Uprising

Architectural Thrust

A favorite picture from the series about houses growing out of the lava and neighborhoods being built despite the lava. Very unusual landscape.

Germantown Avenue

Back at it! I thought I would go look back on my Germantown Avenue project. I had to bring it out since I am applying for the PEW Fellowship in order to finish the project. It is always so tempting to put together a new block. Here is the 6300 Block of Germantown Ave. Only a few hundred blocks to go!!! You can see more at: http://juliastaples.blogspot.com/

Band Photography

My friend asked me to take some pictures of his band in his studio. His bands name is Sökudólgarnir. In english that means the culprits. I had a great idea to take his bands picture near a waterfall with them wearing suits, but the rain put a damper on it! You can’t tell, but it was raining very hard.

Here are a few of the pictures I took:

Happy Birthday Sister!

Wow! My sister just turned 19. She is exactly 9 years and 320 days younger than me. She was born at 1:01 in the morning on the 21st of September. I was at my grandparents house eagerly waiting for the news of my little sister of whose company I could not wait.

Congratulations on being a wonderful person, my favorite sister and awesome at life. I am so proud of you .

Such a nice smile!

Having fun in the park!

Happy Birthday!

Finally Graduated

Only just a babe

So sweet

Look at those eyes

I can’t get enough

ANNA!

Tennis junky

Looking Out

This is the other piece that is in the show. It went over really well. It is hung just like this:

Picture of the Day

Their is a great webzine out there who keeps posting my work in their picture of the day section. I just wanted to send a big Thank You and a hug. Their webzine is called The World’s Best Ever. This link takes you to the picture of the day when they chose my work. Chek them out. They have some interesting posts.

Thank you!

There was a great turnout at Lost Horse on Saturday. It was wonderful to have so many supporters. Thank You! I was very happy with the way my work looked and turned out. Hanging it was a bit of a sticky situation. The walls at Lost Horse are old and very unusual, so making my work hang straight was difficult. You can see the manager of the gallery, Alex, standing in front of one of my pieces. Below that is a picture of my friend Vilborg standing in front of “Rock Garden”. Thanks again!

Alex in front of "Luxury Windows"

Vilborg in front of "Rock Garden"

Opening Tomorrow (Saturday) at Lost Horse

It is finally here. The first time I am publically showing my work from and about Iceland. The opening is tomorrow, Saturday the 13th at 6pm at Lost Horse Gallery.I hope to see you all there. Here is a sample of what I will be showing. Oh, and I would like thank The American Scandinavian Foundation for making this project possible. They are a wonderful organization who sponsers many cultural exchanges between Scandinavia and the US.

Luxury Views in Nordlingarhot

Rock Garden

Dieter Roth and my Dream

I found a man who likes multiples like myself. One of Dieter Roth’s many pieces is a series of every single building in Reykjavik in the 70’s. Not only did he shoot every building, but he shot them all each twice, once in the summer and once in the winter. There is a total of 30,000 images on slides. He exhibited the piece most recently at his retrospective at the MOMA in 2004. You can check out the website and click on 1970. Once you get to his 1970 works you can see the one with 8 projectors if you want to see a picture of the piece.

Well, if he can do it, so can I! I think I am only shooting 9,000 images  of Germantown Avenue. But this gives me an idea of a new presentation as well. I am trying to figure out what sort of presentation would be best.

Dieter Roth at 35 in Rhode Island

So to give a bit more information, Dieter Roth adopted Iceland as a second home. So he is well thought of here. The museum I am volunteering at called Nylo, supposedly owns this slide project and hopefully in the not too distant future will show it for the public. I can’t wait.

My dream is to see this piece.

Here is a picture of an architect who likes multiples. I took this picture not too long ago in the new neighborhood called Hvarf.

Goodbye Stadarskali-Home of the Hamburger

Goodbye to our good friend Stadarskali. It has been operating as a truck stop and gas station since 1960. They were the first restaurant/diner in Iceland to offer hamburgers. Today, as of September 15th, they are being bought by Esso (which is called N-1 in Icleand) whose plans are to have a standard, sterile and impersonal bus stop/gas station. the Grapevine Magazine will be publishing an article honoring their 48ish years . Slowly N-1/Esso is taking over all of the very personable and family run bus stops here in Iceland to replace them with their ugly, sterile, fast food gas station alternatives.