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Posted on April 29, 2006 @ 11:00 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,another green world,blog,books,fashion,fear,fun,illustration,mediterranean,news,people,politics,wordpress

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Maybe I could have submit half of my blog for “under the sea”! I might add something else about because I’m thinking of submarines. When I was a kid I use to go the harbour with my parents and watch the ships; among them there was an half wrecked German U-Boat from World War Two, which certainly made me enormously curious…In the same days I was reading Jules Verne’s “twenty thousands leagues under the sea” and listening to my mother playing The Beatles’s “yellow submarine” ! So it happened that I wrongly conceived the childish idea that a submarine must be related to adventurous and romantic underwater voyages and lovely pop music. Only that rotten and rusty U-Boat in the harbour clearly showed itself for what a submarine really is: a warship. Nowadays hundreds submarines carrying nuclear weapons wanders the oceans undisturbed; as a matter of fact they share the actual “under the sea” landscape with the living creatures of the underwater Realm and its worth to remember that the sea bottom also host shipwrecks and refuse of every kind. Should this be not enough, just think on the “wise” practice of burying nuclear waste under the ocean floor…
Peace and love!

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17 people have left comments

This is so neat, as is all your work.
MD

MD wrote on April 29, 2006 - 11:11 pm UTC

brilliant illo and idea! I love yellow submarine

lu wrote on April 30, 2006 - 12:03 am UTC

Beautiful art and a good reminder of what can be below the surface!!!

valgalart wrote on April 30, 2006 - 12:04 am UTC

well its been close 35 to 40 yrs and the sub still looks as good as when it 1st took off to that octopus’s garden. great illo

michael dailey wrote on April 30, 2006 - 1:18 am UTC

Lovely! Very chic looking submarines you got there!

sesame wrote on April 30, 2006 - 6:47 am UTC

Peace and Love! Bright and beautiful. Could just imagine my fishbowl full of submarine and hansome officers :)

zordis wrote on April 30, 2006 - 11:11 am UTC

Wow, really like your style!

ann on a mouse wrote on April 30, 2006 - 12:51 pm UTC

That’s so sad. I recall some stuff that I pictured when I was a kid and then the sad reality behind them.
However, ur illo is beautifull, as colorful as the way a child thinks.

Pati @-;– wrote on April 30, 2006 - 4:41 pm UTC

Oh those submarines are cute and so happily yellow. Could have been the Beatles album cover excellently.

Katili wrote on April 30, 2006 - 6:22 pm UTC

I was always fascinated with the sub ride at Disneyland.
love

The Unknown wrote on April 30, 2006 - 7:24 pm UTC

I really dig those little yellow subs… man the torpedoes!

Monster Machine wrote on May 1, 2006 - 1:49 am UTC

What a fun illo…and, now I’m going to be single “We all lived in a yellow submarine…” all day! GREAT illo!

txartcgal wrote on May 1, 2006 - 5:15 pm UTC

great job on the patterns and colors, so vibrant! I just loved that song when I was a kid.

Princess Pepper Cloud wrote on May 2, 2006 - 12:17 am UTC

SO great as always! I love the graduation in the yellow. Your lighting is amazing as always. You are so right about yellow submarine – I thought the same thing. And in real life subs are so yucky.
Beautiful illustration Massimo.

Tiffini Elektra X wrote on May 2, 2006 - 3:20 am UTC

What a glorious array of yellow submarines and fishes too and yes you could have submitted quite a few of your works on this theme…

Caroline wrote on May 4, 2006 - 11:07 pm UTC

Aynaku, your first sentence rings very true :)

When I saw the illustration of course I immediately had to think of the Beatles, a great composition of yellow in blue here, it really makes u-boats seem attractive. But in your text you raise an important and quite unknown fact. Scary!

There is a good German movie called “Das Boot” by Wolfgang Petersen about a u-boat crew in the Second World War if you are interested. Very intense and with good actors.

cristosova wrote on May 5, 2006 - 12:44 pm UTC

Your words it’s the same of the
picture. Peraphs too mach realistic! It’true. Compliment, vanna

vanna wrote on May 19, 2006 - 12:06 pm UTC

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