Howls

Howls
The key to howls is to practice enough to develop touch. The ability to find and hold the right spot is critical to effective howling. A howl can be done with or without a bark preceding or following the howl.
To create a howl, start by inserting the call almost all the way in your mouth and blow to achieve a party horn type of sound. By adjusting green o-ring and manipulating the reed lightly with your teeth or upper lip you can create long or short howls or deeper tones versus higher (younger) tones. While producing the party horn type of tone, pull out while pressing down on the reed and stop at the desired tonal range. Some howls may also require that the reed be pushed back slightly at the end of the howls.
A Lone Locator Howl is a long howl that tapers off at the end into a lower tonal range.
A Challenge Howl usually has a bark at the front of the howl and is medium in length, ending abruptly while rising in tone.
A Warning Bark Howl is a forceful two tone, medium length howl that ends abruptly.

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[Ship tracks -- "narrow clouds... form[ed] when water vapor condenses around tiny particles of pollution that ships either emit directly as exhaust or that form as a result of gases within the exhaust” — in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, captured photographically by a NASA satellite; the atmospheric trace of the seaborne transfer of goods and materials between East and West.]

 

http://www.folkstreams.net/video/pizza_pizza_daddy-o/pizza_pizza_daddy-o.mov

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http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.16/i.not.love.information

 
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Mud can perhaps be seen as a kind of slack, exhausted, overfolded dough, a material in which all possible lines of folding have been included, to the point where there is no longer any difference or potential left. Like many jokes, it embodies a double movement, whereby a signal is first degraded into noise, but then the noise rises up, like a tarbaby or creature formed out of mud, in the form of a new signal.

StevenConnor – ‘Michel Serres’s Milieux’

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/dave_hullfish_bailey/

He had bought a large map representing the sea,

   Without the least vestige of land:

And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be

   A map they could all understand.

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,

   Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"

So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply

   "They are merely conventional signs!

"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes!

   But we've got our brave Captain to thank

(So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best—

   A perfect and absolute blank!"

The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)

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abraxas

Barrio Calligraphy

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Substrate: ‘the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists’. 'the base material that images will be printed onto'. 'the earthy material that exists in the bottom of a marine habitat, like dirt, rocks, sand, or gravel'

THERE IS NO ANTONYM OF SUBSTRATE.
they went to see in a sieve.

Star maps

Reyner Banham loves Los Angeles

A tour of Los Angeles with British architectural critic Reyner Banham

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Thom Andersen

2003