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In 1970, Sabourin concentrated on general manager duties, leaving coaching to

Jack Bownass. After a defensively disastrous season (the team went through four
goalies that year, giving up 453 goals),
Blake Hall became coach for the 71-72
season. With their nancial books bleeding red, the team folded just 28 games
into the season.
After the Rockets melted into history,
others would follow. The Barons,
Barracudas and Lizard Kings all gave it a
slapshot here. Score one for the Rockets
for achieving the goal of launching this
sport into a non-traditional market. And
on eBay, you can still get a replica
Rockets jersey. Go Rockets! u

ART HISTORY

The story of Northeast Floridas history is

too expansive to be confined in the covers
of a book. Jacksonville University associate
professor of Intermedia, William Hill has
found an alternative medium to share at
least part of the tale with his work entitled
Tabula Rasa.
A Latin term meaning clean slate,
Tabula Rasa represents the philosophical
methodology that we are products of the
environment we live in, says Hill. We are
not born with knowledge, but learn from
what we experience.
Using virtual reality, Hills art is an
immersive 360-degree film in which the
viewer wears a VR headset. In the viewing,
a chair is discovered by a Timucua Indian,
who attempts to understand its use. He
must then defeat a Conquistador to avoid
capture. Following the defeat, the Timucua
learns to sit in the chair and time-lapse
transforms him into a Conquistador himself.
This continues, turning to a modern landscape, the Timucua turned Conquistador
fades leaving just the empty chair.
Hill uses the chair as a metaphor for
technology in general, to show how
indigenous people change after they
engage with something new. The simple
act of sitting in a chair as opposed to sitting on the ground changes how we look
at things, says the artist.
Created and debuted here in Jax, Tabula
Rasa has been presented in New York City,
and is scheduled for exhibitions in Florence,
Rome and Paris before end of 2016. u
TAYLOR NELSON

DECEMBER 2016 / JACKSONVILLEMAG.COM

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