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Posted on September 25, 2005 @ 12:31 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,books,china,fear,illustration,india,indonesia,japan,news,philippines,thailand,travel,wordpress

habagat wind conrad aynaku illustration adobe

Wet Monsoon blows in the Indian Ocean from South West, from April to October. The rainy season which comes with it, turns out to be a bit oppressive. Further East, in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines, (where the western wind is called habagat), the dullness is regularly broken up by terrific typhoons!
Joseph Conrad’s narrative “The mirror of the sea” is a perfect account:
”The sky of the Westerly Weather is full of flying clouds…coming thicker and thicker till they seem to stand welded into a solid canopy, upon whose grey face the lower wrack of the gale, thin, black, and angry-looking, flies past with vertiginous speed.”

Illustration Friday’s topic is: wind

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8 people have left comments

no news from max maxwell in d mean time between one tiphoon and another is started d beach tennis season and saturday will take place d “pista ng gubat” trail of d forest d north west panay peninsula mountain bike race ! do u remember ur old boracay post cards ? SUNBURN ISRAELI IN BORACAY SUN ? OR FLIYING HUTS y not relaunching them on ur blog !Cheers take care very nice illustrations nice transparence

gino wrote on September 30, 2005 - 4:22 am UTC

looks more like a typhoon then a monsoon. lov ther oar flying up in the sky

michael dailey wrote on October 28, 2006 - 5:31 pm UTC

That would be a litle scary to be in a monsoon and flying around like that! Great post and illo as always and I always enjoy your vocabulary too!

valgalart wrote on October 28, 2006 - 10:56 pm UTC

wow, this is great wind here, like a hurricane! It’s visually appealing too! nice work. :D

-chrismarie

Chrismarie wrote on October 29, 2006 - 7:04 am UTC

I guess that´s life in the Far East, you never know where you are flying to the next second :) I am really getting more and more curious about Joseph Conrad, which book would you furthermost recommend?

Cristosova wrote on October 29, 2006 - 11:13 am UTC

I never tire of your elegant beautiful designs and illustration. I always look forward to seeing your posts.

Bron Smith wrote on November 2, 2006 - 9:21 am UTC

monsoon is a little bit scary…but the most important thing is that we have safety precautions..

Kristy @ Mens Mountain Bike wrote on August 13, 2010 - 11:12 am UTC

Your posts are always so creative. I love how you take something from reality and turn it into beautiful works of art.

Dental Recall wrote on May 17, 2011 - 6:57 pm UTC

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