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Posted on November 25, 2006 @ 7:21 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world,bargain,blog,fashion,fun,illustration,news,package tour,people,travel,wordpress

sri lanka illustration travel aynaku

Sometimes simple inventions make life profitable. Near Weligama, in Sri Lanka southernmost area, you will see the stilt fisherman. These-fishermen, whose unique style of fishing involves casting their lines from a perch on a sturdy pole 20-50 meters out to sea, stand patiently on stilts and fish for their daily catch. Nobody seems to know how or where this unusual technique originated, but it works, as the stilts are passed on from generation to generation and jealously guarded. I don’t know the kind of small fish they are actually fishing but I know it is quite valuable on the market. That’s why each stilt belongs to a fisherman who wouldn’t sell his place by any mean given the value of the fish and also the money he can get from tourists stopping there…
2005 Tsunami tragically washed away this ancient and fragile apparatus. Actually a project called Sri Lanka Tsunami Memorial Reef & Fish Farmers Program aims to erect concrete pilings on the sea floor and re-establish this traditional way of fishing.

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: invention

sailing ships…

Posted on November 18, 2006 @ 12:18 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,art,blog,fun,illustration,news,people,sailing,ukiyo-e,wordpress

sailingship ancona travel illustration aynaku

My grandfather was born in 1898. In his younger days he watched more than once the sailing ships at anchor in our hometown harbour. In his spare time he enjoyed oil painting, wasn’t so bad a painter and sailing ships where among his favourite subjects. According to my mother, his daughter, I was then a rather scornful kid and it seems that my grandfather only had the power to cool me down. Among my childhood memories there is a beautiful drawing of a Spanish galleon that he once presented me. That valuable paper got lost somewhere, but sailing ships has been the number one subject of my early doodles too, (perhaps because of the Mendel’ Laws ), indeed a real obsession! So this is my personal thanksgiving to my old dear relative who died in the early seventies. And maybe this imaginary vessel of mine somehow correlates with the anchoring of the Mayflower at Cape Cod…

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: Thanksgiving

clear

Posted on November 11, 2006 @ 6:28 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa,blog,fun,holidays,illustration,mediterranean,news,people,sailing,travel,wordpress

travel illustration aynaku

While I spent more than a bright day on board a ship, yet I am clear about that my day spent on the bus to Tozeur, has been the brightest! The road from Tunis to the desert city of Tozeur snakes along the Algerian border and the great dried-up salt-water lake -in the Tunisian Sahara Desert- called Chott el Jerid. Usually the bus stops for a while close to the lake banks: more people and their stuff are loaded before the bus leaves again. Here the lake surface reflection combines with the intense daylight so powerfully that once almost goes blind! Yet the landscape is absolutely grand and worth the visit and everything looks clear and sharp…

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: clear

narghile

Posted on November 5, 2006 @ 12:12 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa,bargain,blog,fashion,fun,holidays,illustration,mediterranean,people,travel,wordpress

A narghile is glass based water pipe device for smoking tobacco. Narghile is Persian words originating from Sanskrit since the original nargile came from India and it was made popular as the form we now see it in today in …