Class Dispatch to David

Jim Swotch came in!

– expert in long-distance communication and impact on environment

1. submarinecablemap.com
   1. current submarine cable map
   2. vast majority of telecommunications are still submarine cables
   3. not just telecommunications statements?
2. “American Progress” painting, John Gast
   1. image of woman in art of progress/expansion
   2. laying of telegraph cable across west
3. “Erdapfel,” Martin Behaim
   1. oldest surviving terrestrial globe
4. International Time Zones established because of global telegraphy
   1. possible to coordinate clocks in 1850s/60s
5. 1851 cartoon celebrating UK/France cable across English Channel
6. Original term for cable layers were “projectors”
   1. you would “project” cable across the ocean
7. “The development of the world is dependent on communication” C.G. Tietgen
   1. Danish businessman funding International Telegraph Company
   2. from same place as Hans Christian Andersen
   3. belief linked with rise in global capitalism/national power
   4. what we should do is gather and marshall resources
8. U.S.S. Niagra
   1. largest ship in Navy at time
   2. one of first attempts to lay international cable (only lasted few weeks)
   3. in conjunction with squadron of ships- largest U.S. Navy project in b/w Revolutionary War and Civil War
   4. run by Navy people but cable-layers were private employees of companies laying cables
   5. British side were civilians not military ships
   6. overwhelmingly funded by private capitalists (Cyrus Field)
      1. similar to East India company
         1. supported by gov. but largely private enterprise
9. Still cable-layers to this day- still months-long process
10. Image of Atlantic Cable with Poseidon in Rotunda in U.S. Capitol Dome
11. Seward calling this more important than Civil War for the future
12. Things you can do with cables
    1. futures markets
    2. weather forecasts (knowing how weather moves)
    3. export soft power products
13. The Great Eastern
    1. Each holding tank is the size of Drury Lane Theatre auditorium
       1. several holding tanks for what would span the entire North Atlantic
14. Guuta-Percha
    1. invaluable component for insulating wires
    2. only known natural insulator
    3. UK had monopoly on Guuta-Percha until WWI when other synthetic coatings developed
       1. controlled Malaysia where it naturally grew
    4. also used for dental fillings and inside of golf balls
15. Not really like email- only ~1% ever really sent a telegraph
    1. mostly businesses/governments
    2. Western Union sold pre-written messages for Americans to send to Charles Lindbergh after landing across the Atlantic
16. First thing you do in war is you cut the cables
    1. akin to modern-day DDOS attacks
    2. most important sites in war are telegraph landing stations and coaling (fueling) stations for ships
17. Cecil Rhodes (1892)
    1. British
    2. built telegraph/railroad network in Africa “from Cape Town to Cairo”
    3. founded Rhodes Scholarship
18. Effects of Telegraphy in Far West United States
    1. subjugating/attacking Native Americans as surveillance system
       1. DC gets a report every time someone leaves reservation
    2. weather report stations built
    3. time zones and longitude and latitude become important
19. Messages Being Sent for Sound Montage
    1. first couple decades really slow
       1. if you got 10 words/min going really fast
    2. sinking of the Titanic (SOS distress signals)
    3. propaganda from across the world
20. Global Communication standardizes and homogenizes several things
    1. SOS distress signals
    2. time zones
    3. longitude and latitude

Animal Presentations

Carter was a whale

• His voice was very big!
• Evolved from land dwellers
• Uses his powerful tail
  • Goes up and down
• predator – pesky orca
• Carter called line several times
• Whales have to surface to breathe
• Cannot see nor smell well
  • BUT can sing and hear for hundreds of miles!
• Uses voice to sense world around me
  • There’s been a pervasive drone from humans that annoy him
• Eat up to 4 tons of krill per day
  • Using a baline system
• Blubber can keep him warm for any climate
• They can outswim an orca!
  • Can swim fast in short bursts but will get very tired

Rachel was an orca

• Some people think of her as a killer whale
  • But she’s not!
• Very smart and enthusiastic
• A matriarchal society
  • Have pods
  • Pods speak in the same dialect
• Can be caught to do tricks
• Breath from blow hole looks like vapor
• On a hunt, orcas can slow their heart rate for ten minutes
• First she circles her prey
  • 4 inch long fangs
  • Will play with their prey first
• Directionality is with pectoral fins
• Tails accelerate and decelerate

Robbie was a giant squid

• used umbrella with hanging strands of paper to be giant squid puppet
• finding how to mimic movement of animals that “pulse” (jellyfish, squid, etc.)

Matthew was a conger eel

• Lives in a cave
• Moves through undulation
• Uses hunting and bottom feeding
  • Feeds on dead animal matter
  • Will pounce for prey
• Largest eel by weight
• Grow up to 2 meters long
• Very flexible
• Maybe two colors on either side of the costume to remove one leg?
• A lot of movement ideas

*difference between the charismatic nature of mammals who humans find beautiful

Vs.

The more hidden, reserved nature of creatures that live in the deep sea

Embodiments:

• Natural seascape sounds
  • Deon played sounds that you would regularly hear in the ocean
  • We embodied our animals, with the surface dwellers on SL and the bottom dwellers on SR
  • There was little interaction, not much predation
• Anthropogenic sounds
  • Deon then played sounds that are produced by humans
  • There was more action between the creatures, with some predation and some surface dwellers seeing how far down they could dive