One rope, two vessels and a comforting sound. Chug-chug. A marine engine, lively doing its job. Our engine – the exact opposite. Stubbornly silent. Out of order. As quiet as a mouse. The bad news: We are shipwrecked. Disabled and adrift. Powerless. For hours. The good news: Our ship, the M/B Irdi, just has been taken in tow, by the Susanna …
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The imaginative universe of Rakel Helmsdal
A fake feathered parrot. Little bells, strung on a braided cord. Cut out paper figures. Artificial sunflowers. Nail polish, transparent. Shelves full of clothes. Document files. Swarming butterflies, in the shape of stickers. A double meter stick. Piles of books. Pictures and a postcard-mobile. At the heart: Rakel Helmsdal’s study. Rakel, writer, puppeteer, artist …
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Video: This year’s first fall storm. Essence: Intense
Imagine waking up in the morning, because of that sound. Gusts of wind shaking walls, full tilt. Your neighbor’s tree and bushes troubled. Blessedly, you are prepared. The day before you have done all the shopping in the supermarket. Right after you heard about the gale warning …
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I’m wishing on a star …
Half an hour ago. Eysturoy. Elduvík. Magic. Northern Lights. What a beautiful way to say „Goodnight“. Never can get enough of these Northern Lights. Hard to find, not easy to chase. Make you feel very small in this world. But also somehow connected to everything that surrounds us day after day. Earth. The planet we all live on …
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Harvesting cultivated seaweed with Ocean Rainforest
Excited. Wearing my rain gear and a working helmet. The boat Tongul is on its way from Funningsfjørður harbor to the aquaculture site north of the village of Funningur. A huge cultivation rig for seaweed. The work of Ocean Rainforest, a company engaged in the production of marine biomass from macroalgae in open ocean cultivation installations …
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A late season sunbath at Æðuvík Beach
Rocky shore, heated by the sun, pleasing bare feet. Shoes, socks, sweater - on the ground. Sky and ocean, different shades of blue, clouds pretty in pink. Officially, Æðuvík is the Christmas village of the Faroe Islands. As for me, Æðuvík, located on Eysturoy, is also one of my favorite places during late summer and fall …
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Present knitting needles! Eileen Ejdesgaard, festival pioneer
Two cups of coffee, a table full of knitwear and one topic of conversation. The word itself implies what this wool-mountain-meeting is all about. Binding stitches, sharing skills and bringing people together: That’s the basic idea of the Bindifestivalurin í Fuglafirði. Eileen Ejdesgaard is one of the founders of the knitting festival …
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