Filed under: Book review, Moby-Monday, new media | Tags: Black Beauty, literature, Meg Guroff, Moby-Dick, poll
We all know Moby Dick is a badass—the erstwhile Badass of the Week, in fact. He can crush a wooden whaleship with his wrinkled brow. But can he crush Black Beauty? This is the question raised by a poll running on the Guardian (UK) website through the first week of July.
Along with Moby Dick, contenders for “Best Performance by an Animal” in the newspaper’s literary poll include Buck, the half-St. Bernard, half-Scotch-Shepherd dog from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild; the unnamed bear from William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale; and lapdog Jip from Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield. But it’s the autobiography-writing horse in Black Beauty who is currently giving everyone’s favorite cetacean a run for his money. In fact, the horse has been leading by a nose since the poll started a couple weeks back, albeit by just a dinky horse nose, not a mighty sperm whale’s.
Seriously: The terrifying freakish embodiment of God, death, nature, vengeance, or [insert true meaning of Moby Dick here] is up against a talking horse … and the horse is winning? Something is wrong here, my friend. Will you help make it right?
“Horse and Whale,” by Marilyn Burkhardt, used with the artist’s permission.
Margaret Guroff is the editor and publisher of Power Moby-Dick.
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[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPqHt4LpyKY]
YouTube – Did You Know?
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Filed under: maritime, new media, social media, work | Tags: Sea-Fever Consulting LLC, seaz media, seaz.me, social media
Earlier this week we launched a new venture called seaz media which will function as the social media unit under the umbrella of Sea-Fever Consulting LLC. We will focus our efforts on assisting maritime organizations, nonprofits and small businesses get their “feet wet” with social media. A companion blog called seaz.me was launched and hope you will visit it, subscribe and join in the conversation.
We’ve been actively engaged with social media for about 3 years and have worked on several pro-bono nonprofit projects through Sea-Fever. So it seemed like a good time to share our experience and knowledge.
Social media is still in it’s early days but if you lead a business or nonprofit organization you need to be thinking about developing a strategy to use these new communication tools and integrate them into your marketing mix. Communicating with and engaging stakeholders has never been more important than during the challenging economic times we face today. Don’t miss the boat; social media is here to stay. If you need help getting started, seaz media is here to help.
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Filed under: new media, social media, storytelling | Tags: Radiohead, Tobias Stretch, Weird Fishes
Earlier this year the rock band Radiohead challenged their fans to create videos for the songs on “In Rainbows
Radiohead Picks Four Winners For Animation Contest, Pays the Extra $30,000 in Prize Money (Rolling Stone – August 11, 2008)
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I’ve previously posted about tilt shift photography. (Foto Friday – Miniature maritime?) I love the dream like qualities.
If you enjoy the above, check out Keith Loutit’s other videos on Vimeo.
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Filed under: maritime heritage, new media | Tags: Herman Melville, John Huston, Led Zeppelin, mashup, Moby-Dick
Triple classic! Great mashup of Melville story, Huston film and Zeppelin music.
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfK_AMiFaKQ]
YouTube – Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
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Filed under: life, maritime, maritime heritage, Messing About In Ships, new media, podcast, tall ships
(28 minutes)
Download MP3: Messing About In Ships podcast episode 28
Subscribe Via iTunes HERE
Shownotes @ Messing About In Ships blog
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Last week we reported about BBtv welcoming us aboard the SS Jeremiah O’Brien. Today the Boing Boing maritime heritage tour continues as Telstar Logistics’ Todd Lappin dives into the WWII sub USS Pampanito. It’s really great stuff, watch it!
WWII Retro-tech: USS Pampanito sub with Todd Lappin
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Interesting adaptation of the poem which is the inspiration for our organization and this blog.
[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRiRRDSL78]
Can anyone on the interwebs identify what’s wrong with this reading? I’ll send a copy of my friend Randy Peffer’s great book Logs of the Dead Pirates Society to the first person who comments with the correct answer.
Make sure that you check out poetryanimation on YouTube for many other amazing virtual animated poetry readings.
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Messing About In Ships podcast episode #14 has launched.
(38 minutes)
Download MP3 file: Messing About In Ships Episode # 14
Show Notes over at Messing About In Ships blog
Subscribe Via iTunes HERE
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