May 30, 2008
Novel: Thomas Keneally: Victim of the Aurora (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich inc. 1978)
An Antarctic novel by the same guy who wrote the book the Spielberg movie Schindler’s List was based on. It’s a historical story about the fictional Stewart expedition before WWI, a murder mystery on the ice.
The big thing I wasn’t sure I understood was [...]
May 26, 2008
I’ve put up the documentation from my larp the Plastic Cup, played twice earlier this year. You can see the links to the material on the right sidebar. There’s an overview of the game, photos and written material distributed to the players, as well as PDF files both in English and in Finnish containing all [...]
May 25, 2008
That’s a quote from the Richard Kelly (of Donnie Darko fame) movie Southland Tales, which I recently saw. I really loved this movie, and here’s why:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Highlander, Justin Timberlake and the Rock, all in the same movie!
- With all the national security, weird science, military adventurism and porn stars turned reality [...]
May 22, 2008
Documentary: Morgan Mathews: Battleship Antarctica (U.K. 2007)
A documentary about the Greenpeace ship Esperanza and its crew on a mission to prevent Japanese whalers from doing what they do. It’s an interesting documentary hijacked by the events: the Japanese ship has an explosion onboard, and in the end the Esperanza offers assistance.
I like watching Antarctic documentaries [...]
This morning, I was talking about larp in an academic seminar called Research Methodologies: Embodiment - and the study of cultural and artistic practices, organized at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. The title of my presentation was Embodied Larp - Questions of embodied participation in the games ‘Luminescence’ and ‘the Plastic Cup’.
It’s always fun [...]
It only now occurred to me to see if there were any music videos from Messer Für Frau Muller, and there were…
May 20, 2008
Another video I made as a gift for my wife, also in Finnish.
Here’s a video I made as a gift for my wife, in Finnish…
May 18, 2008
Non-fiction: Robert Falcon Scott, edited by Max Jones: Journals - Scott’s Last Expedition (Oxford University Press, 2005)
This is one of the first books about Antarctica I got, but I’ve been putting off reading it because its very thick and because I don’t like Scott very much. The central story of his last expedition and death [...]
I’m not sure what this is, but take a look at the rest here
May 12, 2008
From the great Stuff White People Like blog, item #54: Kitchen Gadgets:
White people are under a lot of pressure to like cooking. Everything in their culture tells them that they need to have a nice kitchen and that they need to cook with organic, fresh ingredients to make delicious, complicated food.
Though any great chef can [...]