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Psychologists and social scientists have analyzed and theorized endlessly about the pleasure we get from watching something completely unpleasant. Their answers vary widely, but almost all are in agreement that it’s not logic which draws us in, it’s emotion.
Amongst the berries and sheep and children for school, Oddný is also a collector of stories. She has kept a diary, writing in it almost daily, since she was eleven years old. It was her way of absorbing the her ever-changing surroundings.
Two and a half years ago Emilíana Torrini quit the band. There was no drama, no hard feelings. “I just promised myself if I started to think about other things on stage then it was time to stop."
On December 10 Yamaho is booked to play Berghain for the legendary Berlin techno club’s twelfth birthday celebration. “I will take them on a journey,” she says confidently.
While many Icelandic artists are quick to cite nature as their inspiration, Haraldur is fascinated by the built environment. “Building is a state of mind,” he says. “Architecture affects the way we think.”
Pan Thorarensen and Þorkell Atlason are craftsmen of electronic music. They think things through.
“Gakktu hægt um gleðina dyr,’ it’s something like, ‘Calm down, take it slow,’” Árni says above the clamour of pinball machines and jingling tokens. “My dad used to always say it to me before I’d go out. It’s the best Icelandic phrase.”
In practice, the development of virtual reality has been driven primarily by military and gamer interests. It was not until a couple of years ago that the medium began to invade the realm of pop culture. Filmmaker Andrew Huang is on the front lines.
“When the new moon comes, I’d go under, like a submarine,” Björk explains, motioning up and down with her arms. “On a full moon it all comes out. Then I’d descend back down toward the new moon."
Forging your own way doesn’t always take you down the most comfortable path, but it’s always a scenic one. And DJ Gunni Ewok has seen a lot.
In 2013, the Greek government dismantled its national news network — the equivalent of Britain shuttering the BBC. But even now, more than a year later, the journalists refuse to quit.
When ‘all the lights have gone out’ we will be left with our stories. At least we can keep doing that when we make our way to the end,” Sjón says near the edge of our conversation.
Maria Tomara had been a radio journalist for twenty years when the station was shut down. For over a year she and other former workers of ERT have hijacked the airwaves and continued the broadcast, relying entirely on volunteered hours and donated equipment.
When they finished shooting the scene, Guðmundur realised that they had something special, and what began as a small experiment spiralled into a fifteen-minute short fiction. On May 25, the resulting film titled “Whale Valley” makes its debut as one of nine short films at Cannes Film Festival in France.