One Hundred Forty Four

not just a singer songwriter, seabear and sin fang bous frontman sindri mar sigfusson opened his first solo art exhibition this past weekend at gallery crymo in downtown reykjavik. if you are strolling around reykjavik i recommend checking it out! check out some of his work here

"sindri @ gallery crymo"

One Hundred Forty Three

yesterday i spent a few hours at sundlaugin studio with sindri and örn from seabear during the final day of mixing their 2nd album set to be released early next year. it was an enjoyable morning with nice light shining through the studios big windows and the music coming out of the speakars fitted the mood . i managed to get of a few frames with the contax g2 which seems to be coming my camera of choice these days. played around with a little cross processing on these photos and if you click on them you can view them larger.






"final day of mixing with seabear @ sundlaugin studio"

One Hundred Forty Two

came across a photo project the other day called tokyo camera style and spent one morning going through the whole thing. the project is the brain child of john sypal a photographer who lives and works in tokyo, japan. i have also been going through his blog and i think its the first time i have ever found a blog and gone through the entire archive. but the way he sees japan and the culture was something i found extremely interesting and made me realize how amazing it was spending three weeks there in november last year and how much i want to go back there! hopefully in the near future. below are two photos that i found while going through some images from tokyo and on my website there is a gallery called "tokyo, jp" which is a collection of 20 bw images from the streets of tokyo.

"halloween in tokyo 2..8"

"spam @ freshness burger in tokyo"

One Hundred Forty One

hanging out and waiting for school to start, its almost a year since finishing brooks so next up is trying out the MA program in journalism at the university of iceland. trying to pass some time by going through, cutting down and scanning films both new and old. the hp multi-all in one scanning thing is giving me some troubles with my slides so the im getting out of it for now are film strips but no individual frames but with a little help from google im hoping to figure it out soon.

"slides from lake squam, NH"

One Hundred Forty

did a little promo photo-shot last month for the icelandic clothing company m-design at kleifarvatn lake just on the outskirts of my hometown of hafnarfjörður. the wind was blowing like all hell and despite it being july it was also way to cold, so their hair would not stay still and we had little time to snap away. put a couple up that you can seen here. if you want to see more from m-design click on the photo

"ragga & gríma @ kleifarvatn"

One Hundred Thirty Nine

sports can be a dangerous thing! i should know since i had three big surgeries due to sports before i was 23 years old. the other day i went and see my friends from the soccer team KF mjöðm play their last league match in the carlsberg league. lets just say it was not their night, game got lost and guðmundur einar had to be taken to the hospital and got six stitches in his eye brow. even with the cut guðmundur still managed to stop and pose for a photo before going to the hospital

"guðmundur einar after a head on collision during a game with his team KF mjöðm"

One Hundred Thirty Eight

just heard yesterday that 13% of traffic to icecreamman.com is coming from iceland so i must be doing something right up here on the north atlantic rock. below are two of the latest ICM posts from iceland. first one is from the Innipúkinn Music Festival that took place over labor day weekend in reykjavik and the other is from when seabear and amiina, kippi&maggi played the local cinema in my hometown of hafnarfjordur, click on the photos for reviews and pictures.

"Bjössi from Borko & Örvar from múm @ Innipúkinn"

"Seabear @Bæjarbíó"

One Hundred Thirty Seven

a few weeks ago i attended the LungA arts & music festival in the seaside town of seyðisfjörður in the east of iceland. just got a little festival review up on icecreamman.com which can be viewed here hands down one of the most beautiful settings to have a festival in, having those huge mountains surrounding you was truly humbling. i also decided to test out a hasselblad camera i borrowed the other day and take a few portraits of musicians. the 1st one is of örn ingi guitarist for seabear and bassist for skakkamanage and the 2nd one is of gylfi blöndal guitarist of kimono. on the way are photos from a seabear & amiina gig in hafnarfjörður, iceland and the innipúkinn festival that was held this past weekend.

"örn ingi"

"gylfi blöndal"

One Hundred Thirty Six

the gogoyoko train is in full swing these days and getting ready to make the store and the site available to the world. their latest blog post has a great interview with sindri from seabear and sin fang bous and it has a portrait i did of sindri two years ago and a live photo from th seabear gig in heidelberg, germany from the seabear/borko tour last year. check it out for all the 411 on both bands

click on the photo to read the whole interview with sindri

One Hundred Thirty Five

after living in california for three years i became a big fan of the diner culture and getting my picture taken and put in the customer photo album of my favorite ventura diner vagabond only made me a bigger fan of this unique american tradition. a few weeks ago my buddy stu introduced me to the stage restaurant in the east village in NYC a diner that mixes american diner culture and eastern european food. it became a daily event for me and i thought it would be a good idea to keep my memories of the place freash by snapping a few photos of the joint.



"stage restaurant on 2nd ave in NYC" shot on a Contax G2 and HP5+

One Hundred Thirty Four

i think its fair to say that over the past 12 months i have been to some events that are maybe not the so called "norm" like the chaos that is Comic Con in san diego last summer or the Homeless World Cup last december in melbourn, australia. but i think the strangest event that i have been to this year had to be the Hot Dog Eating Wold Championsships that i just saw take place at the world famous Nathans in Coney Island where Joey Chestnut just defended his title by setting a new WR by eating 68 hot dogs check it out on ESPN. now its back home to sunny old iceland!


"the countdown and WR board @ Nathans in Coney Island"

One Hundred Thirty Three

last friday i flew out to new york to meet up with my friend stuart rogers from lofi.tv and gogoyoko. stu is also the host of the radio program "all over the shop" a weekly saturday night show on east village radio, i joined him in the sound booth last saturday and snapped some photos of him and the nights guest dj's robbie and milo from the band the big pink, they guys ran through the music spectrum playing all sorts of music and even drawing a small crowd from the streets tuning in. be sure to check out their tour listings and catch them live if you can!

"all over the shop with stu & guest dj's the big pink"

One Hundred Thirty Two

two weekends ago I dropped by for a little late night recording sessions with the boys from Kimono. had my little contax g2 in my bag so snapped of a few frames. only had 400asa film with me so my not so steady hands did their best to capture the feeling in kimonos rather dark rehearsal space. only wish the camera could have captured the massive sound the guys were producing in there, looking forward to hear these recordings soon!.




"kimono studio recording session with alex, gylfi, kjartan and aron. ilford HP5"

One Hundred Thirty One

its good to be home! after a week of traveling with morr music through europe I finally made it back home to iceland and have been spending the past two weeks getting settled into life here again. been going through and editing photos from the tour for icecreamman.com and if you click on the photo below you can see the pics and read my article from the tour. i also went and saw my friends from skakkamanage play @ karamba in reykjavik last weekend and if you click on the 2nd photo you can view the photos from that fun filled night. on friday ill be flying to NYC and meeting up with my old rommies from cali so keep a lookout for some east coast photos coming soon

"sin fang bous in Antwerp, Belgium"

"Skakkamanage @ Karamba in Reykjavik, Iceland"

One Hundred and Thirty

hopped a train in copenhagen last monday and got on a tour bus with sin fang bous, borko and its a musical for the 2009 morr music summer tour. we are doing a tour diary for morrmusic.com and if you click on the photo you can see what these crazy kids are up to during the tour....more photos will follow

"sindri being sindri in antwerpen"