Vandana Shiva is visiting in Iceland and I’d very, very, very much like to meet her to discuss things like the Global Swadeshi Network. Can anybody who’s reading this make the connection to let that happen? hexayurt@gmail.com you know where to call…
Read more →Iceland’s currency has completely collapsed threatening things like an IMF bailout. Which, as you know, worked great for Argentina in 1999. I’m wondering about setting up a local exchange and trading system for Iceland to help people through what’s going on. I could use some technical resources inside of Iceland (for obvious reasons the servers [...]
Read more →Aura Capital Partners Global and Nordic News Feed My friend David sits on the news, picks out the most useful bits, and pops them into a feed. What’s particularly interesting is which bits are significant to David – not necessarily the things you’d immediately think of as being key features, but if you follow the [...]
Read more →It’s a bit interesting. The question is, given my perspective, why? There’s a ton of sources out there, written, books, tapes and so on that are perfectly adequate. I’m not qualified to teach advanced practices (being trained in a thing is not the same as being trained to teach people a thing, as anybody who [...]
Read more →Basically, it’s this insanely great and very historic (134 years!) festival on the Westman Islands in Iceland. Here’s a nighttime shot. And here’s a daytime one. Note all the white tents. They serve a very similar function to theme camps, but each one holds about a dozen people, so it’s lots of small microclimates with [...]
Read more →Just watch this. If you want to know what my world looks like, what the hexayurt is **really** about, watch this video.
Read more →New album, opening concert thingee in a couple of weeks, and this long interview in the Reykjavik Grapevine The iconography and the ideas… very familiar.
Read more →(above, a short movie, below, a still.) This is why the Pentax Optio WPI was a good idea. Showerproof cameras make a lot of sense.
Read more →Set up. Lights. Camera Action! MP4 video of… well… they did say 90s. I had a good time anyway!
Read more →Well, one things leads to another, and some new friends (Thor and Unnur of Cocktail Vomit and Smari McCarthy) went to see one Emilie Simon. It was an odd show – lots of extremely random midi gear and a fellow who looked a lot like Willy Wonka set around an impish french girl with a [...]
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