I recently wrote an article for City with Maria Pettersson about pheromones you can buy in sex shops. I just found out that a website called paivanbiisi.com has recorded a song about our article. This is the first time anything I’ve written or made has been inspiration for song.
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Kurdielokuva
Tein Kumppani-lehteen haastattelujutun kurdiohjaaja Bahman Ghobadista. Ylläoleva kuva on jutusta, ja ihan itse ottamani! Itse juttu on myös verkossa.
Videopeliarvosteluja
Tän päivän Hesarissa on peräti kolme mun tekemää videopeliarvostelua. Mukana on isompi juttu Fallout 3:sta (josta ylläoleva kuva on peräisin) ja joukko miniarvosteluja, joista Fable II ja LittleBigPlanet on mun aikaansaannosta ja Mirror’s Edge ja Dead Space Jussi Ahlrothin käsialaa.
Abandoned Antarctica
The web publication Dark Roasted Blend has an article about photos of abandoned places in Antarctica. These are from Deception Island: These are from the island of South Georgia, long a base for whaling operations: via Ectoplasmosis!
Antarctic Research Blog #82 – Retrograde
Film: Christopher Kulikowski: Retrograde (Luxembourg, Italy, U.K. U.S.A. 2004) Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space is not the worst movie in the world. The worst movies are like this Dolph Lundgren late career vehicle, cheap, pointless and soulless things with no personality whatsoever. Retrograde’s Antarctic elements are surprisingly accurate, Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #81 – Alone
Non-fiction: Richard E. Byrd: Alone (Island Press, 1938/2003) This was one of the last Antarctic classics I had yet to read, an account of Admiral Byrd’s stay alone in 1934 at the Advance Base weather station. Staying alone through the Antarctic winter proved to be hazardous, and most of the Continue Reading
Race in D&D
The way race is treated in Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy stuff becomes harder to swallow as I get older. Even when I played the game as a kid, I had trouble with the orcs and goblins because there was just no real world equivalent to the idea of Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #80 – At the Mountains of Madness radio play
Audio play: Sean Branney with Andrew Leman: Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, 2006) Last entry was my first Antarctic video game, and now’s the first Antarctic audio play. This is a radio version of Lovecraft’s story At the Continue Reading
Roolipelaaja 18 is at the printers!
Issue 18 of the roleplaying magazine I edit, Roolipelaaja, is at the printers. Here’s the cover:
Antarctic Research Blog #79 – LittleBigPlanet
Video game: LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule, 2008) LittleBigPlanet is a game in which a little critter (pictured above) runs around complex levels. The selling point of the game is that users can create their own levels, which are then shared on the game’s network. A number of these user-created levels are Continue Reading