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- Опубликовано: 6 дек 2021
- After a week off for printing, Grapevine editor-in-chief Valur Grettison and his trusty Chief Morale Officer Pollý are back to take you through the latest in Icelandic news. Full details of everything discussed in this episode can be found in the description below.
There is now less chance that the volcano in Grímsvötn will be going off, and therefore the orange alert for flight has been lowered down to a yellow alert. Read our latest article here: grapevine.is/news/2021/12/06/...
COVID-19 is the same as before - too much. Current restrictions were due to expire today, but have been extended with no change. Read our Covid coverage here: grapevine.is/news/2021/12/07/...
Jón Gunnarsson of the Independence Party has been made Minister of Justice, a very controversial appointment. Jón has been criticised for his anti-feminist views in the past, and other politicians have been questioning whether he is suitable for the role. Read more here: grapevine.is/news/2021/12/06/...
In other news, Menthol cigarettes will be banned in Iceland and the price of fireworks are expected to skyrocket (pun intended). And lastly, actor Kaley Cuoco is in Iceland shooting HBO’s hit show, The Flight Attendant.
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Thank you Polly and Valur for the walk around..
I so love these virtual walks around the centre of town.
Reykjavík must be the only capital city where you can chuck a frisbee for your dog as far as possible and not hit anyone. What a terrific place - can we all come and live there? We promise to behave!
One of my favourite streets…what a view! Thanks Valur, Art and Polly 👍🏼
Sad to see the Graffiti around Reykjavík.
Totally amazed on the growth in and around Reykjavík over the past 40 years since I served at NAS Keflavik. Definitely planning on doing Golden Circle and visiting some of the sites further afield that your programming has introduced me to.
I also was impressed by the number of new buildings. The architecture is rather uninteresting though.
Side streets are nice
I’m shocked, shocked that excessive drinking is happening there! HBO knows where to go to film authentic settings for effect. A quaint drinking country with a fishing problem… Polly has her work cut out for her! 👅🐾🐾
That was lovely to see the streets and hustle and bustle of Reykjavik again, since i was there in 2009. Of course businesses have changed, but its such a beautiful city/CBD. I miss it a lot and the rest of the country and will get back there again one day, hopefully.
Peace
Love these regular updates, Valur and Art! Especially nice to see the sights as you stroll around town. Your newscasts are a little pocket of sanity in a (still) currently crazy world! With best wishes from the UK.
A great show
Love it in the background with a morning coffee in England
Hi Polly
So many flashing lights, wow❄️😳❄️
Ha, just priced a flight to Iceland for New Years, just for the fireworks.
I really liked the Icelandic movies Bokeh and Lamb! Great movies ;)
The 2011 eruption at Grímsvötn was the largest from the volcano in more than 50 years and actually produced more ash than the much more famous eruption at Eyjafjallajökull. What was different was that the plume was largely carried to the north-east away from transatlantic routes which meant there was only a little disruption to flights. The other good news from Grímsvötn is that the magma is almost always basaltic (like that in Geldingadalir) which means it tends to form bigger ash particles than the stickier magma at Eyjafjallajökull, so much less ash can reach high altitudes and interfere with planes. Of course, that just means the ash falls closer to the volcano which is pretty miserable for the communities in the SE of Iceland.
Chances are, that if Grímsvötn erupts, the eruption might not even break through the icecap, but it could send more water down the rivers, so there is still some risk from flooding along the southern coast,
I see that Polly walks you. She is pulling you along!
How can you not love that rainbow road with that famous spire in the background? Makes me miss Iceland 🥰
It's actually a disgusting hate crime having homosexual symbolism in front of such an important Christian building.
I live in Iceland, but have not been downtown for a long time. What strikes me watching this video is the amount of graffiti on the buildings. Very sad to see..
Some people do dislike it. We thought it was cool and took photos, though! The unique art I mean, not the badly scrawled tags. One likes to see some effort. 😏
Surely the (probably) small number of individuals responsible for defacing public spaces in Reykjavik could be identified by surveillance cameras etc and held accountable/ stopped. It's sad to see such a beautiful city being degraded in this way by graffiti
That's my favourite street in Reykjavik-should have popped into Mokka Cafe for a coffee and the best waffles in town!
I love it when you do the reports from places I've actually been. I want that spaghetti now, from that orange and green building that seems to have no name...so good
Tweeted this I hope you Keep growing every time I tweet this.
Kaley Cuoco is a great ACTRESS I love her in The BIG BANG THEORY.
Lovely to see all the streets I walked around when I was there in January 2020.
Polly is taking Valur for a walk like most collies do 😊 ( my collie was the same).
Stay safe out there.
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The cost of fireworks is going up everywhere. Two years ago (pre covid) it cost ~£11k to ship a container of fireworks to the UK, now it is ~£30k & that price seems to go up every week!
A brief meet & greet between Kaley Cuoco and Polly would have been epic! She is huge animal rights activist and would love Polly. Maybe there's still a chance if she's still in Reykjavík?
She's also a horsewoman, and everyone loves Icelandic horses!
I don't know about Icelandic films, but some of the TV shows I've seen are superb! Keep them coming!
Beautiful town. Good luck quitting vaping. Don’t ever give up trying.
Nice to see Christmas preparations in Reykjavik downtown. But the camera settings don't work with the LEDs lights everywhere, looks crazy
I have a question for Art. What makes most of the lights in the shops look like they are flickering or flashing? Are they flourescent or LED lights and just photograph that way?
I was wondering that too! I thought it was Christmas lights to start with, but all the lights in the light shop were doing it!
It's due to synchronisation between camera’s frame rate and the frequency of the AC power that the lights are plugged in to. To avoid this we would need to use special filters to lower frame rate, but these filters doesn't go well with our stabilisation equipment - sorry about this.
@@TheReykjavikGrapevine I imagine Art has tried using PAL at 25 fps. If not and Art is using an iPhone, he should be able to change the Camera Record Video settings and enable the ‘Show PAL Formats’ toggle. Then try 1080p HD at 25 fps (PAL) or 4K at 25 fps (PAL). I'm not sure if RUclips changes the playback rate. 25 fps playback should be ok on computers. I'm not sure about smartphones. The audio may go out of sync from RUclips, so it's something to check, if he hasn't already.
I thought it was kind of a pretty view the electric company was putting on.
Bravo...
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It’s not serious because everyone takes it seriously, Iceland rules! Would love to see a saga series filmed in Iceland based on the old Iceland folklore tales. Netflix has put several Christmas movies out this year from Norway and Sweden dubbed in English that were really enjoyable. Hearing fireworks, church bells and church choirs all over Scandinavia at Christmas and New Years shared live on Instagram the winter before the pandemic began was absolutely magical.
In addition to enjoying the news you offer, I equally if not more, love the views of Iceland. What is that fascinating spire/building?
It's the Hallgrímskirkja church. It's the 2nd highest building in Iceland. On New Year's Eve, it's where everyone lights off their multi-rocket fireworks packages. Art did a video of it, which is on the video section of the Grapevine RUclips channel. You really won't believe how many fireworks are exploded. When Valur mentions the fireworks, it's really a big deal in Reykjavik. They go a bit crazy. There's no public sponsored fireworks display. So, everyone in town lights off their own.
@@peterginsburg2465 thank you so much. I will look for the video
Loved seeing the sites in Reykjavík, beautiful city. But so disappointed in all the grafitti! Anything being done to try and get rid of it or stop it?
just love fireworks ,used to shoot up to 10 inch shells and huge batteries , great newscast as usual btw ,very appreciated
I'm wondering why all the lights in shops and on the street are blinking. Anyone?
Lights actually flicker on and off because of the electric power grid alternating current. We don't see it, because it happens so fast. In the US, it's 60 cycles/second. In Iceland and Europe it's 50 cycles/sec or 50 hertz. Art's camera shoots at a frame rate that is probably a little off. He might be shooting at 30 or 60 frames/second. So, the camera is running faster than the lights switching, so the camera catches the period when the lights are off, when the current switches from positive to negative.
Do you have to pick up after your pet in Iceland like we do in the US? (Well, not ALL of us. I live in the US and I’ve seen people not clean up after their pets, even though it’s the law to do it)
Petition (signature list 🙂)
The "new Reykjavík" and the "old Reykjavík" are becoming ever more clearer. 😲
What's up with all the graffiti???
Why are all the electric lights pulsing?
I saw that as well, including inside the buildings too - must be related to the recording (I'm not technical enough to explain but does occur elsewhere too)
It's an optical illusion caused by the shutter on the camera which isn't visible to the naked eye. The mains frequency in Iceland is 50Hz so LED bulbs have a 50Hz flicker. If the camera's recording frequency isn't synchronised with the mains frequency, the lights will be occasionally 'off' when the camera records a frame - so you get this pulsing effect.
@@mikerichards6065 Beautifully said. I'll add that it is called a stroboscopic effect.
Where’s the snow
It's back again today!
but isnt RV pretty much THE filming industry in Iceland? the fireworks price is due to many factories in china blowing up in the last year.
the word you are looking for is...PETITION......(list of signatures)
I LOVE that rainbow road. It makes me happy every time I see it.
Cars don't stop at the crosswalk in Iceland? :o
About the same as here. No one ever stops for a pedestrian crossing
a petition ( signature list on some issue)
Your name is “Of course” !
Not Valur?
lol
E - scooters left unattended do they get nicked.
great that it ends on Baldurs Gate :Þ
Explain please the Rainbow colors on street on which you are walking. Interesting and quite pretty. Guess it has to do with LGBQ
Valur, I noticed quite a lot of graffiti on your journey today. Does it ever get cleaned up by the Council or is it up to private citizens to remove. You have such a beautiful city but it's let down by all this graffiti. Love to Polly.💖
Although fireworks are not as dangerous to your health, like cigarette smoke it is simply burning your money! If the cost is too high then maybe we need to 'down scale' appreciate what we have, and stop expecting every event to be bigger and grander than the last.
-2c is NOT beautiful weather! That is as cold as it EVER gets here!
And yet you may have noticed a couple of businesses had their doors open.
“Beautiful” is definitely relative and personal preference… Here it’s -9C and will get down to -30C, meaning Iceland is “toasty,” and I prefer that to 25C. Too hot for me to sleep. My favourite is bright + cold!
Your dog definitely needs leash training dude.
It’s fine. She’s only on it to cross the roads