Documentary: Anthony Powell: Antarctica: A Year on Ice (New Zealand, 2013) A documentary about a year working in Antarctica, this is one of the best Antarctic movies I’ve seen. The director Anthony Powell has worked on the continent for many years, and the movie reflects a deep understanding of the Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #124: Surviving Antarctica
Novel: Andrea White: Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (EOS, 2005) Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 is a young adult book about a group of kids participating in a reality TV show where they emulate Scott’s second, fatal Antarctic expedition. It’s an amazing failure of a book. It reads like a Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #123: Heart of Ice
Graphic novel: Alan Moore: Nemo: Heart of Ice (Top Shelf, 2013) Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen started with two volumes of relatively straightforward intertextual adventure stories before ascending into the realms of conceptual psychedelia. The spin-off Nemo stories, focusing on the daughter of the submarine captain, are a little Continue Reading
Photos from Halat hisar
The photographer Tuomas Puikkonen has published a set from our larp Halat hisar. More here.
Research Blog Antarctica #122: Ocean Enough and Time
Non-fiction: James Gorman: Ocean Enough and Time (HarperCollins Publishers, 1995) The pompously titled Ocean Enough and Time is actually an ok Antarctic book, another product of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s decision to take artists and writers to Antarctica. James Gorman is an editor and a journalist, but his writing Continue Reading
Kirjamessuilla perjantaina
Oon nyt perjantaina Helsingin kirjamessuilla kahteenkin otteeseen esillä. Ekaksi klo 11:00 Katri Vala -lavalla mahtavasti nimetyssä “Ruusuja, piiskaa ja homoseksiä” -keskustelussa: “Romantiikan ja erotiikan uudet alakulttuurit kirjallisuudessa: suomentaja Aulis Hård, esikoiskirjailija Juhana Pettersson (Into), novellisti Tarja Sipiläinen (Osuuskumma), kirjailija J. S. Meresmaa (Karisto).” Tokana Rosebudin osastolla klo 12:00, jossa mua Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #121: The Seeds of Doom
TV: Dr Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976) The Seeds of Doom is a six-episode storyline in the 13th season of the British tv series Dr Who. British scientists working at an Antarctic base discover strange, organic objects in the ice, and take them inside for study. They turn out Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #120: Eight Men in a Crate
Non-fiction: Anthea Arnold: Eight Men in a Crate (Erskine Press, 2007) Also a contender for the best title on an Antarctic book, Eight Men in a Crate is the story of a supporting party on the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955-1957. While expedition leader Vivian Fuchs and mountain climber Edmund Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #119: Ice Cores
Non-fiction: David Haden: Ice Cores (2011) Ice Cores is a collection of miscellaneous notes and ephemera about H.P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness. Billing itself as a collection of essays, it’s barely a book at all, and the essays are just a jumble of notes and suppositions regarding Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #118: Going to Antarctica
Non-fiction: Robert B. Yonaitis: Going to Antarctica (2012) Going to Antarctica is a travel story self-published on the Kindle. The American writer Robert B. Yonaitis goes on a cruise off the Antarctic coast, and in one sense the book is banal: we learn what happens every day of the trip, Continue Reading