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Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008

  Cabin gigs

In our cabin/studio/temporary home onboard the Grigory Mikheev as we head south for Kangerlussuaq. Photo: Nathan Gallagher ... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2008

  Justifying bad behaviour - now with video

Click here to view the embedded video. An MPEG 4 version of this clip is also available to download . This morning I walked across the fresh snow with a gas cylinder in my arms, containing 6kg of CO2. I took it across the unspoiled snow field of the Jakobshavns fiord until I found what,...... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2008

  Polar bear beating

It’s an iceberg. I’m telling you it is” said a normally sedate Marcus Brigstocke. “it is not!” frowned Sunand Prasad , head of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Sunand marched away back to the ship. “it is though” muttered Marcus. A few miles away Vicky and Hannah...... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2008

  The Inuit children’s home

Lemn Sissay in the Inuit children's home. Photo: Nathan Gallagher. It’s 11am, the ship travelled through night storms and in morning we arrive at Uumannaq, the home of our guide Ludwig . It’s spring in Uumannaq, in winter it’s dark for two whole months and...... [view]

Posted By:  oyinda
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2008

  Poetry International 2008

Friday 24 October 2008 - Saturday 1 November 2008 Southbank Centre Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Poetry International 2008 is about freedom. It celebrates poetry’s enduring ability to transcend doctrine, spin and censorship, to confirm, in John Berger’s words that ‘in the...... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008

  The Iceberg Dawn

The Ship is in pitch darkness  now.  The engine is turning over gently. Many of the crew are in their quarters.  The captain is upon the bridge and the anchor is far below,   in the beneath world, holding us tightly onto this one. At the foot of Ilulissat Kangia (Danish name -...... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008

  Things Disappear

Listening to radio an interviewer ask their interviewee  “describe the experience for the listener”.  Description is all the listener needs, imagination does the rest.  “well…” come’s the reply  “its just too beautiful for words”.  The answer...... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2008

  David Noble’s inflight photo booth

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Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Sep 26, 2008

  Greenland and the ship at last

You are not currently connected to any networks.  My remote wireless connection won’t work because I am somewhere too remote. A backbone of water  slithers behind the ship as it bows  out of the fjord from Greenland. To each side  great warriors made of rock,  protectors of...... [view]

Posted By:  capefarewell
Posted On:  Sep 26, 2008

  Consequences

I am travelling through the sea at night and I am not sure which sea it is. I am in the Arctic, so it could be the Arctic sea.    I have travelled across the world to be here but I am not sure which countries I have passed.  I have no idea which hemisphere I am in. I think I am in the...... [view]

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