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The Mega Crayon Pile
Cameron Mortenson over at The Fiberglass Manifesto got ahold of me this morning to let me know that Fishy Kid is sponsoring an “Adult Coloring Contest” that will run for the entire month of November. He writes that he and his partner are “putting together three stellar prize packs of DVD’s and other gear to the three winners.”
They’ll be setting up a gallery on the Fishy Kid website to upload the entries and an an online poll to vote the top three winners the first part of December. Get out your crayons and get to work!
FishyKid is a cooperative project involving both The Fiberglass Manifesto and Red Dirt Studios. They are out to promote fishing to the next generation through art-oriented projects. It is a cool idea by two dads who have their hearts are in the right place.
Cameron turns out to be a neat guy, by the way, and I’m hoping to get him back to Michigan this next summer to do some fly casting on the Au Sable, the Manistee, and West Grand Traverse Bay. He used to fish in Michigan on a regular basis, though he lives “down south” now. We’ll see if we can get that to work out!
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Prosek's Work on an Abel Reel
If you’ve had even half an eye on the fly fishing shelf at your local bookseller or library over the past thirteen years, you will be at least passingly familiar with the work of artist and fly angler emeritus James Prosek. His book Trout: An Illustrated History, a collection of paintings of the trout of North America (published when he was only nineteen) quickly established Prosek’s work as the gold standard in the world of angling art. This was followed by nine more books, including Fly Fishing the 41st, Trout of the World, and the excellent children’s books A Good Day’s Fishing and his latest offering, Bird, Butterfly and Eel. His website is worth a look, too.
Prosek’s current work has him exploring man’s changing relationship with nature; specifically, the way humans alter their perception of nature by naming things, which he discussed with Krista Tippet on the public radio program Speaking of Faith in 2008. This segment, entitled “Fishing With Mystery”, will re-air on public radio stations around the country beginning Thursday, August 6 through Wednesday, August 12. You can read all about the show on Speaking of Faith’s website. To find out when the program will be broadcast on your local public radio station, click the “stations” link on the show’s site.
The Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City is exhibiting the work of artist and fly angler Charles Lindsay this summer. His two concurrent exhibitions, “Upstream: Fly Fishing in the American West” and “Carbon: Cosmic Worlds of Charles Lindsay” will be available for viewing from June 24th to September 20th. The work in Upstream is drawn from his book with the same title.
Of his work, Lindsay remarks that “I photograph to increase my awareness and to extend the process of concentration that culminates when the fish strikes. The most abstract images made underwater lead to the investigation I’m now exploring in the Science Fiction Worlds of Carbon. The ‘photographs’ are made from negatives which utilize a carbon emulsion on a transparent base – the result of experiments and manipulation.”
True|North|Trout was able to interview Mr. Lindsay, and to discuss both his art and his passion for fly angling.
Charles Lindsay, Raw and Howling
T|N|T: I read somewhere that your grandfather taught you to fly fish when you were nine. Where did you grow up, and was fly angling an important part of your life when you were young?
C|L: I was born and grew up until the age of nine in San Francisco. My dad took me to the casting ponds in Golden Gate Park. My very early fly fishing was with my grandfather for about ten days every year at an old fishing club in Quebec. Although it was for a short time, it ranked huge in my memory and influence. I loved my Grandfather, too.
T|N|T: One thing that I find really interesting about the work that you done – my impression as I reviewed a number of your books and pieces – is that it would be totally inappropriate to simply label you as a ‘nature photographer.’ Your interests in terms of subjects are varied, to say the least. In your view is there a thread that hold all your artistic projects together? read more…
