Individual Microcosm Work
East River Ferry
Phase 1
maps
landscape photographs in Seaport District
Phase 2
Pirate song & movies
Pirate stories
A: Pirate leader
B: Cargo ship captain
C: The mate
D: Several crews
E: Second mate
F: One of the pirates
Story 1
A group of four pirates were trying to kidnap a cargo ship with approximately 20 crews. Combat between the two boats. Too far so that nobody was shot. However, the cargo ship used up all the hand grenades and was out of weapons. The pirates had several machine guns and pistols.
A: Let’s go, let’s go! Hurry up! Move your ass, kid!
Cargo crew adjusting the water hoses to shoot the small pirate boat. The boat approached the cargo ship shortly. The captain was standing outside the captain’s cabin and using a telescope to view the pirates’ actions.
B: (over PA) Get everybody down to the engine room. I need you in command there.
The pirate boat started to hang a hook ladder onto the cargo ship.
C: All crew! All crew! All crew to the engine room! All crew to the engine room now!
A: Higher! Get it higher!
B: (over PA) Port, 30 degrees.
A: Hook it on!
B: (over PA) They got the ladder up. Starboard, 30 degrees.
A: Get out of my way!
B: (over PA) Port, 30 degrees. (a few seconds later) Starboard, 30.
Pirate started to climb the ladder and got onto the cargo ship deck. The pirate leader tried to shoot the captain’s cabin from the deck.
D: Someone’s shooting at us.
E: Hang on. Just get together against the wall.
C: Hold them by the door. We’ll get a head count.
Story 2
All four of the pirates climbed onto the ship and they were looking for the way to the captain’s cabin.
B: (over PA) Four pirates on board. Four pirates, coming towards us down the main deck.
B: Lock down the bridge.
C: Yeah.
B: (over PA) Listen up. We’ve been boarded by four armed pirates. You know the drill. We stay hidden no matter what. I don’t want any hostages.
The pirates shot at the locks and was on the way to the captain’s cabin.
B: (over PA) We stay locked down until help arrives. No one comes out until you hear the nonduress password, “suppertime.”
D: Jesus.
B: (over PA) If the pirates find you, remember, you know the ship. They don’t. Make them feel like they’re in charge, but keep them away from the generator and the engine controls.
The pirates shot at another gate and entered the upper floor.
B: (over PA) Stick together, and we’ll be alright. Good luck.
C: Take everybody to the bottom of the engine room. Hide them behind the cylinders. Try to spilt them into groups of threes and fours.
Crew running.
The pirates entered the captain’s cabin. Yelling and pointing the gun to the captain and the other three crew members in the captain’s cabin.
F: Hey! Don’t move! Don’t move, I said!
Captain and his crew raised their hands.
F: Don’t move! We have four!
A: Captain. Relax. Nobody gets hurt. No al Qaeda here. Just business. We want money. When we get paid, everything’s gonna be ok. The ship. Where does it from?
B: The ship? Uh, America. It’s a American ship.
F: America? Ha-ha-ha. Yes! Yes!
A: You? Yankee?
B: Me? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yankee-Irish. Yeah.
A: (to other pirates) From now on this one is called Irish, okay?
Pirates laughed.
F: Irish. Irish.
A: Okay, Irish. What else you carrying?
B: What do you mean?
A: TV? Car?
B: No,no. We just got the food.
A: Dollars?
B: Uh… We do. Tom? Tom, what do we have in the safe? We got like, what, $30,000 in the safe? Yeah, we got like… We have… In the safe, we got $30,000. It’s yours.
A: Thirty thousand dollars? What am I? Do I look like a beggar?
The operator turned off all the machines. And the monitors started beeping.
F: What’s that?
B: It’s all right.
A: Hey, calm down! Calm down.
C: (leading the crew) Get back there. Yeah, yeah, over here.
B: We got a problem. We pushed the ship too hard. We’re off the grid. That means the computers’s now off-line.
A: Captain.
B: The ship’s broken.
A: No one gets hurt if you don’t play no game.
B: Uh… It’s… The ship’s broken. We had to go…
A: Nobody gets hurt. Easy. Hey! Look at me.
B: Sure.
A: Look at me.
B: Sure.
A: I’m the captain now.
Story 3
The pirates took $30,000 and the captain as the hostage on a lifeboat from the cargo ship. They were sailing to Somalia to meet their boss. On the way, the pirate leader was counting the money.
A: Irish, it’s taxes. This money, taking you, that’s all it is. You come to our waters, you got to pay.
B: We were in international waters. Not your waters, international waters. We were carrying food for starving people in Africa. Even Somalis.
A: Yeah, sure. Rich countries like to help Somalis. Big ships come to our water, take all the fish out. What’s left for us to fish?
B: So you’re fishermen?
A: Yeah, we’re all fishermen.
One of the pirates drank up the rest water of the container and threw it to the floor. The container clattered.
B: Gonna need some more water.
A: When we get home, you’ll get a million bottles of it. All the water you want.
B: Really?
A: Last year I took an Italian ship. Seven million dollars.
B: Seven million dollars? So, what are you doing here?
A: (hesitated for a few seconds) Shut up, Irish. Too much talk.
Story 4
A large elite team of the US Navy was sent to rescue the homage, the captain. After several negotiations, the situation became sticky.
A: Irish, no worry. Everything’s gonna be okay. After this, I go to America. I always wanted to go to America. Go to New York, buy a car…
People from the lifeboat saw new navy ships approaching.
B: Hey captain, it’s all over. It’s all over, captain. There’s a reason your boss took off and isn’t coming back. He didn’t wanna take on the Navy. He’s gone. He’s left you alone. You had a plan to take my ship. That didn’t work, so you thought you could take me?
A: Shut up.
B: Make a run to Somalia? They got the US Navy out there. You gotta give up. You gotta stop.
A: I can’t stop, Irish.
B: The Navy is not gonna let you win. They can’t let you win. They would rather sink this boat than let you get me back to Somalia. It’s over.
A: I come too far, Irish. I can’t give up. No.
Story 5
One of the pirates accidentally shot to the sky when menacing the captain. This accident somehow triggered the negotiation to be more severe. The captain tried to escape from the water but failed.
A: Everything good, Irish. Everything’s gonna be okay. I go to the Navy ship, get dollars, you go home. It was supposed to be easy. I take ship… ransom… nobody get hurt.
B: You had $30,000 and a way to Somalia. It wasn’t enough?
A: I got bosses. They got rules.
B: We all got bosses. There’s gonna be something other than being a fisherman and kidnapping people.
A: Maybe in America, Irish. Maybe in America.
A: Pirate leader
B: Cargo ship captain
C: The mate
D: Several crews
E: Second mate
F: One of the pirates
Story 1
A group of four pirates were trying to kidnap a cargo ship with approximately 20 crews. Combat between the two boats. Too far so that nobody was shot. However, the cargo ship used up all the hand grenades and was out of weapons. The pirates had several machine guns and pistols.
A: Let’s go, let’s go! Hurry up! Move your ass, kid!
Cargo crew adjusting the water hoses to shoot the small pirate boat. The boat approached the cargo ship shortly. The captain was standing outside the captain’s cabin and using a telescope to view the pirates’ actions.
B: (over PA) Get everybody down to the engine room. I need you in command there.
The pirate boat started to hang a hook ladder onto the cargo ship.
C: All crew! All crew! All crew to the engine room! All crew to the engine room now!
A: Higher! Get it higher!
B: (over PA) Port, 30 degrees.
A: Hook it on!
B: (over PA) They got the ladder up. Starboard, 30 degrees.
A: Get out of my way!
B: (over PA) Port, 30 degrees. (a few seconds later) Starboard, 30.
Pirate started to climb the ladder and got onto the cargo ship deck. The pirate leader tried to shoot the captain’s cabin from the deck.
D: Someone’s shooting at us.
E: Hang on. Just get together against the wall.
C: Hold them by the door. We’ll get a head count.
Story 2
All four of the pirates climbed onto the ship and they were looking for the way to the captain’s cabin.
B: (over PA) Four pirates on board. Four pirates, coming towards us down the main deck.
B: Lock down the bridge.
C: Yeah.
B: (over PA) Listen up. We’ve been boarded by four armed pirates. You know the drill. We stay hidden no matter what. I don’t want any hostages.
The pirates shot at the locks and was on the way to the captain’s cabin.
B: (over PA) We stay locked down until help arrives. No one comes out until you hear the nonduress password, “suppertime.”
D: Jesus.
B: (over PA) If the pirates find you, remember, you know the ship. They don’t. Make them feel like they’re in charge, but keep them away from the generator and the engine controls.
The pirates shot at another gate and entered the upper floor.
B: (over PA) Stick together, and we’ll be alright. Good luck.
C: Take everybody to the bottom of the engine room. Hide them behind the cylinders. Try to spilt them into groups of threes and fours.
Crew running.
The pirates entered the captain’s cabin. Yelling and pointing the gun to the captain and the other three crew members in the captain’s cabin.
F: Hey! Don’t move! Don’t move, I said!
Captain and his crew raised their hands.
F: Don’t move! We have four!
A: Captain. Relax. Nobody gets hurt. No al Qaeda here. Just business. We want money. When we get paid, everything’s gonna be ok. The ship. Where does it from?
B: The ship? Uh, America. It’s a American ship.
F: America? Ha-ha-ha. Yes! Yes!
A: You? Yankee?
B: Me? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yankee-Irish. Yeah.
A: (to other pirates) From now on this one is called Irish, okay?
Pirates laughed.
F: Irish. Irish.
A: Okay, Irish. What else you carrying?
B: What do you mean?
A: TV? Car?
B: No,no. We just got the food.
A: Dollars?
B: Uh… We do. Tom? Tom, what do we have in the safe? We got like, what, $30,000 in the safe? Yeah, we got like… We have… In the safe, we got $30,000. It’s yours.
A: Thirty thousand dollars? What am I? Do I look like a beggar?
The operator turned off all the machines. And the monitors started beeping.
F: What’s that?
B: It’s all right.
A: Hey, calm down! Calm down.
C: (leading the crew) Get back there. Yeah, yeah, over here.
B: We got a problem. We pushed the ship too hard. We’re off the grid. That means the computers’s now off-line.
A: Captain.
B: The ship’s broken.
A: No one gets hurt if you don’t play no game.
B: Uh… It’s… The ship’s broken. We had to go…
A: Nobody gets hurt. Easy. Hey! Look at me.
B: Sure.
A: Look at me.
B: Sure.
A: I’m the captain now.
Story 3
The pirates took $30,000 and the captain as the hostage on a lifeboat from the cargo ship. They were sailing to Somalia to meet their boss. On the way, the pirate leader was counting the money.
A: Irish, it’s taxes. This money, taking you, that’s all it is. You come to our waters, you got to pay.
B: We were in international waters. Not your waters, international waters. We were carrying food for starving people in Africa. Even Somalis.
A: Yeah, sure. Rich countries like to help Somalis. Big ships come to our water, take all the fish out. What’s left for us to fish?
B: So you’re fishermen?
A: Yeah, we’re all fishermen.
One of the pirates drank up the rest water of the container and threw it to the floor. The container clattered.
B: Gonna need some more water.
A: When we get home, you’ll get a million bottles of it. All the water you want.
B: Really?
A: Last year I took an Italian ship. Seven million dollars.
B: Seven million dollars? So, what are you doing here?
A: (hesitated for a few seconds) Shut up, Irish. Too much talk.
Story 4
A large elite team of the US Navy was sent to rescue the homage, the captain. After several negotiations, the situation became sticky.
A: Irish, no worry. Everything’s gonna be okay. After this, I go to America. I always wanted to go to America. Go to New York, buy a car…
People from the lifeboat saw new navy ships approaching.
B: Hey captain, it’s all over. It’s all over, captain. There’s a reason your boss took off and isn’t coming back. He didn’t wanna take on the Navy. He’s gone. He’s left you alone. You had a plan to take my ship. That didn’t work, so you thought you could take me?
A: Shut up.
B: Make a run to Somalia? They got the US Navy out there. You gotta give up. You gotta stop.
A: I can’t stop, Irish.
B: The Navy is not gonna let you win. They can’t let you win. They would rather sink this boat than let you get me back to Somalia. It’s over.
A: I come too far, Irish. I can’t give up. No.
Story 5
One of the pirates accidentally shot to the sky when menacing the captain. This accident somehow triggered the negotiation to be more severe. The captain tried to escape from the water but failed.
A: Everything good, Irish. Everything’s gonna be okay. I go to the Navy ship, get dollars, you go home. It was supposed to be easy. I take ship… ransom… nobody get hurt.
B: You had $30,000 and a way to Somalia. It wasn’t enough?
A: I got bosses. They got rules.
B: We all got bosses. There’s gonna be something other than being a fisherman and kidnapping people.
A: Maybe in America, Irish. Maybe in America.
Phase 3
camera free area in LA city
video draft 1
video draft 2
