According to Björk, the image of Iceland is being destroyed by an increasing number of aluminium smelters: “If they build an aluminium factory in Helguvík, it will be the first thing tourists see when they arrive in Iceland [at Keflavík airport], then they will drive past [The aluminum factory in] Straumsvík on the way to Reykjavík. That is just like shooting yourself in the leg. This is bad for our future as a green country and for tourism. It is also bad for Icelandic artists who are aiming at international success, because we are trying to promote the image of purity, clean nature and our relation to nature.”
Last weekend Björk, with the aid of Sigur Rós and a bunch of lesser known Icelandic musicians, performed a concert at the Botanical Garden in Laugardalur, Reykjavík to raise awareness of the omnipotent chemical element which handily boasts the atomic number 13.
Source: Iceland Review
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Item not won: Adolf Hitler’s head shaped candle.
A man was arrested yesterday for decapitating an wax effigy of Hitler in Berlin’s Madame Tussauds.
Possible motive:
World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler’s living head and hide it in the fictional South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.
-They Saved Hitler’s Brain (synopsis), 1963. Dir. David Bradley.
Comment:
This is a rare reactionary attitude to German history in the capital (of all places) as Germany is internationally recognised as a nation which has confronted its past ‘head-on’ and benefited as a result. You only have to walk around Berlin to see that the remenants of the Reich have not been concealed or glossed over.
Consider the term: Trauerarbeit - Ger. meaning: mourning or grieving, literally translates as ‘healing work,’ (which importantly denotes an active process) used by seminal artist Joseph Beuys during postwar period to describe his modus operandi which included didactic lectures, social sculpture and founding the Green Party in Germany. He is said to have been a Luftwaffe pilot, shot down over the Crimea and nursed back to health by Tartar nomads, hence his autobiographical output. Beuys saw himself as shamanic figure who sought to put a plaster on every wound that he found, no matter what the size. More…
Remember: Two (W)Wrongs do not make a (Third)Reich.
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Robert just wants Morgan to be his friend.
But Morgan feels Robert is a bully who doesn’t
know how to be friends.
Robert chews on Morgan’s face.
Morgan gestures to push him away.
The well has long since dried up.
Image: Ant Macari
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