Arctic Solitude

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Arctic Solitude

From: Zak Rosen
Length: 00:02:29

Chose a random place (Antarctica), found a blogger to talk about it Read the full description.

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Piece Description

This short piece was produced for a session at the 2006 Third Coast Festival. Brenden Greely of Open Source gave a talk on the potential of bloggers as subjects, fixers, and correspondents in radio stories. He asked me to apply his blogging theory by selecting an arbitrary place (I chose Antarctica) and to then find a blogger who could talk about this place in an interesting way.