Iceland is cool. (pun intended)

Sorry it's been so long, folks :( I've been trying to find stuff to show you what I find really inspiring and tie them together in a nice little package for you :)

So here's a topic that keeps surfacing for me: Iceland! It seems to me that everything I see coming from that little corner of the world is so damned aesthetically pleasing! The design, the street art, the music... even the freaking landscape is beatiful!

It looks like a fractal with those unreal colors. Here's an oldie combining the stunning natural beauty with Björk's "Joga" and some awesome video processing:

And I just saw this while looking for some street art samples. It combines a painted wall piece with projected images. So cool.

It's all got a very unique style that I think draws so well from their environment in such a beautiful way. The colors I see used in buildings and art; the sparse and haunting chords and vocals of the music (traditional and contemporary) all seem to to be taken directly from the local pallette. I love seeing art as a mirror that shows our immediate perceptions and reactions to our habitat. Even their economy is very self-sufficient in their long use of geothermal energy to heat and power their homes and even run their cars! Never ceases to amaze me.