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dear aj camille

i'm leaving,evacuating actually, to Rayong tomorrow morning and don't know when to be back yet; probably when the situation is all under controlled. I don't have the internet network at my house there but i can go to some internet cafe to get updated so all posts and updates will be a little slow.

best :)

A's research and proposal

Proposal

I'm going to continue working on what we have discussed in the previous tutorial: water cycle, atmosphere, transformation, change of perception --- vertical structure up to one point then the rest could be fictional eg.virtual reality.

Research

Layers of the Atmosphere (based on vertical profile of temperature)

TROPOSPHERE

- tropein = to turn, change

- starts from the earth's surface up to about 15 km

- air temperature decreases with height to about -52°C

STRATOSPHERE

- starts above the troposphere up to 50 km high- dry and less dense

- temperature increases gradually up to -3°C (absorbtion of uv solar energy)

- 99% of air is located within the troposphere and the stratosphere

MESOSPHERE

- starts above stratosphere - 85 km high

- temperature falls to -93°C

THERMOSPHERE

- extends to 600 km high

- hot layer, temperature may exceed 500°C

- charged particles from the sun interact with air molecule --- aurora displays

- a person shielded from the sun would not necessarily feel hot (too few molecules to bump against exposed skin and transfer enough heat to make it feel hot)

...beyond the atmosphere...

EXOSPHERE

- starts at the top of thermosphere

- merges with interplanetary gases/space

- atoms, molecules escape the earth's gravitational pull

Composition of the Atmosphere

Nitrogen 78%

Oxygen 21 %

Other 1 %

Circulation of Water in the Atmosphere

- Unending circulation

- 70% of the earth's surface is water thus begins here

- Hydrologic Cycle

EVAPORATION

- the sun's energy transforms liquid water into water vapor

- wind and temperature of water enhance evaporation --- warmer water = greater rate of evaporation

CONDENSATION

- winds transport moist air to other regions, where water vapor changes back into liquid, forming clouds

- more likely to occur when the air cools

PRECIPITATION

- liquid/ solid cloud particles grow in size and fall to earth's surface

- if falls into ocean/water sources, cycle begins again

- rain, snow, hail

TRANSPIRATION

- moisture from plants

Clouds

classified into four major groups: high clouds (6000-18000 m), middle clouds(2000-8000 m), low clouds(0-2000 m), clouds with vertical transformation

HIGH CLOUDS

- composed mostly of ice crystals

- thin

CIRRUS

- most common

- thin

- usually move from west to east (due to prevailing winds at their elevation)

CIRROCUMULUS

- small, rounded white puffs

- reflect red/yellow light of the setting sun

- seldom cover more than half of the sky

CIRROSTRATUS

- thin, sheetlike --- sun/moon can be seen through

- cover entire sky

- halo encircles the sun/moon

- thick clouds give a glary white appearance and form ahead of a storm

- rain/snow within 12-24 hrs especially if followed by middle type clouds

MIDDLE CLOUDS

- water droplets, ice crystals (at low temp)

ALTOCUMULUS

- gray, puffy mass

- sometimes rolled out in parallel waves

- if seen on a warm, humid summer morning = thunderstorms by late afternoon

ALTOSTRATUS

- gray, blue-gray clouds

- cover entire sky

- sun/moon maybe dimly visible in thinner section

LOW CLOUDS

- water droplets (always), ice particle/snow in cold weather

NIMBOSTRATUS

- dark gray, wet-looking --- continuously falling rain or snow

- sun/moon not visible

- visibility below cloud = poor, due to rain

STRATOCUMULUS

- low, lumpy layer appears in rows, patches, rounded

- appear near sunset

- light to dark gray

- rain/snow rarely falls from

STRATUS

- uniform, gray

- covers entire sky

- no precipitation

- commonly occurs over Pacific and Atlantic coastal waters in summer

CLOUDS WITH VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT

CUMULUS

- variety of shapes (usually cottons with sharp outline, flat base)

CUMULONIMBUS

- thunderstorm clouds

- tremendous amount of energy are released by condensation of water vapor --- violent up-and down- drafts

- water droplets/ ice crystals

- may contains all forms of precipitation

- lightning, thunder, tornadoes

update

Ok - we need to plan ahead strategically.

Apparently INDA is not ready to organize a workshop and it is not advisable in my opinion to divide yourselves into 2, as if there was school life and real life...
Rather, and this will only be for my studio, i would like our group to work on the possible bridge between the 2 situations.
And this is not arbitrary, it is actually the way i meant it to be from the beginning (relating it to water and flood).

On one hand we have a very materially preoccupying situation,
on the other hand we have a project about the intangible.

I believe the interest lies in the link we can create between both.
If we place ourselves in the position of relieving people, we will not make stuff (toilets, beds, boats etc.) but we will instead start working on how to offer momentary escape for affected people - places where they could dream, imagine, travel.
A big part of traumas is actually do deal with the psychological consequences of the events and losses people have experienced. This is where our work will be.

Now we have been discussing this together yesterday, and i would like it to be continued in this way.
Please answer back to this post with comments and suggestions.
And ALL OF YOU now have to clearly define what their approach will be.
For some, the relation will be obvious, for the others we really need to discuss it so please write and send your work and proposals this week-end.

Ways to think about mental, psychological or even spiritual escape and/or relief :
- documentation of personal experiences
- dreams
- story telling (look at The Decameron by Boccaccio - very interesting parallel...) and imagination
- hypnosis
- art, theater and performances (research on the project Il teatro del mundo by Aldo Rossi)
- projection
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I especially need to see the work and ideas of
Prompt
Dream
Tyre
Noc
Marc
A

and we need clarification on the proposals for the rest of you as well....



For Pae, an obvious and very important reference about the obsession of numbers and games: the film Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway.
Download and watch it! or if you can't for now, document yourself about it and we will discuss it durig next tutorial.




For direct action, based on an individual decision and responsibility, we have contacted V from Design for Disaster.

We could present to her your projects and intentions on Monday and see how we could maybe have a direct action.


Best of luck with everything.

Pimmy

The stories of Naga

1. The word Naga means snake or cobra in Sansakrit (Indian's)

2. Naga combines crocodile, elephant, and serphant look.

3. Nagas live in their paradises in the rivers, lakes, or seas.

4. Hindu myth: It was born from the mouth of Makara, the vehicle for the god of the sea and the goddess of the river.

The picture of Makara pouring Nagas out of his/her mouth.

Makara is the one having big teeth at the middle with elephant proboscis and four nagas are swimming around.

This locates in Wat Suthat, BKK.

5. Thai myth: Every naga is the child of the King Anantanagaraj, the naga that being as throne of the king Narai and having infinite long body with thousand of heads, high power, and can be tranformed into human-look. (Ananta means infinite) He doesn't give poison but fire.

6. The naga isn't a human therefore they cannot be enlighten which they are really wanted to be. They negotiated with the Buddha that they won't be ordained but they asked to be the guardian of the Buddha and Buddhist. We can see from the most of the balustrades to temples.

7. During the Buddha enlightenment, there was raining and windy. One naga named: Mujalin, curled himself up seven times as the seat and spread his seven heads out as the cover for the Buddha, representing as the guardian of the Buddha.

8.One naga drank all the water in human world and fly up to the Sumaru mountain (this mountain is floating in the sky as a heaven). The king Indra saw what was happening, he stabbed that naga with his thunder and the water inside the naga's body poured into the human world becoming the rain and the abundance of life.

9. There are 2048 types of naga,

- 4 colours: golden, green, black, rainbow

- 4 wounds from naga: pus, paralysis, erupt, thunder (after these symptoms is death)

- 4 ways to give poison: bite, eyes, breath, body

- how fast of poison spreading: immediate and harmful, harmful but slow, immediate but not harmful at all, not harmful and slow spreading.

- 4 births: from egg, from pregnancy, from filthiness, immediately grow.

- 2 briths: in the water, above the ground.

- 4 amounts of heads: 1,3,5,7. (Nine-head is for royalty only)

Kam-cha-node forest

The tunnel bringing the naga from the underworld to human world.

I think this forest was similar to our pond

 which is that the pond (tunnel) is at the middle surrounding with Chamchuree trees.

I may make some installation that makes something unbelievable believable by using water. Using types of naga and those stories like pouring or the god's throne to show respect to the god (to the site is the kings' statue)

The trunk of Kamchanode tree.