bits and pieces from the northern island.
This year’s been filled with more musical disappointment than I could take. Many of the major releases I was looking forward to with perhaps exaggerated anticipation resulted in being unbearable earsore or, in the best cases, bland and forgettable works. What’s with all this synthetic crap anyway? Some musicians think that since anybody else is … Read the full article →
We had occasion to talk about Bíódagar earlier this year. Græna Ljósið presents us now with a selection of seven documentaries released during the year 2010 and they will be screened from the 12th of November at the Bíó Paradís. These are the featured documentaries: Feathered Cocaine – Ö. M. Arnarson, T. S. Hardarson (Iceland … Read the full article →
I won’t hide it: this matter has been bothering me for months. Every time I am in the proximity of a Bónus supermarket or I see somebody carrying the infamous flashy yellow bags, I experience a stabbing feeling in my eye. At first I couldn’t exactly point out why. Yellow definitely isn’t my color of … Read the full article →
Have you ever felt anxious, irritable and depressed as the cold season approaches? Do you feel plainly miserable and you feel you have trouble dealing with any of your usual activities? Wouldn’t you prefer to stay in bed and sleep all day? According to results of scientific studies, most people experience changes in mood, dislike … Read the full article →
Despite the hot news regarding a possible eruption at Grímsvötn that have been circulating since the beginning of the week, triggered by detection of abnormal seismic activity in the area, here in Iceland we are already preparing for the cold. In fact, the first snow has been falling during the last days, and it definitely … Read the full article →
If you take a stroll along the Ægisida, where locals all year round and tourists in the summer season like to walk, you’ll at some point come across a tangled shape of bronze rising from a pile of boulders. At first perhaps you won’t even pay much attention to it, with the complicity of the … Read the full article →
In between a few attacks of cold and sore throat, we have been enjoying the autumnal weather, with its fits of wildness which we were not exactly prepared to face. Mothers and the Yahoo! Weather kept on informing us about the mild temperatures in the Southern part of Europe. We had little time though to … Read the full article →
Kinosmiðja is an open studio for DIY filmmakers. Their aim is the study and the actualization of the processes involving filmmaking, especially on an totally independent level, with a low budget and the most varied purposes and media. Among the activities promoted by Kinosmiðja, you will find the KinoKlubbúr, a nomadic cine club in Iceland … Read the full article →