Love Jack

1. Etymology of the word “Jack” throughout history and culture

Name Jack is believed to of British origin . Used to denote any ordinary man of (mostly youth ) during mid century. Soon the the name catch on and People with formal name like John , Jacob , Jackson, etc. were also started to be called as Jack as their pet name.

16th century Jack
symbol of ordinary man in England

Popularity of Jack has reached to such an extent that from 1995 to till now Jack is the most common name of all in England other English speaking countries . This has to do a lot with this notion that it means someone who is "Healthy, Strong, Full of Vital Energy, really jubilant ". 

Fictional character - Jack Dawson
Titanic (1997)

The word also began to be associated with objects which can help in saving human labor as though one had a helper : jackhammer , jackknife , jack (for lifting car ).

For centuries notion of Jack meant someone ordinary , a good fella with helping nature , some who gets or helps the work get done, arose a general sense of laborer in the early 18 century giving birth to word like  steeplejack, lumberjack , etc.

Jack often was used to represent minimum standards , for example jack in playing cards represents lowest place on or the court .

After some time the sense of smallness began to be associated with the word. Hence when people were trying to come up with an apt name for the game which included :

tossing and catching small round pebbles or Star-shaped of metal or plastic. Game of small pieces => Game of jacks , meant sense.

Other places where you might have heard The word Jack . like :

2. Personal Perspective on a game remarkable similar to the Game of Jacks. 

In Personal Perspective, would love to share the story of this game ,which my grandmother used to play, and is remarkably similar to the game of Jacks.
Game called Goti used to be played in played in India. Very prevalent during time of 1945-1980 in rural parts of Bihar, India. Now to put things in perspective : This is the map pf India and the state marked in red is my home state Bihar .

And by the way Bihar is the place where Buddha found enlightenment.

So coming back to the story . So 1945-1980 was a very harsh period . India had just jot its Independence from the the British rule in 1947. Economic state of the country was in ruins and especially state of bihar was most poorest of them all . People did not had access to basic amenities like water , electricity , houses etc. Kids during those times did not even had a toys to play with simply because their parents cant afford it. Especially for girls who were not allowed to go outside into the field and play like the boys . It was really really a harsh time but as my grand mother say " You cant tell times are bad if you have never seen a good one". So as a  result kids improvised and started playing this game called Goti , which required nothing but few pebbles . 

The game was fairly simple . There are many versions of it depending on the places and level you are playing . I have explained the basic level below played among 4 people.

This game is played with Four people and 5 pebbles.

Each player takes their turn one by one . These are the things that you are required to do :

1. Round one : Take one pebble in your hand , throw it in the air , we call it "guthwa" and mean while it is in the air try to grab any one of the four remaining pebbles on the table and then catch the guthwa. then keep it doing untill you have collected all the pebbles. If your continuity breaks then you note down the points and bring back all the pebbles and give chance to the person sitting next to you.  

here is the video of me (trying to play the game).

3. Sonification of Jack

Sonification is the process of taking a dataset and mapping it with a corresponding scale of sound . Inorder to sonify Love Jack Sculptor I have used a process called image sonification . Steps are as Follows :

Step 1. Choose a image 

Step 2. Extract component of RGB from the pixel clicked on screen . ( every pixel has a specific color with particular RGB)

Step 3. Map the values of each pixel to numerical value into a array.

Step 4. Map the values Stored in the array to that of a Sound.

Step 5. Play the sound.

Any music/ song in general have three components:
1. Bass
2. Snare
3. HighHat

Just like three components of  of color in any image
Hence, I mapped the sounds to color component as follows

1. Bass      -> Red

2. Snare    -> Green

3. HighHat -> Blue

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