Posts tagged fish
The monster is in my closet...
Basking shark.
(via Today’s Inspiration: Ric Grasso: An Artist for Everywoman)
A Very Fishy Story (detail) - Everywoman’s magazine
Illustrated by Ric Grasso, April 1953
This postage stamp commemorates William Beebe’s 1934 descent in the bathysphere, and pictures deep sea fish that he reported seeing. Since Beebe was unable to collect specimens, the existence of some of these fish remains controversial.
(Source: shoulderblades, via moschops911)
Early 20th Century Nightmare Fuel (via Imgur)
Illustration for Famous Fantastic Mysteries 1942 by Virgil Finlay
33 feet long…jaws powerful enough to crush anything…known to prey on sharks. This has been the fish of my nightmares ever since I read about it in Prehistoric Zoobooks.
Jaws Ripoffs
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws inspired terror…and a slew of half-assed copycat films. None of these movies strike me as worthwhile, but their posters - usually featuring sharks and other sea creatures attacking swimmers from below - do inspire a certain fascination. Here are 28 of the silliest, strangest and most epic scenes of aquatic mayhem from the ’70s and ’80s.
