Using one of the beautiful paintings that Memuco made for the cover of my book, I created a flyer for my World Oceans Day table. Please share this on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks to attract as many people as you can to this awesome event. Unfortunately, the National Aquarium in Baltimore will not be able to host a table on July 6, so I will not be there on National Save the Vaquita Day. I look forward to possibly working with them in the future, though.
Memuco is, to put it mildly, awesome. He agreed to illustrate the cover of my book a while ago, and yesterday he sent me the finished products. He didn’t just do one, he did four. All four are the greatest Vaquita paintings I have ever seen. It was so hard to pick one for the cover, but I finally chose a beautiful painting of a mother and calf. But I will definitely use all of them for various purposes in the future. I don’t want to post them yet due to copyright reasons, but take my word for it that they are unbelievable. The book should be published by the end of the summer.
*Unfortunately, this is not available to everyone as I thought. It does not work exactly as I had originally figured. Instead, I will receive all of the shirts, I believe paying with my own money, and physically distribute it to the signers, having them pay me. Sorry to anyone who wanted to get one. This will only be available to members of the Muskwa Club because I can send all the shirts to William, and he can then pay me when he sells them to his club members. If you really want a shirt, contact me and we might be able to work it out. Updated 3/15/13, 10:33 E.T.
I believe William Whittenbury and the Muskwa Club have what I like to call, “Vaquita Syndrome,” a disorder where you constantly form ideas to help the Vaquita, and end up with so many that you don’t know if you can do them all. But so far, they’ve been doing everything they planned and have done a great job doing it. One idea they had was to sell my t-shirt from Custom Ink. I thought about it, and remembered Custom Ink’s signup sheet feature. I set it up, and now anyone can buy the t-shirt! All you have to do is go to this link: http://www.customink.com/signup/2nvhf7s2 and fill out your name, size, quantity, shipping information, and payment information. The price should be cheaper than $20 due to it being a bulk order, when I order them all, everyone that ordered one should get one at their door. This is how I think and hope it works, and if you have any problems, please let me know immediately in the comments. Remember, the deadline is May 1st 2013.
I would also like to mention that amazing artist Memuco has agreed to illustrate my book’s cover! Thanks!
I believe William Whittenbury and the Muskwa Club have what I like to call, “Vaquita Syndrome,” a disorder where you constantly form ideas to help the Vaquita, and end up with so many that you don’t know if you can do them all. But so far, they’ve been doing everything they planned and have done a great job doing it. One idea they had was to sell my t-shirt from Custom Ink. I thought about it, and remembered Custom Ink’s signup sheet feature. I set it up, and now anyone can buy the t-shirt! All you have to do is go to this link: http://www.customink.com/signup/2nvhf7s2 and fill out your name, size, quantity, shipping information, and payment information. The price should be cheaper than $20 due to it being a bulk order, when I order them all, everyone that ordered one should get one at their door. This is how I think and hope it works, and if you have any problems, please let me know immediately in the comments. Remember, the deadline is May 1st 2013.
I would also like to mention that amazing artist Memuco has agreed to illustrate my book’s cover! Thanks!
I want to give a huge tribute to the amazing Mexican artist Memuco. His beautiful work has raised much awareness and money for the Vaquita over the last few years. His art is absolutely amazing. Please look him up or search him on this blog to see some of the things he has done. He has also been very kind to me, even volunteering to illustrate part of my chapter book!
I would also like to thank the awesome people at ¡Viva Vaquita!, Cetos, Save the Whales!, CEDO, the American Cetacean Society Monterey Bay Chapter, WWF, earthOCEAN, NOAA, and many more that I forgot the names of for working so hard to protect this amazing creature and for answering all of my questions.
I would finally like to thank Dr. Tom Jefferson for replying to every email I have sent him since I was ten. I remember when I used to send him about 5 emails a day. I have no idea how he stayed so patient with me. 
He has always been my #1 resource on Vaquita info.
All of these people and organizations have played a huge part in inspiring me to do this blog and all of the other stuff that I’ve done over the last 3 years. I feel like I know all of these people so personally, yet I have never met any one of them. One day I hope to meet you awesome humans.
Another beautiful Vaquita painting by Memuco, again featuring his special character, the Silent One. His work will be on display from September 22 to October 14 at an exhibition, http://iam8bit.com/the-gallery/the-silent-one/. If you are in the LA area during that time, be sure to pay all due respect to our favorite artist!
A very interesting painting by Memuco. Oil on cardboard.
“Their Last Talk”
Yet another poster (in Spanish) about the Vaquita. I believe it is by Memuco.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=314096898659503&set=p.314096898659503&type=1&ref=nf
Here is another amazing poster from Memuco: http://visual.ly/unnatural-disasters. It really puts into perspective how endangered the Vaquita really is. The poster also features the Baiji (previous post) and the Yangtze River Finless Porpoise with a lot of information on each cetacean.
