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snap

Posted on March 31, 2007 @ 4:17 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,ukiyo-e,wordpress

searescue aynaku travel illustration

Dogs are one of the few animals that will actually swim just for the pure pleasure of it. They have also, like not many animals, a natural ability to deal with sea currents, a peculiarity that always amaze me. As a matter of fact some dogs are trained to be sea-rescue dogs; they have to learn all sorts of skills which include searching, flying in helicopters, working with human beings and other dogs…And they are very effective!
I wonder what these superdogs would think of their own. I guess they might like better to swim in open waters and maybe snap for fun at an occasional fish… or maybe this is just one of the childish fancies that very often come to my mind.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: snap

lotus

Posted on March 16, 2007 @ 10:37 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog,travel,wordpress

lotus buddhism aynaku illustration travel

The lotus plays a very important part in Thai life. It is the country’s most common flower and it can be found in ponds, swamps, small canals, roadside ditches, even in jars and on top of pillars in temples. Five kinds of lotus are mentioned in Thai literature. The flower’s rich symbolism has embellished Thai literature since ancient times. The lotus is associated with heavenly beings; white lotus particularly is a powerful Buddhist symbol: it symbolizes Bodhi, the state of total mental purity and spiritual perfection, and the pacification of our nature. It generally has eight petals corresponding to the Noble Eightfold Path of the Good Law. White lotus is the lotus found at the heart of the Garbhadhatu Mandala, being the womb or origin of the world…

Illustration Friday‘s topic is: total

messages

Posted on March 10, 2007 @ 11:11 am by massimo | Filed under: blog,people,travel,ukiyo-e,wordpress

masefield aynaku travel illustration

“I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweat dream when the long trick’s o”
Just imagine rescuing these beautiful words from inside a wrecked floating bottle… Perhaps that was the day before the world had been wired for elettricity! Seamen then sent their messages in the bottle, and hope that someone would get their s.o.s…I find out that this procedure is somehow similar to what a blogger does nowadays: we don’t really know who is going to get our digital messages, yet we know that someone will get them…and that’s enough to give us a hint.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: wired

hide

Posted on March 4, 2007 @ 11:24 am by massimo | Filed under: blog,people,travel,wordpress

In polluted, demanding and overwhelming Bangkok, the Boston Inn has been my favourite hide. This three-storeys little hotel was originally built by the American Army during the Viet Nam war, to lodge officers on their leaves. Located in Soi Dumpili, in a Bangok’s area where life “makes a hard man humble”, quoting a fashionable …