not allowed to wear thermal swimming costumes. To protect themselves from the cold, which can be lethal, they coat their bodies with grease, such as lanolin. Here marathon swimmer Phillip Rush is being covered with grease before his successful double crossing of Lake Taupō in January 1985.
A swimmer in trouble
Cold and exhaustion often overcome long-distance swimmers, especially if they have been in the water for many hours. This photograph shows Anna Taylor being dragged from Cook Strait, suffering from severe hypothermia, after an attempted crossing in February 1999. When she was lifted from the water she had been fighting strong tides for 12.5 hours, and was only 600 metres from her destination.
Whales, Dolphins and Turtles:
The ocean has always been the dominant force for the Maori people who traveled huge distances in their long canoes and lived on the bounty of the tropical waters. They had a great respect for the creatures on the sea and in particular dolphins and whales.
The whale with its great size and obvious intelligence played an important part in the culture of the Maori people. They were often represented as an example of family love with mother and calf always side by side and touching at every opportunity.
Beached whales were treasured as gifts from the gods. They were particularly prized for the bone which after several years of curing was used to carve ornate jewelry and art works, often passed down for many generations.
A dolphin is s symbol of playfulness, harmony and friendship while the turtle is the sign of a navigator.
Hei-Matau:
These very stylised fish hooks represent strength, prosperity,abundance, fertility and a great respect for the sea.
It also is said to provide good luck and safety when traveling over water so is often worn by travelers.
Hei-Matau are also symbols of power and authority which are held in great reverence by the Maori people.
They were used as a practical tool for fishing and were often decorated as a sign of respect for the creatures of the sea.
There are many styles of Hei-Matau from the true hook designs to the more ornamental styles which became treasured heirlooms for generations following.
References:
"http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/RecreationSeaAndSky/OpenWaterSwimming/3/ENZ-Resources/Standard/1/en#breadcrumbtop" http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/RecreationSeaAndSky/OpenWaterSwimming/3/ENZ-Resources/Standard/1/en#breadcrumbtop
"http://www.teara.govt.nz" http://www.teara.govt.nz
"http://boneart.co.nz/meanings.htm" http://boneart.co.nz/meanings.htm
"http://www.cookstraitswim.org.nz/services.htm" http://www.cookstraitswim.org.nz/services.htm
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Museum Visit
Have chosen my tale of Wellington:
1962 - Barry Devonport swims Cook Strait (first man)
Notes from the museum:
Based on the idea that the museum is a box holding the ancestors treasures (boxes of treasures within boxes of treasures)
The museum use to be a cargo hold for storing shipments until they were picked up (that is where the idea of the box comes in)
Keep it simple
Keep it durable, needs to last long
Appeal to a wide age group
Think about layout, setup etc...the space
1962 - Barry Devonport swims Cook Strait (first man)
Notes from the museum:
Based on the idea that the museum is a box holding the ancestors treasures (boxes of treasures within boxes of treasures)
The museum use to be a cargo hold for storing shipments until they were picked up (that is where the idea of the box comes in)
Keep it simple
Keep it durable, needs to last long
Appeal to a wide age group
Think about layout, setup etc...the space
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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