Non-fiction: Alia Sorensen: Southern Exposure (AuthorHouse, 2005) Southern Exposure documents writer a year of Alia Sorensen’s working life on Antarctica in the early 2000’s. It’s not an ambitious book, and perhaps that’s its strength. Sorensen worked both a summer and a winter at McMurdo station in the kitchen. The book’s Continue Reading
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Roleplaying Game Movie Night #13: Peter Watkins
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. The British director Peter Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #12: Community, The IT Crowd, Full Battle Rattle, The Last of Sheila & Midnight Madness
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (Full Battle Rattle) Full Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #11: Cloak & Dagger
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (Cloak & Dagger) Cloak Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #10: Zero Charisma
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (The trailer for Zero Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #9: Eskapistit
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (The Eskapistit trailer.) Eskapistit Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #8: DragonStrike
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. (You can check out Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #130 – Whale Wars, Seasons 1 & 2
(Whale Wars) Tv series: Whale Wars: Seasons 1 & 2 (U.S.A., 2008-2009) Whale Wars is a documentary tv series about the campaigns the environmental organization The Sea Shepherds conducts in the Southern Ocean. They disrupt Japanese whaling operations by harassing them in various ways. In the first two seasons, we Continue Reading
Nordic Larp and American power
Last weekend, I was at the Nordic roleplaying and larp conference Knutpunkt in Sweden. Like always, it was a wonderful experience, showing how furiously the scene and the artform are progressing into new and exciting directions. Sometimes it feels like things are going so fast, you have to work hard Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #129 – Freeze ‘Em All
Freeze ‘Em All is a concert given by Metallica at the Argentinean Carlini base on 8.12.2013. It’s part of an attempt to make a record by playing a gig on all seven continents within a year. I’m an Antarctic geek and I like metal, but this doesn’t do much for Continue Reading