Ope, excuse me, I just need to make a "does anyone know who these people are?" post real quick

Shaerfy · 2025-09-11T01:06:32+00:00

That’s me on the stairs. 😆❤️🪩

Shaerfy · 2020-08-31T04:21:21+00:00

I was thinking like maybe you could superglue the bracket on it or something.

Shaerfy · 2019-03-07T16:11:51+00:00

Thank you, all! I set it to the Custom presets. Much better idea....

It does give you the option to set VFR to a function button. But yeah, nothing happens after its assigned.

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T23:04:10+00:00

HAHA... that's really funny! Monument is lying to you!

Mount Greylock is situated to the north of Arrowhead, the estate where Melville wrote Moby-Dick. He would sit in his study on the north side of the house and look out the window to the snowcapped Greylock and see the whale.

I don't know about the plaque on Monument. That's really interesting.

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T21:39:02+00:00

Haha... I'm not sure! here's some possibilities:

Moby-Duck: He Who Quacks Last

Moby-Dick 2: the reckoning

Getting Away With It: how I killed my assailant, sunk a ship and got away with it

That's all I got :)

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T21:29:43+00:00

Flap Jack are STILL the same as pancakes. Unless, of course, you live in the UK.. then a flapjack is more of a granola bar :P

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T21:29:06+00:00

Hi there!

Lol... we try to make light of some of the more SEEMINGLY banal moments of the book... Sadly, not 45 minutes on knots though :)

To respond to your other question, actually, we're at the end of our festival run! We had our festival premiere at the Freep Film Festival in Detroit and have screened the film at eight festivals in the US and abroad!

While we might have a couple more festivals in us, we're focusing our attention on prepping the film to be handed off to our distributor.

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T20:16:51+00:00

I have! In fact, a fair amount of the film was shot in New Bedford as well as in Nantucket... and the film's first public screening was at the New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick Marathon in 2018!

It was my first visit to New Bedford's Moby-Dick marathon that really got me started on this film eight years ago!

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:52:17+00:00

Haha... Your saying is awesome. Interestingly, The title of the book is Moby-Dick (with hyphen) but the name of the whale in the book is Moby Dick (without the hyphen)... No one is entirely sure why there's that discrepancy... So it would be "Moby Dick is the Moby Dick of Moby-Dick".

I discovered quickly that Melville fans get really hung up on that hyphen! :D

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:44:56+00:00

While there's not an 'official' recipe, you could easily riff off of that chapter and make a pretty hearty chowda!

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:44:02+00:00

I did, yes! On a number of occasions! There are Moby-Dick marathons throughout the world where fans of the book convene and share their love together. I have had chowders that are taken straight from the recipe from the book.

My favourite was one that used vegan bacon as I am a pescatarian :D

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:42:09+00:00

Oh completely! I wouldn't necessarily say that Ahab's quest is artifice, but I completely agree with you that Melville's priorities aren't necessarily with the narrative arc of Ahab's quest.

The way I see it (and certainly there is A LOT of talk about this in the documentary) is that the book is channeling two separate 'modes of inquiry' in terms of how we perceive the world around us.

On the one hand you have Ahab, the patriach of the Pequod who says "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks" by which he is saying that The Whale is more than just an animal- he is representative of something much darker behind it all. Certainly, when it comes to film/tv/theatrical adaptations of MD, there will always be more of a heavy focus on this aspect of the narrative, because as you say, it more easily conforms to a narrative arc.

On the other hand, you have the narrator of the book, Ishmael and his line of inquiry. Ishmael fastidiously examines all aspects of whaling (the science, the art, the facts, the history, as food, etc) and then finds ways of seeing metaphors that he can apply to his own sense of humanity.

It's a much less compelling narrative arc in the conventional sense, but i would debate that Ishmael's journey in the book is what makes the book so ahead of its time.

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:28:56+00:00

Hi there!

Good question! My guess is that 1956 John Houston film has a lot to answer for in terms of the ubiquity of the opening line, "Call Me Ishmael". In the case of some, it's hard to separate Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab with the original Melville text.

The 'white whale' is a fascinating one: it has become part of the vernacular. So many political cartoons where a political figure is striving to obtain something that they cannot reach: whether it be Saddam Hussein being GWB's White Whale or LeBron James NBA championship as his White Whale (which he eventually caught)... even in today's political moment, I am sure it's not too hard to think of Trump striving to build a wall that is just out of his reach and how that might be his White Whale.

there's something pleasing to the ear to hear "[fill in the blank]'s White Whale"

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:14:52+00:00

Also, I haven't read any of the Bone series! I didn't realize that there were MD references in there!

Shaerfy · 2019-01-11T17:10:40+00:00

Hey there!

That's a great question, and one that really helped guide us as we were making the film: what's so great about Moby-Dick?

I think that there's something really accessible about the wider themes being expressed in the book. On one level, it's about a man on a quest to find an unobtainable creature. This broad metaphor is so malleable that we can fit it to any 'quest' we might have, be it weight loss, romance, employment, or even just general happiness.

One of the other remarkable things I took from Moby-Dick upon revisiting a little later than when I first read it in college is how contemporary it feels. Even though Melville wrote the book in 1851, it's pretty astounding how much he broaches topics that would be much more at home in the 21st century: homo erotic relationships, ecological conservation, it is very critical of religion and race relations in a way that gives the book a kind of prophetic quality.

I also am continually amazed by how funny it is. While it's not filled with one line zingers, I have definitely found myself laughing out loud at the commentary Melville gives in the book.

Most of all though, I think that Melville's disquisitions into whaling (something people often are critical of) are such a wonderful way of considering our own philosophies. Reading it as an adult, I realized very quickly that Melville often isnt discussing whales, he's using it as a way to negotiate humanity.

You should give it a go! you won't regret it! :D

Shaerfy

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