LadyBug Adventures at Mawson’s Hut
Yesterday (Thurs 3rd) I manhauled a sled over to the Main Hut (truly in the manner of the early explorers…) carrying the LadyBug camera, a laptop, several other digital cameras, survival kit and so...
Summer Solstice Party & Name-Our-Rap-Group Competition!!!
To celebrate the summer solstice – that is, the longest day and shortest night (not that it makes any difference here as the sun never sets) – we all got dressed up in our best summer...
Jubilee Base Extensions!
Our intrepid builder-architects, Pete McCabe and Jon Tucker, have wrestled with the Beast (the Cobra Rock Drill) and, with amazing rapidity, built the infrastructure for the new Base base – or the Base base...
“Spirit of Enderby” visits Mawson’s Huts
Today we had a delightful visit from the Spirit of Enderby – a ship chartered by the New Zealand company Heritage Expeditions, carrying some 60 passengers and crew, who met 8 keen-for-a-shower Mawson’s Huts...
Inside Mawson’s Huts
With my heart in my throat, I stepped inside Mawson’s Hut today – the odour of damp wood and time in one’s breath, a strange expansion of space as the interior seemed so large...
Day 2 Thoughts & Opening the Hut (almost)
There’s so much to describe here – it is the most amazingly beautiful place. A few kilometers of bare mid-grey gneissic rock jutting out to sea, rising to a few low hills of shattered...
Rough Seas in the Furious Fifties
Here’s a panorama I shot from the deck above the helipad, the evening before last. The seas were rising and picked up to a 5-6 metre swell – meaning a very uncomfortable night not...
First Day on the High Seas
The day has been bright blue and warm in the sun, as L’Astrolabe passed 47º21S 146º21E (according to my new GPS unit), but starting to get chilly as the evening sets in. I spent...
Tuesday Morning
Apparently it was a Tuesday morning when they woke up and realised the world had ended. She rolled over next to him and asked “can you see anything out the window?” “Ummm..I don’t think...
Voyage of the Vasiliy Golovnin Ep.5
Episode 5. January 22 2006. 10th day at sea. The Vasiliy Golovnin is almost brought to a standstill in the pack ice – which extends in all directions – the most magnificent vista. Penguins,...
Voyage of the Vasiliy Golovnin Ep.4
Episode 4. January 21 2006. 9th day en route to Casey Station, across the Southern Ocean. The sea calmed more and more, and sleet began to fall, until an eerie stillness settled upon the...
Voyage of the Vasiliy Golovnin Ep.3 (2006)
8th day en route to Casey Station, across the Southern Ocean. The seas had calmed down a lot, after a few wild days. People were up from their bunks and beginning to mingle and...
Voyage of the Vasiliy Golovnin Ep.2 (2006)
Episode 2. January 13-15 2006. The Southern Ocean en route to Casey Station. This was my first ever experience of the deep ocean – where what at first-hand seemed like a huge ship became...
Voyage of the Vasiliy Golovnin (2006) Ep.1
A videoblog of the Voyage of the Vasiliy Golovnin on a continental resupply of the three main Australian Bases, Casey, Davis & Mawson in 2006. I was fortunate to receive the Australian Antarctic Arts...
Kurzfilme von Peter Morse (Australien). Parkhaus Gallery, Berlin (1999).
Kurzfilme von Peter Morse (Australien) ‘The Horla’ – 30min. Farbe, VHS. (1994)Eine Multimedia – Oper basierend auf der Kurzgeschichte von Guy de Maupassant, welche als eine Metapher für Krankheit und Wahnsinn untersucht wird. In...
Microscope Phakomètre/ Epanaphorascope Phlatergometre
MESH#8/9 Autumn/Winter 1996 ‘Robotica Special Issue’. MESH film/video/multimedia/art is the journal of Experimenta Media Arts Microscope Phakomètre/ Epanaphoroscope Phlatergometre(1) `….A piece many years in doing, and now newly performed by that rare Italian master,...