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WHALE OF SORROW
I’m in charge of illustrations on The Daily Telegraph’s opinion pages, which basically means wandering over to our team of artists and providing a story outline. These guys are Australia’s best, so no extensive directions are required, but sometimes it’s fun to throw them a precise-but-weird request—just to see what happens.
Yesterday, to illustrate an article by Samantha Williams, I asked artist Tom Jellett: “Give me Hello Kitty as a whale.” A few hours later ...
Beautiful.
Beautiful!
I was picturing Michael Moore with the little pink bow, but that’s just me.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2007 12 19 at 12:18 PM • permalinkAlright Tim,
Who did you have to kill to get yer job?
We won’t tell.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 12 19 at 12:23 PM • permalinkI sort of envision myself as the harpoon aimer. Nice scowl.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 12 19 at 12:49 PM • permalink#10 - My first thought, too. Very Howard like, indeed.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 12 19 at 01:58 PM • permalinkLets see them load the dashboard and parcel carrier of the Skyline up with that baby!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 12 19 at 07:36 PM • permalinkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIfutGKfz8
This chapter of the movie is haunting.
Shame on you Japan. Your people LIE to nature.I forgot Merry Christmas to you.
“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. (Luke 11:9-10)
Good-bye my friends until then.
Have a look at the round of applause the loons at The Age are giving to Kevin Rudd and his idea to save the whales.
I called the Greens a bunch of warmongerers, trying to provoke an international conflict, but very few Age readers agree.
Poggy, I’m thinking of leaving all together at Blairnews (it’s gutsy and it’s good), but will send my glacier experience in. If I find melting will let you know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-VZxkmmtI
Good song ... bye lovely.
I wanted to give a Hello Kitty toaster to my friend’s little girls but their mother said if I did, she would kill me.
#29 peter m,
these two are my favourite comments responding to that article.
“It’s indecent. Any girl wearing a small bikini should take it off immediately!!!
Yippie! of Sydney (Reply)
Thu 20 Dec 07 (12:51pm)
WooT WooT replied to Yippie!
Thu 20 Dec 07 (01:41pm)Its not to often I agree with the conservative groups but yes “any girl wearing a small bikini should take it off now!!”
Why Madam Whale, that little bow suits you charmingly.
I LOVE Hello Kitty! Always have! Now you have superimposed her charm on to one of the Big Mammals which can only improve the state of the world. Mind you, you haven’t lived ‘til you’ve seen the Hello Kitty golfclub outfit, golfclubs and all.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 12 20 at 02:01 AM • permalinkSorry bag this poor quality journalism but the conclusion that the Japanese have no appetite for whale is absurd. The difficulty is in grasping how incredibly big Japan is in every way except surface area. They are a vast market consuming mind-boggling amounts of everything including a whopping (not a normal sized) THIRD of the world’s seafood, and it is distributed to them all in ways that might not be altogether apparent to someone visiting one shop in Tokyo. They will eat all the whale believe me. If they come back with 6000 tons of whale meat, it will only require 0.01% of their population to eat 0.5 kg over the year for it to all be gone. Saying “No one was buying when I was at the shop” is a little naive.
Hell I’ve eaten that much in one sitting.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2007 12 20 at 02:04 AM • permalink#25- Too right, Pickles- the true nature of these plankton-hoovering craven collaberators is revealed here.
Word is that last time Al Gore did a speech in Japan he had to beat a hasty retreat when a local whaling ship mistakenly fired a couple of harpoons at him.
He was only saved because an iceberg (caused by a sudden unexpected massive drop in temperature which concided with his arrival) got in the way.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 12 20 at 09:23 AM • permalinkAnd so-called “Hello Kitty” has some sinister secrets she’d sooner keep quiet an’all.
“A further question: If whales are so smart and can hear so good, why don’t they just piss off to the bottom of the sea when they hear the Japs coming and stay down there till they’re gone ?”
The obvious answer is that they aren’t that smart. It’s simply greenpeace propaganda. You can train a whale to do things just like you can a dog or sheep, that doesn’t make them especially intelligent.
Dolphins on the other hand are probably a good deal smarter than whales, just as dogs are smarter than cows and horses. Small carnivores are typically more intelligent than large vegetarians.
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Oh, Tim, I wish I had your job. First you go to Israel, then you get to demand “Hello Kitty” as a whale. Me, I wrestle with HMO’s and see naked patients all day.
(The naked part isn’t as fun as you’d think.)