January 26, 2009
Documentary: Jonathan Renouf: The Lost World of Lake Vostok (U.K. 2000)
A documentary made for the British Horizon series of programs that began in 1964.
Lake Vostok is a vast body of water underneath central Antarctica. It derives its name from the Russian Vostok base built on the ice on top of it, often considered the most [...]
Documentary: Megastructures: South Pole Super Station (U.S.A. 2007)
This is an episode of the National Geographic Channel documentary series Megastructures, about huge construction projects. This time, the project is the new South Pole station that’ll replace the old geodesic dome.
Some of the old explorers would probably have a heart attack if they saw this. There’s an [...]
January 25, 2009
I think we all know what’s going on here.
via foto_decadent
Credits:
Vogue Paris February 2009
Lara Stone
Lara feat. Travis by Steven Klein
style by Marie Amelie Sauve
January 21, 2009
Some home truths about awards in advertising, courtesy of Maximilian Villivankk.
Directed by Jim Hosking
via Ectoplasmosis!
The nineteenth issue of Roolipelaaja, the roleplaying magazine I edit, is at the printers. It’s my tenth issue, and the first this year.
January 15, 2009
Non-fiction: David A. Kearns: Where Hell Freezes Over (Thomas Dunne Books, 2005)
During a U.S. Navy surveying operation in Antarctica soon after the end of WWII, an airplane crashes onto the coast. The survivors wait for two weeks before they’re rescued, all badly wounded except one.
It’s a dramatic story, but Kearns approaches it with incredible diligence. [...]
January 12, 2009
Here’s probably the best customer review on Amazon, of the self-help book The Secret.
Please allow me to share with you how “The Secret” changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of “The Secret” [...]
January 10, 2009
I saw the movie Repo! The Genetic Opera yesterday, and I gotta say, if you like goth dystopia, organ failure and musicals this is the film for you. It features a bizarre cast, from Sarah Brightman to Paris Hilton, from Anthony Stewart Head of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Nivek Ogre of Skinny Puppy.
January 3, 2009
I recently wrote a small piece about the Christian guitar game Guitar Praise for NYT-liite. While I was googling myself, I discovered that I’d been cited as a source in the Finnish language Wikipedia article about the game.
I also discovered that the Wikipedia article about the game was really impressive. Whoever wrote this put a [...]