Friday, August 2, 2019

Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia): Herman Melville's Life in time line from Oxford University Press ... And here's a kind of realistic avatar bot animation of Max Ehrmann reading his poem "The Desiderata" ... Will we be able to talk with Melville interactively like this eventually in a realistic virtual earth re Google Street View? * * * Scott GK MacLeod's books, World University and School's academic press: http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~



Hi M,

Just found this Time Line of Herman Melville's life from Oxford UP on Twitter:
https://t.co/5ap5e2PjHO
— Oxford Academic (@OUPAcademic) August 2, 2019 https://twitter.com/OUPAcademic/status/1157297516041269248 ... (and re-Tweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch) ...

https://blog.oup.com/2019/08/the-life-and-work-of-herman-melville/

It touches on his time in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, his shipping out on at least a third whaler, (and later one of which is captained by his brother) and his befriending of reclusive Nathaniel Hawthorne and their visiting together at ...

Monument Mountain in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (which I then found in Street View)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Monument+Mountain+Reservation/@42.245797,-73.3399862,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xda6d5b4b84740301!8m2!3d42.245797!4d-73.3399862 (glad to kind of travel there, but not year with Streetview's TIME SLIDER).

Cool. I haven't yet looked up the Typee valley in Polynesia in Street View but just found in a related vein the island of Nuku Hiva - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Nuku+Hiva/@-8.8733092,-140.2690106,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x764a7a43a22ef6e3:0xc1eee905826f07bc!8m2!3d-8.8604808!4d-140.1420882 - since "the narrative is partly based on the author's actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typee) in his novel "Typee."

This slide in the OUP timeline - https://blog.oup.com/2019/08/the-life-and-work-of-herman-melville/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=linkpost&utm_campaign=owc&utm_content=tweet2#__prclt=0DodNYWS (which I just added to archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://blog.oup.com/2019/08/the-life-and-work-of-herman-melville/) - also touches on Melville's time in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which I found in Google Street View, with TIME SLIDER with about 5 years in the past decade ! - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pittsfield,+MA+01201/@42.4484567,-73.252963,3a,75y,128.97h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1swsJjPrZKynG72urUCM-Qbw!2e0!5s20170701T000000!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e744bbcf99cc3f:0xd78834ed84912f23!8m2!3d42.4500845!4d-73.2453824 - and which raises questions about how at some point to go back to the 1840s in Street View to talk with Melville in the places he traveled to, and for historical re-enactments and history with avatar bot generation even?

And here's a kind of realistic avatar bot animation of Max Ehrmann reading his poem "The Desiderata"

Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation

https://youtu.be/lH72Quc9NmI

Will we be able to talk with Melville interactively like this eventually, - and in situ (place)? :)

The OUP time line also touches on his financial hardships, as well as losses of family ... interesting Oxford Univ Press perspectives. O modernity!

This might all be interesting for you if you are docent-ing at the Cuttyhunk Island Historical Society ...

The OUP Melville timeline ends with the centennial of his birth in 1919: "critics praised the prose as Shakespearean. Melville remains in the American consciousness primarily as the author of Moby-Dick, and the God-defying Captain Ahab’s pursuit of the whale is seen as an archetypal confrontation with the inscrutable powers of the universe" - (and there's a Shakespeare label in my blog too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Shakespeare - as well as a wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Shakespeare,_William - at World University and School). So this 2019 year is the bicentennial of Herman Melville's birth! Cool. (Won't add the "Nontheist Friend" label to this blog post:).

It's interesting to me too re my upcoming book of poetry (my 3rd) - "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually!" - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-cascades-national-park-next-book.html?m=0 (first mention of this title in this blog post) - as well as my eventual 2nd actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book / project - which is and will be also visitable in Street View .. and potentially for history, re English literature, as well as re anthropology / ethnography.

AM CURIOUS TOO how my blog (and Twitter streams) might be used for a kind of literary reconstruction of my writing 200 years from my birth ... and also how a realistic virtual earth might open ways to visiting some of the places I write about, being there, and even talking with folks in them, say Sunheart at Harbin in 2012. Fascinating (consciousness-wise too - as writing? consciousness as writing) to see this Tweet this morning from David Prindle in his Twitter newspaper mentioning  Sunheart and Scott and my blog post from February 2019 - David Prindle
@dprindle
The latest #flipclass! (link: https://paper.li/dprindle/1323483535?edition_id=77d69800-b50f-11e9-b09a-0cc47a0d1605) paper.li/dprindle/13234… Thanks to
@scottmacleod @sgkmacleod @mjjohnson1216 @Dinomiele #ai #ukedchat

https://twitter.com/dprindle/status/1157235286230913024
 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/porcupine-needlegrass-sunheart-scott.html ... Cool! All relevant for heading up to Harbin for my second ethnographic book - and even re creating the book anew with a Google Street View centricity with text in the side bar, and printable to paper!

In a way, am riffing here with this OUP Tweet about Melville's life -
Melville
How much do you know about Herman Melville? We've created a timeline looking at his life and work, ranging from his time working on whale ships to personal tragedies.

https://twitter.com/OUPAcademic/status/1157297516041269248 ... and possibly re the new and creative WUaS Press, planned with machine translation, as well :)

This email will make kind of a rocking blog post, with many cool 'labels' to add too :)

Singing off (having written some of this while having what I'd call "flow" experiences - re Csikszentmihalyi's book of this name) from my little writer's hut in Canyon:)

What are you up to this afternoon? Will you see David Thurston?

L, Scott



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- Scott MacLeod
- http://scottmacleod.com



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And here's a kind of realistic avatar bot animation of Max Ehrmann reading his poem "The Desiderata"

Max Ehrmann "Desiderata" - "Desired Things" Poem animation

https://youtu.be/lH72Quc9NmI

Will we be able to talk with Melville interactively like this eventually in a realistic virtual earth re Google Street View?



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Christine
@ChristineML1
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Aug 1
Happy birthday #HermanMelville, American novelist and short story writer (died 1891).

https://twitter.com/ChristineML1/status/1156915233052680194?s=20


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MOBY DICK (1956) - dir. John Houston🎞️
Based on the novel by #HermanMelville.
Cinematographer Oswald Morris created a grainy, desaturated look to imitate old whaling prints and scrimshaw.


https://twitter.com/The3Rrrs/status/1156931631573192704?s=20


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Moby Dick (1956): Gregory Peck's best scene

https://youtu.be/NMPW4R727QQ


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Nuku Hiva: #HermanMelville's life in time line from #OxfordUniversityPress, #RealisticAvatarBot animation of #MaxEhrmann reading "The #Desiderata." Will we be able to talk with #Melville interactively eventually in #RealisticVirtualEarth re #StreetView? http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/08/nuku-hiva-marquesas-islands-in-french.html?m=0 ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1157341430500642816


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Scott GK MacLeod's books:

Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss ('18) 978-0-578-43518-3

Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry ('17)

Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin ('16)

(link: http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity)


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