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Directorate Of Immigration Employee Shares Clients’ Information
On December 20, Gímaldið media reported that a Directorate of Immigration (ÚTL) employee had breached confidentiality when sharing personally identifiable information of its clients. According to Gímaldið, the employee shared the clients’ names on an Instagram close friends list, photographing handwritten task…
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Video of Icelandic Child Gets 58 Million Views on Instagram
A video of an Icelandic infant enjoying swim lessons has gone viral on Instagram, mbl.is reports. Emilía Madeleine Heenen posted a video June 10 of her daughter, Anna Elín, balancing on a kickboard held by swim instructor Snorri Magnússon. The proud mother…
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The Islanders: Juggling Two Worlds
Icelandic farmer Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík balances farm life and city life “Look, there is one there that is breathing a bit weirdly in the corner. We should keep an eye on her,” says Pálína Axelsdóttir Njarðvík as she walks around the farm…
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Instagram Giveaway: Celebrate Our 200th Newscast With A Lava Box Competition
To celebrate reaching 200 RVK Newscast episodes over on our Youtube channel, as well as the new eruption at Meradalir, we’re having a volcano-themed Instagram giveaway! The winner will receive our Volcano Box, which includes: “Lava: A Brief History of Icelandic Volcanoes”…
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Instagram vs Reality: How The Digital Age Of Tourism Changed Iceland Forever
Tourism was the unexpected saviour of the Icelandic economy after the financial crisis of 2008, and since then social media platforms like Instagram have facilitated a huge boom in visitors. Fourteen years later, with tourist numbers expected to return to pre-pandemic figures…
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TV Activity Increased Due To Facebook’s Technical Failures
Television activity increased dramatically when Facebook’s services stopped working a couple of days ago, reports Morgunblaðið. Last Monday, the social media services owned by Facebook were down due to technical problems. The crash lasted for about six hours, and people were forced…
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Gramming The Joy: Documenting The Pandemic Through A Positive Lens
Two artists—an illustrator and a photographer—have chosen to see the glass as half-full. The duo has taken to Instagram to share content that highlights the silliness of these times and infuse some colour into the murkiness of COVID-19. A bright cartoonist National…
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One-Winged Duck, Adopted By Icelandic Family, Now Has Own Instagram Account
An eider duck who lost one of its wings to a stray cat and was subsequently adopted by an Icelandic family last December now has her own Instagram account. When we last reported on the duck, she had recently been taken in…
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Snow, Sunsets, Cats & Romance: Our 2017 Instagram Top Ten
We have a lot of fun documenting Icelandic street life, culture and travel on our Instagram account, whether it’s a violent snowstorm, a particularly luminous sunset, an explosive concert, or a hidden spot far out in the countryside. It’s always interesting to…
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Iceland Behind The Shutter
Icelanders are slowly getting used to the idea of temporarily sharing their country with massive amounts of tourists. As tourism industry revenue has grown to a staggering 31% of the Icelandic economy, the number of travellers Iceland received in 2015 exceeded one…
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A Week In Instagram: Snæfellsnes, Aurora, Harpa & Víkingur
In today’s world, time is measured not in days or hours, but in Instagram photos. And in the last fortnight, Grapevine’s Instagram has been packed. We released our second March issue featuring prodigious pianist Víkingur Ólafsson as our cover star, ahead of…
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The Photographer Who Captured Snowmageddon As It Happened
Most people woke up to a white world on Sunday 26 February, after a record-breaking 51cm snowfall. But local photographer Gunnar Freyr Gunnarsson, who regularly posts to his popular Instagram account @icelandic_explorer, got lucky. “I woke up during the night to the…
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Instagram Account Posts Screencaps Of Sexually Harassing DMs From “Icelandic Idiots”
A new Instagram account encourages women to send in screenshots of unsolicited and sexually explicit direct messages they have received on social media, in the hopes of raising awareness about the problem and educating men on what kind of behaviour crosses the…
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The Cold Never Bothered The Invisible Man #GVPics
Reykjavík’s been snowy, rainy and sunny all in the span of two weeks. The only thing that´s been steady for a few days is the fireworks you hear everywhere around. And every year, it gets people outside to take spectacular photos. Check…
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Colour Concept For This Week’s #GVPics
Autumn doesn’t have the charisma of summer’s bright shine, but there is something refreshing about its downplayed tones. As we head toward more days of grey, we thought we’d recognise the more subtle colours at play that make up our surroundings. This…
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Real Life Postcards For This Week’s #GVPics
From time to time it’s good to surprise your just-out-of-reach loved ones with a beautiful post card containing warm greetings and wishes. This week we picked out some (virtual) post stamp worthy candidates! Our runners-up are: On the way to the top. #vsco…
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This Weeks #GVPics Winner
It’s that time of the week when we pick our favourite Iceland Instagrams with the hashtag #GVPics. It often gets heated when we have to decide on which ten to choose as runners-up. But after much consideration and some unarmed combat we…
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Minimalistic Painting For This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Competition
Iceland has a lot going on right now; kids are starting school, some are preparing for winter and painting their houses, while others are enjoying the last days of summer by taking walks by the harbour. Of course, it wouldn’t be Iceland…
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A Glittering Unicorn With A Colourful Butt In This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Competition
In the last week Iceland was blessed with lots of sunshine, extravaganza and colourful Pride people and of course, adventurous tourists exploring wonders of nature. This all gave a lot of inspiration to the participants of our Instagram competition. Check out the…
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Freeing It In This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Competition
Colours, the sun and all things nice in this week’s Instagram competition. Iceland is exceptionally green this time of year, making landscape photography a lot of fun. Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a…
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Reykjavík’s Cool Kids In This Week’s #GVPics
The colourful and sunny entries from this week’s Instagram competition are bound to put a smile on everybody’s face. Go outside and enjoy the sun but first, check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a…
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The Winner of This Week’s Sunny Instagram Competition
Beautiful sunny weather makes for beautiful instagram entries. These are amazing guys, you rock! Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your pictures with #gvpics for a chance at becoming next week’s champion! The runners-up: Lord Of the Rings, the…
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Street Art Came To Life In This Week’s #GVPics Competition
This week’s Instagram competition photos were so thought provoking, humorous, artistic and beautiful. We have said it before and we’re saying it again: it’s really hard for us to pick out ten pictures as our runners-up and then, of course, a #GVPics winner.…