Mastodon – Dry Bone Valley
Brann Dailor of Mastodon at Roskilde Festival
The photo above is of Brann Dailor, who does most of the vocals on Dry Bone Valley.
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Greenland sunset
A couple weeks ago I showed a photo of the sunrise/sunset as I flew from the USA to Europe overnight near the Summer solstice. At one point on that plane, the wing perfectly blocked the sun from glaring up my window so I could take this picture. The land you see below the horizon is Greenland, partially covered in clouds or fog it appears.
An Oni (鬼) in Sweden
Tattooed Swedes enjoying the sun at the Getaway Rock Festival
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is set in Sweden. If you visit Sweden you’ll see a lot more than dragon tattoos though. I doubt anyone tracks these things, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Sweden has the highest per capita amount of tattoos. The largest tattoo conventions tend to happen in Sweden, in part, because of this.
The guy in the middle, adding a sunburn to his tattooed body, has a Japanese Oni on his back. Japan probably has the lowest per capita amount of tattoos in the world so it’s a bit ironic that Japanese things (like the kanji on the right guy’s left leg) are a frequent piece of tattoo art.
Apollyon (Ole Jørgen Moe) of Norway’s Immortal
Immortal's Apollyon (Ole Jørgen Moe)
I was a casual fan of Immortal before the Getaway Rock Festival. I had heard several of their songs on Pandora and had given them a thumbs up. However, I only vaguely knew what they looked like and who their members were before photographing them. So when I saw a band called Aura Noir earlier in the day, I thought it was strange that their bass player looked (sans the makeup) quite a bit like who I thought would playing bass for Immortal. As it turns out, he plays for both bands so my suspicion was correct.
Sunset / Sunrise over the Arctic in summer
I happened to be flying from the USA to northern Europe just a day or two after last year’s Summer solstice. The plane flew over the bottom of Greenland and I was sitting in a window seat on the left side of the plane. The sun never completely set. Today’s photo is about as low as the sun got in the sky before rising once again.
Huldra – Lady in Red of the Forest – Kjosfossen Falls
Huldra emerges from the forest to dance next to Kjosfossen Falls
On the Noway in a Nutshell tour, in the summer anyway, tourists get to experience a Huldra. She appears near Kjosfossen Falls, does a dance, and then disappears into the forest once again.