the first gig i saw at the iceland airwaves festival 2 weeks back was the icelandic band ultra mega technobandið stefán. in the space of about 30 minutes they rocked the venue - there was perhaps a hundred or so people there watching - about seven photographers up the front with very expensive cameras moshing along with the singer and taking thousands of pictures. the singers stripped off and was jumping around the place as his father was taping it all on video camera. the energy of the gig was just amazing.

photoset from their pravda gig on 2006.10.18: here

here are some youtube links: “cockpitter” + interview (in icelandic) + “story of a star”

they played a second gig on the sunday night in another venue - we had heard it was due to start at 0100 so we got to the venue at just before 0100 only to find out that they had started a little after 0000 - so we only got to see the last 2 minutes of (i think) cockpitter (see video above) which had four or five band members moshing in with the audience. (oh plus they are aged only 16 or something)

my photos from 2006.10.17 þingvellir, iceland. (homepage + wiki)

when i was younger i cycled to school a bit - to keep the bike lit up during winters we had dynamos attached. they would touch one of the wheels and the friction would cause the light to light up. bravo we thought - but of course they had an annoying humm and slowed down the bike.

when i was in copenhagen a week or two back i saw something similar - but it was contactless (as in there was no dynamo - but instead two magnets that almost touched). a magnet is attached to a spoke with another attached to the frame - as the wheel turns electricity is generated and the light lights up!.

check it out at reelight.com

just moved over to wordpress. will set up proper redirects from blogger html to wordpress php and / or new (location) blogger html tomorrow.

the rss feed for this blog is available here.

back to regular programming soon.

going to be taking a little break from here for a few weeks - going to denmark/iceland later this week for a little while and im also moving from blogger to wordpress - so i gotta design a theme (how come nearly all wordpress themes look like “wordpress themes”? gotta learn some css too).

back in late october. email or sms!

ryanair bids for aer lingus!

(on an aside - i tried to publish this post 13hours ago when the news was just announced on the radio - but alas blogger.com refused to connect and publish it - not for the first time either. wordpress here i come)

as a follow up to this post from 2003 - the dude (”when will it all end“) went and put all the 8 years of self portraits into a video: link.

a little while back i went to see the film “the science of sleep” - directed by michel gondry. its one of the best movies ive seen in ages despite (or perhaps caused in part) by a linguistic mashup. the film is mostly in english and french with a tiny bit in spanish. the copy we saw at a film festival didnt have any subtitles - so a woman was sitting at the back of the cinema with a laptop and a fancy machine thingy that allowed her to live subtitle the french parts into finnish. of course it didnt work properly for most of it - so i was reading finnish, listening to french, still laughing at a previous joke in english. hohoh. i sat there smiling like a madman for 105 minutes. anyhoo go see it when it comes to your part of the woods.

previous: december 2003 rant about gondrys directors dvd set.

(i do sort of feel bad that ive started his other film “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” twice and not finished either time. just does nothing for me. i think i just prefer his own stuff)

omg! i just noticed/realised/remembered that the character of zoé is played by emma de caunes - daughter of “eurotrash” presenter antoine de caunes. madness. mmm.

also: the making of the film: google video link (mais c’est en français!)

i was at the opening of the best in show exhibiton in the galleria krista mikkola and i took some pictures. which was nice. flickr set link!