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Category Archives: Iceland
The beat that skipped my heart
A and I decided to take a road trip to the black beaches of Southern Iceland in mid-January. I hadn’t been for sometime, and I longed to see the surreptitious, desolate landscapes again, to breathe in the crisp, cold sea air that prodded my senses into recognition, to meditate to the sound of the [...]
A ferd til Hvalfjörður (A trip to Whale-fjord)
A and I took a road trip to Hvalfjörður, or Whale-fjord, not long ago. We took the scenic route there, and stopped along the way to check out a river that had frozen over. This is what I love about Iceland: you can drive a matter of minutes outside of Reykjavík proper and spot something [...]
Also posted in Photography, Travel Tagged Iceland, Photography
Erró
The Reykjavík Art Museum is currently holding a retrospective on Icelandic pop artist Erró (Gudmundur Gudmundsson). His paintings appear more like collages and are quite mesmerizing. Many of the works on display were completed in the 70’s, though are somehow eerily prescient in terms of some of the potential “messages” they appear to [...]
Fun at the Bláa lónið (Blue Lagoon)
This is probably the most touristy place one can go while in Iceland, aside from the Golden Circle tour to Þingvellir – likely comparable to Disneyworld or Times Square in the US, but it is a treat to go, nonetheless. The water is an ethereal and opaque light blue color, a result of some of the minerals [...]
Also posted in Photography Tagged Iceland, Photography
Gledileg nytt ár!
Happy 2010!
I haven’t had much time to think/post lately, and am also badly in need of a better scanner for some recent polaroids taken and great thrift finds I’ve come across in the last couple of months. Anyhow, here’s a quick post for all the millions of followers of this wonderful blog; I’ll write something [...]
Also posted in Photography Tagged Iceland, Photography
Letters from Iceland
The reason for hereness seems beyond conjecture,
There are no trees or trains or architecture,
Fruits and greens are insufficient for health
And culture is limited by lack of wealth.
The tourist sights have nothing like Stonehenge,
The literature is all about revenge.
And yet I like it if only because this nation
Enjoys a scarcity of population…
– WH Auden, Letters from [...]
Also posted in Photography, Quote Tagged Iceland, Irreverence
Geisladrif
I love this. Andri explained this to me:
Today is the national day of the Icelandic language. This is what Andri Snær wrote:
ég elska þig og þegar ég hugsa til þín
fyllist hugur minn geisladrifi
- (translation)
I love you and when I think of you
my mind is filled with a compact disk player
He explains that CD’s might soon [...]
Mother of Pearl