(d Bitch photos) ICELAND/REYKJAVIK : Arriving & Around Town : JUNE 21st to JUNE 24th

Safety video for Iceland Air... (I would have loved to be the Flash animator who made this)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/arriving/03_safetyvideo.jpg

Welcome video for Iceland Air... (The lead stewardess in the video (rrrroowr) lead her entourage like Janet Jackson in a Rhythm Nation 1814 era video.. minus the Jam & Lewis music production, sadly)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/arriving/02_welcomevideo.jpg

Sunset upon arriving from Keflavik airport from Heathrow.. pic taken from plane window (Note: this is 11:30pm)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/arriving/01_sunset.jpg

Arriving at Keflavik airport...
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/arriving/04_theairport.jpg

The lonely road to Reykjavik (about 45-50km from the airport)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/arriving/05_theroad.jpg

AROUND TOWN....

The wood man -- the man made out of wood -- etc.
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/10_woodman.jpg

Poster for Lou Reed (due to play there August 20th, unless you read this after this date)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/14_loureed.jpg

Poster for Placebo (due to play there July 7th, unless you read this after this date)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/01_placebo.jpg

Dogma fashion shop windowfront
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/05_dogma.jpg

Inside CD/record store 12 Tónar, about to go downstairs for Rokk
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/09_12tonar.jpg

"Fighting Shit/Brothers Majere/Hopeless Regret/Hryggjandi Sannleikuv/Innvortis/Terminal Wreckage" Flyer for seemingly hardcore/punk/noise(?) show happening in town.. don't know if any or all of these bands are necessarily Icelandic, but probably most.
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/28_punkflyer.jpg

People are listed alphabetically by their first name in Icelandic phone books. (Confidential to Chris P., SEE? I TOLD YOU!)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/29_davids.jpg

Street shot -- Laugavegur
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/07_streetshot1.jpg

Another shot of street Laugavegur
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/08_streetshot2.jpg

Above shot of street Bankstræti
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/15_bankstraeti.jpg

Sad statue
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/13_sadstatue.jpg

Shot of street Bankstræti (with confined sad statues)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/11_streetshot3.jpg

Skaters
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/12_skaters.jpg

An art space with a strange array of these seemingly, um, shaped wax things each in its own kaleidoscope
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/04_waxphalluses.jpg

This, needless to say, freaked me out when I saw it. So, of course, I took a photo of it. (Speaking of which, the much famed Icelandic Phallological museum -- a museum that exhibits penises of a large variety of animals in formaldehyde -- has now recently moved to a town near Akureyri, second largest city in Iceland, in the north part of the country, due to a bidding war for tourist reasons I suppose.. so no dicks for me other than, uh, this.)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/27_hornpenis.jpg

I got lost trying to find a chemist/drugstore/pharmacy that was open after 9pm to help alieve some throat problems I had due to a minor cold I started right when I arrived, and I happened upon the Ásmundur Sveinsson museum. So I begin taking photos... here's a sampling of the structures outside the museum itself (which was closed)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/20_asmund_museum.jpg

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/18_asmund_statue01.jpg

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/19_asmund_statue02.jpg

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/21_asmund_statue03.jpg

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/22_asmund_statue04.jpg

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/23_asmund_statue05.jpg

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/24_asmund_statue06.jpg

Random street sign shot (Þingholtsstræti)... borders on qualifying for the graffiti section, although a "?" is hardly anything.
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/30_thingholtsstraeti.jpg

Relaxing to a nice large can of Egils Gull beer at the end of the day. They provided two of these in my guesthouse refrigerator with a suggested donation of 500 kronur each (at this time, around $6US). Gull must be the PBR equivalent in Iceland. Also noteworthy -- Egils, the company who made this, also makes soft drinks. Hell, it was good enough beer for my cold, 'nuff said.
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/25_gull1.jpg

A house near the harbor, and a statue
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/31_harborhouse.jpg

Hallgrimskirkja church -- tallest structure in Iceland. (I stayed at a guesthouse right next to it, just off to the right with the little white sign, up the street Skólavörðustígur... this pic was taken at 10:35pm)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/17_churchback.jpg

Closeup of Hallgrimskirkja, with statue of the Lief (donated by the U.S. in 1930)
http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/summertrip2004/iceland/aroundtown/16_churchup.jpg

Lynch lives in Iceland? I didn't know somehow.

well, according to that phone book he does :)