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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Great Wave

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For centuries, sailors have told stories of mountainous killer waves that rise out of the ocean without warning. Join Robert and Joe for a discussion of the history and science of rogue waves.

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1:35.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio's House of Works.

1:47.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick.

1:51.0

I want to kick off this episode by talking about a piece of art. And it's a piece of art that I imagine a lot of you have seen.

1:59.0

And if you haven't seen it, you're not driving a vehicle or anything right now, you can easily look it up and you can certainly find it for the landing page for this episode at Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

2:08.0

It is a Japanese print. It is a title of the Great Wave of Kanagawa and it's a 19th century Edo period woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai.

2:22.0

And it depicts a great wave, endangering ships off the coast of Kanagawa. And it was once thought to depict a tsunami. But now most commentators think that it actually depicts a rogue wave.

2:36.0

Now the artist here, he explored the subject matter many times in his career. So if you look at other images he created, there are plenty of other waves.

2:45.0

But this particular print is considered the peak, the culmination of 60 years in the arts. And since it's a woodblock print and not a painting, you can actually find it in numerous museums around the world, thus increasing the odds that you have seen this image, if not online, and perhaps in person.

3:02.0

But I think one of the great things about it is that it captures a sense of the majesty of a great wave. The idea that it's, there's like a topography of the ocean visible, the ocean surface visible in this picture that reminds us that a wave can be a mountain.

3:21.0

Well, yeah, and the wave in the woodblock even, what do you call it, a printer or a painting when it's the painting, whatever it is. On this image, the wave resembles the mountain in the background and the mountain in the background has sort of a blue gray slope and then the white peak, of course covered in snow.

3:39.0

The waves are much like that with these the white surging foam at the top, but in the painting, the foam has these like hooks that almost look like Eagles talons reaching out of the top of the swall of water.

3:52.0

And there's there's a way that I at least often looked at this painting without even realizing there were supposed to be boats represented at the bottom.

3:59.0

Yeah, it's kind of easy to miss the boats.

4:01.0

They're swallowed up by what's going on all around. It's a beautiful piece of art.

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