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You’ll be glad to learn that I received my first commission as a professional photographer last week.  After submitting a selection of my best photos to the station management, I was chosen from the on-site population, along with two other gifted photographers, to take part in the annual Aerial Photographic Survey Mission.  They conduct the [...]

The South Pole International Film Festival, or SPIFF, is a annual tradition here at the Pole.  The videos are filmed, produced and submitted by members of the station. There are funny ones, serious ones, and insightful ones, but owing to our isolation and growing mental instability, they all tend to have a degree of craziness [...]

Here at the South Pole we are in a bit of a pickle as far as time goes.  I’m not talking about the passage of time- it doesn’t go any faster or slower here, and our manager certainly finds plenty of it during the day to make us work- no, what I am talking about [...]