Morbid Daily

Morbid Daily as I've written about already in this blog is a concept for a mobile app that would be dedicated to rehashing pasted atrocities that have occurred during human history. Along with the history it would also cover ongoing events throughout the world. It would serve as a platform for remembering the past and aiding the present. Throughout my research I have been looking at Noam Chomsky and his work of Media manipulating the masses this was major inspiration. This app would be dedication to conveying unaltered information.  Many inhuman acts have been overlooked or over all forgotten over the course of human history this app would hope to change that.

The app would look like any other news feed with events that had occurred that day. Users would then have the option of clicking on said events and opening a more detailed view. There would be several tabs including one with the historical account, one where victims or relatives of victims could retell their story, a comments section where discussions could take place. New material would be user contributed but would be moderated first a team of historians then as time progresses trusted user moderation. The app would start with a pool of stories nearly each day of the year and would later be user contributed but would be moderated before upload. 

As well as past events there would be a part of the app dedicated to ongoing events called Morbid Now which would be a part of Morbid Daily. The app would work as a source of information and a place discussion. Morbid Now would be a member unique feature that would also serve as a method of recording and documenting ongoing events. Morbid Now would have the ability to record and automatically send the video to the users account and in certain circumstances when enabled to Morbid's database for review by a dedicated team. In areas where internet access is unreliable of nonexistent users can upload an video via MMS with message subject their specific account number. Though it wouldn’t be as streamlined because the inability to instantly upload when the video finishes recording but still an feature I see being used. If the video entailed evidence of wrong doing would be uploaded onto the ongoing event site and the relative authorities for further evaluation. The ability to do so in a world were increasingly people have access to smartphones and mobile internet in my opinion will be very useful to fight attempted sensor ship. The ability to almost instantly upload a video after recording in order to ensure to tampering or destruction of evidence is key in a modern world. I predict that this app with mostly be used by lowkey jpurnalists to get their story accross Because not always the story they want to say is published but rather put out of context or ccensored by the interests of the publisher. 

    


   Examples

East Timor

East Timor was then invaded by Indonesia shortly after Portugal abruptly left, in 1975. This was the day after U.S. President Ford's visit to Indonesia, with what people have suspected as being a "green light" to invade. At that time, Indonesia had military, economic and political support from countries such as UK, USA and Australia, for various reasons including the oil and gas reserves, a strategic location, various trade and cheap labor related interests. 200,000 people are said to have been killed since 1975 one third of the entire East Timorese population.

                                                  

Soviet Union and Chechens 

On February 23, 1944, the entire population of Chechens and Ingush were ordered to local party buildings where they were informed they were being deported for helping the Germans. Anyone who could not be transported for some reason was to be shot immediately. In one such instance, 700 people were locked in a barn that was burned to the ground. Experts believe up to 50 percent of the Chechen population died during what is commonly referred to as “Operation Lentil.”

Nigeria 1960

One of the largest groups in the area, the Igbo, decided to secede from Nigeria and form the Republic of Biafra. The Nigerian government immediately launched a campaign to retake the oil-rich breakaway region. From 1967, when the Republic of Biafra was formed, to late 1968, a vicious civil war raged. The Nigerian government did everything they could to crush the fledgling nation. They even blocked food and water from getting into Biafra, contributing to the nearly 3 million lives lost in the civil war. Almost 5,000 died each day, most of them of Igbo descent.

I took an hour walk through my neighbor hood. This map represents the path i took. Each time i turned left of right i changed the direction of the line. The length of the line depends roughly how long I was walking in that direction. I was walking in the dejvice area at night and took time to absorb my surroundings. I tried to stray away from busy areas staying to the back streets. I timed the walk for exactly an hour.

Prague is covered in tags which is a form a visual smog. They serve no creative purpose  and clutter the city in destructive nonsense. In an anonymous survey made in New Zealand  found that 63% of graffiti writers were under the age of 21. So if we assume its even remotely similar in Czech Republic a very simple solution would be selling sprays and other permanent inks as a controlled product. Only selling these products to individuals over the age of 21. This would decrease the accessibility and thus there would be less incentive to commit acts of vandalism.

Just for a rough comparison this how it would look with the new law instated. Decreasing accessibility would possibly push  vandals to more productive thought provoking acts of vandalism that could add an interesting flair to a otherwise scribbled upon city.  

 

Cheap Housing or panelak as its known in Czech is for me visual smog. These started to appear during communism and still stand today. They are horrible structures that lack any creativity. Having lived in one for several years I can say its one of the most depressing places to live.

Le Corbusier 

1)Introduction
-An iconic image taken from the surface of mars of a sunset on the 19th of May, 2005.

2)Description
-This is a photo of a sun rise over a landscape. The landscape can barely be seen from the gloom of dusk. Culturally we are used to seeing pictures of dusk, yet this changes our notion of home because its eerily familiar to us yet worlds apart.

3)Iconography
-This is a image we are used to seeing on our planet. An undefined landscape with a rising sun.  I would say it was taken somewhere on earth.  Culturally we are used to seeing pictures of dusk, yet this changes our notion of home because its eerily familiar to us yet worlds apart. This image was taken on the surface of Mars by the Mars Rover. The sun is associated with life in many cultures present and past. There is something strangely poetic about this photo, such beauty in such a harsh and unforgiving place. Is this a snapshot of what earth will look like in the distant future. Once teeming with live now dead and baron.  Many believe that mars bore life far before earth. So does earth await the same faith. What does this image say about the future of humans as a species. One day we will venture away from our home toward a new one. Earth will be but a distant memory , a memory that will pass into legend and then into myth.

4)Iconology
-This image was taken to determine how high into the atmosphere dust rises, and to spot ice clouds over the Martian surface. Other images have shown that the twilight glow remains visible for up to two hours before sunrise or after sunset. The long twilight on Mars is caused by the sunlight that is scattered around to the night side of the planet by high altitude dust. Similar long twilights or extra-colorful sunrises and sunsets sometimes happen on Earth when dust grains that are erupted from volcanoes scatter light high in the atmosphere. With the planed missions to mars within the third decade of the millennium we as a species will be venturing further from home than ever before.  This image speaks about the next frontier of human exploration in the vastness of space. Traveling away from our home into the unknown.

5)Hard Classification

year: 2005

author: Mars Rover

place: Mars 

6) Way of Eye Contact

The beholder is connected with the similarity of the Martian landscape to Earths

7)Point of View

First Person Perspective

8)Way of Distance

Foreground landscape in darkness which draws the attention to the setting sun in the background surrounded by a blue light.

9)Direction of Examination

The image reads from the center where the sun lies to the foreground.

10)Modality 

This image was captured by a robot which says something about of humanities connection to space. We all fantasize but seldom  few will ever experience the journey but rather view it through those who are brave and fortunate enough to go where others dare not. 

  

Sexuality

 

News

Stories

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Visual Media

Through my evaluation of Vices THE MAGIC HOUR ISSUE volume #22 issue 4 I discovered that this edition has a good balance of stories that can appeal to a wide variety of readers. This specific issue was in my opinion geared towards men reader more than woman. They covered a wide range of topics however these topics could have been delved into further. Unlike most magazines that are about one thing for example The economist or Wired, Vice attempts to cover many issues which in some senses is good to have a variety of information but bad because most reader buy a magazine with a specific topic in mind. 3 out of 9 articles were blogs. Blogs in my opinion are not very good sources of information because they are written over such long periods of time that often they can become contradictory as the writers opinion changes. Overall I enjoy Vice but its not a source of information I necessarily trust.