August 27th, 2010
Jim Toomey and Sherman the Shark
Jim Toomey’s comic strip Sherman’s Lagoon has been going for about 15 years and appears in over 150 newspapers in North America but to raise awareness about the awful practice of shark finning he had to kill off his main character to make a point! Have a look at his TED talk below (concentrate from 11 minutes in)… it’s fantastic.
Imagine you’re in an enormous room and it’s dark as a cave, and you can have anything in that room, anything you want, but you can’t see anything. You’ve been given one tool – a hammer. So you wander around in the darkness and you bump into something and it feels like it’s made of stone. It’s big, it’s heavy, you can’t carry it away so you bang it with your hammer and you break off a piece and take the piece out into the daylight and you see you have a beautiful piece of white alabaster. (more…)










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