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PHOTOS: DesignMarch 2018
This weekend, DesignMarch hit Reykjavík with a bang, rounding up the most exciting, innovative, and relevant design projects in the country for a weekend of surefire inspiration. With a program chock full of everything from an exhibit about eggs to dialogues about design…
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PHOTOS: New Year’s Eve In Iceland’s Capital
From bonfires to fireworks, Reykjavík was a city in the throes of celebration as Icelanders rang in the new year. Icelanders love New Years Eve. Fireworks can be legally purchased by any adult, with most of the proceeds going to the rescue…
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Reykjavík’s First Snow – PHOTOS
Iceland’s capital got its first snowy day of autumn, so we hit the streets to photograph the soft beauty blanketing Reykjavík. Snow is much more common in the north and the east, while Reykjavík winters are best characterised by ice and wind.…
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In Photos: Seen Zine Launch Party
A new book was launched last night at Gallery Port by Seen Zine, edited by Anna Maggý & Júlía Tómasdóttir. A handsomely produced limited edition soft-back, the book is an eye-catching collection of multidisciplinary work by interesting young artists working in visual…
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The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Competition
Beautiful landscapes, cats and street art is what stood out in this week’s Instagram competition. Check out the winner and runners-up and remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance at becoming the winner of next week’s…
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The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics!
So many amazing entries in this week’s Instagram competition making choosing only one extremely difficult. Thank god we have runners-up! Remember to keep tagging your photographs with the hashtag #GVpics for a chance at becoming the winner of next week’s competition! The…
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PHOTOS: ‘Ytri Höfnin’ Graduation Exhibition
The graduation exhibition by bachelors students in design, architecture and fine arts from the Iceland Academy of the Arts is one of the main art events of the year. This extraordinary exhibition is closing on Sunday May 8th and we urge anyone interested…
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And The Winner Of This Week’s #GVPics Instagram Contest Is
Another week has passed which means more travel, more photo opportunities and a lot more sun! Now is the time to put up your sixties styled shades, dab some sunscreen on your nose, hike a mountain, see a play or fall in…
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The Winner & Runners-up Of This Week’s #GVPics
The sky is clear, the sun is shining and our readers have captured the country in its most beautiful attire, spring! It’s always a pure joy looking over the entries in our #GVpics competition and the stunning photos of this week really…
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The Best Photos From This Week’s #GVPICS
Each week we pick ten photographs from our #gvpics Instagram competition we find interesting, funny, or beautiful. This week’s entries were amazing and picking only ten pictures was a headache. Remember to tag your picture with #gvpics for a chance of becoming…
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#GVpics – This Weeks Winner Of The Instagram Contest
We were so excited going through all of the beautiful, weird and amazing pictures posted under the hashtag #GVpics this week. Instagram really has proven that you don’t need a fancy camera to make good art, just a high-megapixel smartphone camera, and…
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PHOTOS: Grapevine In Greenland – The Director’s Cut
Last November, we took a one-week trip to Greenland, visiting the cities and towns of Nuuk, Kangerlussuaq and Sisimiut. Along the way, we tried to pack in everything we could, from dog-sledding over a frozen lake to checking out local foods, politic,…
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PHOTOS: Moses Hightower Soothes The Crowd At Húrra
The only certain way to unwind after the holidays was to catch Moses Hightower performing at Húrra on the first post X-mas workday, December 29. Known for their skilful playing, soothing voices and advanced compositions, they sure knew how to finish 2015 off…
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Nekkid Icelandic Dudes Pose For UK Mag
Naked Icelandic men will feature in the next issue of the bi-monthly male photography magazine Elska, reports Gay Iceland. Each issue is shot in a different city with local boys and a focus on local stories. “It’s a very diverse group actually,”…
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This Year’s Réttir In Photos (Pt. 1): The Guidance Of The Lambs
Grapevine’s hardest working photojournalist, Art Bicnick, was out in the countryside this fall to witness réttir, the annual sheep round-up. Every spring, sheep are tagged and released into the open pastures, only to be collected and organized in the fall. It’s a…
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A BLOOD MOON OVER REYKJAVÍK: Fancy Images & A Timelapse
Everyone remembers the blood moon. Why, it was just this Sunday that we stayed up all night gawking at the sky so we could witness that plain old regular moon shed its skin and reveal the glory of the bloody moon flesh…
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PHOTOS: Looking Into Landmannalaugar
This August, photographer Anna Domnick went to Landmannalaugar — the starting point of Iceland’s most famous hiking trail, rated amongst the most beautiful in the world. Instead of sweeping landscape shots, Anna took a different view on this much-photographed subject. See below…
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PHOTOS: Innipúkinn 2015, In Pictures
Last weekend, we had a blast at Reykjavík’s only Merchant’s Weekend festival, Innipúkinn. We’ll be posting some reviews and other coverage-type stuff soon enough, but while you wait, feast your eyes on these photos from the wonderful Timothée Lambrecq. It was a blast.
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PHOTOS: It Begins… Dunkin’ Donuts Hits 101 Reykjavík!
Twenty two years after then-Prime Minister Davíð Oddsson took the first bite of the first McDonald’s burger served in Iceland, six years after McDonald’s left the country, announcing that franchises there had never paid off anyway, the finest U.S. fast food is…
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PHOTOS: Yesterday, Thousands Marched In Reykjavík SlutWalk 2015
Spirits were high in downtown Reykjavík yesterday, as several thousand protestors took to the streets to march in the annual SlutWalk celebrations. The SlutWalk’s organizers estimate that the event—which closed with an Austurvöllur concert featuring Úlfur Úlfur, Mammút, Reykjavíkurdætur and Friðrik Dór—…
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PHOTOS: ATP Thru The Lens Of ART
Photographer Art Bicnick could be seen running around ATP on Thursday and Saturday, snapping as many bands as possible from the pit and crowd. Check them out! Around ATP Börn Caterpillarmen Clipping. Ghostigital HAM Iggy Pop Kiasmos Lightning Bolt Loop Pink Street…
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PHOTOS: Iceland Celebrates 4/20 In Front Of Parliament
The fifth annual 4/20 cannabis celebration-slash legalization demonstration commenced in front of Alþingi at Austurvöllur square today at, um, 16:20. An estimated group of 150 gathered to smoke joints, rip bongs and hit pipes while a group of police officers stood by…
