And the version he has, has 552 pages in it. I’m no arithmetician, but that’s 552 original drawings. He’s up to about page 25. We’ll see…but so far, so good.
Page 1: Call Me Ishmael
From the first blog post, Matt says: “Because I honestly consider Moby-Dick to be the greatest novel ever written, I am now going to create one illustration for every single one of the 552 pages in the Signet Classic paperback edition. I’l try to do one a day, but we’ll see.”
Good luck. I can’t think of a more worthwhile endeavor.
And I had no freakin’ idea…I’m going to go check this thing out one day during lunch. Perhaps on my way to the White Castle that’s over that way. One time I saw Cedric the Entertainer, John Leguizamo, and Haley Joel Osment all having lunch there together. True story.
Read more about this mural and other stuff you didn’t know about NYC at Ephemeral New York.
Vintage Embroidery Designs of Whales and Pigs
From Adam.Bruneau’s flickr.
This painting (well, a copy of it) is hanging on the wall of my office. If you don’t believe me, just come to New York City and ask for the guy that runs WhalesAndWienerDogs.com and I’ll prove it to you. It’s a whale fighting a squid who’s being attacked by some sort of Jesus-y “I can walk on water” T-rex.
"Bad Day On The High Sea" by Brandon Bird
Here’s an explanation from the artist’s web sheet.
Here, raw sexual aggression is symbolized by the sperm whale, while the squid acts as a thinly-disguised metaphor for the multi-armed oligarchies of Rockefeller, Hearst, and Morgan. Their battle plays against the backdrop of the sea, standing in for–what else?–the vastness of the unconscious mind.
Buy your own copy or tshirt here.
Frank Stella: The Pequod meets the Bachelor (Mixed media on etched magnesium and aluminum)
The Frank Stella exhibition at the Grand Rapids Arts Museum “features more than 30 monumental printed works from Stella’s “Moby Dick” series, a highlight of the artist’s four decades of making art. From 1985 to 1997, Stella created a major series of works linked to Melville’s classic novel.”
Seems like a pretty big deal…
Included in the exhibition are three monumental woodblocks (called matrices), measuring 7½ feet high and 23 feet in length, brought to Grand Rapids from the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. The matrices have never previously been exhibited; the Grand Rapids Art Museum is the first art institution in the world to present the blocks along with “The Fountain,” Stella’s magnum opus in printmaking. The blocks are carved mahogany with etched copper and magnesium inserts.
“The Fountain” is among the largest and most complex works on paper produced in the history of printmaking. It was printed in an edition of eight, and is on loan to the exhibition from the artist.
Check it out next time you’re passing through Grand Rapids.
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