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Riding in Reykjavik
First off, was your decision influenced by environmental reasons or health reasons? I wanted to lose weight and get into shape, but I was very busy and was looking for an exercise I could integrate into my daily routine. My first choice…
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Shit, Piss, Vomit and Blood. And Cum
Cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson needs no introduction to regular readers of the Grapevine, as he used to contribute regularly to the magazine in the past. Although it’s been a while since Dagsson’s perverted stick figures have appeared in this publication, he wants for…
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Wanted: Musicans to Support
Tell me a little about this new fund. The Aurora Foundation is a charity fund that was set up by Ólafur Ólafsson and his wife Ingibjörg Kristjánsdóttir one year ago. It focuses on supporting charity work and cultural projects, and Kraumur is…
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Scenes from the Road: Einar Kárason
On Cars “I consider myself very lucky to have witnessed both the rise and fall of the petrol fuel age,” says author Einar Kárason behind the wheel of his Chrysler PT Cruiser. “We have not witnessed any real advances in this technology…
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Anti-racists Unite
For how long has the Anti-Racist Movement been operating? Since September 2006. That’s when we got permission to found the organisation and decided to try and see how people would respond to the idea. We had talked about it for over a…
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Lyrical Savages
Actress Brynhildur Guðjónsdóttir is a long-time veteran of the Reykjavík stage. Having frequently crossed thespian-media to star in premier films as well as television and theatre productions, Brynhildur has become well known for her bold personification of characters such as Edith Piaf,…
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Young American Radio Sweetheart
The Sound of Young America initially started as college radio show in Santa Cruz. During the early days of the podcast revolution, host Jesse Thorne, America’s favourite radio sweetheart, latched on to the new technology. Today, anyone with a broadband connection can…
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Birkir Fjalar Viðarsson
So, Chainlike Burden topped our list for album of the year, joined by Skátar’s The Ghost of Bollocks to Come. This is the first I Adapt album to receive considerable notice from the Icelandic media [it finished high on most other year-end…
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No Sleep, No Pay
It doesn’t sound like you’ve been sleeping a lot… You’re always juggling ten projects at a time in this business, as it’s hard to determine which will come to fruition when you’re dependant on outside factors, like money. The last two years…
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Markús Bjarnason
Congratulations on topping our list for album of the year. Thank you. I was convinced, of course, like the other two times I’ve put out a record, that this was the best record in the world. Naturally. Did you work on this…
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Obituary: News Photography
How did you select the photos for the exhibition? What was the guiding light? I didn’t really have a guiding light. I just wanted to find old photos, all the way from the beginning of photography in Iceland, at the turn of…
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Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen
You and Einar Bárðarson really come from opposite ends of the Icelandic music scene, how did you end up writing a book with him? Yes, people have wondered about this. Einar sent me an email last April and presented me with the…
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Óttar Martin Norðfjörð
When did you get the idea to write this book? The idea first came to me when I was in Scotland, studying for a Master’s degree in Philosophy. It first came to me on an airplane really, on the way to Scotland,…
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Elves in Cultural Vocabulary
Terry Gunnel is a professor of Folkloristics at the Unicersity of Iceland. He recently initiated a survey to explore how Icelands’ attitude towards elves and other supernatural phenomena have have changed since a similar survey was conducted over thirty years ago. Perhaps…
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No Need to Panic
So, the first issue of Monitor should hit the streets by the end of this month, what can readers expect? That is, what kind of a magazine is Monitor going to be? They should expect a magazine about Icelandic pop culture, with…
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Future Music
What is your background? Could you explain to us what being a “Media Futurist” entails? I went to the Berklee College of Music and studied Jazz guitar there, so I’ve basically been in the music business all my life, as a musician,…
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Peacekeeping and Ideas of Masculinity
Helga Björnsdóttir is working on her PhD thesis in Anthropology from the University of Iceland. Her research has been focused on ideas of masculinity and spaces where those ideas are exist. A large part of her study has been devoted on peacekeeping…
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Controlling the Discourse by Changing the Subject
An entity called “The Journalistic Ethics Committee” operates under the aegis of the Icelandic Press Council (IPC), of which almost every Icelandic journalist is a member. The ethics committee counts five members, three representatives of the IPC and one each for Icelandic…
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The Age of Global Protest
What brought you to Iceland? Springer: Well for the past two years, several communities in Trinidad and Tobago have been in confrontation with the state and corporations against the introduction of aluminium smelting in Trinidad and I have been working quite closely…
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Mountain Pioneers
When I first scheduled an interview with Icelandic Mountain Guides (IMG), my intention was simply to direct the spotlight on one of the most active and innovative operators in the local travel and outdoor industries. Little did I expect that the conversation…
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The Paradox of Gender Pay Gap
Perhaps you could begin by telling us a little bit about your research? I am an economist and I received my university education in the US and the UK. In my research, I have mainly focused on the different economic positions of…
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Planning Reykjavík
Maybe you could start by telling me a bit about the Iceland studio and how that came about? Orri Gunnarsson did a Masters degree in urban planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He proposed to me that we host…
