To obtain the information described above, many surfers use the internet. Some of the most popular sites to visit include:
Approaches to illustrating the crashing surf
from WE ARE Magazine, June 2022
Yuki Miyake of White Conduit Projects interviews photographer Tomoko Yoneda for WE ARE Magazine
Tomoko Yoneda was born in Hyogo prefecture, Japan in 1965. Yoneda graduated from The University of Illinois in Chicago in 1989, the Royal College of Art, London in 1991 and now lives in London. Yoneda has been conducting thorough research on the subject of ideology in the 20th century. She continues to make photographs by visiting places where her memory remains strong in a wide range of regions such as Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia and Japan. Through photography, she approaches the historical truth layered behind a scene with poetic sensibilities to evoke memories.
Tomoko YONEDA, Echoes – Crashing waves
Saturday, June 4 – Saturday, July 9, 2022 ShugoArts Tokyo 12pm – 6pm, Closed on Sun, Mon and Public Holidays
River – view of earthquake regeneration housing project from a river flowing through a former location of evacuees’ temporary accommodation, 2004 From the Series A Decade After
Hiroshima Peace Day, 2011 From the Series Cumulus
What made you start photography?
I travelled to the United States to study journalism in the Midwest. I thought there was pride and tradition in design and photography there. There is a new Bauhaus school (Institute of Design/ID at what is now the Illinois Institute of Technology) established by Lászlo Moholy-Nagy in 1937. Many of the professors at the University of Illinois, Chicago where I was enrolled have inherited the tradition of ID. I studied under professor Joseph Jachna who was taught by Aaron Siskin and Harry Callahan. This would make a lasting impression to shape my aesthetics. I lived where everyday life was in a modern cityscape, where photography was as important as, and even more important than art.
Themes come out in response to the present, such as what I have been wondering about since I was a child and questions still remain at the present. It’s a conversation with my timeline regarding my thoughts and feelings. Then I want to express or present question marks as a photograph.
You are active globally, but what kind of importance and character do you think that being Japanese adds to your work?
I don’t particularly emphasise being Japanese and female but I can’t escape from the facts. “I” exist but I am not a Japanese person who remained only in Japan. As I have lived in the United States, Europe and UK for a long time, I have an objective and critical gaze toward Japan.
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan had an era of advancing to imperialism together with other great powers. In 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was dropped, the end of the war, and democratisation. Also, Japan always lives next to natural disasters. These factors have a large influence on my work.
Surfing the Waves
This activity builds on the content below.
TEACHER GUIDE
The above teacher presentation explores waves (from the original SEA curriculum). In the above teacher guide pdf, there will be presenter notes in yellow boxes in the upper, left corner once document is downladed.
What is a Wave?
Waves are a repeating pattern of motion that transfers energy from place to place without overall displacement of matter. Mechanical waves are disturbances in any medium or substance—including water, sound, and light. Water waves happen in puddles, pools, lakes and the ocean. All waves have some features in common (Fig. 1):
- The trough is the lowest point, or bottom, between two waves.
- The crest is the highest point, or top, of the wave.
- The wave height is the distance from trough to crest.
- Amplitude is half of the wave height; it is the distance from crest to the still-water level.
- Wavelength is the measurement from crest to crest, or spacing between wave peaks).
- Frequency is the number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time.
Simple waves have repeating patterns of wavelength, frequency, and amplitude.
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Deep Ocean Waves
Waves can be made in water by disturbances or vibrations at the surface. Most ocean waves are caused by wind. When waves move across the surface of deep water, the water goes up and down in place. Although wave energy moves, there is no net motion of water in the direction of the wave. In actuality, as the energy of a wave passes through water, the energy sets water particles into orbital motion (Fig. 2).
By watching a buoy anchored outside a wave zone, you can see how water moves in a series of waves. The passing swells do not move the buoy toward shore; instead, the waves move the buoy in a circular fashion, first up and forward, then down, and finally back to a place near the original position. Neither the buoy nor the water advances toward shore.
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