ARAC Day 04


A list of what I’m doing, as I’m doing it:

  1. wore the Somos Visibles shirt
  2. played Zelda III for ~twenty minutes. yesterday I played for about 30 minutes. am currently in the east palace looking for the big key. I have been collecting arrows, and have been promised a treasure that will defeat armored foes (the bow).
  3. I have to remember to build out Captain Nemo character. It struck me early this morning that there is an auditory relation to the name Nepomuceno. I did a quick search to learn a little bit about this name:
    1. Wikipedia: Nepomuceno surname: Nepomuceno is a second name and surname, meaning “of Nepomuk“.
    2. Wikipedia: John of Nepomuk was the saint of Bohemia who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia.
  4. I might as well investigate Nemo, too:
    1. I became aware of Nemo from the Disney story-books that followed the live action film, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. These books must have been from some kind of Reader’s Digest style illustrated anthology of abridged stories. These had both line drawings and film stills. The internet tells me that the film, starring Kirk Douglas, and featuring James Mason as Nemo, opened in 1954. My parents, and my mom in particular, encouraged reading and began building a library for us and themselves upon arrival to the US (1968) and as soon as we became stationary (by 1970). Let’s say I could have seen this book by 1971 at the earliest.
    2. Jules Verne’s name as the author would have been front and center.
    3. Tom and Jean Mullineaux, who adopted my family when we became stationary in San Antonio, were also voracious readers. They gifted to me a collection of paperback books that included several books by Verne. That collection is/was pretty astounding as I reflect on it. I didn’t read all of them. The spines with the titles in my bedroom became a kind of prayerful reminder of fictional works that were Verne’s peer group according to the publisher of the collection. I will have read the Verne books, though.
    4. Wikipedia entry of the fictional character: Etymology: Nemo is Latin for ‘no one’ or ‘nobody’. Nemo is itself the Latin translation of Ancient Greek Outis ‘Nobody’, the pseudonym adopted by the sea-faring hero Odysseus in Greek mythology to outwit the Cyclops Polyphemus. This appears to be the intended meaning, since in The Mysterious Island, when Cyrus Harding addresses him as Captain Nemo, the latter replies, “I have no name!”
    5. Nemo as a trope popped up in other works of fiction.
    6. Nemo become an archetype for the super-villian with advanced technologies, separatist fortress/lair/retreat, and adherant minions.
    7. I don’t know what came first, Pixar’s Finding Nemo or my understanding that a captiive boatwright near the port of Buenaventura had been christened Captain Nemo by narcos.
    8. LA Times reported 2008-12-14
      1. TUMACO, COLOMBIA — Squat, bull-necked and sullen-looking, Enrique Portocarrero hardly seems a dashing character out of a Jules Verne science fiction novel.
      2. But law enforcement officers here have dubbed him “Captain Nemo,” after the dark genius of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” They say the 45-year-old has designed and built as many as 20 fiberglass submarines, strange vessels with the look of sea creatures, for drug traffickers to haul cocaine from this area of southern Colombia to Central America and Mexico.
      3. Capping a three-year investigation that involved U.S. and British counter-narcotics agents, Colombia’s FBI equivalent, the Department of Administrative Security, arrested Portocarrero last month in the violent port city of Buenaventura, where he allegedly led a double life as a shrimp fisherman.
      4. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-captainnemo14-2008dec14,0,1166020.story
    9. I may not have my story straight about him being a captive; or, the “plata o plomo” effect is interpreted from outside as complicity rather than compliance. To survive is to be implicated…
    10. The Journal of Strategic Security from 2016
      1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26465413
      2. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/ vol9/iss1/6
      3. lays the onus on the FARC:
      4. Abstract: The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been one of the world’s most consistently formidable violent non-state actors over the last forty years. Unsurprisingly, the group has provided one of the most compelling and concerning examples of the level of technical sophistication attainable by sub-state organizations. Over the last two decades the group has carried out an iterative and innovative process that, in reaction to improved detection capabilities, has brought them from depending on disposable go-fast boats to transport drugs to possessing fully submersible and reusable covert vessels for transportation. The following case study will discuss the development of narco-submarines and the underlying motivations behind the pursuit of this complex engineering task. The case study will outline the different phases of the narco-submarine development and highlight FARC’s determination to overcome the challenges present in each design. This discussion will show how FARC’s systematized acquiring of information and expertise has resulted in the accomplishment of fully submersible vessels, capable of transporting more than 10 tons of illicit product.
      5. Disclaimer: Editor’s Note: This article forms part of a series of related case studies collected in this Special Issue and should be viewed in the context of the broader phenomenon of complex engineering by violent non-state actors. Readers are advised to consult the introductory and concluding papers for a full explanation and comparative analysis of the cases.
      6. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/ vol9/iss1/6
    11. (US) Homeland Security Affairs Journal vol 8 of August 2012
      1. Introduction: Within the past year, two different drug trafficking submarine construction projects were discovered: one in Ecuador near a tributary close to the Colombian border and the second in Timbiqui, Colombia. The discovery of submarine construction sites again raised the issue of threats posed by South American drug trafficking organizations (DTO) and terrorist group coalitions. Upper level US policymakers are concerned about terrorist groups’ substantial control over construction sites for low profile vessels (LPV), self-propelled semi-submersibles (SPSS), and submarines in South America.
    12. Finding Nemo was released in 2003 and re-released into theaters in 2012.
    13. Bitsy: Juan Valdez as Nemo’s Helper
    14. Bitsy can make “fetch quests”
    15. fetch quests require an entity that commissions the quest — the player enacts agency by pursuing the quest. obstacles and puzzles challenge and impede the quest.
    16. Nemo can commission quests
    17. The older brother from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta can commission quests
    18. Someone might commission quests like:
      1. collect tears from the flower(s)
      2. make flower(s) cry
      3. plant or propagate flower(s)
      4. side note: would there be scarred flowers?
  5. take some time in Bitsy to sketch some ideas
  6. palettes to reflect sketchbook with Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pens:
    1. https://www.faber-castell.com/products/PittArtistPenBrushIndiainkpenblack/167499
    2. found RGB equivalents by control/alt-clicking each sample and inspecting the element. The colors are defined in the html code for the img element which is the same one for each item/color
    3. Ultramarine 120 #3b60be
    4. May Green 170 #afb647
    5. Sanguine 188 #cf6245
    6. Terracotta 186 #ee8547
    7. Warm Grey III 272 #a49d91
    8. Warm Grey IV 273 #847a76
    9. Black 199 #363636
  7. Nemo’s Helper: A Juan & the Beanstalk Adventure
  8. populating with sprites and palettes
  9. Just found out I will have to move studio next week, from Monday afternoon through Wednesday. They will be cutting power to my portion of campus.
  10. I’m going to play some more Zelda III