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“Look, it’s loomin’,” said the boatman in a quiet voice. We turned to see the island that was our destination levitate and high white cliffs appear where only a shoreline had been visible before. Astonished, I shouted for the others to look. For several minutes we stared until the island descended, becoming once again a line on the horizon. I later learned that looming is something known to virtually all sailors…” (John R. Gillis, Islands of the Mind, p143)

I ran across this today, somehow while searching through twitter. Here’s the string: I searched Bourriaud because I just started reading The Radicant. Then I found a Portuguese magazine, Ipsilon which also had an article on Manuel Lima, an Azorean who recently won a Creativity magazine award. Here is his talk, “Visual Complexity and Mapping Complex Networks” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 conference.

Here’s his project, visualcomplexity.com. And here’s Shapes of Portugal/Formas de Portugal.

Part 3 – This episode used excerpts from my archived videos in the section about the 1957 Capelinhos volcano.

Other parts of No Reservations, Azores:

• Part 1 – includes São Miguel island and its connection to Fall River
• Part 2 – includes São Miguel island and the ‘furnas’
• Part 4 – Faial and Pico islands
• Part 5 – Pico and São Jorge

I have been reading about The Islanders project by Charles Avery in the Altermodern show. Here are a couple of related things:

National Gallery of Scotland
The Islanders project began in 2004. Its author, Charles Avery, was born in Mull in 1973; it was the life of this isle that inspired Avery to create an imaginary Island in rich detail, from its strange beasts to its fantastical gods.
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