ESM Self Tour pamphlet

The front and back of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum's current self-guided tour pamphlet.

tourism (Japan) / moble app, book, website

This came my way earlier today, thought it relates in some ways, potentially at least, to our own larger project (Location Relation Notation, re: Essex and shipbuilding at Essex) —

99+1: Traveling Through Art, Design & Architecture
99+1 is a new book and responsive website for the Japanese National Tourism Organization.

A pocket publication and extensive website dedicated to creative experiences with travel.

The “+1” for any trip in Japan is the unexpected location that makes the trip extra special, from a backstreet bookstore to a mountain hike into inspiring scenery.

Ian Lynam Design designed the gatefold-cover book and website, which you can see here.

Women of Essex Exhibition

Currently up in the Waterline Center at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum is the exhibit "Women of Essex" which showcases the stories of a few notable contributors to the area, past and present.

Take a look while we are there on Wednesday! Here is a story I found interesting:

New Plan, Order a Ship

I recently found a video on shipbuilding in Essex. This ship is called the ST. ROSALIE. Watching this video gave me a bit more of a direction as to where I want to go with my project. I doubt that people nowadays actually have the time and money to commission an Essex boat to be built. I do find the process of building a boat fascinating and think it would be interesting to put people in the shoes of a fisherman.

So, I would like to use Aris to build a fisherman's RPG. The Goal of the RPG would be to teach players about the use of fishing ships. The way this game supplements the museum is by reinforcing the amount of time,care, fun and effort put into building a ship. Having a player go through a process of building there own ship gives them satisfaction and appreciation of the Art of shipbuilding. Making shipbuilding a more personal experience puts you in the perspective of the people of essex.

Goals

For my next trip to the museum I would like to find more information about the seven schooners that still exist in essex.

I also want to research ships that have failed. I need this information in order to lead the player into errors along their own shipbuilding experience. I would also want to find the roles that each person played in building a ship so that I am able to make a structured path for a player to follow within the rpg.
 

Brainstorming a potential filming schedule and format for Wednesday`s trip.

Podcast evangelism

Radiolab

Cities

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91732-cities/

Description:
There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. Yet math can't explain most of the human-scale details that make urban life unique. So we head out in search of what the numbers miss, and meet a reluctant city dweller, a man who's walked 700 feet below Manhattan, and a once-thriving community that's slipping away.

Segment on walking pace as measure of city size: It's Alive?
Lore

Episode 55: A Way Inside

http://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/55

Description:
Folklore is more than just a collection of stories; it’s the soul of a culture or location. Without them, our world has less texture and beauty. But like the stories themselves, some places have spirits that creep in and take up residence. About Central Cemetery in Boston.


Episode 6: Echoes

http://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/episode-6-echoes

The Danvers State Hospital from Lore episode 6. #lorepodcast #spooky #history

A post shared by Lore (@lorepodcast) on May 27, 2015 at 8:29pm PDT

Description: 

Settings are often just as important to a story as the tale itself. The Shining had the Overlook. The Legend of Hell House had the Belasco. We fear cabins in the woods and even our own basements. But the mother of all horror settings is the asylum, with a dark pedigree unlike any other.

About the Danvers State Hospital.

Hello Again

I haven't been in class in a while so it was pretty good to find out where everyone is working on. I personally still need to find my own Idea but I liked learning about the fact that there was a ghost ship and would like to research more on that topic, possibly make an App that tells a story with the use of visualizations.