Reindeer Blog

In his photo project The Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Canadian artist Jon Rafman collects the bizarre and beautiful sights captured by the nine lenses on Google Street View camera cars as they photograph scenes around the world. The project has now been published as a book featuring hundreds of the images he has [...]

This is an amusing and interesting clip from the web – by graphic artist Stuart McMillen at Recombinant Records. It is an illustrated version of what happened to the reindeer that were introduced to St Matthew Island in 1944 linking it to what may happen to our globe if we continue on this same unsustainable [...]

A Russian film has picked up the top honors at an international film festival in Bulgaria highlighting the best work on extreme sports, adventure and mountains. The award-winning documentary about reindeer herders in the Polar Urals beat 80 films from 27 other countries. “Nyarma” by Edgar Bartenev focuses on the Nenets people, their customs, family [...]

A bizarre exhibition by the renowned artist Carsten Höller has just opened at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art museum. “Soma” also offers the chance for a limited number of guests to overnight in a bed suspended above a collection of animals that includes reindeer, canaries and mice for €1,000. In total there are 12 reindeer [...]