In 2005, Norway initiated a 15-year project to generate more tourism by hiring architects & designers to build rest stops for its stunning landscape. This is what the National Tourist Routes In Norway has achieved so far.
Norwegian road trip anyone?
The Lofoten Islands of Reine, Norway, taken from atop Reinebringen Mountain
Dreaming (by Peter Przybille)
Alaskan Husky Tex dreaming in the landscape of Northern Norway. :)
Friggin Norway, it’s just too beautiful.
If you look closely, just to the right of the falls you can see an abandoned farm.
SO COOL. CAN YOU IMAGINE LIVING THERE.
Geiranger - the “seven sisters” waterfall (by Bergen64)
Ørnesvingen Viewpoint by 3RW Arkitekter, landscape architecture by Smedsvig Landskap AS, May Elin Eikaas Bjer
Ørnesvingen is the most spectacular viewpoint along the Ørne (eagle)-road, a zig-zag road along the steep valley sides of [Norway’s] Geiranger-fjord in Møre and Romsdal. Located at one of its many bends the viewpoint gives tourists breathtaking views over the recently acknowledged UNESCO world heritage site, making it one of Norway’s major tourist attractions.
The project consists of three overlapping white concrete slabs overhanging the edge of a 600 meter vertical drop, enabling the observer to step out into the airspace. The river on site is guided over a glazed front, forming a waterfall on the very edge of the viewpoint. Information boards in glass explain specific locations in the scenery.
(via landezine)
Haley’s been making a video with one of Jens Lekman’s songs, and so I’ve been wondering when his next album is coming out. He released a single that I love about nine months ago, and he had this to say about his new album that should come out some time this year:
I’m writing this on the train from Bergen, Norway. I had a lot of emailing to do and I thought I could just as well do it on the night train there and back. By the time I get it up on the website I’m guessing it’s 2011. So happy new year to all of you.
I’m still working on my next record, I know it’s been a while. It’s taken a long time because it started to take shape only a few months ago. Up until then it was a cluster of everything. As if you would have dug your hand down your pocket and just thrown the contents on the table - sort of like my three last albums and there’s nothing wrong with them but this one’s an Album. It’s been trying to tell me that the whole time.
It’s been trying to tell me that I don’t have much say in this, that the process is not like building from the ground up, but rather like unfolding from the top down. I set out to write about anything but myself and ended up writing only about myself and maybe 3-4 other people who really don’t serve any other purpose than to reflect myself. It’s been trying to tell me that a self portrait is not just a dialogue between you and yourself, but it’s also a dialogue with a third person - the beholder. Or in a larger perspective - society. Yeah right album, whatever you say.
I set out to write about anything but heartbreak, and ended up writing almost entirely about it. I felt like a war correspondent, wishing for a small column about gardening. Putting on my helmet and my bulletproof vest one more day. It said: You’re doing a good thing, remember all the people who write to you with their stories. All they want is someone to tell them theirs so they know they’re not alone. I said : Yeah yeah yeah.
But we seem to agree on the sound. I said “aerodynamic”. It said “cool”.
I’m gonna keep my mouth shut now because we still have a long way to go and I have no idea where it will lead me eventually. But my plan is to get this and an EP out this year.
Over and out.
J
The view from Astrid Hagen’s livingroom window.
