20 March 2006

Webcam: Shifting our Point of View

by Mike Mate, onboard the Esperanza

I walked onto the bridge as the phone started ringing, the wind howling through the barely open bridge windows. Nadia called out to me from the chart room, "ee'zz fur yu". I looked on the monitor to see who was calling, picked up the receiver and exclaimed, "My God!" To which Thom's voice answered, "I am very high up in the crows nest, how can I help you my son?" "I want to see the world wide web". I replied and the image on the consol screen shifted, I was looking at the naked V-Sat dome facing a strong force six breeze in the Atlantic Ocean.

"Up a bit Thom", I called - and the web camera tilted to take in the horizon behind us and the ship's wake astern. "Now I can see clearly what happened. What about the future?" I asked. Thom's chompers appeared to open up around the screen, the image grew misty and then cleared to reveal a hairy belly-button, a finger followed by a shirt - he wiped the lens of the webcam clear. We're looking forward no more, neither are we in the here and now - it is in retrospection that the world wide web watches. Why have we shifted our point of view?

   

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/cgi-bin/mv/mt-tb.cgi/1369

Comments

Posted by: elaine at March 20, 2006 11:38 PM

All updates from the Southern Ocean whaling 2007 leg »
All updates from the Pacific transit »
All updates from the Mexico leg »
All updates from the Hawaii leg »
All updates from the Pacific leg »
All updates from the Philippines leg »
All updates from the India leg »
All updates from the Red Sea leg »
All updates from the Mediterranean leg »
All updates from the Azores leg »
All updates from the Pirate Fishing/Africa leg »
All updates from the Southern Ocean »

Avast ye land lubbers! The ocean critters need your help!
Take action today!

Stop Pirate Fishing!