When he looks at me, the way he looks at me…He does not know what I lack…Or how I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I am, as I am. He’s happy to see me. Every time. Every day. The Shape of Water (2017) dir. Guillermo del Toro
So, since I watched the movie I thought that he might be brazilian, cause it’s said that the creature was captured in the Amazon (which is mostly, but not entirely, brazilian). Also because of the music played during the plan to rescue our lovely fishman; it’s Carmen Miranda’s, a singer born in Portugal but raised here in Brasil, she’s an icon.
Since this isn’t enough evidence, I recently remembered a folklore creature we have here. It’s called Negro d’Água ( something like Black -man- from the water). It’s said that he is a mix of a black young man and an amphibian who lives in some famous rivers of the country (North, Northeast and Midwest regions -I live really away from these places so this legend isn’t really known here, that’s why I didn’t think about it immediately-). He, as some other creatures from our mythology, protects his environment from fishermen, hunters, navigators, etc. He drowns their boats if people doesn’t give him offerings, at least people believe that.
Guillermo himself said that this legend inspired the classic Black Lagoon, the inspiration for his movie.
I’ll let you with this image of a great statue of Negro d’Água in river São Francisco, Bahia; and the tweet.
I just wanted you to know it, ‘cause I felt quite proud and very happy for this. I loved the movie so much, hope it wins best picture
Marceline, Princess Bubblegum and Flame Princess. Considering making the Bubbline pictures as a sticker sheet. The third image to go with my other single illustrations of Pb and Marcie.
Drawn traditionally and coloured digitally. Please do not repost or upload anywhere else.
OK cutting to the chase, not dead, back, big surprise. Never mind. I’m in a lovely little square in one of your, oh I don’t know, hot countries, there’s a light breeze coming from the east, this coffee is a buzz monster in my brain and I’m going to need eight snipers!
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Enon Avital (@e_known) reached for a bottle of honey, not an inkwell, when he wrote a message of good wishes for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. “At the beginning, I was doing traditional typography — just ink on paper, pencil on paper. Nothing like I’m doing now,” says the New Jersey-based designer and web developer. But eventually Enon looked to more unconventional materials — everything from kiwis to pencil shavings — and turned them into Hebrew typography. “I like the pieces I can eat at the end. That’s always fun,” he says.
Rosh Hashana begins this week and focuses on leaving the old behind and embracing the new. “We drop all negativity,” says Enon. “When the community as a whole asks for forgiveness and resets, we are all refreshed. That is what Rosh Hashana is all about.”
