HOW TO SUCCEED IN MODERN BUSINESS: LESSONS FROM THE ICELANDIC VOYAGE
Speech given at the Walbrook Club, London, England, May 3, 2005: “Distinguished business leaders, representatives of the media, ladies and gentlemen: Recently, I have often f
Couchsurfing Culture
Couchsurfing.com operates as an international network where people open their doors and transform their sofas into replacement hostel beds for random world travellers. The site ope
More Monsters and Mythical Beings:
“We’ve got this database of monsters and creatures in our past. A lot of their stories are fascinating, it’s a shame that they’re not used more in modern culture,” remark
Bombing the City
The graffiti film Bomb It! premiered in Iceland at the Reykjavik film festival. Los Angeles director Jon Reiss attended the first screening and took part in a Q&A afterwards. H
Blades of Glory
Disney movie buffs will cheekily remember that Iceland played the villainous top-ranked team in the Junior Goodwill Games against Emilio Estevez’s Mighty Ducks. Their slick-mouss
The Angry Young Men of the 2010s
The times ahead will be interesting. Initially, the catastrophe will bring out the best in people. We will all band together as one to pull through. It will be a […]
Getting More Serious
Rumours had been going around that the roughest Icelandic flick to date was being screened in cinemas near you, so Grapevine caught up with the man who created all the […]
Culture of Waste
Before arriving here, my strongest impressions of Iceland came from news panoramas about this geothermal-powered, arctic paradise. This is a country that brings the environmentally
The Skeleton Economy
The Icelandic economy has crashed. The government has nationalized all three of the major banks in Iceland and most Icelandic financial institutions overseas are bankrupt. The glob