Whales and Wiener Dogs

This seller on Etsy features original wiener dog related art:

As well as original whale related art:

Get some.

According to their Web Sheet:

Moby-Dick is the second show in a trilogy of Wattis Institute exhibitions that are based on canonical American novels. The first, The Wizard of Oz, was presented in fall 2008; the third will be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in fall 2010. All three stories have major themes related to exploration and (self-)discovery, and the corresponding exhibitions function as metaphorical journeys through which the audience experiences various notions of America’s reality, both contemporary and historic. Established and emerging contemporary artists from around the world are invited to address the key themes of the books and the historical moments in which they were written. Many of the artists create new commissions specifically for the shows.

This investigation of America and its realities through the lens of literature by means of artworks, artifacts, and historical documents is unique to the Wattis Institute. Moby-Dick will encompass a wide range of works, including sculpture, film, video, drawing, and photography.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Kenneth Anger, Matthew Benedict, Mark Bradford, Marcel Broodthaers, Angela Bulloch, Tom Burr, Tacita Dean, Marcel Dzama, Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, John Gutmann, Susan Hiller, Evan Holloway, Peter Hutton, Colter Jacobsen, Brian Jungen, Buster Keaton, Rockwell Kent, Mateo Lopez, Jorge Macchi, Kris Martin, Henrik Olesen, Paulina Olowska, Damián Ortega, Jean Painlevé, Kirsten Pieroth, Richard Serra, Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Adrián Villar Rojas, Orson Welles

I think I’ve heard of Orson Welles! (I mean, he’s no Bill Shatner, but…)

Sounds pretty cool. If I’m out that way, I’ll check it out. Runs 9/22 - 12/12.

But shoot the seals.

Above clip is from “Nice Dreams,” which I suppose is as good as any of their movies. Honestly, “Up In Smoke” holds up surprisingly well. I just watched it a couple weeks ago.

Hopefully, the slackness re frequency of updates is passed for a bit. I had a wordpress malfunction, then had a baby.

Available for your view pleasure through “the summer” at the Philadelphia Fabric Workshop And Museum. 52 feet of felt covered inflatable whale.

The whale is called Mocha Dick after the supposedly-real whale that inspired Moby Dick.

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.

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.

Listening to this UK interview with Philip Hoare, author of “Leviathan” now. Still haven’t tracked down a copy of the book yet.

Some good stuff in this interview. The dude is really into whales, that’s for sure.

Emmanuel Polanco is an artist living in France. He’s got a lot of nice work on his site, including this cover/poster of Moby Dick.

Check out his site. Good stuff.

Some very talented gentleman named Ryan Rubino has created a lego version of a sperm whale versus a giant squid…and, yes, the whale is white.

There are 11 photos in the series…and they are all completely awesome. Go now and check them out.

Sometimes in my brain I get Ed Harris in Pollack blended into Ed Harris in The Hours, and I’m like, -That…now that would be an awesome movie.

But then sometimes in my brain I get Ed Harris blended into James Woods, but while I can see Ed Harris in Another Day In Paradise, I can never see James Woods in State of Grace…which is just a terrible, terrible pretentious POS film.

And all of this happens probably because of what happened to my brain back the first time I watched Walker.

Otherwise the commies win.

Check out more of Alessandro Bêda’s work. He’s looking for investors to help him get this whale vase idea off the ground.