future unknowened

In order to prevent this Khrushchev decided to make Cuba a special offer. The offer was to give Cuba more than 100 tactical nuclear weapons that had been shipped to Cuba along with the long-range missiles, but which crucially had passed completely under the radar of US intelligence. Khrushchev concluded that because the Americans hadn't listed the missiles on their list of demands, the Soviet Union's interests would be well served by keeping them in Cuba.

On the the 1st of august 2063 The United States of America unilaterally declared war on The Republic of Cuba. Unbeknown to the North Americans Cuba was in possession of 100 tactical nuclear weapons left as a   secret gift from the USSR after the Cuban missile crises of 1962. They where all antiques.

Late at night on the 1st of August 2063 Cuba launched 73 nuclear missiles against US armed forces and city of Miami.  Two missiles reached Miami, One landed on the the St Joseph's Catholic Church but failed to detonate, the other hit the downtown area killing twenty thousand people almost instantly.

In the retaliation that followed 32 % of the population of cuba was killed including the former president Fidel Castro. He was vaporised in his bed at the age of 138 years old.  havana

In the retaltion that followed and the wider conflict that followed that 72.6 million people died in the space of three weeks.

As of the 26th of February 2063 Ariel Sharon was the worlds second oldest former leader of state after Cuba's Fidel castro. as of the 2nd of August 2063 he became the worlds oldest former Leader of state.

He has spent the last 55 years in a coma or "persistent vegetative state" after suffering a stroke in 2006

In 2041 he received a recived an honorary doctorate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

After the death of her husband Mary spent the next few years heading south. Eventually she settled in the town of San José in the Araucanía Region of Chile.

Over time Mary became a prominent member of the community.

In 2094 Mary Smith became the Chair of the regional council of Araucanía. She was A leading figure in the movement for Araucania's succession from the Republic of Chile

From the Peripheries it comes, it comes, it comes...

Space Oddity

odd adaptation of poem by Robinson Jeffers

 Abridged text extracted for re-curved appropriation in map form:::

"The she-eagle is old, her mate was shot long ago......When lightning blasted her nest she built it again on the same tree, in the splinters of the thunderbolt. The she-eagle is older than I; she was here when the fires of eighty-five raged on these ridges

Humanity has multiplied, men's hopes and thoughts and customs have changed, their powers are enlarged, Their powers and their follies have become fantastic!

Poster for UTR

I produced this poster for Upset the Rhythm in order to reacquaint myself with the screen printing processes ahead of using it in the printing of my map. Its a 3 color print blue orange and gold mixed with yellow.     

Extract from Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe.

Bünting clover leaf map

 TAMBURLAINE.

     
     .....Give me a map; then let me see how much
     Is left for me to conquer all the world,
     That these, my boys, may finish all my wants.
          [One brings a map.]
     Here I began to march towards Persia,
     Along Armenia and the Caspian Sea,
     And thence unto 307 Bithynia, where I took
     The Turk and his great empress prisoners.
     Then march'd I into Egypt and Arabia;
     And here, not far from Alexandria,
     Whereas 308 the Terrene 309 and the Red Sea meet,
     Being distant less than full a hundred leagues,
     I meant to cut a channel to them both,
     That men might quickly sail to India.
     ]From thence to Nubia near Borno-lake,
     And so along the Aethiopian sea,
     Cutting the tropic line of Capricorn,
     I conquer'd all as far as Zanzibar.
     Then, by the northern part of Africa,
     I came at last to Graecia, and from thence
     To Asia, where I stay against my will;
     Which is from Scythia, where I first began, 310
     Backward[s] and forwards near five thousand leagues.
     Look here, my boys; see, what a world of ground
     Lies westward from the midst of Cancer's line
     Unto the rising of this 311 earthly globe,
     Whereas the sun, declining from our sight,
     Begins the day with our Antipodes!
     And shall I die, and this unconquered?
     Lo, here, my sons, are all the golden mines,
     Inestimable drugs and precious stones,
     More worth than Asia and the world beside;
     And from th' Antarctic Pole eastward behold
     As much more land, which never was descried,
     Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright
     As all the lamps that beautify the sky!
     And shall I die, and this unconquered?
     Here, lovely boys; what death forbids my life,
     That let your lives command in spite of death.......

AMERICAN MAPS ARE BAD!

SAN JOSE - Costa Rica

San Jose - Costa Rica is a new Rome!

The Postcard

San Jose, Costa Rica postcard sent To Germany in 1913

 More Postcards

Draft plan map

If the ocean in this part of my map is the future plain of some sort of warped cartography / chronological form, then this could be a pessimistic sentiment formed from the froth of the ocean's potential movement. This surface at the bottom half would represent out the outwards towards the future. 

72.1 percent of the earth’s surface is ocean according to some. 

THE COSMIC OCEAN

"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From this shore we have learned most of what we know. Recently we have waded our way out, maybe ankle deep, and the water seems inviting" - Carl Sagan, optimist. 

Snow by E. E. Cummings

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Alexandra, Falmouth, San José 

three names, many places

FALMOUTH TO ALEXANDRIA

"The voyage from Falmouth to Egypt is exactly of the same length with that from Bristol to New York. Hitherto it has been performed from England to Malta and from Malta to Alexandria"


On steam navigation, Chambers's Journal - W&R. Chambers, 1839

SAN JOSE

Argentina:

• San José, Entre Ríos
• San José de Feliciano, Entre Ríos
• San José de Jáchal, San Juan
• San José de Metán, Salta

Belize:

• San José, Orange Walk District

Chile:

• San José de la Mariquina

Colombia:

• San José de Cúcuta, the unused official name of the city and municipality of Cúcuta, Norte de Santander
• San José del Guaviare a town and municipality in the Guaviare Department
• Valle San José a town and municipality in the Santander Department
• San Jose de Ocune a town and municipality in the Vichada Department
• San José, Caldas a town and municipality in the Caldas Department

Costa Rica:

• San José Province, a province
• San José Canton, a canton in the province of San José
• San José de Alajuela, a village and district in the canton of Alajuela in the province of Alajuela
• San José de Atenas, a district in the canton of Atenas in the province of Alajuela
• San José de El Amparo, a village in the district of El Amparo in the canton of Los Chiles in the province of Alajuela
• San José de Grecia, a village and district in the canton of Grecia in the province of Alajuela
• San José de Naranjo, a district in the canton of Naranjo in the province of Alajuela
• San José de San Isidro, a district in the canton of San Isidro in the province of Heredia
• San José de Upala, also known as Pizote, a district in the canton of Upala in the province of Alajuela
• San Jose de la Montaña de Barva, a village and district in the canton of Barva in the province of Heredia
• San José Sur de Atenas, a village in the district of San José in the canton of Atenas in the province of Alajuela

Ecuador:

• San Jose, Santa Elena

Guatemala:

• San José Acatempa
• San José Chacayá
• San José El Idolo
• San José La Arada
• San José Ojetenam
• San José Pinula
• San José Poaquil
• San José del Golfo
• San José, El Petén
• San José, Escuintla
• Puerto San José

Northern Mariana Islands:

• San Jose, Saipan village, Saipan
• San Jose, Tinian village, Tinian

Mexico:

• San José, Durango
• San José, Querétaro
• San José, San Luis Potosí
• San José, Sonora
• San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur
• San José Iturbide, Guanajuato
• San José Xicoténcatl, Tlaxcala
• San José Villa de Allende, State of México

Panama:

• David, Panama, officially called San José de David

Paraguay:

• San José de los Arroyos
• San José Obrero

Peru:

• San José District (disambiguation), districts in Peru.

Philippines:

• San Jose, Batangas
• San Jose, Camarines Sur
• San Jose, Dinagat Islands
• San Jose, Negros Oriental
• San Jose, Northern Samar
• San Jose City, Nueva Ecija
• San Jose, Occidental Mindoro
• San Jose, Romblon
• San Jose, Tarlac
• San Jose de Buan, Samar
• San Jose de Buenavista, Antique
• San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan
• San Jose Sico, Batangas, Batangas

Spain:

• San José de Níjar, Almería
• San José, Ibiza
• San José del Valle, Cádiz

United States:

• San Jose, Arizona, a community in Graham County, Arizona
• San Jose, Arizona, a satellite town, part of the city of Bisbee, Arizona
• San Jose, California, tenth largest city in the United States and third largest in California
• South San Jose Hills, California
• San Jose, Illinois

Uruguay:

• San José de Mayo
• San José Department

POTENT OTTOMAN

Some visual  experiments on potential map layout

Perspective Sketch

Picture of nations or perspective sketch of the course of empire. To accompany Willard's Universal history in perspective. Entered ... 1835, by F.J. Huntington ... Connecticut. (1836)
ZOOM VIEW

Richard Edes Harrison known for making birds-eye view maps

ZOOM VIEW

More examples here 

Explore this map here 

Austerlitz by Sebald

Pictured below are drawings mapping some examples of 19th-century fortifications. The fortifications of Antwerp are featured in Austerlitz by Sebald. In the book It is explained that each time a new ring of fortification was built around Antwerp, advances in siege techniques made them obsolete, so the Belgians had to commission further defences to proctect the obsolete ones. Unfortunately there complexity ensured that they would never be finished before they became redundant, at which point new walls would have to be constructed. The final fort stood useless until the second world war, when the Germans decided to turn it into a concentration camp. Below the images are two extracts from Austerlitz discussing the fortifications.

Tilbury Fort, Near Gravesend Kent

Fort Breendon and its outer rings,  Antwerp


"Yet, he said, it is often our mightiest projects that most obviously betray the degree of our insecurity.  The construction of fortification, for instance…clearly showed how we feel obliged to keep surrounding ourselves with defences, built in successive phases as a precaution against any incursion by enemy powers, until the idea of concentric rings making their way steadily outward comes up against its natural limits…"

"No one today…has the faintest idea of the boundless amount of theoretical writings on the building of fortifications, of the fantastic nature of the geometric, trigonometric, and logistical calculations they record…yet even from our present standpoint we can see that towards the end of the seventeenth century the star-shaped dodecagon behind trenches had finally crystallised, out of the various available systems, as the preferred ground plan: a kind of ideal typical pattern, which indeed…strikes the layman as an emblem both of absolute power and of the ingenuity the engineers put to the service of that power.  In the practice of warfare, however, the star-shaped fortresses which were being built and improved everywhere during the eighteenth century did not answer their purpose, for intent as everyone was on that pattern, it had been forgotten that the largest fortifications will naturally attract the largest enemy forces, and the more you entrench yourself the more you must remain on the defensive…The frequent result…of resorting to measures of fortification marked in general by a tendency toward paranoid elaboration was that you drew attention to your weakest point, practically inviting the enemy to attack it, not to mention the fact that as architectural plans became increasingly complex, the time it took to build them increased as well, and with it the probability that as soon as they were finished, if not before, they would have been overtaken by further developments, both in artillery and in strategic planning, which took account of the growing realisation that everything was decided in movement, not in a state of rest."

GEORGETOWN

Georgetown, Guyana // Georgetown, Washington DC // Georgetown, Bahamas // Georgetown, Penang // Georgetown, Tasmania 

Perth, Westen Australia // Perth, Scotland

River Tay // Swan River

OVER AND OVER!

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania // Bethlehem, Palestine 

Falmouth, UK // Falmouth, Jamaica

Palestine // Palestine, Texas  

This map tells a story

Clarke Hutton endpaper map from a book of pictorial history. And here Clarke Huttons illustrations for the tale of noah and the flood

Single page narrative

Rama's Army Crosses the Ocean to Lanka - As part of the british museum's Garden and Cosmos – Royal Paintings of Jodhpur

George Him/ Ann Thwaite/ The Day with the Duke. Above; Map featured on the endpaper. Is a map a single page narrative?. Below; The children are taken home.

Endpaper map from the BBC YEARBOOK from 1932






























Lots of interesting examples of this phenomenon on this website 

Map printed by Risograph

Risograph printing, to be considered ?

Lunar phase map

Katherine Venturelli Lunar Journey

Depiction of the lunar phases, Turkish map fold.

1858 Histoire Universelle

ZOOM VIEW

THIS BOOK IS......

( Pictured here being built )

FINISHED! 

Word Snake Two

Names and dates imply a movement and progression in a chronography. 


Numbers-- known --future 
                     future--event-- unknown  

Jessie Garon Presley

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 Gladys Presley believed that Elvis's still born twin was acting as his protecting angel. “when one twin dies the one who lives get the strength of both" - she  said this  in a interview with women's weekly magazine in 1956

Success!

After the death of elvis Heniz's career went from strength to strength.

After the death of elvis Heniz's  career went from strength to strength>>> HOWEVER By 1987 his development company was running into trouble and ECD Iserlohn could no longer pay it's bills and Heinz could not find anyone who would help him in germany So Heinz turned to friends he had made in libya.  On the 4th of december 1987 ECD Iserhohn took to the ice in shirts sponsored by colonel gaddafi's green book. They lost the game. By the 5th of december 1987 ECD iserhohn where banned from the league for violating the political neutrality of the sport.
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Central section of the book

ZOOM VIEW

This is the central section of my book, up until this point the narratives and images are being developed in my prototype book. The structure of this prototype book served as the constraints within which my story could evolve. At this point I am now moving on to plan the rest of the book including the ending externally from my original book, I will do this in my research journal. it will be interesting to see how this change of approach affects the evolution of my story. Hopefully it will not be too noticeable to anyone else but me. The reason I want to plan and render separately to my original prototype is because I feel this will be a more beneficial in reaching the endpoint of the story. I feel now I have understood and accepted the constraint of the form of the book it would make sense to free myself from the physical constraint of working within that tatty badly bound prototype.

Accordion Books

The  concertina format lends itself well to a linear open-poetic reading this is why I want to utilise this format for my project




There  are some more great examples in this brilliant blog about all things concertina;

http://www.accordionpublications.blogspot.co.uk/

The Birth of the Machine Consciousness by Jonathan Rosen 

This is The Birth of the Machine Consciousness by Jonathan Rosen A beautifully made concertina book that we have in our cabinet in the studio.  the structure of this book influenced my decisions on how to construct my final book. I really like the white on black embossed drawings on the coverings,   this is another good example of way   concertinas  lend themselves to an open poetic reading.

Wall Book

My wall is my sketchbook. It is an evolving sketchbook that unfortunately I failed to document much.  it serves its purpose very well for me. At the end of this project I will take all these scraps and place them in a book. this will not do justice to my constantly changing, ever useful wall book.


Today I took my wall book down. This is not a sad day,  new beginnings! ywaa.

Vilém Flusser talking about thought - transript

Untitled (Book) Philip Guston 1968

Thought is an absurd process. We think, in order to think no more, we talk, in order to stop talking. Thought is absurd, but it is what makes us what we are, thinking things, humans. To be human is to be absurd. To be human is to be expelled from the innocence of Paradise, to be expelled from integration. To be human is to be an outcast, a being in banishment, in short: a thinking absurd being. Let us accept this absurdity, let us think as much a possible, let us doubt on as many [levels] as possible. Rilke says that the foundation of our existence has expelled us, risking us. Let us accept that risk. Let us refuse to be made prisoners of the tired and boring conversation now under way in the Western civilization, that tedious conversation called “progress”. Let us not be afraid of new words and new thoughts. Let us open new openings and experience new amazements.


HA whats his problem with progress, what all the fuss. I know. I think I know.

I like this quote

The “uncomfortableness” of the voice and text in music and art

This will be the title of my essay, I will be looking into one tiny aspect of how we use and understand language, concentrating specifically on the relationship between the recorded voice and music. I will be seeking parallels between that and the relationship between printed image and text.

My approach will be a reductive one, as I am not an audio scientist or skilled musician nor am I a language theorist. I sing and record songs and I am a drawer and printer of image and text. In my work I am interested in the way images and text are loaded with external connotations.  I like to play with these connotations; fitting pieces together in combinations of text and image in order to explore the way I read image and text.  My personal standpoint as someone who struggles with written language that at times can appear completely alien towards me but for which I have an immense enthusiasm; this is a motivating factor in the desire to incorporate language into my drawings. Maybe by adopting language I hope I can persuade myself to accept it? Or more likely I hope that it will accept me?blabllalabab!


So is it is my uncomfortable relationship to language that motivates me to seek out and define as positive a 'uncomfortableness' in the way language operates? 

I'm not going to attempt to prove any link between music and art, what I will concentrate on is a parallel “uncomfortableness" that I perceive between the ways we integrate language into these two aspects of our culture. A clunkiness  in  the way we use language as a conveyor of meaning and thought and as an element incorporated into our creative practice.

What came first music or language?

Which came first the hummingbird or the talking egg? Music or language? For answers to the questions of prehistory we have to look to the assertions of scientists. Charles Darwin was a scientist.

In his book "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" Darwin argued that there existed a 'musical protolanguage' model that existed before the use of ordered vocal patterns to convey meaningful instruction.

Hello can you understand my ordered vocal pattern?

Statement about my current project

Statement about my current project

To remind myself in a few paragraphs how to explain what I'm doing.

With this book I am playing with the idea of coincidences. I'm taking well-known figures Col Gaddafi, Elvis Presley and a slightly unknown ex ice hockey team owner from the 5th largest city in Germany with the intention of discovering significant coincidences in their lives and links between their stories. I chose these figures in a relatively arbitrary fashion with only two links initially in mind; a place; Germany and a date; January 8^th 1935, Elvis's birthday.  

Upon further research and subsequently drawing upon the further similarities I discovered my intention was to utilise the way coincidences resonate and are understood to show a world in which actions or events can be seen as part of a larger pattern or structure. Although slightly absurdly straightforward I find this idea reassuring, every individuals life events as part of them and as part of the whole mesh in the pattern, possibly. I will key into this perceived pattern with the visual and physical structure of the finished book. There will be multiple ways of reading the book as will follow from the pattern of things and events depicted in the book. These multiple ways of viewing the pages will offer new juxtapositions between images and text when the book is extended accordion style.

My attempt is not prove anything pseudoscientific or spiritually enlightening. I am perceiving pattern in the life stories of well-known others because I'm looking for it; as if interpreting forms from patches on a wall or clouds in the sky. Pattern only exists because we attach so much significance to that which re-occurs, happens again. What I find really interesting is the way intuitively we can attach significance and read meaning to these patterns. It's funny which ones we pay attention to and which ones we don't.

The tone of the book should hang somewhere between the absurd and something resonates slightly meaningfully. Hopefully.

Rejected figures for book

The Pope, Niccolò Machiavelli and Paul Kammerer were all initially considered for my developing narrative but they have all now been rejected, I think it is important to note this at this time.

Language is a virus from outer space

Language is a virus from outer space said William Burroughs but who said;

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

this website with bright green text on a black background does not know for my upcoming essay i will be writing about music ( and image and thought) here is a quote and some thoughts;;;

"the gesture of piano playing is not, in fact, totally alien to writing. It is, like writing, a linear gesture, although the lines it produces are composed of acoustic vibrations, not of letters. It may therefore be held that if we type we still engrave (at least as far as the intention of our gesture is concerned), and that the ‘piano quality’ of our gesture stresses this fact: we no longer engrave with a stick, but with a series of hammers."

- Flusser on writing

Maybe it would be good to start by drawing comparisons between the action of typing from its origins as an action that operated hammers that "impressed text upon sheets of paper" in drawing comparisons between this and the act of playing the piano; maybe here the way the piano is a device that impersonates the voice in the same way the typewriter is a device that impersonates the act gesture of writing physical writing."


Possibly taking the quote above in mind that the relationship between the voice and the piano the musical instrument has similarities between that of the spoken word and the act of engraving letters. The piano as a reductive tool that takes the sound of the voice converted into musical notes fire a series of hammers possibly I could draw comparison with the typewriter as a device that takes the meaning of the voice and converts it into symbols via again a series of hammers.

Contemporary Illustration

I fear contemporay illustration. Here is a list of contemporay illustrators;

Luke best

Tom Gauld

Adam Simson

Laura Carlin

I'm not sure what constitutes contemporary illustration. I think i may be thinking about the marketplace.

Here is a typographer;

David Pearson is giving a talk as part of our MA lecture series His work is really clean.

One Of The Good Guys

Interesting idea from Robert Fisk which could make a useful point in my narrative, "You can't blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys" The book should take in language from external sources and re-mould to highlight and create new ideas and meaning. I like using words from song and news media and etc.., appropriating such media can serve to fortifie.