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I've filled my new Aston leather CASE-6 pen case with an idiosyncratic collection of writing instruments, from the ostentatious to the ridiculous. Left to right: Platinum Preppy fountain pen, converted for eyedropper filling, loaded with Noodler's Ink X-Feather black (It was included free when I bought the ink); Montblanc 149 Meisterstück Diplomat, broad nib, with Noodler's Ink Manjiro Nakahama Whaleman's Sepia; Faber-Castell E-Motion mechanical pencil, soft 1.2 mm lead; Noodler's Ink Ahab fountain pen with Flex Nib, filled with Noodler's E. I. Lawrence ink; Gakken Sta:Ful mechanical pencil, featuring a figure of Moomintroll carrying a jar of his mother's jam in a scene from Moominland Midwinter (a gift from Haruna); and a Staedtler MARS-TECHNICO 782 leadholder which belonged to my father, with a Kimberly-G.P. 2 mm HB lead (placed in the pen case in part because the lead's too long to slide completely inside the leadholder and I seemed to run the point under a fingernail every other time I stuck my hand in my briefcase).
Conspicuously absent: Ackerman Manga fountain pen. It has its virtues, but can't be trusted not to leak.
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The Leviathan skeleton has teeth.
My job is brushing them.
Do it with the tracks of my Weasel.
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Brett Holden/Capt Ahab and his ability to find and catch fish have propelled him to be a top player in the sport-fishing world. With his finely honed crew and a battleship called the Booby Trap, he has become an unstoppable fishing machine. His desire for excellence has led the Booby Trap to become the top private boat in the Houston Big Game Fishing Club for 5 consecutive years! Capt Ahab is a pioneer and has become the most recognized sword fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico (read about it in the June 2011 issue of Sportfishing Magazine) catching a record 8 daytime swords in one day and has logged over 500 swordfish to date. Capt Ahab was also was behind the helm of the Booby Trap for the first ever recorded Super Grand Slam in the Gulf of Mexico, catching 2 Blue Marlin, 2 Swordfish, 2 Sailfish and a white marlin in a single day. When he fires the Booby Trap up he no longer sees her as a vessel but as a weapon, 40 knots in forward and 10 knots in reverse, he fears no seas only the fuel bill…
Brett Holden/Capt Ahab and his ability to find and catch fish have propelled him to be a top player in the sport-fishing world. With his finely honed crew and a battleship called the Booby Trap, he has become an unstoppable fishing machine. His desire for excellence has led the Booby Trap to become the top private boat in the Houston Big Game Fishing Club for 5 consecutive years! Capt Ahab is a pioneer and has become the most recognized sword fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico (read about it in the June 2011 issue of Sportfishing Magazine) catching a record 8 daytime swords in one day and has logged over 500 swordfish to date. Capt Ahab was also was behind the helm of the Booby Trap for the first ever recorded Super Grand Slam in the Gulf of Mexico, catching 2 Blue Marlin, 2 Swordfish, 2 Sailfish and a white marlin in a single day. When he fires the Booby Trap up he no longer sees her as a vessel but as a weapon, 40 knots in forward and 10 knots in reverse, he fears no seas only the fuel bill…
Noodler's Ahab flex fountain pen in Mandarin Yellow. See the Noodler's Ahab flex pen reviewed on my blog.
Taken at f1.4 with a Carl Zeiss/Rollei Planar 85mm/f1.4 HFT. Great lens, but tricky to focus manually.
Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki Winter Persimmon and the pens used to test it: Lamy AL-Star, TWSBI Diamond 530, Noodler's Ahab. Read my full review of Iroshizuku Fuyu-Gaki
Markus A. Vurrgh was nice enough to let me embroider one of his quotes. You can find some of his work here:
Noodler's Ahab flex pen ebonite feed and feeder tube. The feeder tube plugs in to the feed. The pen works just as well without the tube. See the Noodler's Ahab flex pen reviewed on my blog.
1 Kings 19:1-2 (ANIV)
Elijah flees to Horeb
1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Not specified in the Bible text. I have made it mid morning.
LIGHTING NOTES:
Sunlight from above.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
From left to right: the messenger of Jezebel, the servant of Elijah, Elijah the prophet.
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
This scene is set in the city of Jezreel, on the southern end of the Jezreel valley. It shows the messenger sent by Jezebel (the wife of king Ahab) pointing at the prophet Elijah, and delivering his mistresses’ threatening message. The Bible text for this story informs us that Eijah had a servant (see 1 Kings 19:3) and so I have him stopping the messenger from getting to his master.
Note that Jezebel had not been present on Mount Carmel when heavenly fire came down and burnt the sacrifice, followed by the execution of her priests of Baal. It must have been her husband king Ahab who reported to her what had taken place. This news must have infuriated Jezebel in the extreme, so she sent her messenger to threaten Elijah’s life. I expect she didn’t send guards and/or soldiers to immediately arrest Elijah because public opinion would have been very much in favour of Elijah at this time.
Elijah was probably still in the city of Jezreel, or very close by, so Jezebel’s messenger wouldn’t have had far to go to deliver her threatening message. We know from 1 Kings 18:46 that Elijah had ran ahead of Ahab all the way from Mount Carmel to the city of Jezreel. Jezebel threatened to take Elijah’s life within 24 hours, in retaliation for his slaughtering the 450 Baal prophets.
I have given the messenger of Jezebel a green robe, which is reminiscent of Jezebel’s own green robe, and so visually connects the two.
Elijah had just experienced the extraordinary power of Almighty God on the mountain of Carmel, with the fire from heaven incident and the rain storm after the drought in the land (see 1 Kings 18). It seems a little strange then, after such impressive supernatural demonstrations, that Elijah would be so frightened by Jezebel’s threat to his life. In fact he was so terrified that he ran from the city of Jezreel and went all the way to the to the southernmost town in the land, Beersheba, and even went out into the wilderness to escape from her (see 1 Kings 19:3-4).
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My arsenal! From left to right:
Jinhao X450
Noodler's Ahab
Lamy Vista EF
Pilot Metropolitan M
Manuscript 1.1 mm
I've filled my new Aston leather CASE-6 pen case with an idiosyncratic collection of writing instruments, from the ostentatious to the ridiculous. Left to right: Platinum Preppy fountain pen, converted for eyedropper filling, loaded with Noodler's Ink X-Feather black (It was included free when I bought the ink); Montblanc 149 Meisterstück Diplomat, broad nib, with Noodler's Ink Manjiro Nakahama Whaleman's Sepia; Faber-Castell E-Motion mechanical pencil, soft 1.2 mm lead; Noodler's Ink Ahab fountain pen with Flex Nib, filled with Noodler's E. I. Lawrence ink; Gakken Sta:Ful mechanical pencil, featuring a figure of Moomintroll carrying a jar of his mother's jam in a scene from Moominland Midwinter (a gift from Haruna); and a Staedtler MARS-TECHNICO 782 leadholder which belonged to my father, with a Kimberly-G.P. 2 mm HB lead (placed in the pen case in part because the lead's too long to slide completely inside the leadholder and I seemed to run the point under a fingernail every other time I stuck my hand in my briefcase).
Conspicuously absent: Ackerman Manga fountain pen. It has its virtues, but can't be trusted not to leak.
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Pen drawing: Platinum Preppy w/ Carbon Black Ink + Prismacolor Markers
Handwriting: Noodler's Ahab w/ Noodler's Golden Brown
Paper: Rhodia DotPad
Brett Holden/Capt Ahab and his ability to find and catch fish have propelled him to be a top player in the sport-fishing world. With his finely honed crew and a battleship called the Booby Trap, he has become an unstoppable fishing machine. His desire for excellence has led the Booby Trap to become the top private boat in the Houston Big Game Fishing Club for 5 consecutive years! Capt Ahab is a pioneer and has become the most recognized sword fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico (read about it in the June 2011 issue of Sportfishing Magazine) catching a record 8 daytime swords in one day and has logged over 500 swordfish to date. Capt Ahab was also was behind the helm of the Booby Trap for the first ever recorded Super Grand Slam in the Gulf of Mexico, catching 2 Blue Marlin, 2 Swordfish, 2 Sailfish and a white marlin in a single day. When he fires the Booby Trap up he no longer sees her as a vessel but as a weapon, 40 knots in forward and 10 knots in reverse, he fears no seas only the fuel bill…
Monteverde Brown fountain pen ink reviewed in a Lamy AL-Star with EF, 1.1mm, 1.5mm, and 1.9mm italic nibs, as well as a Noodler's Ahab flex pen on Clairefontaine 90g paper. Read my full review of Monteverde Brown
Brett Holden/Capt Ahab and his ability to find and catch fish have propelled him to be a top player in the sport-fishing world. With his finely honed crew and a battleship called the Booby Trap, he has become an unstoppable fishing machine. His desire for excellence has led the Booby Trap to become the top private boat in the Houston Big Game Fishing Club for 5 consecutive years! Capt Ahab is a pioneer and has become the most recognized sword fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico (read about it in the June 2011 issue of Sportfishing Magazine) catching a record 8 daytime swords in one day and has logged over 500 swordfish to date. Capt Ahab was also was behind the helm of the Booby Trap for the first ever recorded Super Grand Slam in the Gulf of Mexico, catching 2 Blue Marlin, 2 Swordfish, 2 Sailfish and a white marlin in a single day. When he fires the Booby Trap up he no longer sees her as a vessel but as a weapon, 40 knots in forward and 10 knots in reverse, he fears no seas only the fuel bill…
In his prime, Ahab took deadly trophies from countless worlds, his scars a proud record of glorious battle. Now an elder of his tribe, he leaves small game to the next generation as he looks to his final hunt. Following a lifelong obsession, Ahab searches for a creature more formidable than any Predator has ever faced before.
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Pilot Vanishing Point length compared with TWSBI Diamond 530, Lamy AL-Star, Noodler's Ahab, and Pilot Prera. Read my full review of the Pilot Vanishing Point.
Captain Ahab and his chorus line of sailors in the "Ahab's Turn" piece in "Moby Dick, or, the Water Ballet Spectacular," by Fluid Movement. Patterson Park Pool, Baltimore, MD.
Captain Ahab and his chorus line of sailors in the "Ahab's Turn" piece in "Moby Dick, or, the Water Ballet Spectacular," by Fluid Movement. Patterson Park Pool, Baltimore, MD.
Mandarin Yellow Noodler's Ahab and yellow Pilot Prera compared. The Prera's yellow is warmer. See the Noodler's Ahab flex pen reviewed on my blog.
Captain Ahab and his chorus line of sailors in the "Ahab's Turn" piece in "Moby Dick, or, the Water Ballet Spectacular," by Fluid Movement. Patterson Park Pool, Baltimore, MD.
Brett Holden/Capt Ahab and his ability to find and catch fish have propelled him to be a top player in the sport-fishing world. With his finely honed crew and a battleship called the Booby Trap, he has become an unstoppable fishing machine. His desire for excellence has led the Booby Trap to become the top private boat in the Houston Big Game Fishing Club for 5 consecutive years! Capt Ahab is a pioneer and has become the most recognized sword fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico (read about it in the June 2011 issue of Sportfishing Magazine) catching a record 8 daytime swords in one day and has logged over 500 swordfish to date. Capt Ahab was also was behind the helm of the Booby Trap for the first ever recorded Super Grand Slam in the Gulf of Mexico, catching 2 Blue Marlin, 2 Swordfish, 2 Sailfish and a white marlin in a single day. When he fires the Booby Trap up he no longer sees her as a vessel but as a weapon, 40 knots in forward and 10 knots in reverse, he fears no seas only the fuel bill…
Adith Abdul Ahab Abdo, 83, sits outside a temporary shelter provided by Caritas at an IDP centre in Erbil, Iraq, on Dec 4 2014.
His family fled their home in Qarakosh, Iraq in August, when Islamic State militants overran their town. The so-called Islamic State is a radical Islamic militant group that controls territory in both Iraq and Syria. The fall of Mosul to IS in August and their subsequent advances is thought to have displaced over 1 million people, most of whom were Yazidis, Christians and other minorities, but also Muslim families too.
He told Caritas. “I miss my home. I’ve never been away from home for Christmas. Here I get depressed and sick and have to go to the hospital. There won’t be a christmas for us this year. We’ve no money, no clothes, nothing. It won’t feel like Christmas this year.”
Caritas has assisted around 50 families here at Akito school by providing them with 36 prefabricated shelters that offer better protection from the elements and a higher degree of comfort and security than the tents in which many of the families had previously been staying.
Saadi Marzen Aboud, the settlement’s ‘Masoul’ , or leader, told Caritas: “There’s not enough water for all the families, there’s not enough electricity and we can’t afford heaters.”
A further 110 families are staying inside the school building.
Ahab’s Leg, 1989. Color Screenprint, Lithograph, Linoleum, with Hand Colouring and Collage. The Waves series (1936-2024) Waddington Graphics. Fisher Collection. SFMOMA
Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab
The sheik of the burning sand
He had emeralds and rubies just drippin' off 'a him
And a ring on every finger of his hand
He wore a big ol' turban wrapped around his head
And a scimitar by his side
And, every evenin', about midnight
He'd jump on his camel named Clyde, and ride
Brett Holden/Capt Ahab and his ability to find and catch fish have propelled him to be a top player in the sport-fishing world. With his finely honed crew and a battleship called the Booby Trap, he has become an unstoppable fishing machine. His desire for excellence has led the Booby Trap to become the top private boat in the Houston Big Game Fishing Club for 5 consecutive years! Capt Ahab is a pioneer and has become the most recognized sword fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico (read about it in the June 2011 issue of Sportfishing Magazine) catching a record 8 daytime swords in one day and has logged over 500 swordfish to date. Capt Ahab was also was behind the helm of the Booby Trap for the first ever recorded Super Grand Slam in the Gulf of Mexico, catching 2 Blue Marlin, 2 Swordfish, 2 Sailfish and a white marlin in a single day. When he fires the Booby Trap up he no longer sees her as a vessel but as a weapon, 40 knots in forward and 10 knots in reverse, he fears no seas only the fuel bill…
Went on a whale watch and after a few minutes of watching 2 Humpback Whales seemingly high five one another, I turned around to make my way to the other side of the boat, and BAM! This huge tug was right behind our boat. Looked so impressive up close. Captain can be seen on the bow here (gives a real sense of scale) observing the whales...I guess it's just in a Captain's blood to pursue whales.
Wondering if this needs a tighter crop?
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Inky black whale appears reflected in Ahab's uniquely shaped clip nestled in an old coy of Moby Dick.
Left: Captain Ahab (1930) by Rockwell Kent
Right: Hunter S. Thompson, 1983 (St. Cloud State Univesity archives)
A line variation sample written with the new Noodler's Ahab flex pen in Noodler's Nikita ink. The first line is un-flexed, while the last one was flexed as hard as I could manage without incurring railoading. Notice the railoading which happened when I applied the stroke too quickly. See the Noodler's Ahab flex pen reviewed on my blog.
1 Kings 21:8-10 (ANIV)
8 So she [Jezabel] wrote letters in Ahab's name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city with him. 9 In those letters she wrote: "Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people. 10 But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify that he has cursed both God and the king. Then take him out and stone him to death."
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Unspecified in Bible.
LIGHTING NOTES:
Defused daylight illuminates this scene.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
Jezebel (wife of king Ahab of Israel) is on the left.
A scribe is writing Jezebel’s letters to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth's city.
Behind Jezebel & the scribe are various people, including soldiers/guards & others, perhaps courtiers in the palace of the king?
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
The setting for this scene is not specified in the Bible verses above. I presume Jezebel is in a room available to her in Ahab’s palace.
I imagine that Jezebel was not able to read & write. At the time she lived I expect there were not that many literate people around. For this reason I have introduced a scribe, who is sitting at a desk of wood, with the various trappings of someone who can read & write: a scroll, ink, a stylus/reed pen, etc. Jezebel is dictating her letters to the scribe, who writes them down for her. In Jezebel’s hand is a metal tipped wooden seal (king Ahab’s) which she will seal the letters up with. The wax seal on a letter (with the embossed emblem of the writer stamped into the hot wax) provided proof of who sent it, & that the letter hadn’t been opened before delivery to its intended recipient.
I typed the phrase “Proclaim a day of fasting and seat Naboth in a prominent place among the people” into the internet to get a translation into Hebrew text. That is what is written on the scribe’s scroll, on the table.
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