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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

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9 people have left comments

Wow - great concept and wonderful illo! :)

Darice Pauselius wrote on March 10, 2007 - 11:40 am CET

E’ proprio vero. Verba volant scripta manent e in realtà non sappiamo a volte quanto queste parole che arrivano all’improvviso ci fanno bene al cuore. Il disegno è bellissimo. vanna.

vanna wrote on March 10, 2007 - 12:45 pm CET

powerful image!

isay wrote on March 10, 2007 - 3:19 pm CET

lov the way u did the ocean waves in this, nice work

michael dailey wrote on March 11, 2007 - 12:02 am CET

Una bella illustrazione che lascia indendere che pero’ non c’e molta speranza in questo messaggio in bottiglia…Buttiamolo…mah…chi lo vedra’?
Grazie per la visita. Tutte le mie illustrazioni sono digitali…

Nicole wrote on March 11, 2007 - 1:29 pm CET

Ohhhh, Massimo, I love this message you put this week along this fantastic illo.

A beautiful thought to have on your mind for a while.

Muak!

Pati @-;– wrote on March 11, 2007 - 5:21 pm CET

Once again your magical take on the theme is perfection! It makes me dream of life on an island far from the maddening crowds wandering the beach for coconuts… Love it!!!

valgalart wrote on March 11, 2007 - 9:50 pm CET

dont you mean ‘give us a hit’ ?

jeje

love
scott

Scott Hollingsworth wrote on March 11, 2007 - 10:51 pm CET

Your blog is always worth the visit!

ldahl wrote on March 14, 2007 - 11:14 pm CET

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