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Project 1A

Inspiration Image Reference: Mulvaney, K. (2017). The song of 52 Hz, the loneliest whale in the world . Retrieved from: http://www.afr.com/content/dam/images/g/u/2/k/3/r/image.imgtype.afrArticleInline.620x0.png/1486731192933.jpg For Project 1A, I had gotten my inspiration partly from 1. My previous papercut of a whale back in the Papercut and Stencil tutorial, and 2. Whale 52 also dubbed the Whalien (portmanteau of the words Whale and Alien), or the “Loneliest whale in the world”! Some backstory on the Whale 52: back in 1989, calls from a lone whale at a frequency of 52 Hertz was picked up. This was very unusual because whales communicate at a much lower frequency – meaning that the Whale 52 would be unable to receive and send signals to any whale in the world! That’s as good as being closed off from all of whale civilisation and society, given how vast the oceans are and the lack of any other viable communication means ): Whether this whale truly existe...