"A Song of Ice and Fire Book Series / A Game Of Thrones TV Show is one of our favorite things in this world. We’ve been wanting to illustrate some of our favorite quotes for ages and finally got around to do it."
A real life white whale destroyed over 20 whaling ships and reportedly survived encounters with another 80 or so.This massive 70 foot long albino sperm whale was named Mocha Dick and was one of the two whales that inspired the novel Moby Dick.
Mocha Dick was given his name as he was first sighted off the coast of Chile near Mocha Island; the latter “Dick” part of the name is thought to have simply been after the practice of naming certain deadly whales common names like “Dick” or “Tom”. The whalers that first spotted him attempted to kill him, but he survived the encounter.
The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser The Independent 1. What, in 1972, comprised solely of the phrase 'QWERTYUIOP?' 2. 'The Wolf of Wall Street' has broken the record – with 506 – for the most uses of which word in a non-documentary film? 3. What links a plaque left on the moon in 1969 and the Anglo ... |
"Devilfish invited me to do this lettering piece for a billboard campaign of HBO. The brief was to illustrate a quote extracted from the ‘Game of Thrones’, picking up the atmosphere of the story. Art direction: Lee Edwards."
Before science, the flash of lighting that followed a crack of thunder was though to be the will of Greek gods or a violent outcropping of animism. Now we know a bit more about lightning.
We know that it can be hotter than the surface of our Sun; we know that it can absolutely strike in the same place twice; and we know that when it hits sand, it can create wonderful art.
Specifically, fulgurite is the result of the quartz sand in the ground fusing together after being charged by lightning. It takes temperatures of 1800 degrees Celsius to turn the sand into fulgurite. Lightning is hot enough to make this happen, but the creation of fulgurite is still very rare.
