Friday, February 22, 2008

Inspired By

As Samantha mentioned, Moby Dick seems to inspire infinite other works of art in all different media. The first that comes to mind is a thesis film that a Wesleyan graduate, Benh Zeitlin, made back in 2005. Some of you may have seen this, but Egg is his fantastic stop-motion animation about a miniature Ahabian captain afloat in the ocean of an egg white in search of the ever-elusive "great yellow yolk."

Check it out: Egg by Benh Zeitlin

Also check his other stuff, and fellow Wes grad Ray Tintori's work at Court 13.
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Unknown said...

Thanks, E. I showed Egg to the Melville class back in the day. It's pretty neat. When I hit the other link, I got a big white square in a black frame.... seems like a good metaphor for M-D.... cb

February 23, 2008 at 10:38 PM

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