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LAST CHANCE: You Can Paint Harpa From Your Computer
I don’t know if you noticed, but Harpa has had some strange light displays on it lately. Halldór Eldjárn and his team have been controlling an interactive light display, controlled through the website www.paint.is. This ends tomorrow, so make sure you give it…
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A Tedious Joke Of A City: Cloud Of Ash Is Back.
Brogan and Atli return for three more episodes of the web series, Cloud of Ash. The second batch is tighter than the last. They seem to have really figured out the pacing needed for a three minute episode. The German Tourist introduces…
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Ágætis Byrjun: Cloud of Ash, Raining Tourists
The merits of eating whale meat, Israeli-Palestine policies and whether the Vikings ate mushrooms. These are just a few of the things the two protagonists of new web comedy serial Cloud of Ash—hipster extrovert Atli and grumpy introvert Brogan—debate while working in…
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WHERE WERE WE? WHERE ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
To mark the beginning of a new year, we posed two questions to dozens of Icelanders, old and new. Representatives of every single political party, ministers, mayors and machinists alike (as per usual, the governing parties mostly ignored our queries). We asked…
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Shattered Conceptions
In 2014, we saw that politicians are not afraid to attack institutions and ideals that some of us had—naïvely, I admit—come to take for granted. We thought we all agreed to keep public radio alive; we thought we all wanted lower taxes…
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The Best Of What We Saw At Iceland Airwaves 2014
Iceland Airwaves 2014 came and went, and oh what a blast it was (it was. It’s crazy. You should come next year). We very much like the Iceland Airwaves festival. Indeed, every year since 2005, we’ve operated a gargantuan team dedicated to…
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Part Arty, Part Party
Good Moon Deer is the stage name of one Guðmundur Ingi Úlfarsson (Guðmundur, Guð-mun-dur, Good-moon-deer … get it?) who usually performs with drummer Ívar Pétur Kjartansson. The duo played a whopping six shows at this year’s Airwaves to a slew of dance…
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Temporary War Zone
Two men, disrobed from the waist up, walk on stage. Actually that’s a lie. They aren’t naked: their heads are wrapped in black masks, Abu Ghraib style. Not a note has been played but things are already getting scary. One, drummer Daniel…
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One Can Always Be Bothered To Dream
Although the presence (and wobbly bass) of local reggae darlings Ojba Rasta is strongly felt at Airwaves this year, the only appearance by frontman Teitur Magnússon’s solo project is an off venue performance at the no-more-than-50 capacity bar Bravó. This is despite…
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Go PONG Harpa Now!
Ever wanted to play arcade classic ‘Pong’ on the massive Harpa facade? Great, because until August 31st you can–so long as you have a smartphone. PONG is an interactive multimedia art piece by Atli Bollason and Owen Hindley. If you go to…
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No Pretty Butterfly Show
“I first came here to read at the International Nýhil Poetry Festival in 2007. Before I knew, I was on stage with [local rock group] Reykjavík!, chugging Southern Comfort at three o’clock in the morning. Soon enough, I found myself yearning for…