Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Exploring Antarctica

I am lucky enough to be friends with two of the most creative people on the planet. Jessica Grindstaff and Erik Sanko, collectively known as Phantom Limb, are a husband and wife team who create incredible marionette theater works, inspired by all sorts of things. Their latest project is by far the most ambitious-- a piece about Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. They are currently researching for the project IN ANTARCTICA, and keeping a beautiful visual journal of their journey, re-creating Shackleton's hand-written journals. Please check it out here- it's a work of art in itself.
Their first video clip is , of course, flapping penguins!

the moment you've all been waiting for. from Josh Reisner on Vimeo.