Post #394041 by captnkirk on 07/15/2008

On 2008-07-14 17:05, ikitnrev wrote:
Yesterday I saw the Werner Herzog Antarctica documentary 'Encounters at the End of the World'

Tikis in Antarctica?

Late in the film, there is a scene where of the workers is being interviewed. There is a tiki on the wall behind him. Unfortunately, it is one of those hideous colored Party Store tikis. Ugh, what an atrocity. There is a frozen sturgeon later in the film, and that frozen fish had way more soul and mystery and looked way more tiki - even in its permanently frozen state, than that party store tiki.

Another scene showed a big weather balloon and scientific meteorological package it was carrying (to measure sub-atomic particles in the upper atmosphere) The scientific package had hula girls and Hawaiian language (non-party store) printed on its side - due to the head scientist being from the University of Hawaii. (Hawaii to Antarctica ... quite the professional journey)

Lots of ice down in Antarctica, but not much tiki

There is tiki in Antarctica my brother and some other board scientists working near the pole built this life size moai head out of ice a few years ago.