The Zangshu, or Book of Burial

http://www.fengshuigate.com/zangshu.html

Mushroom Burial Suit

Improbable Monuments, beginning workings

Cypress Lawn Cemetary

analyze:  map out.  research.  explain.  Concentration in unfinished catacombs project.  Interview.  Find out specifics of select gravesites.  History.  Creation.  Whats up with the dwarf tower?  Whats up with ramp to creepy mortuary cellar?  Document historical mortuary processes.

intervention:  -thousands of flowers everywhere, scatter via helicopter?

-uncovering untold secrets of cemetary beauracracy

-expose inner workings

monument:  -underground living environments, catacombs for the living. 

-Sleeping pods.

-Project figures of men in suits and sunglasses at various areas in cemetary, flicker on and off

-3D images of deceased at their gravesites.  Projected.  They can be turning around, talking but no words come out.  Option to record message before death and have floating 3D image instead of gravemarker.  Maybe hovering over a platform.  Press a button, code and recorded message sounds.

-New ways of commemorating, remembering the dead.

-New forms of burial

-Tall, clear, pyramidal-shaped structure to fill with ashes.  "Collective crematorium".  Maybe a doorway to step inside, glass walls, small opening at top to let light in.  Reminiscent of Egyptian pyramids.  Maybe can put small momentos in with ashes (colored glass bottles, messages, shells, seeing eye glasses..)

-Music sounds when you walk through certain areas of cemetary.  Soothing opera.  Classical.  Old-timey.

-Crystal chimes in certain trees.

-Cemetary as sanctuary.  Cemetary as in-between world.  Cemetary as passageway.

-Underground altars.  Small spaces carved into rock wall to set up small ceremonial altars in rememberance.  Entrance through pyramid.

System B

Examining Systems Maps:


Fig.1  San Francisco Sectional Aeronautical Charts (1991, 1985)

-Topographic Information
-Airport Traffic Service and Airspace Information
-Radio Aids
-Obstructions
-Airport Data
-Highest elevation at 14,491 feet
-Dark brown color indicates 12,000 feet above sea level
Note: "Uncontrolled airspace within the United States extends up to 14,500 feet MSL.  At and above this altitude all airspace is within the Continental Control Area, excluding the airspace less than 1500 feet above the terrain and certain special use airspace areas."
-ARSA Airport Radar Service Area altitudes shown in purple, thick line, thick dashed line
-TCA Terminal Control Area altitudes shown in blue, thick line
-Military Operations Areas shown in purple line with dashed shading
-Prohibited, Restricted, Warning, and Alert areas shown in blue line with dashed shading
-Hard surfaced runways greater than 8000 feet are blue rectangular boxes

fig.2  VFR Terminal Area Charts San Francisco (1988, 1989, 1991) 

-San Francisco Terminal Control Area focus
-Similar key as fig.1

fig.3  VFR Terminal Area Chart Los Angeles (1987)

-Los Angeles Terminal Control Area focus
-Similar key as fig.1

*Read blue bold type concerning VFR Flyway planning in heavily congested areas

*Place tracing paper proposals over Los Angeles VFR Chart to gain perspective

fig.4  Ontario International Departure routes

fig.5  East flow Ontario

fig.6  Ontario Arrivals West

fig.7  LAX flows, jets, high performance twins

fig.8  LAX, Ontario flows, routes

fig.9,10,11,12  Los Angeles Regional Area Airspace Base Maps, beginning sketches: Generalized Instrument Flight Routes

fig.13  LAX Airspace Capacity Overview (1994)

-Existing Conditions
-Recent and Planned Changes in Airspace Structure and Operations
-Airspace/Airfield Capacity Estimates
-Emerging Technologies for Capacity and Safety Improvements
-Summary of Findings and Recommendations

Systems Brainstorm

System= a set of components that are related in some manner; a set of variables selected by an observer.

Ideas:

1)  Books Idea (System A blog):  = "data-mining"
Might plug information into excell regarding
         -Bibliographic data
         -Date of publication
         -#Hash tags and how they correlate to eachother
         -Method of acquirement
         -Age of acquirement
         -Read in full, or not
Then examine relationships

May also graph relationships
         -Topographical map
         -Color-coded
         -Spherical maps
         -Tree maps
Note:  Can make these maps without complex algorithms.  Use a few set categories.

2)  Disassemble the Workings of a House/Household
         -Electricity
         -Water
         -Heating
         -Track household members' routines
Have an architectural floor plan and break down water pipes, heating/A/C ducts, electrical wiring, phone/internet/cable wiring
Also chart household members' routines/ whereabouts with different colored lines- the amount of time spent at different areas has a thicker line

3)  Sound Sculptures

4)  Thought Processes/ Word Association

5)  Kittens' Life/Structure/Habits/Physicality

6)  Expressive Arts Therapy's Impact on Children/Adults/People with Disabilities/People with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/People with Psychological Diagnoses
Maybe via line-graph

7)  Soul as Crab Insides/Shell as Physical Body
3D Model

System A

System A

System A is a catalogue of all the books I currently have on my shelf.  Not nearly half the books I own.  Maybe five of the 'coffee table books'.  And I constantly donate books that I've already read.  Rarely return any to library on time, so I love friends of the library sales and used book stores where i can get my books and feel like theyre mine and I dont have to finish at a given time.

I began by listing, the time period during which I acquired the books:

Red= inherited/ before I was born
Orange= very young
Light orange= teenager
Yellow= early twenties
Green= mid twenties
Blue= very recently

The second column categorizes the way in which I acquired the books:

Brown= given to me
Pink= purchased new
Light pink= purchased used

The third column shows which I have read all the way through:

Purple= read

I plan on furthur analysing the correlations and adding more columns...