Friday, February 29, 2008
Leap Day Siblings
Today's the day when we celebrate Heidi, Olav, and Lief-Martin Henriksen, the only living set of siblings all born on Leap Day. Norwegian folks, the Henriksens. Their birth years are 1960 (Heidi), 1964 (Olav) and 1968 (Lief-Martin). Gratulerer med dagen!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Feeling Northern
I'm swamped with work and stuff, and have been unable to post for some time. But wanted to add a link to a fun Wikipedia article I found via The Morning News on the World's Most Northern Things.
Norway checks in with the most northern movie theater, church, ATM, airport, brewery, and much more.
Norway checks in with the most northern movie theater, church, ATM, airport, brewery, and much more.
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Geir Jordahl's "Searching for True North" exhibit reviewed on KQED.org
The gallery show of Searching for True North at ModernBook has received a very positive review from Ben Marks on KQED.org. A snippet:
The full review is here.
What's refreshing about Jordahl's work is that, in an age when we've become numb to the guilty pleasures of Photoshop, there's nothing inherently fake about these pictures. Yes, the artist's bag of tricks includes infrared film and panoramic cameras, but what we see is precisely what those tools and materials deliver, no more, no less.
The full review is here.
Labels: art, friends, Norway, poetry
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Norway Recognizes Geir Jordahl's "Searching for True North"
Norway.org, the official United States web presence of Norway, has a wonderful article about Geir Jordahl's new photography book, Searching For True North.
A gallery opening for Searching for True North is slated for Friday, February 1, 2008 at ModernBook Gallery in Palo Alto. These images -- many shot with a Widelux panoramic camera and many made using infrared film -- have been described by Margaretta K. Mitchell as "restless dynamism." See you there!
A gallery opening for Searching for True North is slated for Friday, February 1, 2008 at ModernBook Gallery in Palo Alto. These images -- many shot with a Widelux panoramic camera and many made using infrared film -- have been described by Margaretta K. Mitchell as "restless dynamism." See you there!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Another Strange Story from Norway
I found this odd bit of news in the Australian newspaper, The Age:
I recently watched She's The Man (dubbed in Spanish) on a Mexican bus, I have to say that the Czech woman, Barbora Skrlova, appears to pull off the teenage-boy act better than Amanda Bynes. But you can judge for yourself; the news article has a photo, and can be found here.
A nationwide search for a missing 13-year-old Czech boy exposed a bizarre case of identity theft in which a 33-year-old woman spent four months posing as a schoolboy in Norway, police said.
I recently watched She's The Man (dubbed in Spanish) on a Mexican bus, I have to say that the Czech woman, Barbora Skrlova, appears to pull off the teenage-boy act better than Amanda Bynes. But you can judge for yourself; the news article has a photo, and can be found here.
Labels: Norway
Friday, January 11, 2008
Talk About Burying the Lede ...
A good-hearted wire service story talks about Ringo Starr returning to Liverpool to mark the city's year as a European Capital of Culture. Ringo and Dave Stewart (the musician, not the pitcher) will headline an outdoor concert featuring 600 local musicians. Good for them. Here's the official Liverpool 2008 website.
The last paragraph of the story reads: "Stavanger, Norway, is the other culture capital for 2008." Who knew? And who will be Stavanger's Ringo? Here's the official Stavanger 2008 website; there's an English-language button in the upper left corner.
The last paragraph of the story reads: "Stavanger, Norway, is the other culture capital for 2008." Who knew? And who will be Stavanger's Ringo? Here's the official Stavanger 2008 website; there's an English-language button in the upper left corner.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Foreclosures in California hurt Villages in Norway
According to an article in the New York Times, the subprime mortgage mess -- through its financial fallout -- is hurting some small Norwegian towns. The article quotes Karen Margrethe Kuvaas, mayor of Narvik,
It really is a small world.
... where the season’s perpetual gloom deepened even further in recent days after news that the town -- along with three other Norwegian municipalities -- had lost about $64 million, and potentially much more, in complex securities investments that went sour.
It really is a small world.
Labels: Norway
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
You Can Count On My People To Do The Right Thing
There's a story on Reuters today, dateline Oslo, that begins like this:
It's been a long time since I've visited the homeland. I didn't even know there were erotic chain stores in Norway, but there must be a few if one can be declared the largest. (Insert your own "size isn't everything" joke here.) Strange, but the store itself isn't named.
The full article is here.
Norway's largest erotic chain store was forced to change the labeling on products such as penis pasta, candy cuffs and chocolate body painting, to comply with Norwegian food regulations.
The Norwegian food safety authority, whose goal it is to make sure consumers have healthy and safe food, conducted a surprise inspection at one of the chain's stores and found that several products violated food labeling regulations, top-selling tabloid VG reported on Tuesday.
It's been a long time since I've visited the homeland. I didn't even know there were erotic chain stores in Norway, but there must be a few if one can be declared the largest. (Insert your own "size isn't everything" joke here.) Strange, but the store itself isn't named.
The full article is here.
Labels: Norway
