Tag Archives: Captain James Cook
Ship’s Journal: Mental Note
The Ship’s Journal will show a process, starting with entries initially with ignorance of local culture, then it’s discovery, charting/planning and experiencing. The ignorance stage may come to reference, though at the moment it doesn’t, Yorkshire stereotypes and technology-based ignorance. Mappae mundi and … Continue reading
Monday’s Tutorial
I thought of a way of promoting pubs last week similar to Ding Ren’s One to One. Beer mats cut into the shapes of islands Captain James Cook discovered, and placed on their brewery sites on a map of Yorkshire. … Continue reading
Ship’s Journal: Oz
Thinking about it, why not use Australian maps? I could use a portion of it. Yorkshire’s the largest county of Britain, Oz is the largest island/place Cook explored – Canada doesn’t count as he explored just the Western coast. West … Continue reading
Ship’s Journal: Coreldraw Experiments
Juxtaposition of Cook’s map and the Foods of England map around West Yorkshire. I chose New Zealand because it’s not the biggest island Cook mapped, just as West Yorkshire isn’t the biggest county. Note how the latitude marker is places next to … Continue reading
HMS Gander
The size of it looks quite funny on the pic below. Cartoonish. It reminds me of paintings of Tudor galleons. Adding the ‘planks’ on is next. I’ve got allsorts of stuff: plasterboard, cardboard, timber. Should all be plain sailing from now on. … Continue reading
A Ship’s Journal
Following on from my Merlyn Riggs post, a journal seems a promising way of championing food and drink. One entry involves the mixing of Captain James Cook’s journal, written in an 18th century hand, and a photographed Yorkshire curd tart. No doubt an unexpected sight, but one illustrating the parallels between … Continue reading
Of Captain James Cook
Hannah More’s poem of her contemporary: Had those advent’rous spirits, who explore Through ocean’s trackless wastes, the far sought shore, Whether of wealth insatiate, or of power, Conquerors who waste, or ruffians who devour: Had these possess’d, O Cook! thy … Continue reading
How About Contemporary Gothic? How We Treat the Past
I wonder if in England we treat the past incorrectly. I think there’s generally two opposing ways it’s treated: the first is that it’s sacred, to be viewed from a glass cabinet, the second is a Marxist/do-gooder view of “Woe was them”. Both camps … Continue reading
Sense of Achievement
After watching Tudor Monastery Farm yesterday, I think that sense of achievement is a rarity in contemporary Britain. I wonder if when people do feel it, it’s only ever to do with vanity. I love the Historical Farm programmes. It … Continue reading
HMS Gander Figurehead
The Kelp Goose is potentially the figurehead, though I’m not eliminating the possibility of a sheep or other animal or even person being figurehead instead. Sheep feature on Kirklees’ coat of arms – why they favour their dreary business park-living photocopier … Continue reading
YOU COULD SOLVE THAT WITH A BISCUIT DUNKING MACHINE 