bits and pieces from the northern island.
It’s hard to explain to outsiders what a band like Amiina stands for, what their music suggests and how it affects the listener. For the easily distracted, they’re just a bunch of girls — wrong, there are also two guys as stable contributors to the band now — making cutely bizarre noises with their instruments. … Read the full article →
The fifth edition of Sequences Art Festival is about to start in Reykjavík. From the 1st to the 10th of April, several galleries, venues and cultural spaces and institutions around Iceland’s capital will host exhibitions, lectures and performances of various genres. As the name suggests, Sequences is an event whose main field of interest are … Read the full article →
From the 24th to the 27th of March 2011, the city of Reykjavík will host the annual DesignMarch festival, an event that takes place yearly in the capital area at the beginning of Spring since 2009. DesignMarch is the occasion to get in touch with some of the most interesting currents of contemporary Icelandic design, … Read the full article →
We are not representing an unspecified threat to Google AdSense’s clients anymore and both the puffin lobbies and the volcano haters — bless them! — are probably celebrating our defeat. Defeat? Not really. Open Google and their pretend-we-are-not-secretive policies can refuse to tell us the reason behind the ban all they want; like we care! … Read the full article →
Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival will begin this Friday with the Museum Night, in which more than thirty art galleries and museums will remain open for free to visitors till midnight. Exhibitions, concerts, lectures and more are going to be held throughout the whole capital’s area. On the next day, February 12, in occasion of the … Read the full article →
Due to the stormy weather that in the past days hit the whole country, bonfires traditionally held on Threttándinn — that is, “the Thirteenth” day in Christmas festivities or, if you prefer, January 6 — had been postponed. Today, as we were around walking the dog in the afternoon, we encountered crowds of Icelanders celebrating … Read the full article →
The announced karaoke marathon for Icelandic natural resources is taking place as programmed at the Nordic House. It opened today and it will be going till January 8, 2011. Despite all the early mediatic hype, the karaoke so far appeared to be an initiative far from any mindless sensationalism. Admirable as ever, Icelanders seem to … Read the full article →
I could find many excuses not to write an entry about Jónsi’s concert at Laugardalshöll. Excuses like I didn’t really go because: it was too mainstream after all, I had a bellyache — which is the case today but it wasn’t yesterday –, I was kidnapped by a squad of enraged puffins. But I did … Read the full article →