Wednesday 12 March 2008

Corey Arnold


Fans of pinatas and trawlermen, swearing at swans and spider crabs should definitely have a look at Corey Arnold's excellent website. Well actually the website itself is a bit rubbish but the pictures are worth a peak.





The last image always makes me think of Tom Waits for some reason.

I don't know how it happened but Arnold was also one of the stars of National Geographic channel's "Deadliest Catch", a docu-drama about crab fishing which made me feel seasick. For a less-nausea inducing look at trawling I can heartily recommend Redmond O'Hanlon's book "Trawler". O'Hanlon is a sort of modern day Victorian explorer and a leading naturalist who's previously written about his expedition to find the Mokele Mbembe (the Loch ness monster of Congo). Basically he's very cool:


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