tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887587961297515952024-03-19T00:39:19.489-07:00::catalyst::amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-6908463399310727882013-10-02T00:47:00.002-07:002013-10-02T00:52:17.469-07:00::remembering your forgotten treasures::Missing this day. Traveling 10 hours by ferry and bus from the Westman Islands off the southern coast of Iceland to the northern coastal town of Hófssós all in one day.
This was our in-between point. A late afternoon picnic in the central Icelandic Highlands, where practice exercises for the Apollo Mission were held. From snacking on jam, crackers, and Dutch Carrots, to wading our tired hot feet in the numbing glacier fed milky colored water of the Hvítá River.
I was heartbroken and out of sorts, but still this was truly one of the best days of my life thus far, don't even ask me what I would trade in exchange for being there again for a little while....
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(Is suicide ever anticipated or expected...?) Trying to relax in the arms of the most solid state ever. I may be a tad mixed up but, when I tell you "i love you" I feel truly at "home"... With some very hard lessons learned, this summer is ending on many good notes.
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God blessed me, I'm a free man,
With no place free to go,
I'm paralyzed and collared-tight,
No pills for what I fear.
This is crazy,
I wish I was the moon tonight.
Chimney falls and lovers blaze,
Thought that I was young,
Now I've freezing hands & bloodless veins,
As numb as I've become.
I'm so tired,
I wish I was the moon tonight
-Neko Caseamanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-81657236351002544482013-06-08T00:16:00.001-07:002013-06-08T00:16:46.253-07:00::time is never time at all::I don't know what's changed in my head lately, I've been really reveling in my dreams, my intuitions... Something has suddenly inspired me to tap into my consciousness I've surely been ignoring for too damn long.
This morning I woke up thinking of this particular image from Ocean View, HI Nov 6th, 2012.
Something inside me tells me to dive deeper....
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I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind,
I'm building a sill, to slow down the time.
I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind,
I'm building a sill, to slow down the time.
-Bon Iveramanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-14217163380494052882013-05-05T16:22:00.000-07:002013-05-05T16:23:05.368-07:00::Muscle & Marrow::Last Monday I had the fun opportunity to photograph Portland band, Muscle and Marrow.
Check out their haunting, lovely and wonderfully arranged dark folk music
<a href="http://www.muscleandmarrow.com">HERE</a>
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These images below were taken at Liberty just around the corner from my home in Seattle but look strikingly similar to my memories of us all having beers at Helgi og Valdi Cafe in the afternoons in Reyjavik and helping each other with our language homework....
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"A wolf howls on the fjord,
there are no wolves in Iceland,
our pack has returned"
-Sean Grisdale, Höfsoss, Iceland, July 18th, 2012
amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-18190089742705930862013-04-10T14:17:00.000-07:002013-04-10T14:17:23.064-07:00::30 is the new calm::Scenes from Chicago during my 30th birthday weekend. I cannot wait to be living in this city.
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For the past month I've been plugging away designing a very wholesome labor of love. I was asked late last year to provide the Design and Layout for the printed program for the Icelandic National League of North America's annual conference that happens to be held in my fair city of Seattle this coming month!
The theme of this years convention is "There's No Place Like Heima" Heima being the Icelandic word from home. Playing off the classic quote from the Wizard of Oz, Seattle being "The Emerald City" and Seattle and Reykjavik being Sister Cities. Not to mention the incredibly strong Emigrant ties between Iceland and Northern North America.
The photo I chose for the full bleed wrap around cover is from the tiny town of Thingeryi in Iceland where I lived with some distant family earlier this past summer for 3 weeks. This photo was taken during the town's Midsummer Homecoming Festival at 11:30pm during the hilt of 24 hours of daylight in the summer months. I was standing on a picnic table drinking red wine from a box my Aunt(of sorts) Hrafngerður had brought while an Icelandic Leonard Cohen cover band was playing behind me. I had felt pretty displaced and intimidated for the my first couple weeks in this other country and in this moment when this image was captured, it was all sinking in and I felt truly at home.amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-82758536002724953882013-02-21T19:29:00.000-08:002013-02-21T19:43:10.620-08:00::sick day soup for one::Spur of the moment experiment in spicy Scallop and Garlic Dashi. I think I've been getting quite a bit of this season of Top Chef lately.•4 Cloves Garlic coursely smashed with Mortar Pestle (When garlic is crushed or chewed it forces the Allin and Allinase enzyme together and causes a chemical reaction to produce Allicin, a powerful, natural Antibiotic.)•6 small dried Hawaiian Chile Peppers also crushed up with a Mortar & Pestle.•1 seared then chilled Jumbo Scallop thinly sliced.•1.5 cups Veggie Broth•1.5 cups Decaf Green Tea.•<i>tiny</i> pinch of Sea Salt-Bring all ingredients to a rolling bowl then strain off chunks and discard. Add a large handful of chopped Kale and 1/2 cup baked tofu and pour over Jasmine Rice.<a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/DashiDay_zps82ad574e.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/DashiDay_zps82ad574e.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo DashiDay_zps82ad574e.jpg"/></a>amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-8682940668117873632013-02-20T16:47:00.001-08:002013-02-20T19:20:19.220-08:00::no crickets, no creatures are a stirring::"I need a warm hand, over the water, every since I lost mine, in the Fireworks disaster" -Father John Misty<a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/newheader-1_zps313b91e4.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/newheader-1_zps313b91e4.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo newheader-1_zps313b91e4.jpg"/></a><a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/head_vert-1_zps150b69c7.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/head_vert-1_zps150b69c7.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo head_vert-1_zps150b69c7.jpg"/></a><a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/head_vert-1-2_zps72d36579.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/head_vert-1-2_zps72d36579.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo head_vert-1-2_zps72d36579.jpg"/></a><a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/blood_flag-1_zpse32ee6c0.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/blood_flag-1_zpse32ee6c0.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo blood_flag-1_zpse32ee6c0.jpg"/></a><a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/aandj_zps2bd6f2bc.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/aandj_zps2bd6f2bc.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo aandj_zps2bd6f2bc.jpg"/></a><a href="http://s1101.beta.photobucket.com/user/mandergrace/media/ender-1_zps0d694b40.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/ender-1_zps0d694b40.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo ender-1_zps0d694b40.jpg"/></a>amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-21119294708626827072013-02-06T00:29:00.003-08:002013-02-21T15:54:40.407-08:00::Fragments::If you put any stock in Astrology (which I'm not sure where my stance is) a Saturn Return is a very beautiful and very confusing process:
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At the beginning of the trail down to the fall you find a large, beautifully carved Granite monument dedicated to Sigrídur Tómasdóttir, known as Iceland's first Environmental Activist. In the early 1900's her father was offered a handsome sum from foreign investors to use Gullfoss and other Icelandic waterfalls for Electrical production. His famous quote was, "I do not sell my friends". With Sigrídur's continued effort, Gullfoss is now a protected national park in a country that sustains itself on renewable Geothermal power.
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amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-24971722403509418402013-01-14T01:13:00.001-08:002013-01-14T01:24:23.321-08:00::have the bravery not to turn away::I want to live by the method of constantly examining my feelings rather than shoving, drinking, sleeping, suffocating or ignoring them away.
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"I'm in one of my new moods, I wanna know if my dreams are true, I wanna know if the best place to be, is here, with you"....<br />
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This was my very favorite alone in the car singing along (surely terribly) jam this past summer of 2012. I just need my pink sunglasses a Camel Light and a little early morning indignation. amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-6971374846703059222012-12-02T18:55:00.000-08:002012-12-02T19:37:35.555-08:00::beautiful disintegration::A couple mornings ago while waking up I listened to <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/11/29/166176294/iceismeltingfaster">this</a> very interesting and alarming piece about Global Climate Change on NPR
Before this past summer, Greenland wasn't a place I can say I thought about that much at all. The following photos were all taken with my iPhone in June and July flying over Greenland to and from my short stint living in Iceland. While Scientists say it's very hard to precisely calculate, it seems that Greenland is losing it's ice land mass at 5x the rate it was 10-15 years ago. An article in the Reykjavik Grapevine in July of 2012 stated that July of this year saw the largest melting of ice mass and ocean level rise in this arctic region in 30 years (my entire lifetime!).
On the morning of June 11th 2012 and the evening of July 20th 2012 this is what I saw..
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amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-14643752314773372462012-11-18T20:14:00.000-08:002012-11-18T20:14:27.158-08:00::lonesome dreams::Kuhaku, HI 11.06.12 Election Day
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"Oh, there's an island where all things are silent
I'm gonna whistle a tune
Oh, there's a desert that size can't be measured
I'm gonna count all the dunes
To the ends of the earth, would you follow me
There's a world that was meant for our eyes to see
To the ends of the earth, would you follow me
If you will have a say my goodbyes to me
Out there's a a world that calls for me, girl
Headin' out into the unknown
Well if there are strangers, and all kinds of danger
Please don't say I'm going alone" --Lord Huron
amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-31201702217396128062012-10-11T16:41:00.003-07:002012-10-11T16:41:56.053-07:00::a week in the life::I woke up this morning and realized I've barely been creating any new images for the past little while. It may just be one of those 'creative hibernation' phases....
Nonetheless life is always chugging along accordingly. Brunches, chilly Fall nights at home playing games, work tasks and giving a presentation in front of 65 folks for Leif Eriksson day last night.
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<a href="http://caseyinpictures.blogspot.com">Casey Parks</a> in Portland, Oregon accidentally embarked on a two week project where we decided not to text, call, or email each other and simply have a conversation through sending each other iphone photos. What resulted after 2 weeks when we sat down in her living room in Portland and looked at the photos as a whole was a really interesting and abstract conversation. The images ranged from what were were drinking eating, wearing, who we were hanging out with, where we were working on assignment for the day.....
We titled this project Needful Things. I got the idea from the name of a General Store in Mitchell Oregon we had visited earlier last summer on a camping trip. The named seemed fitting for an inspirational silent exchange between two friends who have very similar notions on art and the world around them in general.
A lot has happened and changed in the past year and here we are again, Autumn creeping in and Casey and I have decided to revisit this project. With the world and life moving so quickly it's comforting and inspiring to exchange intimate little snippets of daily life with someone despite a couple 100 miles of distance. It's also a good exercise is what one of my Photography idols Penny De Los Santos calls "Practice Seeing Everyday"
Here's a little sneak peak at the first week of Needful Thing's 2nd anniversary:
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<a href="http://s1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/?action=view&current=372fd0f8.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/372fd0f8.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-82384998497602682292012-08-29T15:34:00.002-07:002012-08-29T15:34:57.200-07:00::picnics are for lovers::<a href="http://s1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/?action=view&current=3d3d7da3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/3d3d7da3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-57893718533381942882012-08-15T16:22:00.001-07:002012-08-15T16:22:51.282-07:00::we'd be safe out here in a zombie apocalypse::Going to, from and exploring upon the town of Heimaey ("Home Island") in the Westman Islands (Vestmannaeyjar)off the south coast of Iceland.
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<a href="http://s1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/?action=view&current=8aaa0fe4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/mandergrace/8aaa0fe4.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-42841236718837209892012-08-09T09:17:00.003-07:002012-08-09T09:21:04.315-07:00::home again, home again, jiggidy jog::I've been pretty off the map lately. Locked out of my Instagram account, out of synch with my collaborative <a href="http://www.wearesuitcase.tumblr.com">tumblr blog</a> ignoring the piles of photos to edit that I shot in Iceland, not being able to find time to grab a drink and catch up with all the friends I've missed while away. It's been an overwhelming return stateside and I'm just now kinda getting back in the swing of 'real life after 3 weeks of being home.
I took a quick little jont up to my hometown Blaine, WA on Monday to visit my Aunt uncle, Grandpa and 2 younger cousins up there. In the past couple years as I've entered my late 20's my values and priorities fallen into place a bit more and I've realized how much I really love spending time with my family and how valuable people whom you've known you're entire life truly are. The road I could drive in my sleep, the house where I always know the hiding place of the spare key...
My grandpa said after dinner "Well it's been a good day, I've fed fresh Blueberries to my oldest Grand Daughter and my oldest Great Grand Daughter. How 'bout that?!"
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"I came in this way and here now I'll stay
If the unknown have to wait one more day
There's often times that it comes out wrong
But luckily I, I got a mind to know
On my way back home"
-band of horsesamanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888758796129751595.post-8529835843199140332012-07-23T13:06:00.000-07:002012-07-23T13:10:08.406-07:00::life as I know it to be now::A quickly thrown together synopsis of a week in my life in Reykjavik and Þingeyri, Iceland that I used as part of my final Graduation presentation from the Snorri Program.
The sun never went down and the clocks run on 24 hour increments. A rough little insight into my surreal and challenged brain from the past month.
Music by Other Lives, "Tamer Animals"
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/46240397" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/46240397">24 hour daylight</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1831998">amanda allen</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>amanda allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01211829763854841110noreply@blogger.com0