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January 15-21, 2015 300 E JANUARY 15-21, 2015 300 E. Main St Fort Wayne, IN 46802 ----------------------------- Cover Story • Paul Nicklen ---------------------------- 260.424.7195 | www.artlinkfw.com A Thousand Words Worth By Mark Hunter when he put down his clipboard and picked up Paul Nicklen is ob- a camera. sessed with ice. He is Now, after 15 years Canadian, after all. But working as a photog- Nicklen’s obsession rapher for National goes way beyond NHL Geographic, Nicklen power rankings. Since is reaching the kind of he frequently spends audience he hoped to months at a time alone reach. To illustrate, he on ice floes waiting for told me about a photo a pod of narwhals to of emperor penguins he show up, it’s doubtful he posted on the National has room in his sched- Geographic Instagram January 23, 2015 ule to tweak his fantasy page an hour before Through March 4, 2015 hockey team, if he even we talked. By the end has one. Nicklen has of our conversation he more important ice-re- had 500,000 likes and Opening Reception lated concerns to worry 20,000 comments. about. “Al Gore had it right January 23, 6 to 9 p.m. The frozen world when he called climate Nicklen loves is disap- change an inconvenient pearing at an alarming truth,” Nicklen said. rate, and he’s doing ev- “I’d like to wake up and ArC O N T E M P Otlink R A R Y A R T G A L L E R Y erything he can to make not have to do this.” the rest of us aware of it. By “this” Nicklen As a marine biologist, meant plunging into Hours: Tues- Fri 10 - 5, Sat 12 - 6, Sun 12 - 5 an award-winning pho- slushy Antarctic water tographer for National to dive with and pho- Geographic and, more tograph 1,000-pound recently, an impassioned leopard seals as they SWEETWATER public speaker, Nicklen hunt emperor penguins. is uniquely qualified to After an hour in such spread the word. conditions Nicklen said POPS Nicklen’s images his hands, feet and face of the frozen world he are numb. Plus, there’s loves have the power to PAUL NICKLEN always the chance that pull your brain and heart in multiple direc- 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 one of the seals will decide to take a chunk tions at once. They are by turns beautiful out of him. Or that the hole he entered will and brutal, touching and cold, familiar and Niswonger Performing Arts Center have moved on by the time he’s ready to get otherworldly. In one photograph a polar 10700 S.R. 118 S. , Van Wert, OH out. He’s run out of air under the ice more bear rips an 800-pound bearded seal to Tix.: $15-$25 thru box office or than once. shreds. In another emperor penguins rock- Nicklen just completed a National et through 28-degree sea water toward the http://npacvw.org Geographic assignment in which he spent surface, a stream of propulsive air bubbles three-and-a-half months, alone, trying to flowing from their feathers. In still anoth- ing ecosystems to climate change. As we photograph wolves. In all that time he saw er a spirit bear sits on a moss-covered rock lose sea ice, it’s not just one species we risk the wolves for four days. An earlier project and stares placidly at the camera. losing. Sea ice is like soil. It is what allows saw him spend two months sitting next to a Nicklen’s work also has the power to these polar ecosystems to exist.” river in the British Colombia rainforest wait- inspire and change attitudes. It’s these quali- Nicklen’s passion for all things polar be- ing for a spirit bear to wander by. Just when ties that Nicklen cares about most. But he is gan when he was a child. When he was four, he was about to give up, a male showed up also a realist. He understands that pictures his family moved from southern Canada to and sat down three feet away. Then he saun- and numbers alone are often not enough, an Inuit community of 200 people on Baf- tered to the river, caught a fish and ate it. especially when it comes to driving home fin Island near Greenland. His mother was a As Nicklen’s photos show, it was worth the the reality of climate change. Through hun- school teacher; his father worked on heavy wait. dreds of public appearances and numerous equipment; he played with the Inuit children “As photographers, we fail 98 percent of TED talks, Nicklen combines his skills as a in the snow and ice. the time,” he said. “I haven’t failed yet. But scientist and photographer to drive home the In college he studied to become a marine it’s like being in the NFL. There’s National threat climate change poses to entire ecosys- biologist and, after graduating, spent several Geographic and that’s it. If you fail, there is tems. years working in the field collecting data. nowhere else to go.” Nicklen will give his “Polar Obsessions” But soon he found that was not enough. A new project, SeaLegacy, which he’s FWPHIL.ORG talk at Niswonger Performing Arts Center in “What was happening was I was already working on with his photography partner 260 481-0777 Van Wert on Sunday, January 25 at 3 p.m. risking my life bearing witness to the chang- Cristina Mittermeier, hits a little closer to And if it’s anything like the talks available ing ecosystem as a scientist, out there col- home, chronicling the changes in the sea ice online, he will change attitudes and give a lecting unemotional numbers, and no one between Baffin Island and Greenland. As a boost to the awareness of habitat loss due to really cares. It doesn’t pull on the emotional boy on Baffin Island, Nicklen used to watch declining sea ice. heartstrings.” the ice rise and fall with the tide, sometimes “People think of me as the polar bear Nicklen figured there was a better way to moving up and down some 40 feet. But that guy,” Nicklen told me during a recent phone reach people and spread the word about the interview. “I’m more interested in connect- disheartening data he was collecting. That’s Continued on page 14 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ------------------------------------------------------------ January 15, 2015 whatzup Volume 19, Number 23 ou think it’s cold outside? Try trading places with Paul Nicklen, the sub- ject of one of our most timely cover stories ever. Nicklen, who appears Don’t Miss It! at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center on Sunday, January 25, is Ya marine biologist whose main occupation is photographing wildlife in the Arctic, much of it while submerged in subzero waters. Something to think about as you scrape ice off your windshield for the morning commute. But first, read Mark Hunter’s feature on page 2. Also featured in this week’s whatzup are Wicked Divas, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic season’s second Pops concert, and former teen idol/General Hospital star Rick Springfield. Michele DeVinney’s Philharmonic Pops story is on page 4, and her feature on the guy behind “Jessie’s Girl” is on the follow- ing page. Our movie writers – Catherine Lee and Greg Locke – both chose to weigh in on the Golden Globes this week, and in Spins we have a review on a new CD by a local band that is already defunct. How often does that happen. Just a reminder, our movie listings are now exclusively at whatzup.com. Check the page out if you haven’t already. If you’re going out for a movie, whatzup. com is the easiest way to find what’s playing when. By the way, if your pre- ferred cineplex isn’t listed, feel free to ask them why. Last, but certainly not least, we want to remind you that all readers are now invited to participate in the nominating process for our Best of 2014 whatzup Readers Poll. This is a change from years past, when only writers and adver- tisers were asked to make nominations. Go to whatzup.com for more informa- tion and to cast your nominating ballot. inside the issue • features OUT & ABOUT ...................................8 Flamingo Nosebleed Hit the Road PAUL NICKLEN ............................................2 PICKS ............................................ 10 A Thousand Words Worth Kevin Hart, Days of the New FORT WAYNE PHILHARMONIC POPS ..........4 ROAD NOTEZ ................................. 12 Glinda, Elphaba and More RICK SPRINGFIELD .......................................5 The Teen Idol at 65 • calendars LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ...................8 • columns & reviews MUSIC/ON THE ROAD ...................12 FLIX ...................................................6 ROAD TRIPZ ..................................13 Missing Joan Rivers & Other Glove Notions STAGE & DANCE ...........................14 SCREEN TIME ..................................6 ART & ARTIFACTS .........................14 The Golden Globes Becoming the Must-See Awards Show THINGS TO DO ..............................15 SPINS ...............................................7 Ramidus, D’Angelo and The Vanguard Cover design by Greg Locke BACKTRACKS ..................................7 Rufus Thomas, Walking the Dog (1963) Kevin Hart photo on cover by Jon Hill SUN. 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