Film: John Sturges: Ice Station Zebra (U.S.A. 1968) A Cold War thriller about a secret mission to the North Pole on a nuclear submarine. The underwater imagery of the sub is cool, and it looks like a big budget production for its time. Unfortunately, it feels like the people who Continue Reading
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Pieneläinbändi
Pieneläinbändi (Small Animal Band, 02:14, photo composite, 2007)
Murmelin joulutervehdys
Murmelin joulutervehdys (Marmot’s Christmas Greeting, 00:24, photo composite, 2007)
Tämän päivän nuoret roolipelaajat
Olimme äskettäin Saksassa roolipelitapahtuma MittelPunktissa. Mike pisti blogiinsa reissusta kuvan: (Photo: J. Tuomas Harviainen, 2008) Vasemmalla minä.
Roolipelaaja 13 ilmestyy 31.1.2008
Research Blog Antarctica #52 – Varatohtori Virta Pohjoisnavalla
Fiction: Mikko Lensu: Varatohtori Virta Pohjoisnavalla (Teos, 2005) A children’s book about an expedition through the polar sea. The author makes an effort towards whimsy, but his style doesn’t really stretch that far. It reads like someone in the natural sciences trying to be lighthearted and failing. On the upside, Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #51 – Ice Reich
Fiction: William Dietrich: Ice Reich (Warner Books 1998) A competent thriller / love story set during the second World War, Ice Reich takes as its starting point the historical Nazi Antarctic expedition. Dietrich has chosen to discard all historical detail except the name of the expedition ship, Schwabenland. It may Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #50
Poetry: Chris Orsman: South (1996/1999, Faber and Faber) A New Zealand poet, Orsman travelled to Antarctica in 1998. He has a tenuous (but funny) family connection to Robert Falcon Scott, and this poetry collection is about Scott’s ill-fated expedition to be the first to the South Pole. The poems never Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #49
Non-fiction: Robin Burns: Just Tell Them I Survived! – Women in Antarctica (Allen & Unwin, 2001) A scholarly book about the experiences of women at Antarctica. The author is Australian, and the focus of the book is on the experiences of Australian women within the Australian Antarctic program. This is Continue Reading
Marital Bliss
I’m now a married man. The ceremony took place in Las Vegas, NE, on the 7th of July. It was witnessed by two Elvises and a pink Cadillac. The bride and now my wife is Maria Pitkänen. America: