I’m on a study project to improve my understanding of roleplaying games. To this end, I already have two reading projects, A Game Per Year and An Adventure Per Year. This is the third, with the goal of reading or playing 52 games made in the last few years. Originally I considered making Continue Reading
Movies
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #31: Scourge of Worlds
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Scourge of Worlds is Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #161 – Quick Before It Melts (the movie)
Film: Delbert Mann: Quick Before It Melts (U.S.A. 1964) This is the film adaptation of the novel Quick, Before It Melts. It’s a comedy about an American reporter sent to the Antarctic to find stories about oil, gold or Russian perfidy. Much of the story is built around the sexual Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #160 – Antarctic Edge: 70 South
Documentary: Dena Seidel: Antarctic Edge: 70 South (U.S.A. 2015) This is a documentary about marine life in the Southern Ocean and the work of scientists on ships and islands on the Antarctic coast. Underlying the narrative is the effect of global warming on all aspects of Antarctic life, from krill Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #159 – the Icebreaker
Film: Nikolay Khomeriki: The Icebreaker (Russia, 2016) The Icebreaker is a movie about a Russian ship picking up scientists from Antarctica. As it leaves the continent, it becomes mired in the ice in the Ross Sea. Tensions arise as the captain is replaced by the Soviet government and the crew Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #155 – The Antarctica Challenge
Documentary: Mark Terry: The Antarctica Challenge (Canada, 2009) The Antarctica Challenge is a Canadian documentary about what’s happening in Antarctica in terms of climate change. It explains the effects of the changing temperatures on animal life, glaciers, and the planet as a whole. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #25: LARP
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Larp is a Polish Continue Reading
2015 in works that made me feel something
In retrospect, one of the best things about being fifteen or sixteen was the way you’d see a movie and your mind would be blown by the sheer awesomeness of it all. You hadn’t seen so many things, so everything appeared new. It was wonderful to experience all these ideas Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #139 – Ice and the Sky
Documentary: Luc Jacquet: Ice and the Sky (France, 2015) Luc Jacquet is the director of the movie March of the Penguins, so this is not his first time with an Antarctic subject. Ice and the Sky is a documentary about the career of the French glaciologist Claude Lorius and also Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #22: The Battle of Orgreave
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. The Battle of Orgreave, Continue Reading