Tag: adventure

Fish Man Gets His Chicken: The Movie

An International Cast!

Starring: M. Henri Le Poisson
Co-Starring: Sir R. Chicken

World class actors bring their finest to the action-packed, true-to-life, thrill-filled Fish Man Gets His Chicken – filmed in the deepest wilds of South America!

A Thrilling Tale of Adventure, Love, and Redemption!

A scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River to recover fossils is watched and attacked by Fish Man, a horrible creature, half man, half fish, who lives there.

Through acts of kindness, Fish Man is rescued from his slimy and fetid existence. Civilized, and with a doctoral degree from a famous university, his life is changed.

He learns the arts of brewing and barbecuing.

Fish Man Gets His Chicken
Fish Man Gets His Chicken
Fish Man Becomes Civilized
Fish Man Becomes Civilized

Fin Mail Photo of M. Henri Le Poisson

For $5.00 and a box top, you may receive this lovely secular holiday greeting card to send to your friends and family.

With love to you from me - your friend, Henri

Get one for everybody on your holiday list!

Fish Hat [Dead or Alive?] Eyes

When this hat came out in Knitty, I just knew I had to make it.

The eyes in the pattern are made of felt and stitched in place. I decided to knit mine up, and did so as below, using needles a size or two smaller.

Cast on 4 stitches. Knit front and back of each stitch – 8 stitches. Transfer to double point needles, place marker at round beginning.

Rnd 1: Knit

Rnd 2: Knit front and back each stitch – 16 stitches.

Rnd 3: Knit

Rnd 4: *Knit front and back, knit 1,* repeat to end – 24 stitches

Rnd 5: Knit

Rnd 6: *Knit front and back, knit 2,* repeat to end – 32 stitches

Rnd 7: Knit

Rnd 8: *Knit front and back, knit 3,* repeat to end – 40 stitches

Rnd 9 and 10: Knit

Bind off.

The Eye of the Fish

Lost at Sea

Every now and then, something just grabs you.  Two things did today.

Thanks to the info from Terry at http://www.sknitter.com – her link is on the right – I saw the newest Knitty edition.  And on the cover is a gorgeous shawl, Shipwrecked.

The above click came just shortly after reading about a project that has been going on in England since 2007 – the digitizing of over 20,000 (you got it, 20,000!) photographs of expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica from the 1840s to the 1920s.  Not long ago I read the book, Endurance, which is about Shackelton’s wreck in the ice of Antarctica and how everyone returned alive after being stranded over a year.  The current Time website has pictures of this project, as well a link to http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/home/home, where pictures are posted.

There is something incredible about well-done black and white photos which has it all over most color photos.  There is a sense of drama, as well as an ability to focus on the subject in the picture.  No colors to distract, and so the eye finds shape, light, dark.

Such beauty!