Talk:Oyster pirate

Suggest merging into Jack London article
This article says at the beginning that the term is virtually never heard except relating to Jack London. I searched Google for +"oyster pirate" and got 10,600 results. I then searched for +"oyster pirate" -"Jack London" and got 552 results. A lot of those include the term John Barleycorn so I searched for +"oyster pirate" -"Jack London" -"John Barleycorn" and got 446 results. Many of those are either random phrases or company names that have nothing to do with this definition.

If this topic is so tied to Jack London, it probably doesn't deserve a separate article. Obviously, it doesn't take a genius to understand that "oyster pirate" has something to do with stealing oysters. Anyone who needs more information will probably want to see the Jack London article anyway. Probably a redirect page would be adequate. Just because an obscure term exists doesn't mean it deserves a separate article.


 * I have no strong feelings one way or the other. There were also Chesapeake Bay "oyster pirates" but I haven't bothered to try to find out much about them. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:47, 2 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't really care either way. But I think it would muddy up the Jack london article. If you want me to I will research oyster pirates and try to make a legitamite standalone article.


 * I think I'd object because it apparently is something that existed outside of Jack London's life. That it's not of interest to anyone today, except for connection to London, is worth mentioning but I don't think really decides anything. Oddly I think I'd favor delete over merger.--T. Anthony 04:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree, an article on real oyster pirates would be very helpful. just because it isn't relevant today, doesn't make it not notable. There are lots of articles like that. Then a Jack London note could be added to the article. 12.220.94.199 02:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Given that oyster piracy is part of history and not just literature and that it provides an interesting glimpse at competition and the affect the transcontinental railroad had on one portion of a local economoy, I think this topic deserves its own article. Lastly, a Google search isn’t (yet) definitive. I suspect period newspapers not yet indexed by Google covered this topioc periodically. Rklawton 18:34, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

needs work
This page needs a lot of work... --LivingMusical (talk) 23:52, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

"The public disliked the Southern Pacific" yet there is no mention of the Southern Pacific prior to this. This term must be introduced before the public's dislike of it has context. --/mjp (talk) 02:04, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Fine art collaborative
I'm moving this here for discussion, because this material contains no references or citations that show that this collaborative is important or that confirm the accuracy of the information supplied. If this group has been covered, say, by articles in the San Francisco Chronicle, in my opinion that would meet Wikipedia's Reliable source guidelines. Please do not reinsert without references. Oyster.Pirates.are.a.Fine.Art.Collaberation.that.spontaniously.popped.up.on.the.birth.place.of.Jack.London.The Vehicles of Emancipation collection of collaborative paintings by The Oyster Pirate Workshop of seven artists opens with a reception for the artists on Thursday December 4, 7-10pm, and will remain on display through January 10, 2009.

The Oyster Pirates are James Lichnovsky, Joel Mejia, Michael Page, Christian Rothenhagen, Shawn Webber, Jason Wheatley, and Sri Zeno Whipple. Brought together by a long relationship of mutual artistic drive and criticism, The Oyster Pirate Workshop pulls the pearl out of the oyster for each individual artist, celebrating the best of each in single harmonious works of art.

With the exception of one European and one out-of-state artist, the Oyster Pirates live and work in San Francisco. Berlin-based Christian Rothenhagen focuses his drawings, paintings and illustrations on the architecture of his beloved city. Raised in Utah where his studio remains, Sri Zeno Whipple combines his love of the masters with comic book art and animation to create bold and fluid hypersexual masterworks which would taste like ginger cookies if you could eat them. Jason Wheatley mixes impeccable brushwork with Oriental motifs and Audubon-quality fantastic tableaux, using electric color and painterly gestures. Tending toward non-representation in his own artwork, James Lichnovsky nevertheless carries with him a background as prop-master and painter for film and a sculptor for the likes of Disney, Warner Bros., and Mattel. Michael Page returns to Varnish as an Oyster Pirate with his increasingly complex, outer-worldly, narrative oil paintings, adding yet another dimension through collaboration to his international career as an artist. Informed by years of sculpting before a return to 2-dimensions and the inspiration of fellow painters/pirates, Shawn Webber allows the paint to direct his representational work. Reminiscent of days-gone-by carnival troupe theatrics, The Oyster Pirate collaboration presents a unified series of easy intensity.

No charge.