Henry Kaiser, Live!
November 09, 2011
Not much science on the menu lately. Rachel and I began our season as mid-rats with a 7pm to 5am work schedule, effectively impeding all opportunities to join the community's evening entertainment--most lectures and events begin at 7 or 8--for three weeks. Fortunately--or unfortunately--the bakeshop continues to have difficulty finding an even keel, so the management have decided to stagger our hours to "facilitate communication" with the dayshifts. I now work from 9pm to 7am, and my schedule switched just in time for me to attend a "science lecture" on ice diving.
This guy delivered his presentation in the Crary Lab library on the evening of my birthday. It would be more accurate to describe the event as a screening, or perhaps a concert. This is the man whose ice diving images caught Werner Herzog's attention and provoked the creation of Encounters at the End of the World. Kaiser films his Antarctic dives, edits the footage, and writes and records his own music. He played several clips and short films from previous seasons, all of which were amazing, then rolled out this footage, which he'd recorded that very morning, hastily "cut" prior to the lecture, and accompanied with an impromptu soundtrack on his guitar. Only through extraordinary good luck and Heather's fast-talking Jersey girl charm did I get a seat at this lecture--the room was packed. I'd like to take it as a sign. Hopefully it means 27 is going to be awesome.
This guy delivered his presentation in the Crary Lab library on the evening of my birthday. It would be more accurate to describe the event as a screening, or perhaps a concert. This is the man whose ice diving images caught Werner Herzog's attention and provoked the creation of Encounters at the End of the World. Kaiser films his Antarctic dives, edits the footage, and writes and records his own music. He played several clips and short films from previous seasons, all of which were amazing, then rolled out this footage, which he'd recorded that very morning, hastily "cut" prior to the lecture, and accompanied with an impromptu soundtrack on his guitar. Only through extraordinary good luck and Heather's fast-talking Jersey girl charm did I get a seat at this lecture--the room was packed. I'd like to take it as a sign. Hopefully it means 27 is going to be awesome.
