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Call me Ishmael.This novel has so many epic and worthy scenes and things that one could depict and yet, i'm ending up with a picture of that damn whale (who is quite a dick) in the most clichΓ© way. X)
Happy New Year everyone!
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Have you ever listened to german Doom Metal band Ahab? The made a conceptual album about Moby Dick, called "The Call of the Wretched Sea". I can highly recommend it, when you are into that kind of music.
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What's really amazing is that the storyΒ Moby Mick was inspired by a real life albino whale named Mocha Dick.
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...and don't forget the Essex tragedy.
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Awesome!Β And you really can't blame the whale.Β It's not like he came up on land to hunt people down; they came out to sea to hunt him down.
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Sure one can't blame the whale, but you also have to keep in mind that people didn't do whaling for being assholes, but they did it back these days because they barely had another choice (whaling was no piece of cake but hard, hard work, where men would sometimes spent years away from home and on the sea); Spermaceti of Sperm Whales was used for lamps, candles and the sorts.
What i love about the book is the way Ishmael, our storyteller, simply talks about the whale as a whole. He sings about them, praises every inch of the "great leviathan" and with each chapter, you feel how much love and respect he has for the creature; it's not just some prey. He even goes so far to ponder about their possible extinction at one point (Ahab is a complete different thing again, though, but that goes without saying 
There is one beautiful paragraph in the book that illustrates it best, i guess, after the crew killed a crippled and old whale:
"But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all."
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Haven't read this one yet. I hear it's really good.
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I loved every minute of reading it, yet it quite frankly is not a pageturner in a modern sense. You'll need time and interest and the will of jumping back into the time the book was written in, for i know people who would complain about it to be "so boring", having "weird old-timey people speak" and being disappointed since the real hunt takes only about a third of the book - the rest really is the storyteller Ishmael, having all kinds of philosphical trips of his mind, and a LOT talking about whales; what makes the whale, whale anatomy, whale in culture, history and art, etc. Personally, i think these chapters about whales and philosophy are what really makes the book, it wanted me reading a novel where someone would write and speak about foxes just the same way. I found it just extremely inspiring (and beautifully done as i have a thing for old-timey-people peotry - Melville sure knew how to write). But yes, i could definitely understand why people would not like it so much, as those most likely where just hoping for something else. Practically everyone knows the story: "Fanatic guy hunts a white whale who bit of his leg or so". And thus may be surprised when the book turns out to be something else (or as i would say it: So, SO much more than that).
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Definitely sounds interesting, at least. I'll see if I can find a copy. And find the time to read. Lately I don't even feel like playing games after work.
I liked The Old Man and the Sea, maybe I'll like this.
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Cool, I looked this movie just 2h ago before I saw this amazing art
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"I am tormented withΒ an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas..."
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Stunning, epic, and highly dramatic picture, Culpeo!
It has all the intensity a Moby Dick piece should have, and a classic style which fits it like a glove!
AMAZING work!
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EPISCH!
Ich hatte im letzten Jahr 'ne Moby Dick Phase als ich den Roman das erste Mal las. Zuvor hatte ich gehΓΆrt, dass der wohl ziemlich langweilig sei aber ich war vollends begeistert. Und gestern sah ich eine Doku ΓΌber den Mythos "Moby Dick", da kommt dein Bild also gerade recht - mein Fan-Herz hat einen groΓen Satz gemacht, als ich das Bild in der Vorschau sah β₯
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Noooo! You called Moby Dick a whale! Any literary professor will talk at length about how Moby Dicks isn't a whale but symbolism. Oh. And don't forget that Shakespeare is Jesus.
But seriously, great work as always. I love the cross hatching.
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You know your artwork has a dark feel to them where as I do artwork that seems to please a very young audience.
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This makes me think of a skrimsha image (I think I spelled that right)
Skrimsha was the technique of engraving images on to animal teeth or bone.
Whalers would do it to whale teeth, which makes this design all the greater.
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Scrimshaw is what you mean. 
But yes, yes, i've been totally looking for these for some time now for my shelf (a replica would do totally fine, though back in the days, i do remember a chance where i could have gotten a real one. Bummer)
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"At sea one day, you'll smell land where there be no land. And on that day Ahab will go to his grave but he will rise again within the hour! He will rise and beckon! Then all! All save one, shall follow!"
Elijah
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It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.
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I think it's cool that you're a fan of Moby Dick as well. Not too many people I know are fond of the classics.
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"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it."- Herman Melville, Ch. 41, "Moby Dick".
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A whale of a piece of art! Pun aside, this is one of your most amazing pieces so far.
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Moby Dick is my favorite novel. Β Fantastic art!
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Might wanna spell check that xD
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Oh, thanks! Β I hate autocorrect!
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I love how intense this is, from the angle of the water to massive size difference between the ship and whale. This book has been on my to-read list for a while, I'm thinking I should pick it up this year as I've heard many people praise it.
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This looks absolutely gorgeous. Amazing colors, great work!
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Woah!! I love it!!! Awesome work
Also, Happy New Year!
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WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
I think my favourite part (of course in a dark way) is Pip's insanity after being left behind after jumping from the boat. And Ahab's taunts toward God. So much of the existential allegory went over my head the first time I read it when I was young...
Oh yeah and Happy New Year too
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Oh yes, Pip. Poor, poor little Pip.
As for favourite parts...there are just so many. The chapter about the colour White. The dialogue between Starbuck and Ahab at the end. Ahab himself. And pages over pages, just...Ishamel, talking and singing about everything that makes the leviathan. Beautiful.
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I had a sketch of a painting plan of Pip's breakdown thinking about the aimless scuttling of sea creatures, but it was one of those things that kinda slipped away from my muse.Β
I should probably revisit that book again. And Heart of Darkness, it's been too long.
That actually made me think as well...it would be amazing (hopefully) if they made a film version of Moby Dick a la Apocalypse Now. Not just a chapter to scene translation into film, but something with similar tones and cinematography that communicates things that words did in the book.Β
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Great picture to a great novel!
I finished it last year and loved it, too.
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