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a surprising man…

Posted on August 22, 2008 @ 10:52 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, another green world, blog, fun, people, philippines, travel, ukiyo-e, wordpress

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I like to edit again an old post of mine, which I wrote on November the 22, 2006…this fellow had a totally anti-routine life…it’s worth taking a look at his “biography” whic my friend Gino edited recently…
enjoy

Among the strange people I met, Max Maxwell is certainly the most unfathomable. I firstly met Max in Boracay Island, in 1990. Max comes from Bombay and belongs to the Parsee upper-class.
At that time he was a fit, middle aged man who enjoyed beach-tennis, wind surfing and excellent Italian food. He basically travelled between Boracay, Koh Lanta, Laddak and Hong Kong, making his earn out of fashionable batik-shirts, rattan-bags, Tibetan amulets and first rate (yet fake) Ray-Ban sunglasses. Max had an enormous ego, he was desperately scornful and selfish and, for some reason, he always surprised me. He had seen the World, that was the fact! When some harmless tourist, tried to approach him by asking silly questions such us “Have you been…?”, Max’s provocative answer simply was: “thanks for not talking to me!”. And that was all. As I said Max loved food and he was in the selected circle of acquaintances of my friend Gino.
Gino ran the cosiest restaurant in Boracay according to Max’s parameters and one day at Gino’s, for some unpredictable reason, Max allowed himself to talk to me! Max abhorred “stupid talks” but, after a good beer (he used to sip beer always by the same special glass that he-himself carried in a bag), Gino and I had the chance of glancing over his wonderful life…Finally Max decided to present Gino his photocopied biography. The document (his masterpiece) stated the man “born in Bombay during a devastating cyclone” and amazingly went on with Max ”making friends with Miles Davis, art-directing Vogue Magazine, etc…”I still have that rattan-bag he sold me and –still- I wear those fake pair of Ray-Ban and Gino and I still dispute about his reliability, his clever scorn and puzzling behaviour.
On December 8, 2006 I received a stunning report from Gino…

BREAKING NEWS:
MAX MAXWELL DIES IN GOA AFTER COMMITTING SUICIDE. HE LEFT A NOTE IN WICH HE SAYS :
“DON’T BE SORRY FOR ME. I’M THE ONE TO DECIDE MY TIME WAS OVER”

Illustration Friday ’s topic is: routine

animal rights

Posted on November 24, 2007 @ 11:21 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, another green world, blog, travel, wordpress

monkey animal-rights aynaku travel illustration

I always hated the zoo. Simply I try to figure the way an animal feels behind the bars of a cage, or what it might prefer to do instead. I like to think that every living creature was born to be somehow free, so set them free…
The cute, black, little monkey spent long hours jumping frantically inside its narrow bamboo cage. My bungalow’s neighbour, an excited fellow and an absolute beginner of the Tropics, had bought it at the local market place for a few ringit, maybe thinking to help some poor Malay chap’s wealth.
The poor animal deprived of its freedom, was moreover tortured by the constant sight of a bunch of yellow, small and extremely sweet bananas that had been bought on the purpose to feed the monkey but carelessly left nearby. And every day, as soon as the fellow came back at sunset from the beach, the little starving monkey had its meal lastly. Fortunately after a couple of weeks the proud tourist left alone, thinking that I might possibly take care of his monkey; and I did so setting the monkey free in the forest, with its belly full of bananas…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: the zoo

lapu lapu

Posted on November 10, 2007 @ 6:30 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, food, philippines, ukiyo-e, wordpress

grouper lapulapu aynaku illustration travel

Red groupers typically have a stout body and a large mouth. They are not built for long-distance fast swimming. They can be quite large, usually largest fish of the grouper family, and their body, soft dorsal and anal fins, are covered with scales and thick skin.
Lapu Lapu is the Pilipino name for red grouper. In the archipelago they are important food fish.
As most other fish species which are sold in the market (talipapa) groupers are generally sold very fresh and, sometimes almost alive…The flesh is snowy white and can be cooked either as filets cut thin or as steaks cut thick.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: scales

stonefish

Posted on June 23, 2007 @ 6:28 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, fear, wordpress

Many fish use camouflage to blend into their surroundings. Camouflage has two purposes: it helps fish avoid being eaten and allows them to make sneak …among them stonefish are found in the tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Averaging about 30 centimeters in length, their subdued …

snap

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

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 …

monkey

Posted on January 21, 2007 @ 12:11 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, books, china, mythology, ukiyo-e, wordpress

“Monkey King (or Sunwukong) was born from a stone. He wanted to be like the immortals and be free from death. He was extremely smart and capable, and learned all the magic tricks from a master Taoist. …

phoenix

Posted on December 31, 2006 @ 11:21 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, china, mythology, wordpress

 
“There is also another sacred bird called the phoenix which I did not myself see except in painting, for in truth he comes to them very rarely, at intervals, as the people of …

carabao

Posted on September 9, 2006 @ 5:08 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, food, people, philippines, wordpress

…plowing the field by the carabao, native water buffalo of the Philippines…
In many regions of the Philippines time is measured by the growth of the rice …

arakne

Posted on August 19, 2006 @ 9:27 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, mythology, people, wordpress

The pizzica (pinch) is the traditional expression of Salento dancing. It is a genre with a frenetic rhythm that is linked to the increasingly prominent revival of the Taranta, a traditional musical culture of …

clean / unclean animal

Posted on July 30, 2006 @ 3:29 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, india, people, wordpress

A mild variety of viral gastroenteritis got me these days. So, all I can do is rest and drink lots of fluids; off course I abstain from eating any meat at all, including good …

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