Rabih Abou-Khalil

Escultura paleolítica

Fish, bone carving, Middle Paleolithic

Visual History of the World

Fish! philosophy (???)

The FISH! Philosophy is a set of simple, practical tools to help you create the work culture you’ve been looking for. It’s a way to build stronger relationships that equip you to face your challenges more effectively. The FISH! Philosophy fulfills the most basic needs of human beings who, in turn, fulfill the needs of the organization—more connected teams, better communication, extraordinary service and higher retention.


Deve ser bom: o DVD tem 18 minutos e custa 850 USD!!!

Punk fish

Punk Fish
Osmani Simanca, Brasil

Vencedor do 1º prémio na categoria "Gag Cartoon" do World Press Cartoon 2009

Poderia ser uma alegoria à sobre-exploração dos recursos, ou aos malefícios das capturas acessórias.

Pieter Bruegel (1525-1569)

"Homines pravis, praeversisque cupiditatibus facti sunt, sicut pisces invicem se devorantes."

Os homens com suas más e perversas cobiças, vêm a ser como os peixes, que se comem uns aos outros.

Padre António Vieira
Sermão de Santo António (1654)

Esther Melton

“Era uma vez um pintor que tinha um aquário com um peixe vermelho. Vivia o peixe tranquiliamente acompanhado pela sua cor vermelha até que principiou a tornar-se negro a partir de dentro, um nó preto atrás da cor encarnada. O nó desenvolvia-se alastrando e tomando conta de todo o peixe. Por fora do aquário o pintor assistia surpreendido ao aparecimento do novo peixe.

O problema do artista era que, obrigado a interromper o quadro onde estava a chegar o vermelho do peixe, não sabia que fazer da cor preta que ele agora lhe ensinava. Os elementos do problema contituíam-se na observação dos factos e punham-se por esta ordem: peixe, vermelho pintor – sendo o vermelho nexo entre o peixe e o quadro através do pintor. O preto formava a insídia do real e abria um abismo na primitiva fidelidade do pintor.

Ao meditar sobre as razões da mudança exactamente quando assentava na sua fidelidade, o pintor supôs que o peixe, efectuando um número de mágica, mostrava que existia apenas uma lei abrangendo tanto o mundo das coisas como o da imaginação. Era a lei da metamorfose.

Compreendida esta espécie de fidelidade, o artista pintou um peixe amarelo.”

Herberto Helder, Os passos em volta. Assirio & Alvim

(Obrigado pela dica, LN)

The European Union Action Plan for the Conservation and Management of Sharks

The European Commission's Action plan for the Conservation and Management of Sharks [...] is based on the following three specific objectives:

• deepen knowledge both on shark fisheries and on shark species and their role in the ecosystem;
• ensure that directed fisheries for shark are sustainable and that their by-catches are properly regulated;
• encourage a coherent approach between the internal and external EC fishery policy for sharks.

Baseado num plano da FAO de 1999, tem por trás dele o poder negocial e financeiro da Comissão Europeia. Espero que resulte em melhorias tangíveis. É que estamos mesmo a bater no fundo... (v. paper de Myers & Worm, 2005)

Artificial fishes

Xiaoyuan Tu & Demetri Terzopoulos, 1994. Artificial fishes: physics, locomotion, perception, behavior. Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, pp: 43 - 50

This paper proposes a framework for animation that can achieve the intricacy of motion evident in certain natural ecosystems with minimal input from the animator. The realistic appearance,
movement, and behavior of individual animals, as well as the patterns of behavior evident in groups of animals fall within the scope of the framework. Our approach to emulating this level of natural complexity is to model each animal holistically as an autonomous agent situated in its physical world. To demonstrate the approach, we develop a physics-based, virtual marine world. The world is inhabited by artificial fishes that can swim hydrodynamically in simulated water through the motor control of internal muscles that motivate fins. Their repertoire of behaviors relies on their perception of the dynamic environment. As in nature, the detailed motions of artificial fishes in their virtual habitat are not entirely predictable because they are not scripted.

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Shark Waters

For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into the balance of life on earth.

Driven by passion fed from a lifelong fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.

Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, Sharkwater takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world's shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador.

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