Salon.com > Chris Sheehy http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 23:06:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Southern Exposure” http://www.salon.com/2010/05/14/wholphin_most_dangerous_jog/ http://www.salon.com/2010/05/14/wholphin_most_dangerous_jog/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 17:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2010/05/14/wholphin_most_dangerous_jog

Directed by Chris Sheehy (with Kyle Story, Justus Brevik and Randol Aikin)

A brief interview with the director

McSweeney's: You shot this on location at the South Pole. What in the world brought you there?

Chris Sheehy: The South Pole is the best site on earth for microwave astronomy. We were down there installing a telescope we built in the United States for looking at the early universe. Everyone in the video is a Ph.D. student in either physics or astrophysics, myself included. There are three different microwave telescopes represented by myself and the people in the video.

Tell us about the 300 Degree Club run.

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