Here's a little teaser of the journey across the Greenland Sea. I shot most of it (except the bit where I'm steering and get drenched like a teen actor on You Can't Do That On Television), and it was edited by my buddy Matt, a pretty talented British cameraman and editor.

Deets:
Three days from our departure point in Spitsbergen (an island about 500 miles north of Norway), in the middle of the Greenland Sea, things got rough. While many hollow-eyed crewmembers tucked into cabins or over toilets below, some tried to find the fun of the wild ride.

Highlights:
--Artist Dan Harvey's total inability to stay on his feet inside.
--My (aforementioned) splashing, that looks as if it were set up by a hollywood crew. (It wasn't--that was real stingy, salty sea water.)

Top Secret Tidbit:
No more than 5 minutes before he's belting out "Money For Nothing," Matt was vomiting over the side.


(And don't worry about your camera, Blake. I've heard salt water is great for them.)

My good friend and environmentalist writer Ben Jervey is currently in the arctic sailing amongst the frozen sees of the 78th parallel. The trip consists of artists, scientists, and writers who are gathering data, writing, and making art in the hope to convey the effects of climate change on the arctic icecap, and in turn, the world.

Check out the Channel devoted to Ben's trip here vimeo.com/north

•••UPDATE: Factual inaccuracies in my intro video.
So the scientists onboard see me straight on some of the minor inconsistencies re: our route and the ice cap. I said, erroneously, that "the 78th parallel has never before in human history been free of ice." (It can be rather important, in this field, to keep the facts tidy, as the naysayers will latch onto anything to discredit the cause.) So let me be clear that while the 78th parallel HAS before, and regularly, been clear of ice, including some stretches we sailed, that the arctic icecap has lost a full 25% of its mass in the past 30 years. Which is significant. Very much so.