Stranded Objects / Stranded Whales
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Stranded Objects / Stranded Whales
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Begin with the last image and move forward.
Or not: treat the collection as arranged along an infinite loop, as the runic inscription on the front of the Franks Casket can be read.
Or not: treat the collection as arranged along an infinite loop, as the runic inscription on the front of the Franks Casket can be read.
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map
Olof Månsson [Olaus Magnus], Carta marina et Descriptio septemtrionalium terrarum ac mirabilium rerum in eis contentarum, diligentissime elaborata Anno Domini 1539 Veneciis liberalitate Reverendissimi Domini Ieronimi Quirini (A Marine map and…
animals
Bartholomeus Anglicus, Livre des propriétés des choses (French translation of Jean Corbechon), Paris 1447. Amiens, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 399, fol. 241r. Alas, depictions of landlubbers only. But nice.
what this isn’t about, but could be
_Blubber_ and _flense_; _Moby Dick_; Vladimir Putin shooting a gray whale with a crossbow for “research purposes”; the forty-six rock carvings in South Korea dated 6000 BCE showing people hunting whales; the history of Basque whaling, which is…
cartoon narwhals
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Narwhals/
Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean
Causing a commotion cuz they are so awesome!
Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean
Pretty big and pretty white they'd beat a polar bear in a fight!…
what this is about
Not _catching_ cetaceans, but _finding_ them, rounding a curve on the beach or looking down a cliff and beholding the whale on the strand, stranded. The serendipitous sighting of a dead whale by aventure, as they say in medieval romance, by chance.…
stranded objects
In _Stranded Objects: Mourning, Memory, and Film in Postwar Germany_, Eric L. Santner writes of the “second generation of Germans trying to constitute a viable legacy out of poisoned totemic resources” for whom
"it might yet be possible to…
"it might yet be possible to…
stoop
The beaches of Sanibel and Captiva Islands off Florida’s west coast are sometimes so covered with the exoskeletons of mollusks that one can barely walk for the crunch and slide. The invertebrates are quite capable of cutting the bottom of one’s…
shell in hand
My hand makes a sea-monster shadow. The shadow’s bumps and dips echo the nubbed surface of the spiny Florida jewelbox clam (Arcinella cornuta, family Chamidae).
Anthropocentrically speaking, the ratio of a human to a one-inch seashell is…
Anthropocentrically speaking, the ratio of a human to a one-inch seashell is…
micro shell
And we can get smaller.
"The tip of a spiral shell has broken off and become a grain of sand. After being repeatedly tumbled by action of the surf this spiral sand grain has become opalescent in character. It is surrounded by bits of coral, a pink…
"The tip of a spiral shell has broken off and become a grain of sand. After being repeatedly tumbled by action of the surf this spiral sand grain has become opalescent in character. It is surrounded by bits of coral, a pink…
dead whale
And we can get bigger. Occasionally, one stumbles upon the gigantic and the outsize on the beach.
http://www.columbiariversealions.com/my-first-sperm-whale/.
http://www.columbiariversealions.com/my-first-sperm-whale/.