Showing posts with label Antarctica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antarctica. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2018

Antarctica Window Art

While perusing the National Science Foundation homepage, I discovered this post on window art at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The austral days are changing into nights and window covers are necessary to prevent the lights inside the station from interfering with the scientific research taking place outdoors.

From their website: "To make life a bit more interesting, members of the community spending the winter at the Pole, monitoring scientific equipment or maintaining the station itself, decorated some of the window covers and a window-cover-design-contest was organized by the station manager as a morale booster."

Most all the images were labeled anonymous except for Joshua Blatell's Geodesic Figure three images below.


I am researching the cartography of Antarctica, specifically atypical maps of the Southernmost continent, and am drawn to the one above. However, I love the escapism present in the ones below.






It's hard not to feel claustrophobic once one realizes they are inserted or duct taped into all the windows. I, too, would be having visions of the Great Barrier Reef if based on the South Pole in the middle of winter.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Antarctica


Herbert Ponting, Terra Nova, 1911-1912

OR



OR stand in the middle of an Antarctic storm at the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. The "chill room" is -25 degrees and windy. July 2005.



OR don a helmet and listen to freezing pellets of ice bounce off the snow (and your head) in the front yard (the poor remnants of the snow cakes are in the foreground). Imagine a man walking by here wearing shorts just a few hours before.