No photos this week (I forgot my cable) so instead I've got another spoof trailer of the ice climbing we did today. Its the return of Nige this time in one called "Big Climb" short and sweet!
Hopefully I will be able to get some interview footage to go with this at a later date...if anyone has any questions please let me know and I will include them in the interview. Anyway...for now this is the next trailer :-)Sunday, 30 January 2011
Sunday, 23 January 2011
SHARE- A true Story
After last weeks spoof trailer "Big Lift" here's another, this time capturing the weeks work building the SHARE array.
Thanks to Kirk Watson for the GoPro footage, I got to get myself one of those cameras. Thanks also to all the guys for their efforts this week...good skills all-round :-)The Building of the Share Array
Photo 2: Fixing the antennae together.
Photo 3: Final bolts before lifting.
Photo 4: Antennae lifted
Photo 5: Working at height
Photo 6: Up the tower
Photo 7: Tag line
Photo 8: Leaving the place of work
Photo 9: Job done, All 16 Array towers erected in one week.
Photo 10: (Me) Surveying the finished Array.
Sunday, 16 January 2011
Big Lift
A short spoof trailer we made during the week about the work we have been doing erecting the towers. Took about 20 minutes to make using iMovie11. It stars Derek and Nige and is slightly amusing if you know either of these two guys.
Pictures taken from a week in the middle of nowhere!
Photo 1: Pre-Assembly
Photo 2: Gateway tower erected.
Photo 3: Mast Climbers
Photo 4: Detaching the Crane
Photo 5: Landing a Share Tower
Photo 6: Share Array complete
Photo 7: Panoramic from middle of nowhere!
Monday, 10 January 2011
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Middle of Nowhere!
The photo was taken from the site of the future Halley VI base, which is currently empty except for a few masts and cables.
This will be my home for the next few weeks whilst we prepare the site ready for the new building to be relocated here early Feb. Whilst I'am there I don't have any comms apart from a VHF radio...it just me and 7 other guys, for a week at a time, not exactly everyones cup of tea but for me it's the ultimate escape.
Should be an interesting week, let's see what happens.
Highlight of 2010
Looking back 2010 was an eventful year.
In all it will be defined as my year on the road, I lived the nomadic life or should I say Technomadic life seeing as I carried all my gadgets around with me, and as much as that was fun I'am glad it's over.
I Started the year at Halley before departing via Montevideo in Uruguay, then onto a place called Colonia for a few days before travelling to Argentina and Buenos Aires. Next was Brazil where i met Emma and we went to Igazsu Falls before heading up to Rio De Janerio. I then had a quick month back home and then onto Ascension Island for 6 months then back home for a few weeks before a quick trip to Paris. I then started heading South again via Capetown on route to finish the year where I started it back here at Halley.
Looking back on it all there where some very special experiences but none even come close to those few occasions I got to share with Emma. If I have one New Years Resolution it's to ensure that I start redesigning my lifestyle around her and not around ticking boxes, "been there seen that done it" counts for very little compared to sharing it with someone special.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
A Halley New Year to You
We had bit of a quite one on base this New Year, only a handfull of the 100+ people stayed up to welcome 2011 to the Halley base. For their efforts they received an extra glass of wine which made it all worth while.
Personally I was glad to see the back of 2010, in years to come I will look back on it as my lost year. It wasnt all bad it had lots of highlights but for the eurphoria you pay the price of equal lows and I think Iam ready for a bit of stability and normality. Roll on 2011 and I am hoping it will bring everything back into equilibrium. Fingers crossed X
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