Reasoneon

I like this term. In my notes for the inventory of notes from Electronic Monuments, I wrote down “How does image reasoning affect our audience?” This isn’t necessarily a definition, but I think it does a fine job of summing up the concept.

To me, reasoneon seem very similar to punctum. How does an image elicit emotion from the viewer, how do we feel or think when we see it? However, I would like to think that reasone0n exists from two different angles: the logic behind the creation of the image, and the actual emotion and response (punctum) that is causes.

Lets take this image, for example.

How does it make you feel? What is your response? When I see this, I see what looks to be a rioter or a revolutionary who is throwing some sort of firework. I do not know the context of the image or where it takes place. Without context, my feelings are different than they would be with context. My interpretation is of any sort of riot or revolution. There is some sort of change that injustice that perhaps occurred, and yet it makes me feel nothing at this point, because I don’t understand the cause. I could be either outraged because of the injustice, or outraged because the rioters are attacking something that I support.

This is a picture of a rioter in Ferguson, Missouri. Ahhh, now I know the context because I am very familiar with the trial, and the protests. So this picture makes me feel something completely different. I am not outraged one way or the other, rather I am saddened at the state of America, both at racial profiling and the violent reactions of the rioters. At the same time I feel sorrow for individuals who are profiled because of the color of their skin, angry that this can occur in the 21st century. I also shake my head at the rioters, not seeing what good can come of it.

Now this post has a purpose. It has reasoneon to it, not just an emotional response elicited, but a reason for this image to be composed. I (the composer) want you (the viewer) to have a reaction to it. Your reaction will vary based on who you are, but now this image is no longer a generic image of a riot. It is a story, and it has a purpose.

Kindertotenlieder

Notice a loss in a community that is not accepted as a sacrifice of some other value.

School shootings: Is the loss of life a sacrifice on behalf of some other value?

Well let’s see. I don’t think that school shootings occur because strict of loose gun laws. To see the value we must look into the reason. Why shoot up a school?

Depression, hatred, self-loathing turned outward. I think when severe depression takes hold for a long time, there is a certain amount of it turned outward onto your peers. That is a simple explantation, so I will attempt to evaluate it a little more. I think that being unhappy is a vicious circle: you are unhappy and don’t want to spend time with people because, what’s the point, fuck it, and then being alone makes you more unhappy, which alienates you more from the other people who are constantly around people, and practice makes perfect so you slowly get worse at being around people and your social skills decline, and those poor social outings make you even unhappier and want to me even more alone, which… That’s one small part for some, but maybe unhappiness stems from completely other places, maybe a failure in a career, or falling out from the family.

In a free American society, we have a tremendous amount of options about how to live our lives. From the filthy rich, to the dirt poor, everyday we wake up and have options about how to live, what to say, how to act. There is no one right way to find happiness. Finding happiness is entering the Matrix; there is no one path or option that creates happiness, rather an infinite amount of options and choices need to combine together in order to create a web of pleasure inducing chemicals that go off in your brain and make you say “Yippee!”

Ask Freud. Real happiness comes from one of three different things: sex, sleep, and eating. Much of everything else is just to make us forget how unhappy we really are (in so many words… look it up if you want more info.)

Sadness, depression, is very easy to obtain. You wake up and don’t move, don’t do anything. You will inevitable become depressed (and hungry, and sex-depraved). The lack of a choice is a choice in itself.

In a society of options, the shooter my lack the ability to find happiness. And this is because we live in a society of options, that is the value, the value of free will. Yes, there are those who deal with emotional, physical abuse, are dealt a bad hand of cards (cards of life) and that certainly contributes. But are these shooters abuse victims, facing adversity? Are they middle class, wealthy, have time on their hands? Both?

Happiness is difficult to come by, and many choose options in the matrix that lead down a much different, much darker path. Thus is the complexity of life, and free will has not made it any easier.

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The U.S coastline along the Gulf of Mexico thrives mostly in part because it’s proximity to the gulf itself, with a total shoreline of over 16,000 miles (in the U.S alone!)

Millions of marine creatures call this place there home, including 49 different species of sharks, and an extensive coral reef system that supports over 6,000 different species of fish.

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The gulf is mainly able to sustain such a large fish population due it it’s coral reef’s. This is why the Gulf of Mexico supports the largest fishing industry in the U.S, a $630 million yearly industry!

Mackerel

Grouper

And most of all, shrimp.

 

 

 

• Fisheries

  Gulf fisheries are some of the most productive in the world. In 2010 according to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the commercial fish and shellfish harvest from the five U.S. Gulf states was estimated to be 1.3 billion pounds valued at $639 million. The Gulf also contains four of the top seven fishing ports in the nation by weight. The Gulf of Mexico has eight of the top twenty fishing ports in the nation by dollar value.

  Shrimp: Gulf landings of shrimp led the Nation in 2010 with 177.2 million pounds valued at $340 million dockside, accounting for about 82% of U.S. total. Texas led all Gulf states with 77.0 million pounds; Louisiana with 74.1 million pounds; Florida (west coast) with 11.8 Alabama with 10.0 million pounds; and Mississippi with 4.1 million pounds.

  Oysters: The Gulf led in production of oysters in 2010 with 15.7 million pounds of meats valued at $54.5 million and representing 59% of the national total.

  Recreational: The Gulf also supports a productive recreational fishery. In 2010, marine recreational participants took more than 20.7 million trips catching 145.4 million fish from the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding waters. The total weigh in pounds was over 59.3 million in 2010.

 

 

 

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The gulf has thousands of miles of pristine beaches, contributing to a $20 billion a year tourist industry in the U.S.

Pensacola, Florida

 

Things To Do in Pensacola

The Pensacola Bay Area is an activity-packed destination featuring culture, outdoor adventure, fine museums, attractions and 52 miles of beaches. Whether you’re an art enthusiast, birdwatcher, golfer, foodie or a shopaholic, you’ll find your niche in the Pensacola Bay Area.

Since this seems to be the thing to do on social media all of a sudden, I figured I’d start a thread here in /r/Pensacola for our local redditors. Since we’re anonymous, I figured this thread could be more interesting than most of the lame stuff posted on FB.

I’ll start.

EDIT (because I like this one better): I’m so Pensacola I regularly bait ignorant hot-rod tourists into racing me across the 3 mile bridge, and graciously let them beat me by safe distance once nearing Gulf Breeze.

I’m so Pensacola I helped form and directed the blockade against Westboro Baptist Church last year when a few of Westboro’s members attempted to picket the funeral of a local fallen soldier (Staff Sergeant Thomas). The unity and strength I saw from the menagerie of Pensacolians who showed up that day (about 1500) convinced me of 2 things: 1, when it’s citizens unite as one, the will & spirit of Pensacola is unbreakable and 2, even though we differ widely when it comes to religion and politics, we vigorously protect our own when threatened by outsiders.

Now you try 🙂 Cheers!

 

 

 

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Garner Bell ‏@garnerbell  Oct 29Louisiana, US

Lagniappe. Overjoyed to be able to experience this part of God’s creation. #redfish @ Grande Isle, LA http://instagram.com/p/uvwtXarR_5/

The island also has well maintained beaches. Grand Isle State Park, on the east end of the island, is the only state-owned and operated beach on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. The beach is a popular destination for people living in South Louisiana. In 2010, Yahoo Travel named Grand Isle one of America’s Top 10 winter beach retreats. In 2011, Yahoo travel names Grand Isle one of the Top 5 island getaways.

  

 

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So when the Deepwater Horizon Spill (also known as the BP oil spill) began on April 20th, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico, there was certain to be extremely negative consequences.

The largest spill in U.S history, there was 4.9 millions barrels discharged into the gulf.

                               

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Corral reefs off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.

San Souci Beach, Alabama

Grand Isle, Louisiana

 

Empty nets in Louisiana three years after the spill

By Matt Smith, CNN

updated 3:43 PM EDT, Mon April 29, 2013

Yscloskey, Louisiana (CNN) — On his dock along the banks of Bayou Yscloskey, Darren Stander makes the pelicans dance.

More than a dozen of the birds have landed or hopped onto the dock, where Stander takes in crabs and oysters from the fishermen who work the bayou and Lake Borgne at its mouth.

“Guys running five or six hundred traps are coming in with two to three boxes, if that,” said Stander, 26.

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Massive Coral Die-Off Found Just 7 Miles from BP Oil Spill Sit

By Andrew Moseman | November 8, 2010 9:44 am

The Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico brought us those gut-wrenching pictures of pelicans covered in oil, but up to now there have been mercifully few reports of the disaster causing specific large-scale damage to the Gulf environment. That may be beginning to change: This week oceanographers report a vast swath of coralabout seven miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon site that are coated in brownish-black gunk and dying off. The team says the evidence points to the oil spill as the culprit.

 

Long Term Impacts  http://www.nwf.org/What-We-Do/Protect-Habitat/Gulf-Restoration/Oil-Spill/Effects-on-Wildlife.aspx

• Sick Dolphins – As part of the official investigation into impacts of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a team of scientists did comprehensive physicals on dolphins in Barataria Bay in 2011, a heavily-oiled area of the Louisiana coast. Nearly half the dolphins studied were very ill; 17 percent of the dolphins were not expected to survive.
• Sea Turtles Stranding at 5x Normal Rates – Data from the Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network indicates that between 1986 and 2009, an average of nearly 100 sea turtles were found stranded annually in the oil spill area. Since the spill, each year roughly 500 sea turtles have been found stranded, most of which were the very endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles.
• Unbalanced Food Web – The Gulf oil disaster hit at the peak breeding season for many species of fish and wildlife. The oil’s toxicity may have hit egg and larval organisms immediately, diminishing or even wiping out those age classes. Without these generations, population dips and cascading food web effects may become evident in the years ahead.
• Decreased Fish and Wildlife Populations – Scientists will be watching fluctuations in wildlife populations for years to come. It wasn’t until four years after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster that the herring population collapsed. Twenty years later, it is still has not recovered.
• Decline in Recreation – The Gulf Coast states rely heavily on commercial fishing and outdoor recreation to sustain their local economies. According to NOAA, commercial fisheries brought in $659 million in shellfish and finfish in 2008, and just over 3 million people took recreational fishing tripsin the Gulf that year. After the spill, recreational fishing from the Atchafalaya Delta to Mobile Bay was shut down from May to August, and state park closures dealt a serious blow to the parks’ summer revenue.

Link to photos of aftermath.

http://www.aquariusnation.com/the-truth-of-the-bp-oil-spill/the-oil-and-the-corexit-is-killing-everything-in-its-path-truth

Despite serious health issues, thousands have flocked to the polluted beaches to do whatever they can.

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1967

March 18, Cornwall, Eng.: Torrey Canyon ran aground, spilling 38 million gallons of crude oil off the Scilly Islands.

1976

Dec. 15, Buzzards Bay, Mass.: Argo Merchant ran aground and broke apart southeast of Nantucket Island, spilling its entire cargo of 7.7 million gallons of fuel oil.

1977

April, North Sea: blowout of well in Ekofisk oil field leaked 81 million gallons.

1978

March 16, off Portsall, France: wrecked supertanker Amoco Cadiz spilled 68 million gallons, causing widespread environmental damage over 100 mi of Brittany coast.

1979

June 3, Gulf of Mexico: exploratory oil well Ixtoc 1 blew out, spilling an estimated 140 million gallons of crude oil into the open sea. Although it is one of the largest known oil spills, it had a low environmental impact.

July 19, Tobago: the Atlantic Empress and the Aegean Captain collided, spilling 46 million gallons of crude. While being towed, the Atlantic Empress spilled an additional 41 million gallons off Barbados on Aug. 2.

1980

March 30, Stavanger, Norway: floating hotel in North Sea collapsed, killing 123 oil workers.

1983

Feb. 4, Persian Gulf, Iran: Nowruz Field platform spilled 80 million gallons of oil.

Aug. 6, Cape Town, South Africa: the Spanish tanker Castillo de Bellver caught fire, spilling 78 million gallons of oil off the coast.

1988

July 6, North Sea off Scotland: 166 workers killed in explosion and fire on Occidental Petroleum’s Piper Alpha rig in North Sea; 64 survivors. It is the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.

Nov. 10, Saint John’s, Newfoundland: Odyssey spilled 43 million gallons of oil.

1989

March 24, Prince William Sound, Alaska: tanker Exxon Valdez hit an undersea reef and spilled 10 million–plus gallons of oil into the water.

Dec. 19, off Las Palmas, the Canary Islands: explosion in Iranian supertanker, the Kharg-5, caused 19 million gallons of crude oil to spill into Atlantic Ocean about 400 mi north of Las Palmas, forming a 100-square-mile oil slick.

1990

June 8, off Galveston, Tex.: Mega Borg released 5.1 million gallons of oil some 60 nautical miles south-southeast of Galveston as a result of an explosion and subsequent fire in the pump room.

1991

Jan. 23–27, southern Kuwait: during the Persian Gulf War, Iraq deliberately released 240–460 million gallons of crude oil into the Persian Gulf from tankers 10 mi off Kuwait. Spill had little military significance. On Jan. 27, U.S. warplanes bombed pipe systems to stop the flow of oil.

April 11, Genoa, Italy: Haven spilled 42 million gallons of oil in Genoa port.

May 28, Angola: ABT Summer exploded and leaked 15–78 million gallons of oil off the coast of Angola. It’s not clear how much sank or burned.

1992

March 2, Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan: 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well.

1993

Aug. 10, Tampa Bay, Fla.: three ships collided, the barge Bouchard B155, the freighter Balsa 37, and the barge Ocean 255. The Bouchard spilled an estimated 336,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil into Tampa Bay.

1994

Sept. 8, Russia: dam built to contain oil burst and spilled oil into Kolva River tributary. U.S. Energy Department estimated spill at 2 million barrels. Russian state-owned oil company claimed spill was only 102,000 barrels.

1996

Feb. 15, off Welsh coast: supertanker Sea Empress ran aground at port of Milford Haven, Wales, spewed out 70,000 tons of crude oil, and created a 25-mile slick.

1999

Dec. 12, French Atlantic coast: Maltese-registered tanker Erika broke apart and sank off Britanny, spilling 3 million gallons of heavy oil into the sea.

2000

Jan. 18, off Rio de Janeiro: ruptured pipeline owned by government oil company, Petrobras, spewed 343,200 gallons of heavy oil into Guanabara Bay.

Nov. 28, Mississippi River south of New Orleans: oil tanker Westchester lost power and ran aground near Port Sulphur, La., dumping 567,000 gallons of crude oil into lower Mississippi. Spill was largest in U.S. waters since Exxon Valdez disaster in March 1989.

2002

Nov. 13, Spain: Prestige suffered a damaged hull and was towed to sea and sank. Much of the 20 million gallons of oil remains underwater.

2003

July 28, Pakistan: The Tasman Spirit, a tanker, ran aground near the Karachi port, and eventually cracked into two pieces. One of its four oil tanks burst open, leaking 28,000 tons of crude oil into the sea.

2004

Dec. 7, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: A major storm pushed the M/V Selendang Ayu up onto a rocky shore, breaking it in two. 337,000 gallons of oil were released, most of which was driven onto the shoreline of Makushin and Skan Bays.

2005

Aug.-Sept., New Orleans, Louisiana: The Coast Guard estimated that more than 7 million gallons of oil were spilled during Hurricane Katrina from various sources, including pipelines, storage tanks and industrial plants.

2006

June 19, Calcasieu River, Louisiana: An estimated 71,000 barrels of waste oil were released from a tank at the CITGO Refinery on the Calcasieu River during a violent rain storm.

July 15, Beirut, Lebanon: The Israeli navy bombs the Jieh coast power station, and between three million and ten million gallons of oil leaks into the sea, affecting nearly 100 miles of coastline. A coastal blockade, a result of the war, greatly hampers outside clean-up efforts.

August 11th, Guimaras island, The Philippines: A tanker carrying 530,000 gallons of oil sinks off the coast of the Philippines, putting the country’s fishing and tourism industries at great risk. The ship sinks in deep water, making it virtually unrecoverable, and it continues to emit oil into the ocean as other nations are called in to assist in the massive clean-up effort.

2007

December 7, South Korea: Oil spill causes environmental disaster, destroying beaches, coating birds and oysters with oil, and driving away tourists with its stench. The Hebei Spirit collides with a steel wire connecting a tug boat and barge five miles off South Korea’s west coast, spilling 2.8 million gallons of crude oil. Seven thousand people are trying to clean up 12 miles of oil-coated coast.

2008

July 25, New Orleans, Louisiana: A 61-foot barge, carrying 419,000 gallons of heavy fuel, collides with a 600-foot tanker ship in the Mississippi River near New Orleans. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leak from the barge, causing a halt to all river traffic while cleanup efforts commence to limit the environmental fallout on local wildlife.

2009

March 11, Queensland, Australia: During Cyclone Hamish, unsecured cargo aboard the container ship MV Pacific Adventurer came loose on deck and caused the release of 52,000 gallons of heavy fuel and 620 tons of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, into the Coral Sea. About 60 km of the Sunshine Coast was covered in oil, prompting the closure of half the area’s beaches. 

2010

Jan. 23, Port Arthur, Texas: The oil tanker Eagle Otome and a barge collide in the Sabine-Neches Waterway, causing the release of about 462,000 gallons of crude oil. Environmental damage was minimal as about 46,000 gallons were recovered and 175,000 gallons were dispersed or evaporated, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

April 24, Gulf of Mexico: The Deepwater Horizon, a semi-submersible drilling rig, sank on April 22, after an April 20th explosion on the vessel. Eleven people died in the blast. When the rig sank, the riser—the 5,000-foot-long pipe that connects the wellhead to the rig—became detached and began leaking oil. In addition, U.S. Coast Guard investigators discovered a leak in the wellhead itself. As much as 60,000 barrels of oil per day were leaking into the water, threatening wildlife along the Louisiana Coast. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared it a “spill of national significance.” BP (British Petroleum), which leased the Deepwater Horizon, is responsible for the cleanup, but the U.S. Navy supplied the company with resources to help contain the slick. Oil reached the Louisiana shore on April 30, affected about 125 miles of coast. By early June, oil had also reached Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. It is the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

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There are currently 785 operating offshore oil rigs throughout the world, and another 709 rigs that are being built, or are not currently operating.

This company, for example, has 7 new offshore rigs being built currently.

This is the Ocean Nugget, a rig operated by Diamond.

First built in 1975, this one rig can produce around 1,170 barrels of oil per day. That’s a lot of barrels.

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In 2013, the world as a whole consumed more than 3,500,000,000 tons of oil. This is about a 14% increase since the year 2000.

The united states led all other nations in 2013, with 759,000,000 tons consumed.

 

Year: 2013	Unit: Mt
United States 759
China 456
Japan 189
India 166
Russia 149
Brazil 119
Germany 98
Saudi Arabia 95
Canada 92
South Korea 90

MT= megatons, or a million tons

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As I mentioned earlier, the Deepwater Horizon spill dumped 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

4.9 Million barrels, or…

 

1,160,755 trans-Atlantic flights

 

 

Provide gasoline for the entire U.S for 3 and a half months

 

Fuel 1000 of the largest container ships for about 90 days

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And remember these guys?

 

They are probably full of iPad’s, or IBM computer chips, maybe Canon cameras, or Volcom jeans.

 

             

 

Apple to ring in 71.5M iPhone sales in holiday quarter — analyst

 

Apple’s Sales Figures Prove A Sad Fact: There’s Still No PC As Desirable As A Mac

Mac sales make up just a tenth of Apple’s AAPL -1.59%revenue, but they’ve received a significant amount of attention following the company’s quarterly report yesterday, both from analysts and from the CEO Tim Cook himself.

 

 

 

 

 

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What else is being shipped into the U.S?

 

But most of all… (16% of all U.S imports)

 

Oil!