The family pool table
In the summer of 1988 I was working a large construction company in Iceland, called Ístak hf. It had a project at the University of
My childhood fear of dogs
When I was a young boy I was bitten by a dog. After that I had a great fear of dogs until my mid teens.
Painting and drawing are flow
It’s amazing to me after all these years that painting and drawing can be relaxing and childlike fun. You are in a state of play
Fencing was my primary sport
I was always an active child and I liked sports. I was thin and energetic and liked to play and run all over the place.
Woodcarving was a passion of mine
In 1986 when I was 14 years old I was doing a bowl in woodworking class at school, when my teacher complemented me on my
Poetry was my way to compensate for stuttering
I was born with a depressing disability which is a partial disconnection between the nerves and normal speech patterns. This is called stuttering or stammering.
My first time working for a startup company
When I was 20 years old I worked at a laboratory for the University of Iceland, under my father who was a professor there. The
Told about the sudden fall of the Soviet Union in 1991
I was travelling in a train from Dusseldorf to Hamburg in August of 1991, with my sister and our 2 friends. We were four in
August minigolf with drunk Scottish girls
While staying in a youth hostel in Heidelberg, Germany in August of 1991, we were sitting the four us in the minigolf range which was
When I smuggled a knife though customs at the airport
When I was 19 years old I traveled to Germany with my sister and her friend, and we went on interrail around Germany. In Heidelberg
The day I started drinking coffee
Back in August of 1991, I was a nineteen year old young man with a sense of adventure in me. I had been working all
When we cleared out the ravens nest.
In the summer of 1988 I stayed with uncle Sturla, at his farm in Iceland called Fossatún (e. Waterfall Fields). The farm is situated just