sfmoma:

bluebirdsfloat:

Olafur Eliasson - Your Sound Galaxy 

via http://www.olafureliasson.net/

iambountyfan:

20120805: Stockholm Music & Arts — iamamiwhoami

iamamiwhoami to perform at the Stockholm Music & Arts festival on August 5! The lineup also includes Björk, Buffy Saint-Marie, Fatoumata Diawara, and Anna von Hausswolff.

(via iambounty)

Necropants in the Holmavik Witchcraft Museum

Necropants are a method that a sorcerer used to get rich in old Iceland. With agreement prior to death, the sorcerer exhumed the corpse of a man and flayed its skin, in one piece, from the waist down. It was believed that the necropants would spontaneously produce money when worn, as long as the donor corpse had been stolen from a graveyard at the dead of night and a magic rune and a coin stolen from a poor widow were placed in the dead man’s scrotum. After tanning, the sorcerer wore the skin like a pair of pants. As soon as he stepped into the pants they will stick to his own skin. A coin must be stolen from a poor widow and placed in the scrotum along with a magical sign, written on a piece of paper. This reputedly attracted more coins and hence the sorcerer became wealthy. Before his death, the sorcerer had to pass the necropants to another. He did this by having the new owner place his right leg in one side of the pants whilst the sorcerer still has his left leg in the other. In this way, the power of the pants would pass from one individual to another.

The Museum of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Iceland has a pair of necropants on display.

(Source: moshita, via emie-d)

Þjóðveldisbærinn Stöng is a reconstructed viking-era Long house or farmstead in Iceland. It is a replica of the building which was buried under volcanic ash in 1104 following the eruption of the volcano Hekla.

The reconstruction was built in 1974 as a part of the national celebrations of the 1100th anniversary of the settlement of Iceland in 874.

(Source: paganroots, via fauxroux)

thedailywhat:

Letter Of Note of the Day: A terse letter penned by Ingmar Bergman in 1960 to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences upon learning that his film, Wild Strawberries, had been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Screenplay category.

It lost to the Rock Hudson/Doris Day romcom Pillow Talk.

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julieswilliams:

(via BBC News - Scandinavian food: Why is it becoming popular in the UK?)

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invisiblestories:

Vädersolstavlan (Swedish for “The Sun Dog Painting”) is an oil-on-panel painting depicting a halo display, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, observed over Stockholm on April 20, 1535 (via medieval)

It’s Gallifreyan, and you can’t convince me it’s not.