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May you walk into the Earth and come out with new hands.
Good Friday and the Blood of the Earth
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
Iceland Makes Sense Again
Right. Humans smoke fire cigarettes. Trolls smoke ice cigarettes.
Ísafjörður
Should have known that, right? Right!
Three Generations of Icelandic Pathfinding Technology
Troll rock, lighthouse and radio tower.
Norðausturvegur
Hey, one is bound to work. (Thing is, you never know which one.)
Iceland Makes Sense
Borgarnes
No argument, for sure. Who wants a headless dog in a football game?
A Glacier Goes to Sea
It never gets far.
The Jökullsá Enters the Atlantic
It’s not easy to leave Iceland. Usually you just wash up again on the beach!
Your Brain is a Church For Dwarves
Note that internally it is shaped like brain tissue, but externally it is shaped like a heart.
Dvergasteinn, Seyðisfjörður
And the beach is eroded brain. You are just a thought here. It is very liberating!
The Importance of the Colour White in Iceland
Look, the place is nature, right? And that’s a painting genre and its cultural extensions, so you need white, to balance things.
Fossvellir
White sheep to the left, white sheep to the right, and white hay up close. They all balance the white of the falls. It maintains visual interest and balance. What is a painting without that, eh!
When you live on the beach, well, that’s nice.
But if you have a church on the beach, you build a wall. That’s nice, too.
A bit dark, though. So it is. But not half so dark as the church!
Kind of a repetition of the motif of the cliff, really, but, heck, in this place, even the sea is a cliff wall.
Skriðnafell
The land has its way with us.
House in the Open Air
Welcome to Kjarvalshvammur, the Icelandic landscape painter Kjarval’s summer house in East Iceland.
As you can see, the house is the yard (you open the gate, which is the house, to enter it), and the house is a painting (literally) within it. Sounds about right to me!
Icelandic Technological Progress
- Old Style Hot Spring
2. Improved Old Style Hot Spring
3. New Style Hot Spring in the Neo-Viking Style
4. Fully Modern Hot Spring Tech
Laugar í Sælingsdal
A Farm in Iceland 