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Drustveni Centar Rojc, Pula, Hrvaska.
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Il Teatro dei Venti . Festival of alternative theater / medunarodni kazalisni festival.
Drustveni Centar Rojc, Pula, Hrvaska.
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"...Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth ... I quietly take to the ship..."
"... Cada vez que siento la amargura crecer en mi boca ... calladamente subo a mi barco..."
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
#SlidersSunday
"Caleidoscoped" wooden roof of the gym at the Olympic Village in Elstal near Berlin for Sliders Sunday.
The finished image reminded me of a huge ship's hold - which immediately also reminded me of the story of Jonah and the Whale and also of Captain Ahab's eternal chase of Moby Dick. Since I've always loved the story of Jonah and the Whale when I was a child, but struggled to like (or even properly understand) Ahab's gruesome and cruel possession with the white whale called Moby Dick, I decided to use Jonah's story as my own imaginary backdrop for this image. Jonah and the Whale "inverted", if you like. I can't really remember when and where I heard the story first; it is possible that it was in religion class in elementary school, that my parents read me the story, or that I saw it in a children's programme on TV, but it fascinated me very much, and in my vivid childhood imagination, the whale eventually took a liking to Jonah (and vice versa), and, after passing their first "adventure" - the travel to Niniveh - together, the whale and Jonah became lifelong friends. I tried to visualise how Jonah would make himself comfortable inside of the whale's stomach, and I ended up with a fully furnished "room" with a comfy chair, bed and bookshelf, small kitchen (for both of them, since neither Jonah nor the whale could live on love alone) etc., and they experienced many more adventures together ever since ;-)
This is a very straightforward slide, I simply copied the single image of the roof to a second layer in photoshop, duplicated the workspace, mirrored one of the layers vertically and combined both layers. In Lightroom I then rotated the finished image. Some finishing processing touches here or there, like enhancing the structure, some HSL sliding for the colours etc. - done :-)
HSS, and stay safe, Everyone!
Mal wieder ein "kaleidoskopisiertes" Foto für den Sliders Sunday :-) Dieses Mal habe ich mit einem Foto vom Dach der Sporthalle im Olympischen Dorf in Elstal bei Berlin herumgespielt. Das fertige Bild hat mich dann auch gleich sowohl an die Geschichte von Jona und dem Wal als durchaus auch an Moby Dick erinnert, weil es für mich wie ein riesiger Schiffsbauch aussieht. Während mich aber Jonas Geschichte als Kind sehr faszinierte, konnte ich mit der ja doch sehr dramatischen Geschichte um Kapitän Ahabs Besessenheit von und seiner grausamen, unerbittlichen Jagd nach Moby Dick nur wenig anfangen. Jonas Geschichte ließ sich hingegen so schön weitergespinnen: Jona und der Wal werden auf ihrer dreitägigen, nicht ganz freiwilligen ersten gemeinsamen Reise nach Ninive nicht nur lebenslange Freunde, sondern bestehen im Anschluss noch viele weitere gemeinsame Abenteuer. Dabei reist Jona praktischerweise immer im Bauch seines Freundes - der in meiner Vorstellung bald wie ein sehr gemütliches "Zimmer" mit Lesesessel, Bücherregal, Bett, Lampe aussah - inklusive kleiner Küche, denn weder Jona noch der Wal leben ja nur von Luft und Liebe ;-)
Technisch ist dies ein sehr simpler "Slider"; ich habe einfach das Foto des Daches in Photoshop auf einer zweiten Ebene dupliziert, vertikal gespiegelt und dann die Ebenen zusammengefügt; in Lightroom habe ich dann das fertige Bild noch einmal gedreht.
Ich wünsche Euch eine angenehme Woche, passt gut auf Euch auf und bleibt gesund!
Art by Wu Tsang, Arsenale during 59th international exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia (2022)
For more information about the art by Wu Tsang please visit the corresponding webpage of the biennale of Venice 2022
" 'He rises’, cried Ahab” crossed my mind as this 60-foot long finback whale came up for a blow in the Bay of Fundy, September, 2014. "Follow the birds" said our boat captain upon seeing my camera, echoing the words of the doomed Ahab. Wildlife photography was my first love. I've shot all of the big mammals in the American West, but nothing compared to shooting these leviathans. I later got a 75-footer, but a bit farther away.
"Look at me! I'm th' Mystery Cow!"
('Smiley Bone', 'Mystery Cow' suit and 'Gran'ma Ben' by ReSaurus)
Diorama by RK
"It's my favourite book. I've read it three times. [...] It's about a whaling voyage, an' this guy called Ishmael ..."
('Fone Bone' by ReSaurus)
Diorama by RK
Leaves are falling all around, It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged for such a pleasant stay.
Many years ago while on a beach walk, Tom found this stone...in the shape of a whale.
It has laid in a pot of of seashell treasures ever since - it has always reminded me of the line from Moby Dick:
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.”
For Looking close ...on Friday, a single stone.
The sperm whale is the largest of all toothed whales, making them the Earth's largest living carnivore and largest living toothed animal. The whale was named after the milky-white waxy substance, spermaceti, found in its head and originally mistaken for sperm. It has a cosmopolitan distribution across the world's oceans. The species feeds on squid and fish, diving as deep as 3000 metres in order to obtain its prey, making it the deepest diving mammal in the world. Pods of females and young live separately from older males. Sperm whales live for 50 years and possibly more. Sperm whales are not the easiest of whales to watch, due to their long dive times and ability to travel long distances underwater. However, due to the distinctive look and large size of the whale, watching is increasingly popular.
Recently more sperm whales can be found in the North Sea on their way from the South to the North.
De potvis is een walvis uit de familie der potvissen. Het is de grootste soort van de onderorde tandwalvissen. De potvis voedt zich o.a. met reuzeninktvissen, enorme pijlinktvissen, die hij tot op 3000 meter diepte vangt. Daarvoor heeft hij 3000 kg bloed, dat voor voldoende zuurstof zorgt om 2 uur onder water te blijven. De potvis eet gemiddeld per dag 3% van zijn gewicht. De potvis is de grootste tandwalvis en tevens ook een van de grootste roofdieren die ooit geleefd hebben. Mannetjes worden tot 18 meter lang en vrouwtjes tot 11 meter. Het gewicht kan tot 50 ton bedragen. De lichaamskleur is donkergrijs en in het licht van de zon vaak bruinig. Het dier komt voor in alle wereldzeeën.
Volgens sommige deskundigen werkt de Noordzee als een fuik voor de potvis. Onderweg van de tropen naar het Noorden nemen sommige dieren een verkeerde afslag en komen dan in de Noordzee terecht. De recente toename van potvissen aan de Noordzeekusten is waarschijnlijk het gevolg van het einde van de potvisjacht in de jaren tachtig.
"The harpooner of Moby Dick"
El lienzo necesita urgente restauración.
Texturas de SkeletalMess y Joes Sistah.
(Or the infinite flexation in measurement of time-space)
"I'm ONE MOBY DICK away from arriving on time"
(O la infinita flexación de la medida del espacio-tiempo)
"Estoy a UN MOBY DICK de llegar a tiempo"
Call me Ishmael.
I read Moby Dick last year while I was doing my forestry course and read most of it either in the woods or beside the road while waiting for lifts to the various sites.
It cast a strange spell on me and it is often on my mind, as is the sea. Anyway all this seems to tie in with my recent sea scapes and collages ...
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
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If you look at the original photo you'll see that I heavily played around with photoshop...hopefully you like the result.
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Flickr erweist sich als historisches Archiv; Flickr proves to be a historical archive: www.flickr.com/photos/beuel_sued/5248443719/
In the early 1840s Melville had signed onto a whaling ship, soon deserted, was briefly held captive by the inhabitants of the Marquesas Islands in present-day French Polynesia, managed to escape, and returned via Tahiti, Hawaii and South America to the US east coast.
After all his adventures, in 1850 Melville retreated to the rustic serenity of the Massachusetts Berkshires, looking for "a quiet solitude in which to write."
At his writing desk Melville relived his experiences at sea. "I have a sort of sea-feeling here in the country" he wrote in his first December there. "I look out of my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic."
The window he looked from as he rose was the upper right, the port-hole where he wrote of the sea is the upper left window, in the photograph on the left. What he saw from these windows in the far distance — in the photograph on the right — was Mt. Greylock (click twice to enlarge), which appeared to him as both the rolling seas of his memory, and simultaneously as Ahab's nemesis, the whale.
After completing MOBY DICK Melville began his next novel, PIERRE, which he dedicated to Mt. Greylock.