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Hi Folks! Excuse us for not uploading 2 posts every day, but we’re here for vacation at the moment. So not so much time for blogging you might understand. During the day most of the time we are laying in the pool or we are swimming in the Andaman Sea, spending what looks like a gazilion Bath on coctails and Singha. In the evening we mostly are stuffing our bellies full with Thai food (see the picture above) to after that stroll the city in slow gear, where we spend even more Baths on Singha, coctails and massages. Damn, sometimes life’s fair.
Jon Pall Sigmarsson, during the eighties the infamous strongest man of the world, was, next to Geysir and before Icesave came into the news and Björk entered the stage, probably the only thing well known coming from Iceland. While we were there last week for the Iceland Airwaves festival, we tried to find his grave to honour him and Iceland, but really nobody could tell us where his grave was. But luckily we saw much, much more. I’m not going write it all down but I can tell you this: we love Iceland. A lot. Friendly people, fantastic vibe, astonishing nature, quality food, great music scene. One thing for sure: we are definately going back next year. Ceck out our pictures here, and our videos here.
Tomorrow the Kobayashi group will fly to sunny Iceland again. Not for holidays this time but we’re going to attend the Iceand Airwaves festival. After checking out some of the bands on the net (let’s be honest, we didn’t know 90% of the bands that are coming) we only feel more excited. Some of the things we discovered you can check out here below (FM Belfast, Ben Frost, Hjaltalin, Cancer Bats). Gonna try to update the blog while we’re there, so keep posted!
Adolf Hitler’s body. Right there. And if you look closely to the picture you see something really strange…
Yes, uhu, that man wears socks in his slippers… Can you believe that?
Anyway, we went to Berlin and it was spuperbe. What a grand city that is.
Yeeha! It’s a fact. We ‘re off to Iceland from october 15 to 18 to attend Iceland Airwaves 2009. Four of us are now going to see the moonlandscapes of beautiful Iceland. Want to join us? Info right here. Pictures here.
Hi there! After being sick for allmost a week, a nasty ear infection, and spending a long weekend in Paris, we’re back with new posts. Hope ya’ll missed us!
So, Paris it was. Been there quite a few times before, but just like NYC we can’t get enough of big city life. Just to stroll the avenues, to drink liters of vino and to eat more then you can get. But this time it was the first time we went into the catacombes. Quite an experience: a 1.6 kilmotres walk, 20 meters below Paris in narrow allyways with très très low ceilings. I became aware of the fact that I own a light form of claustrofobia… Anyway, I pushed through and made it to the thousands and thousands of neatly piled up skulls and bones of the obviously very dead people from the 17th century. They were moved there because the normal cemetaries were full, due to the enourmous amount of (some of them famous) people dying from the guillotine and not the least, the plague. It gave me (indeed Abel) une momènt existentièlle.
To the Roosevelt Hotel y’all! That was where we were staying in NYC this february. Hotel prices are a laugher nowadays so we chose to sleep in this 4 star accomodation on Madison Avenue. In 5 days we went to see the big museums (MoMa, Guggenheim and so on), zigzagged across Manhattan with the subway, shopped our asses off in SoHo, did some jazzclubs, ate burgers and went out dancing one night at The Webster Hall to hear Steve Aoki of The Cobrasnake doing a fake DJ set . He sucked, but we had a grand night standing on platforms ruling the place and be as loud as dutchies can get. See moving footage of our trip here and photos in the Flickr departement on your right.
Some time ago the whole A.K. team was in Iceland for some days to visit some friends in Reykjavik. We had some time to travel inland a bit and we could stay a night in our friends’ summerhouse not far from Hekla, Icelands’ biggest and still active vulcano. Offcourse we also saw Geysir and the immensly powerful Gulfoss and lots of other beautiful places. But the thing that struck us most were the views from the coastlines as you can see in the pretty picture above, taken by mrs. Kobayashi. It made us realise how far away and isolated Icelanders must feel from the rest of the world. It gave us both the shivers and an uttermost relaxed feeling at the same time. We’re still not sure which one had the overhand for us but according to researcher Jon Carlin from The Observer, Icelanders must be the happiest people living on this here planet, all 313.000 of them. Read his explanation right here.
Photos taken from the ongoing The Dark Lens series, made by Cédric Delsaux. Quite a cool thought: some Jawas messing around with metal debris in a garage box next to yours.
A miniature robot that can crawl through you veigns and lungs to find a tumor and then zap it with drugs? People growing up in the 80’s will probably think of the movie Innerspace. But the little iron bug you see on your left and below does all that. It can travel inside your body guided by electromagnetic fields outside your body which propell the tiny tentacles of the mini robot. I believe everthing is possible from now on. We probably are beaming up Scotties in some 20 years from now.
About nasty Japanese fisher ninjas who are killing thousands of flippers in a secret cove once a year. It won al lot of prizes according to those leaves that Julius Caesar wore on his head. I, being Japanese myself, only eat dutch cows and pigs.. so don’t blame me!
