Photo book: Paul Nicklen: Polar Obsession (National Geographic, 2009) Polar Obsession is a collection of photos of the polar regions from National Geographic nature photographer Paul Nicklen’s career. The most impressive thing about Nicklen’s images is the feeling of action, life, even violence they evoke. His images are not mere Continue Reading
Antarctica
Research Blog Antarctica #92 – The Antarctic Express
Children’s book: Kenneth Hite & Christina Rodriguez: Antarctic Express (Atlas Games, 2009) Ken Hite’s Antarctic Express sounds like a joke: it’s a children’s picture book version of H.P. Lovecraft’s Antarctic tale At the Mountains of Madness. Surprisingly, it’s pretty good, probably because it feels like it’s been done in all Continue Reading
First Soviet Antarctic Expedition
English Russia has photos from the first Soviet Antarctic expedition, in 1955. Here’s a link to the original source.
J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews Ikuisuuden laakso
Game designer and academician J. Tuomas Harviainen reviews my game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) in his blog: … Compared to, say, Itras By or Stalker, it is a very simple game, almost a Forge-like one trick pony. Yet it does do its own thing really well, and it Continue Reading
Spore penguin
The antipenguins of my roleplaying game Ikuisuuden laakso (The Valley of Eternity) exist as Spore creatures, courtesy of user Tullius. Check it out:
Ikuisuuden laakso ja Itran kaupunki
Pohjoismaisen roolipelaamisen seura ry julkaisee tämän vuoden Ropeconissa kaksi roolipeliä. Toinen on norjasta käännetty surrealistinen peli nimeltä Itran kaupunki ja toinen on oma pingviiniaiheinen esikoispelini Ikuisuuden laakso. Ikuisuuden laakso on paikka, jonne pingviinit tulevat kuolemaan. Etelämantereen loputon jäätikkö on armoton vihollinen. Siellä selviävät vain rohkeimmat pingviinisankarit ja katalimmat antipingviinit. Pingviinisankari Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #91 – This Everlasting Silence
Non-fiction: ed. Nancy Robinson Flannery: This Everlasting Silence – The love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson 1911-1914 (Melbourne University Press, 2000) The Australian Douglas Mawson is an Antarctic explorer contemporary with his more famous colleagues Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott and Ernst Shackleton. He’s less known because he Continue Reading
Vintage Antarctic Photos
A friend sent me the link to this, a gallery of historical polar images called Freeze Frame. It’s maintained by the British Scott Polar Research Institute. There’s a lot of interesting stuff there, from photos almost a hundred years old to very recent stuff, like the one above.
Antarctic Research Blog #90 – Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Roleplaying game supplement: Charles and Janyce Engan: Beyond the Mountains of Madness (Chaosium inc. 1999) Beyond the Mountains of Madness is a Thirties campaign adventure published for the Call of Ctulhu roleplaying game. Some of the best roleplaying adventures ever made have been published for the Call of Cthulhu game, Continue Reading
Russian Antarctic Photos
English Russia has some great photographs from a Russian Antarctic base, by Anton Chekalin: