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Monthly Archive December, 2008

Antarctic Research Blog #84 - With Byrd at the South Pole

December 30, 2008

Documentary: With Byrd at the South Pole (U.S.A. 1930)
This is a documentary shot during Richard Byrd’s First Antarctic Expedition, 1928-1930. Of the early Antarctic documentaries, this has the best images in the sense that the cameramen were able to shoot more than before, although they were not as artistically accomplished as Frank Hurley or Herbert [...]

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December 29, 2008

Here’s a song to commemorate world finance:

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Murmeli pitää lupauksensa (The Marmot keeps his promise)

December 28, 2008

Murmeli pitää lupauksensa (The Marmot keeps his promise)

02:00, photo composite, 2008
I made this short as a Christmas present for my wife.

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Lautapeleistä Hesariin

December 27, 2008

Kirjoitin lautapeleistä Helsingin Sanomiin artikkelikokonaisuuden, joka julkaistiin 19.12.2008.
Pääjuttu käsitteli pelisuunnittelija Kimmo Sorsamoa ja hänen julkaisematonta peliään Maximus.
Vieressä oli boksi suomalaisen pelijulkaisun klassikoista.
Lisäksi mukana oli arvostelut kolmesta kotimaisesta pelistä, Zanziarista, Bilekuosista ja The Clubista.

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Antarctic Research Blog #83 - The Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica

December 22, 2008

John Calvin Batchelor: the Birth of the People’s Republic of Antarctica (The Dial Press, 1983)
This is one of the strangest Antarctic novels I’ve yet to read. It’s about the son of an American draft dodger and a Swedish witch, called Grim Fiddle. It begins in Sweden, soon the stage for medieval-religious race riots which force [...]

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I, a Muse

December 19, 2008

I recently wrote an article for City with Maria Pettersson about pheromones you can buy in sex shops. I just found out that a website called paivanbiisi.com has recorded a song about our article.
This is the first time anything I’ve written or made has been inspiration for song.

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Kurdielokuva

December 15, 2008

Tein Kumppani-lehteen haastattelujutun kurdiohjaaja Bahman Ghobadista. Ylläoleva kuva on jutusta, ja ihan itse ottamani! Itse juttu on myös verkossa.

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Videopeliarvosteluja

Tän päivän Hesarissa on peräti kolme mun tekemää videopeliarvostelua. Mukana on isompi juttu Fallout 3:sta (josta ylläoleva kuva on peräisin) ja joukko miniarvosteluja, joista Fable II ja LittleBigPlanet on mun aikaansaannosta ja Mirror’s Edge ja Dead Space Jussi Ahlrothin käsialaa.

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Abandoned Antarctica

The web publication Dark Roasted Blend has an article about photos of abandoned places in Antarctica.
These are from Deception Island:

These are from the island of South Georgia, long a base for whaling operations:

via Ectoplasmosis!

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Shantel - Disko Boy

December 2, 2008

Here’s disco you can believe in:

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