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"Surfing Charybdis" by Thomas M Butler

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SciFi and Fantasy Art Surfing Charybdis by Thomas M Butler

I was having fun with some Photoshop effects when I came up with the whirl pool. I added a surfer from a picture I took of a friend's trophy. (Given to him by his wife, Jim wiped out in grand style while on his Honeymoon and lost his trunks, hence the nude surfer award for most creative dismount.) I think the actual statue she found is from the comic book character Silver Surfer. OK, a guy surfing a whirlpool, it needed something and since I've been told I don't have enough monsters here I added Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla was the many headed monster who snatched Odysseus's men as he tried to pass the whirlpool Charybdis also a monster, Charybdis was originally a sea nymph the daughter of Poseidon and Gia who was changed into a whirlpool by Zeus after flooding cities to create Posieden's underwater kingdom. (that explains the eye in the center of the whirlpool) In the story Odysseus's ship was destroyed nothing remained except the mast and the keel. I suppose I'd have a temper also if someone had turned me into a whirlpool. No story to go with the picture I'm afraid. Photoshop and Illustrator (the monster)

Date	Name	Comment
28 Mar 2006	Allareine	Loading... I like the eye and the actions it worcks really good together
26 Nov 2006	GuesssWho	Loading... Poor old girls . . . I'm very fond of Scylla and Charybdis
9 Feb 2008	Marie Aggerbeck	Loading... cool I love photoshop
11 Jun 2010	Nigel Tetsutaro Cheung	Loading... Surf’s up, dudes, and Scylla & Charybdis’ down! The idea was great and the effects are cool, but according to the original myth, Scylla was never coincide with Charybdis, so...