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Sculpture by Edda Karólína

A friend of mine made this sculpture for a show and I missed it, so I asked her if I could take photographs of it because I loved it so much. We did some typical documentation of it and the. Left the space and found a spot that fit its vibe. The sculpture is by Edda Karólína who I have the pleasure of working with frequently. Her art is absolutely brilliant.

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Spaceship Earth

Review of Neuromancer by William Gibson

I finished the book in 4 days, reading it page by page, glued to it when I wasn’t taking care of the rest of my life. I did something that I have done a few times prior, which entailed listening to the audiobook when not reading the book after getting about 100 pages in. So, I was reading ahead while listening to the same pages I had just read in the time when I was unable to have the book in hand. Essentially, the effect of hearing it from a narrator’s perspective allows for more intake of the concepts as well as a nice backtracking on the plot and pick up of the details that were missed while was absorbed in reading.

This book’s major accomplishment is its understanding of a future that felt prescient in a way I haven’t experienced. I still can’t comprehend how Gibson was able to imagine what AI’s impact would become while at the same time create a world in which nothing felt out of the realm of possible. Truly a work of a mind that can postulate on ideas that had not yet been poured over so much in the 40 years between my reading and its creation. AI is not a new concept, but in 1983 during the book’s creation, AI was essentially philosophical in a way that required filling in the blanks around its implications that are more fleshed out today.

The duelling concept of two types of AI and what AI could come to represent will frame my understanding further as we enter the AI-age. I need to dig more into it, but so many things Gibson proposes are totally inspiring.

The plot itself pulls you along with it at a great speed that many novels fail to achieve. There’s never a point where you feel you’ve skipped details that are necessary to understand where you are. I loved this aspect of it. I could see the scenes without much effort and his ability to jump into cyberspace and out without giving the reader a hint of where you are before the scene begins felt fresh and special as I was reading it.

Highly recommend everyone to read it. And read it again if you already have, it resonates today as if he were predicting the future instead of entertaining with a a story. 

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Empathy is the solution. Full stop. The way forward is to show care and understanding of our neighbours that make up this society that we occupy together. Success is not a zero-sum game. There is a way for you to achieve what you are hoping to achieve where I am also able to achieve what I have set out to achieve. Stop acting like your failure is the result of other’s success and stop building societal systems on such concepts. We do not have to live as adversaries.

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Árið án Sumars | A Year Without Summer

I always enjoy photographing theatre pieces a little bit more than anything else that I do. This one involved some of my favourite artists from many different mediums of theatre, costumes, stage design, acting, dancing, and lighting design. The real star of this photograph is probably Óli Stefánsson, the lighting designer. He was the one who came up with the idea to flood the stage with sodium vapour flood lights. The effect is such that the only visible light on the spectrum is the yellow/orange wavelength. and the resulting photograph has almost no post work done to it — I added a +5,+10 -10 -5 contrast S-curve and that’s about it. Of course every photo is the result of a lot of people’s work and in this one, we see a lot of brilliant people coming together to make something stunning.

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One of the great paradoxes contained in the scale of a lifetime is that as you get older, gain wisdom, and generally master skill after skill, you’re simultaneously losing the freedom of conscience that comes with ignorance and unbridled joy.