“Gold and ambergris and all the jewels of Araby… ” (via felucca | Bowsprite: A New York Harbor Sketchbook)
Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) photographed by Kyle McBurnie. Winner of “Best Overall” in the annual underwater photography contest at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami
Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川 広重 [1797 – 1858]
Lobster and Gray Prawns
Horse-mackerel and Prawns
Black Sea-bream and Two Small Sea-bream
– woodcut prints from the series A Variety of Fish
Edo Period (1832)Hiroshige’s landscape work during the first half of the 19th century greatly influenced French Impressionists such as Monet. Vincent Van Gogh copied two of the prints from Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
(via dendroica)
“I always teach Crane’s horrific “The Open Boat,” and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I’ve always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls.”
