Whale Hunt.

[jacktellslies]

I was wondering if you'd be so kind as to tell me your thoughts on this?

The Whale Hunt.

So far as I can tell, nearly all of this is preparation. At the very end Inuits, and, it seems, an artist or journalist or two, hunt and harpoon a whale. The body is pulled to shore, and the community pulls the leviathan out of the water by hand, with rope. They cut it using an immense blade on a pole, something like a scalpel the size of a spear, and pull the meat away in strips with hooks.

Comments

[transversecity.livejournal.com]

...egads, that icon's Georges Barbier, isn't it?

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

Good eye, sir!

[transversecity.livejournal.com]

How did you know that only one of my eyes is good, and the other, an immoral layabout?

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

Dark magics.

[transversecity.livejournal.com]

So, magic that's at least 70% cocoa?

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

It's good! You should try some.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

It makes me feel like I am two years old again, and do not understand how the universe works very well, and am almost but not quite hiding the tantrum growing inside me.

[popejeremy.livejournal.com]

It bills itself as "A storytelling experiment" but there's not too much experimental about it, is there? It's a slideshow from someone's vacation -- pretty conventional. It is instantly searchable via various parameters, but outside of that, I've seen slideshows before.

That being said, taking a whale is fantastically impressive.

[earlofgrey.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The format is largely irrelevant in my opinion, excepting the fact that, as a result, the subject matter is absurdly (inconveniently?) well documented.

[popejeremy.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's inconveniently well-documented. Maybe the sheer number of the avalanche of photos is what they thought was experimental about it.

I think it would have been a lot better had they winnowed out about 90% of the photos and made a focused presentation. But that would have required making actual aesthetic decisions.

[martygreene.livejournal.com]

The initial appearance of all the teeeeeeeeeny weeny pictures is sorta like those photomosaics, which was neat.

When trying to pick where to look though, it makes it hard and obnoxious.