They look great

Sharknado

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Thank you!
My Instagram is : dive_jedi
You can find it here: www.instagram.com/dive_jedi/

Just photos and paintings. No selfies.

Thanks, Chris JL !

Great news. Congratulations to you.

Hopefully, part of the deal is that National Geographic sends you plenty of complimentary calendars in time for Christmas 2019.

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In case they're of interest, two comments regarding the photograph's title:


1.  Here we have singular (concrete) objects of plural subjects. Your title is also correct, but to my ears it sounds a bit better with "cock" in the plural:

Men holding their cocks

It's comparable to the pluralised objects in "The men sacrificed their lives" or "They lost their minds".

That said, both options result in slight ambiguity as to intended meaning, i.e. all the men together holding a single cock, or each man in the group holding more than one cock.


2.  Although I understand why the humour makes it so tempting to use such a title, query if that's really the tone you wish to set for your photo. One risk is that it could be perceived as trivialising the blood sport of cockfighting / Sabong.

If the image related instead to, say, dogfighting or bear-baiting or shark finning, would you consider using a pun as the title, even if it were very funny?

Not sure if this is the right thread, but it's certainly shark related....


I bought this last year, a real stunner by Ricky Lee Gordon.

My apologies for my late response. Besides diving and painting murals I am also occupied organising a bullfight here and kicking the occasional puppy. So I hope you understand I am rather busy.


Thanks again for your elaborate post.

I especially enjoyed the way you started by complimenting me, making me feel all proud and appreciated by a respected forum member. Then moved on to an effort to make me insecure by questioning my spelling.



Even though :

a ) you are fully aware I am not a native English speaker and not highly educated.

b) there was not any confusion due to my spelling about what I was saying.


And ending it all by going for the kill by unmasking me as the hypocrite that I am.

It was quite the emotional rollercoaster ride, all packed in a single post. My hat off to it!

I have had a long hard look at myself due to your post and came to realise that I appear to have more bias against chicken. Although I am a strong advocate against shark fin soup I do indeed enjoy the occasional chicken soup. Unconsciously I appear to be the chicken equivalent of a racist.

Not sure of the the technical term, perhaps I am what you would call a poultrist….



My compliments for knowing I am in the Philippines and even took the effort to google the local term for cock fighting. Well done indeed. Allthough I am a bit disappointed you didn’t figure out I am located in the Visayas, where Tagalog is generally not spoken. Instead they speak Bisaya here, so the correct term in this case would have been “Buwang”. But I digress…..


There are indeed many forms of human cruelty against animals. Most common forms are eating meat, wearing leather shoes or using medication or shampoo tested on animals.

Are you suggesting I should refrain myself from making jokes about leather chairs as well?



What surprised me most is that an individual as yourself that is very specific about details and not shy to hold others accountable on them would use “dogfighting or bear-baiting or shark finning” as if they were the same kind of animal cruelty. Where in fact dog fighting and bear-baiting would fall in the category of spectator “sports”, which also includes bull fighting and a Dutch tradition called goose pulling. Shark finning most certainly is not. That would be fit much better in the category of shooting rhino’s for their horn or killing elephants for their tusks. Which will lead to the extinction of those species if we do not stop it soon. Ironically these are all used in special useless potions to give men an erection. Or should I not make any ironic remarks as well on the matter?


So that does raise the following questions:


1 . Are you not aware – however gruesome they all are – that shark finning does not really fit in a list wtih cockfighting and bear-baiting?


2. Or were you perhaps so blinded by the opportunity to call me a hypocrite that you overlooked a few details yourself?

Flat Shark Friday (almost anyway)
Done with this stencil for now.

X - RAYS

Finished another mural today

Eagle Rays - restaurant wall of Southern Leyte Dive Resort

5 layers of spraypaint - twice.

This is not a painting or mural (yet!) , but I thought I'd make some T-shirts of it.

Much cooler then an Obey-shirt - and definitely much more exclusive.

Euro 25 + shipping only !

Thresher Shark - by WJP

The stuff you find when you clean up your attic.

Hand cut stencils from around 1982 - 1983....

Found these old parts while cleaning up the attic.

Forbidden Fruit
Spraypaint on Apple G4 side