Filming started last week in Utah on Dragon Fire, an action-adventure remake of Moby-Dick starring Danny Glover as Captain Ahab and a great white dragon as the whale. Ahab has a daughter in this version, and said daughter has a love interest: Ishmael. The script is apparently based on a dream I once had.
Margaret Guroff is editor and publisher of Power Moby-Dick.
Filed under: Sunday VOW's, maritime, maritime heritage | Tags: 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, film, Jules Verne
If you live in the Midatlantic (states not ocean) you might be looking for something to do on a snowbound Sunday. Here’s our Sunday V.o.W. (Video of the Week) the 1916 silent-era, classic, escapist movie 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Ok, so it’s not Avatar but it’s still pretty cool!
Flag dip to cephalopodcast on Twitter.
Update (Feb 7, 2010): Thanks to Jez Roff over at the great Climate Shift blog, there’s more background about how this amazing video was captured. It’s a must read, as is Climate Shift.
Wow! That’s one hungry shark. Please make sure you watch to the end.
Via @iescience and others on Twitter
Filed under: life, maritime, maritime heritage, reality tv, sail training, storytelling, tall ships | Tags: Picton Castle, sail training, tall ship
Think sailing a tall ship is challenging? That’s nothing compared to building one. Think building one is difficult, that’s nothing compared to finding the trees, cutting them down, dragging them out of the jungle, loading them on another tall ship and sailing them halfway around the world. Tall ships sailors never do anything easy.
Grab a beer and some popcorn because this will be the best reality TV that you’ll watch this week.
Flag dip to my friend Voytec on Facebook.
Falmouth, Massachusetts, may be the Moby-Dickiest place on Earth right now. The town’s 2010 let’s-read-together campaign is pushing Herman Melville’s classic novel with a raft of films, lectures, and other events designed to whet the public’s appetite for the salty tome. Free copies of the book are available at coffee shops, doctors’ offices, and other public places where books are not sold. On Saturday, February 6, a big star descends: Nathaniel Philbrick, author of the brilliant history In The Heart of the Sea, will speak about that book’s topic—the real-life Pequod, the whaleship Essex—and the writing of Moby-Dick.
Second Moby-Dickiest place on Earth, by our calculations: Johnson County, Kansas, where a library truck was repainted to advertise “Captain Ahab’s Fine Seafood” as part of a clever P.R. campaign. The library is currently sponsoring a group read of Moby-Dick, complete with lectures and an online discussion group.
Third Moby-Dickiest place: any nominations?
Margaret Guroff is editor and publisher of Power Moby-Dick.
Thought Sea-Fever readers might like this stylish Shara Porter purse. Visit the Calico blog, leave a comment and it could be your’s.
Before all you manly sailor types complain about this post, let this serve as a reminder that Valentine’s Day is coming up! At least next time your woman asks you to hold her purse, they’ll be a fish on it!
Okay, it’s Winter and the days are colder and the nights are longer so you’re probably looking for a few fun projects to pass the time til warmer weather arrives. Right? Right!
How much more exciting can things get than farming brine shrimp! The great Instructables DYI website shows us how to turn a lightbulb into an aquarium.
From this:
To this:
Voila!
Flag dip to the great Lifehacker blog.
According to reports in the LA Times, The Catcher in the Rye
The shipboard experience “left such a lasting impression on him that years afterward he would still remember fondly his one real venture into live show business.”
A few more facts and background appear on the Cruising the Past blog including links to some of Salinger’s short stories from the period that were influenced by his shipboard experiences.
Not surprisingly, like Melville, another of America’s greatest writers was a mariner.
Filed under: FotoFriday, life, maritime, storytelling | Tags: photography, Pictory, The Big Picture
Taking a page from the Boston Globe’s always amazing The Big Picture blog, Pictory is a relatively new website that really excels at visual storytelling. Actually it’s the combination of great photography and interesting writing that makes it work. Lucky for us, some of the featured photographers have done their work at sea.
The above photo was taken by Rice Jackson and you can read about it here. Here’s his website and you can find him on Twitter too.
Go over and experience all of the amazing photography and stories over at Pictory.
