Bunny Revolution....

The Flax arrived here to stay on the 12th. The poor love was sick but so was I. Gladly she was on the end of her Scandiland tour rather than on the beginning. This was much better and also very lucky what with the illing, it meant we could hang out and play it low key and for once she could see some things in Reykjavík town rather than sleeping all day. Thursday night she played at Kaffibarinn so the girls and I dutifully went to dance to the Spice Girls amongst other things.







The next day we were very sensible and started the day with vodka tonics, an act of rebellion which I haven't succumbed to in many a year. It took the edge off the cold (temporarily) and the hangover. We went to the hot tubs where it appeared 'special' men's day was in progress if the push ups in the steam room along with other random behavior were to be believed.









It was the most glorious day indeed. We opted to go for a walk along the coast afterwards, giving Lauren a chance to view the magnificent Esja.






Next stop was a visit to an art opening in which two of the Weird Girls were showing work, Magga Rut and Ragga. Ragga's work included some pieces taken from the last episode.





It was window weather indeed but it still made us feel summery as possible. Window Weather is what Icelanders call this brilliant sunshine as featured in the photos here, but in actual fact is no where near warm - we were floating around the 1 degree C mark. Still, we decided to host a barbeque and the people came and the people ate.









Nice and early this ended with some going out downtown and others like Lauren and Lilja and I all heading to bed around midnight. Lauren and I were both pretty sick the rest of her stay so we had movie nights, a little sightseeing and casual Sunday bloody Mary's and obviously had to have a mini photo shoot with the rabbit heads.










Polaroids, I cannot believe they can stop making them, I am sure a small but solid market exists. As it is I am getting friends abroad to buy up as much as possible.







I spent the next days very unwell and am sat here now with a bark like a sea lion and very unpleasant it is too. Even with the 5 days off work it hasn't shifted. I did venture out on wednesday to Weirdcore at Organ to see Begga play but left half way through the live music and once again was in bed just past midnight.





Not much else has happened really except for some lovely press about the Weird Girls Project and the news of our festival thing in October and the video.... the video as it happens is ready and here but I am not going to launch it until later in the week ah ha! Check back here and you will see it soon.

I so very rarely do this...

... get political on my otherwise completely shallow blog that is, but my eyes just popped out of my head with this one.





And HERE, is a list of comments about said rant, with 1800 people agreeing with her.

Sometimes, I feel like the world has gone mad.

Weird Wide Web

Wellity things have certainly been taking a turn for the Weirder. I shalt brush upon the non weird stuff first to get it out of the way...

Way back a few weeks ago, Curver (also known as the Mad Professor following the photo below) returned to the country to join me in spreading more 90s wrong across the nation, this time for private gigs only. We had one on the outskirts of Selfoss - yes yes but it was insane and we did not expect what happened.



It was in Hvithusið and when we arrived nothing was set up and thusly we thought we had entered the twilight zone. The house is in the middle of nowhere - or at least looked to be in the insane blizzards outside, and was full of middle aged politicians (including one I more or less attacked around Christmas when he smugly stole my taxi) listening to a random guy on guitar.

Oddness, yet the kind of oddness I think makes life wonderful. Within an hour however we were on stage, the lights were better than at Nasa and 450 kids showed up all thoroughly dressed the part spandex and neon ahoy. Amazing.



On Friday I went with the girls to Organ for Jón Jónsson night with Yuksek electro de francais playing. I decided to dress like a 1980s college lesbian. Well, that wasn't the aim, I just ended up looking that way i.e. a tosser. I love it.








Saturday was a 'window weather' day as Icelanders call it. Stunning but fecking chilly will when you get outside. Daníel and I tackled kolaportið and downtown rather productively then tried to walk on the beach until we froze, cold but very invigorating, especially when you can clearly see mountains and glaciers on the horizon.







More or less anything else doesn't deserve mentioning in comparison to the Weird Girls project and its development.

March 1st and 2nd saw the completion of Episode 4 - Bunny Revolution. For this I took 18 girls out to Laugavatn, where I had hired 3 summer houses to perform this. The main force behind this episode was an official music video for the New York band HEARTSREVOLUTION and their single Switchblade. I shipped in Chris Rowe as filmmaker and Ben Mathis came as official photographer.



This was by far and away the most ambitious of the project yet, 18 girls, lighting gear, the icelandic weather - the logistics were intense. Luckily we all got there fine, and the weather was a gift from on high. Sunny and still it meant we could film in much longer bursts than I expected for the minus 4 degrees C. There were a few close ups required the next day and only 3 of us went out and I appreciated the previous day's weather more than I already did as just without the sun we were frozen to tears within ten minutes or so.

The shoot went very well indeed and at one moment I pulled back my rabbit head and nearly burst with joy. Mountains pure white from snow, an army of fencing ninja rabbits and bright bright sun. This was exactly the vision I had when developing the concept. When first thinking of this, I knew the likelihood of snow at this point was very slim and it truly made the aesthetic what it was. Months of planning and hundreds of thousands of personal krona were more than worth it as was scaring my neighbour's shitless with what looked distinctly like a rabbit massacre in the washroom.




After the last shot of the day we huddled in one of the summerhouses and I made tacos for the 21 of us. A few of the ladies with obligations in town headed off early evening and those of us left drank a tipple or not and we headed to the hot tub. We stayed in there for about 4 hours, at one point squeezing 12 in it, a feat I did not imagine possible.




Thank you to:
Friða - our onsite assistance and mum.
Chris Rowe - director
Ben Mathis - photographer

and the girls of course:
Lilja, Katrín, Sunna, Magga Sigga, Eva, Margrét, Hulda, Íris Síf, Mokki, Alex, Chlöe, Ragga, Magga Rut, Théodora, Dagrún, Karolina B and Karolina P.

This one RULED. The video will be released 18th March. The photos are in full size and many more HÉRNA and you can add us HÉRNA.































Following this excitement the Project has been invited to the London arts and music festival Concrete and Glass in October this year provided we can secure funding for our travel etc.

This means Episode 5 will be in the summer producing a video to accompany Ghostigital's new album and Episode 6 will be a live performance, in front of people, eep, collaborating with Begga who will be singing 3 tracks off her soon to be released album.

Total excitement. Utter panic. Fun and definitely games.