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Posted on December 30, 2005 @ 6:57 pm by massimo | Filed under: beach,blog,books,diving,fun,illustration,island,news,philippines,wordpress

mobydick melville book aynaku illustration adobe

Melville’s novel “Moby Dick, or the Whale” has been a fundamental reading to me! Basically I was astonished by that powerful narrative which is not a newspaper story with the flavour of a novel! I still keep on reading a chapter or two from time to time…
I found an old copy of “Moby Dick” in a second-hand bookstore in Cebu City: I bought it and put it quickly in my baggage. I had soon to board a ship, heading south to Bohol Island, and I thought it was good to bring a book to read during the passage. As a matter of fact this book got me and for twenty days or so, I spent  so many hours reading; I almost forgot where I was and I was in Alona, a beautiful white sandy beach, looking for a job as a dive master…
That’s power! Finally the book was over and I felt strangely uneasy: for some reasons I decided to quit a tempting dive master career…

Illustration Friday’s topic is flavour

clownfish

Posted on November 26, 2005 @ 6:50 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,boracay,diving,fun,holidays,illustration,indonesia,kenya,package tour,philippines,swimming,travel,wordpress

clownfish coral reef fish aynaku illustration adobe

“Small is beatiful” was a popular adage in Italy and it can be taken for the colourful, cute clownfish. Clownfish are relatively small organisms; fish in the wild can grow to a length of about 10 cm. Clownfish live in a mutual relationship with sea anemones. Once an anemone has been adopted, the clownfish will defend it vigorously. Clownfish are between my favourite underwater species due to their brilliant orange. My effort has been the rendering of that peculiar hue making use of a standard digital palette… I hope I got it!

Illustration Friday ‘s topic is: small

surreal eyed fish

Posted on October 16, 2005 @ 9:52 am by massimo | Filed under: animals,art,blog,diving,fashion,fun,illustration,news,swimming,wordpress

eye fish surrealism aynaku illustration adobe

Definitely, I have no idea about the number of species inhabiting coral reefs and no deep dive needs to find attractive schools of fishes, turtles and moray eels. Sometimes Wonderland is only a pair of meters deep, right under your goggles lenses: truly it ls hard to imagine more but I try anyaway by sketching this surrealistic eyed-fish. Actually  Magritte’s paintings are in mind and, at least, I hope that my drawing would not damned by some illustrious ichthyologist!

underwater guru

Posted on October 1, 2005 @ 10:44 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world,blog,diving,fashion,fun,illustration,mythology,news,people,wordpress

“Hovering! That’s the supreme underwater task: control your breathing, keep your body floating between bottom and surface and meditate!”
I still remember my diving-instructor tips and I remember the underwater scene: imagine this fellow, …

depth

Posted on September 11, 2005 @ 7:46 am by massimo | Filed under: animals,beach,blog,boracay,diving,fun,holidays,illustration,indonesia,island,mediterranean,news,philippines,thailand,wordpress

Have you ever tried deep divin g? Puffing and puffing, you get somewhere – let’s say at a depth of fifty meters – and suddenly you realize that the bottom is some hundred meters more underneath your …

angel fish…

Posted on August 9, 2005 @ 9:09 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,diving,fun,illustration,news,wordpress

Every time I snorkel or dive, I get the same wonderful feeling: surprise is the right word! What really hits me is underwater species wide range of colour shades. Even here -Adriatic Sea- in a rather greysh underwater scenery …

dive buddy…

Posted on August 1, 2005 @ 10:03 am by massimo | Filed under: beach,blog,boracay,diving,fun,illustration,mythology,news,people,philippines,travel,wordpress

Tara and I dived togheter several times. We met in Boracay Island, the world famous tourist trap and became friends and dive buddies, as well. I was fascinated by Tara’s underwater swimming, by hers supernatural and fluid ease…Sometimes I even fancied she …

hammerheads

Posted on July 22, 2005 @ 2:59 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals,blog,diving,fear,fun,illustration,island,news,people,philippines,travel,wordpress

Hammerheads are terrific and mighty creatures! I came across them only once, diving into the waters of Pescador Island, a well known tiny and rocky islet, just off the coast of Moal Boal, the Philippines.
I was thirty meters deep when I …

Welcome to AYNAKU!

Posted on July 19, 2005 @ 11:12 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,animals,another green world,architecture,art,bangkok,bargain,beach,blog,books,boracay,cheap,china,croatia,diving,fashion,fear,flights,food,fun,himalaya,holidays,illustration,india,indonesia,island,japan,kenya,lamu,mediterranean,music,mythology,news,package tour,people,philippines,politics,sailing,swimming,t-shirt,thailand,travel,ukiyo-e,wordpress

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it is six in the morning – local time – Sun shines and wind blows.

This is the first message in the bottle from AYNAKU, the beachcombers internet cove…Are you presently island hopping? Are you diving into crystal-clear tropical seas? Are you floating on a swimming pools greysh water? Are you braving the traffic jam?No matter what you …

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