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Restoring the Lost Sense – January 31, 2014

Uroboric yin-yang fish: an illustration from an 1896 issue of The Idler magazine.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #ouroboros #dark and light #fish #illustration #yin yang

Precursors – January 23, 2014

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Here's a precursor to fans of Seal (Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel), from seventy years before the singer-songwriter's birthday.

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Above, "Watching for seal," from In Arctic Seas by Robert Neff Keely, 1893.

Below, watching for Seal.

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#fishing #eskimo

Rhetorical Questions, Answered! – August 14, 2013

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Q: The average man's IQ is 107. The average brown trout's IQ is 4. So why can't a man catch a brown trout?

A: Lower-tech animals can be much quicker. (Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, 2009)

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#fish

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 14, 2013

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Here's a flying fish from an 1867 issue of Beadle's magazine.

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#vintage illustration #witch #flying fish #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 14, 2013

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An illustration from an 1895 issue of The Idler magazine.

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#vintage illustration #falling #fishing #kicked off #oops #illustration

Staring Into the Depths – August 23, 2012

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An illustration from a 1906 issue of Harper's magazine. The caption reads: "When I came back he was still staring at the water."

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[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #clown #fishing #harlequin #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 30, 2011

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An illustration from an 1890 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The caption reads simply: "My rods."

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#vintage illustration #illustration #fishing rod

A Fine Line Between... – April 5, 2011

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"It's a fine line between standing along the shore like an idiot with a stick in your hands and going fishing."
—Ethan Wolff, Frommer's NYC Free & Dirt Cheap

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Your Ship Will Come In – July 16, 2010

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* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.

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#fishing #vintage postcard

Your Ship Will Come In – January 29, 2010

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“Your fisherman will bring fish, your ship will come in.” —Donald Redford

* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.

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#fishing #vintage postcard

Forgotten Wisdom – January 7, 2008

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From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

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Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon. Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.

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#moon #fish #rumi

Images Moving Through Time – April 3, 2007

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Each one of the pictures below is entitled "Unknown Fisherman." Is an Unknown Fisherman some sort of archetypal figure? He is symbolic by his very nature, for we know nothing about him. What does his appearance suggest? Is he a manifestation of the Fisher King of Arthurian legend? And/or a Christ figure? Does he hold the Salmon of Wisdom from Irish mythology?

Here's an anecdote by a person who carried an Atlantic salmon fly from one corner of Europe to the other, with the sole purpose of giving it to an unknown fisherman. The quest sounds like some sort of pilgrimage, and the gift sounds like a tribute to a deity.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I am against the pestering and/or killing of fish.)

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Top left, The Unknown Fisherman. Top right, the Un known Fisherman who caught a 22lb4oz hatchery steelhead on the Wynooche in the winter of 2002. Bottom left, an Unknown Fisherman holding a 4-foot long 20 Lb Northern Pike in the year 1900. Bottom right, an Unknown Fisherman circa 2000-2001, participating in the Carmel River Steelhead Catch and Release Program.

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#vintage illustration #illustration #fisher king #unknown fisherman