Ice Blink

Go and see Ice Blink at Cell: it's brilliant (you have until the 30th so hurry!). Simon Faithfull made a two month 'epic' visit to the Antarctic with the British Antarctic and documented the journey. The drawings made on a Palm Pilot are really nice and lo-fi and were emailed to subscribers with the geo-tagged coordinates of where they were drawn. The video's installled in the storage containers do an excellent job of conveying something of the disorientating nature of the environment. Walking down the steps between them was like being on deck of a ship with the constant humming coming from within.

Layla Curtis is doing a similar thing at the moment but she also has a much nicer website - very slickly executed but beware... major flashification if you don't have broadband!

Maybe signature Antarctic pieces are the new Neon pieces in the artworld?

The Guardian has more pictures of his voyage here. Apparently he is the half-cousin of Marianne Faithfull as well, which is quite rock.

The only problem is that when you go up Cambridge Heath Road on a Sunday afternoon there is absolutely nowhere to have a little something to eat around there afterwards. And don't say Broadway Market or The Approach because I didn't fancy a bankruptingly small portion of well-arranged frites. Just a nice cup of tea and place to sit down for a think would have sufficed.

Update: Everyones's at it. Antarctica's the new global adventurer's South America... or something...