Whale Weirdo

One of the things Whale Weirdo does is pursuing an artisic battle in order to stop the whale-hunting. For this, Whale Weirdo supports the activities of Sea Shephard, making and realising signs and material for campaigns. Below a summary.

Design for Sea Shepherd. The Red Lobster chain of seafood restaurants does not kill seals but they have the power to stop the killing of hundreds of thousands of baby seals in Canada every year. All they have to do is to agree to join the international boycott of Canadian seafood products. Canadian fishermen and Canadian fishing companies support the Canadian seal slaughter. Therefore the Canadian seal slaughter cannot be seperated from the Canadian fishing industry. Red Lobster alone purchases enough seafood from Canada to negate the profits of the annual Canadian seal slaughter. Red Lobster profits from the same industry that is responsible for this bloody carnage.>>

Design for Sea Shepherd. Norway, Japan, Iceland and the Faeroe islands are still slaughtering whales and dolphins. Science, tradition and commercial greed cannot justify such a behaviour. Stop whaling.

T-shirt design for Restaurant-Bar De Zaak in Amersfoort. Endangered species should not be listed on any menu.

The Sea Shepherd T-shirt with the artwork created by Geert-Jan Vons was an important tactic in convincing Disneyland Hong Kong to defend the sharks and not to contribute to their slaughter by serving the expensive sharkfin soup.
The artwork featuring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cutting the fins off of sharks was reported in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times and the London Sunday Times.
This is a great victory for the sharks because it sends a message loud and clear that shark finning is a destructive practice that is contributing to the demise of shark populations worldwide.>>

Started with the making of a polyester baby spermwhale, based on the moulds which were used in the Ocean Warrior movie.
The aim of this project is to raise public awareness against the possible start of legal whaling in 2005.

Willemstad, Curacao. Repainted the hull of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society flagship, Farley Mowat, with life-size whales and dolphins.>>

Memorial service; erecting a memorial stone and spreading mourning cards and posters in order to focus attention on the extinct Atlantic Grey Whale.

With the deepest regret we inform you of the passing away,
after a long and cruel battle with H.Sapiens, of
ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS (Atlantic Grey Whale)
Unfortunately there will be no respectful funeral.
What is left is blood in the ocean.
Please no flowers.
Donations to Sea Shepherd,
who is actively involved in protecting marine wildlife,
will be appreciated.

Whale Weirdo, Amersfoort

Publication OCEAN WARRIOR-WACHTERS VAN DE BLAUWE WERELD

Published like a little sketch-pad, spiral bound, 64 pages, visual report of the Ocean Warrior, flagship of Sea Shepherd; 11 sketches, 35 black-and-white photographs and a story about the Legend of the Blue World (in Dutch). Forword by Captain Paul Watson.

Four A5 size children's books, 28 pages each, about a little boy and his adventure with dolphins, orca's, turtles and polar bears. Clearly 'handwritten' text on the left page and bright illustrations on the right page. Hard cover, thick paper quality, translation from Dutch.

Sam and the strange-thing-made-of-string
Sam and the black-and-white-creatures
Sam and the Isle of Poeke
Sam and the sleeping-snow-bank