#commander hadfield

[nythroughthelens]

In the Arctic... I went to the Arctic with an Astronaut and here is the story about it:

The video includes a polar bear, helicopter footage of places on the way the North Pole...and all kinds of stuff about the trip (and the Astronaut :) ).

[nythroughthelens]

Off to the Arctic... (and some other exciting news)

The time has come. I am officially leaving on an expedition to the Arctic with an incredible group of artists, scientists, film-makers and writers including the astronaut Commander Hadfield (yes, the astronaut responsible for the cover of Bowie’s Space Oddity on the International Space Station)!

I will be aboard a Soviet-era icebreaker traveling for 3 weeks along the Northwest Passage from Western Greenland up into the Canadian High Arctic. 

The goal: to create art. Nothing less, nothing more. 

Our path:

Info about the trip can be found here along with all the people I will be with:

Commander Hadfield’s Arctic Generator 

We will be completely cut off from internet access and phone access while on the expedition as we will be in the Arctic Ocean on a crew/scientific icebreaker vessel. If you try to contact me, please have patience as I will dig through my emails once I am back in mid September.

This is our ship, a Soviet era ice-breaker named Kapitan Khlebnikov:

And that brings me to some other very exciting news!

I signed my book deal contract for my 2nd book this week. It comes out at the end of 2017 and it will be a book of my New York City snow photography!

Great timing! :)

Photographing New York City in extreme snowstorms has been my passion project for the last 6 years. 

Specifically New York City in extreme snowstorms at night. 

The sinking sense of serenity as it engulfs you...

And the isolation of it all is something I am fascinated by, in fearful reverence of, and what makes me walk up to 8 miles at a time in blizzards with my cameras becoming one with my breath and mortality. 

This Arctic expedition will be completely different. We will be enveloped by the midnight sun traveling through ice towards the story-filled landscapes of Greenland and Canadian’s High Arctic. 

And yet, it feels like something I can’t wait to feel fully: a different kind of isolation of thought, and light, as life quivers along shores like a woodwind instrument lilting over a distant refrain. 

I can’t wait to share it with you...

once I am back in mid-September. 

Much love, V

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***(this is the longest I will ever have gone without posting. While I was cut-off in Cuba for 10 days, I still had marginal brushes with the world. I am looking forward to getting to know my fellow adventurers and experiencing this expedition fully). ***(check out my project with musician Daria Musk, on our channel Adventuress - there will be some new videos posted there while I am away!)

[spaceexp]

An Astronaut's View of Earth - A fascinating interview with Commander Hadfield about global climate change

[nerdly]

The culmination of a huge part of my life and childhood. I loved this song when it was released, clearly remember watching the moon landing, have been a space and sci fi addict all of my life... ... and now it is sung IN SPACE.  I am so glad that David Bowie allowed it to be put up again: http://chrishadfield.ca/space-oddity/ Probably about 200 views are mine.  *sniff*  Damn allergies.

[nerdly]

My allergies kick up, yeah allergies, whenever I watch this.

And, yes, Comm. Hadfield pre-recorded his part on the ISS.

[spacefans]

Space Fan News #135

Though Commander Hadfield's version of "Space Oddity" is no longer with us, you can be ground control thanks to the new High Definition Earth Viewing program!

The Sun's sibling is found and astronomers are working to find more, as well as precisely where our star formed in the Milky Way.

Special thank you to guest presenter Amy Shira Teitel from Vintage Space! 

[discoveringireland]

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s long running love affair with Ireland looks set to take on a new dimension as he has started a new role as its “tourism ambassador”.

[drtyblvd]

Commander Hadfield has 20m views, and this has only 6m.

Get back up there @Cmdr_Hadfield and do a Cheerios ad for the love of humanity, would ya?