Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival Opening Scene
A few days ago I posted some great photos of the Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavík lit up for the Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival. Well here’s the video. Quite a show.
The music you hear in the video is the music that was actually played on scene. It is music by Icelandic band, For a Minor Reflection.
Reykjavík makes use of the dark winter nights every year to put on the Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival or Vetrarhátíð in Icelandic. During an entire weekend the center of the city is filled with art, performances and happenings. All of the museums open their doors and offer free entrance throughout the day and evening with all sorts of special exhibitions. I predict that pictures from the opening ceremony last night, pictured here below will flood tumblr in the next few weeks. New York artist, Marcos Zotes, lit up Iceland’s famous Hallgrímskirkja church with unique light designs accompanied by music from Icelandic band, For a Minor Reflection. If you are in Reykjavík, then check out the schedule as the festival will continue all weekend.
Most of these photos are taken from Orkusalan, the sponsor of the display.
Have you heard of Eve Online? It’s one of Iceland’s most successful companies. They make the online game Eve. It’s a multiplayer role-playing game, set in space. Players create their own characters and space ships before setting out on a journey through space. During this journey they can form alliances with other players and travel alone. A large part of the game is focused on a complex economy which participants can take part in through mining, trade, piracy, manufacturing or combat. The economic system, which uses the ISK (nice reminder of Icelandic Krona), is so complex that economists have taken an interest in studying the game. Bank crises, bank runs, economic booms and slowdowns have all occurred in the 8 years the game has been run.
The hardest of the hundreds of thousand Eve Online players group together in Iceland every year for the Eve Online Fanfest. Icelandic band, FM Belfast, will be keeping the fans alive this year.
Check out more of these promotional posters of the Reykjavík Invasion.
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Nice shot from a different perspective than usual. Hallgrímskirkja church, downtown Reykjavík. By bekop.
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When you go to Reykjavík, take a short while to enjoy the view from the top of the Hallgrímskirkja church. The church is easy to find, the tallest building at the top of the highest hill downtown.
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This is not Reykjavík today, but it might as well be. Just as people were getting ready for spring, sweeping the steps and very optimistically putting out their lawn furniture it snowed again.
An Icelandic day is like box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. And you might get rotten shark.
(Source: Flickr / gazraa, via chameau-a-la-vanille)
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