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Research Blog Antarctica #119: Ice Cores

Posted on 24.8.2013 by juhana

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

Posted on 13.8.2013 by juhana

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

Juhana Ropeconissa

Posted on 22.7.2013 by juhana

Vuosittainen roolipelitapahtuma Ropecon järjestetään Espoossa Dipolissa 26.-28.7. Tässä ne ohjelmanumerot, jotka liittyvät tavalla tai toisella minuun: Larp in Palestine Pe 19:00 – 20:00, Klondyke Englanninkielinen esitelmä, järjestetään osana Halat hisar -larppiprojektia, jossa olen mukana tuottajana. Tässä esitelmän kuvaus Ropeconin saitilta: Larp came to Palestine in 2012 thanks to the efforts Continue Reading

Research Blog Antarctica #117: The Third Reich in Antarctica

Posted on 3.7.2013 by juhana

Non-fiction: Cornelia Lüdecke & Colin Summerhayes: The Third Reich in Antarctica (Erskine Press, 2012) The German Antarctic expedition of 1938-39 is famous for being the “Nazi Expedition”. This book goes through the voyage of the expedition ship Schwabenland in academic style, with plenty of pictures and illustrations. The tone of Continue Reading

Halat hisar – State of Siege – Piiritystila

Posted on 27.5.2013 by juhana

(Picture: Joel Sammallahti) Halat hisar (State of Siege in English, Piiritystila in Finnish) is the name of a larp project I’m part of, bringing Palestinian larp to Finland. The game is set in an alternate world where Finland is under occupation and people have to live their daily lives under Continue Reading

New knudebook out on the net

Posted on 26.4.2013 by juhana

The annual Nordic roleplaying event Knutepunkt was held in Norway this year, and with it came the book, called Crossing Borders. It’s divded into four parts, three of which are available on the net as free PDFs. My article is about my experiences in the first larp in Palestine.