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Posted on April 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
Some great beats coming out of Scandinavia….check out this year’s winners of the annual Danish DeeJay Awards! The Year’s Danish Artist & Album: MEDINA / For Altid http://medinamusic.dk/ The Year’s Danish Deejay: NOIR http://www.noir-music.com The Year’s Upfront Deejay: FLIP DK & Dance Chart Prize: KATO Ft. IDA CORR, CAMILLE JONES & JOHNSON / Sjus The […]
Posted on April 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
World-renowned Danish silver design company Georg Jensen has a new collection designed by British desiner Ilse Crawford. Here’s a short film produced by Justin Anderson featuring the collection, which includes a water jug, metallic bowl and candleholder. Quite sexy indeed. http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/4/19/2074/ilse-crawford-x-georg-jensen
Posted on March 8, 2012 Leave a Comment
Designer Katja Bie turned her love of writing, history, and pattern design with storytelling and created her own masterpieces. Her silk scarves and ties feature an overlay of artistic expressions featuring ancient script and motifs from H.C. Andersen fairy tales, Danish castles, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Tycho Brahe star maps, and Viking runes. Her collection started with the production of ties, scarves […]
Posted on October 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
I actually personally attended the very first Iceland Airwaves concert in Iceland back in 1999. Gus Gus played and a very cool Beastie Boys-ish band called Quarashi played as did Detroit’s Thievery Corporation. Flavorwire highlighted a few of their favorite new bands from Iceland playing at this year’s Airwaves festival on their site. Check it…
Posted on October 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
Thanks to Nordic Vibes, a Dutch blog covering Scandinavian music, I discovered this super dreamy from Finland. They describe themselves as: “Combining the hypnotic soundscapes of dream pop with lush melodies.” Seems like they’ve been making waves worldwide with their self-titled album, which launched in Finland about a year ago in Sept. 2010, then later in Germany, […]
Posted on September 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
This year’s Icelandic-based Nordiska Fashion Biennale, an exhibition that showcases Nordic fashion and accessories, will take place for the first time in the U.S. in Seattle. Co-produced by the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, where the event will take place from Sept. 30-Nov. 13, and the Nordic House in Reykjavik, the event will focus on the […]
Posted on September 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Read coverage in some of the international papers about the historic win for Denmark….in more ways than one… New York Times: Denmark to Be Led by Its First Female Premier as Leftists Win The Guardian: Danes vote for their first female prime minister Huffington Post: Denmark Elections: Helle Thorning-Schmidt, First Woman To Become Prime Minister, Defeats […]
Posted on September 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Since it’s harvest time, I decided to look up some places around the country to pick or harvest fruit, mainly berries, plums and apples. Here is a useful website if you want to venture out and “pluk selv” / pick yourself! http://plukselvfrugt.dk Here is a site dedicated to places where you can pick Danish strawberries: http://www.danskejordbaer.dk/ A secret source (a family friend), tipped […]
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