Postcard from Copenhagen

Dear People at South Pole Station.

Its been a long time since I have seen you woolen sweater dressed guys. This night I had a dream similar to the one from Fight Club where a tiny penguin appears with a soft voice and says "slide". In these days I am sliding to much north I believe.
I really miss the feeling of being in an international territory full of undistributed oil fields. I miss the landscape that has so often provided us with a feeling of infinity and love.

I brought my globe to Copenhagen and have decided to turn it up side down so that every time I look at it my dear South Pole looks right back at me and makes me feel as if I was feet up and head down.

Hope to see you soon, over, under and between the ice.


Yours sincerely,
Anders Krogdal

from South Pole Workshop webcam

sketch.comment on ET (binary flower)

Vedrørende joints.angående rumlig udfordring af konceptet. Bemærk de to små streger på midten af den midterste triangel. Det er vidst nok en teleskopisk approach.

Prototyping 5th of April 2010

At this point, the investigation is about how to get the maximum overall movement of the structure out of the 100 mm movement of each linear actuator.

Update 6th of april:


It's a bit hard to control how the two upper joints are acting (in relation to each other), but this seems to be a way to maximize the movement and beeing in control of the joints.

Diskbänksrealism delay

Detour of everyday life, minimizing disturbing sound.

Does here always has to be somewhere else?

Springdigging 16th of March 2010.

It is arrogant to think that things just appear, that it is something that just comes natural with time.

The last day of January 2010

Transition Video - Raw material

During my last travels I've videorecorded the internal airport transit rides. All shots are through the sidewindows of the different shuttles/trains/trams/etc.

I'm interested in this nomansland that is designed with transit as the only purpose. Which views/sceneries are there? How do my senses react to this environment? Are these transits similar all over the world / is the design generic?

I have (as for now) four different shot and I'm a bit unsure of how to go on with the material. I tried to put the different shots after eachother but the clib simply becomes too long / i'm too restless to watch it all.

I've been thinking of putting each one of the movies on one projector, then to be screened from the middle of a room/space so you get one shot in each direction. Then somehow the sound should be edited as well.

Anyway, here comes the raw material and feel free to ping-pong!

Transition - Raw material part 1
Transition - Raw material part 2
Transition - Raw material part 3
Transition - Raw material part 4

Watering Phalanges (akrylificerede motordrevne plantevækster) [fase#et]

Sardinien - sjæl og samarkant

Jeg boede 7 måneder på Sardinien i 2005, og siden har jeg været tiltrukket. Jeg har besøgt Sardinien 2 gange siden jeg vendte hjem og i aften drager jeg afsted på min 4. tur til Dorgali, Cala Gonone, Golfo Orosei og hvad de lune steder ellers hedder. Hver gang viser nye sider af øen sig og hver gang fornemmer jeg hvordan jeg kan bruge rejsen ret forskelligt. Sidste år klappede alting, og jeg kom hjem med en renset sjæl. Det er godt for sjælen at være på Sardinien.

I år håber jeg på at kunne gøre sidste års kunststykke efter. Forhåbentlig får jeg og min følgesvend Hr. Eggert Pedersen nogle gode dage på vandet. Ikke sikkert at vi kommer tættere på vores drøm om at ro hele vejen rundt. Givetvis kommer vi til at ro en strækning som allerede er tilbagelagt et par gange. Så formentlig er det gensynsglæden der er i højsædet. Gensynsglæde kan være godt for sjælen, men kan også bære nostalgien i sig.

Pionerturen rummer ren sjælerenselse.

Det er en underdrivelse at sige at jeg er spændt på turen. Jeg har ikke ladet op på nogen usædvanelig vis, men blot lade dagen for afrejsen oprende. Denne mangel på mental forberedelse gør det endnu stærkere og lykkeligt at finde pas og pandelygte frem på selve dagen for afrejse.

Jeg skriver dette lille indlæg som plaster på min rastløshed og som en apetitvækker for den foto/lyd-montage jeg planlægger at ligge op på bloggen når jeg vender hjem.

En counter / Encounters at the end of the world- Personalmöde SPS 2009-10-04, Stockholm

Part 1 - The meeting



Part 2.1 - Sunes commentary after the meeting




Part 2.2 - Anders commentary after the meeting - NEW!!




Part 2.3 - Jakobs commentary after the meeting - NEW!!

Cykeldagbog - amgerdigte #2