Life On Mars?
Ok, so it’s not Mars – it’s Iceland, but Iceland surely seems like another planet!
“Life on Mars?” is a song by David Bowie first released in 1971 on the album Hunky Dory and also released as a single. BBC Radio later called it “a cross between a Broadway musical and a Salvador Dalí painting” – a description that can also be suitable for Iceland were this photo was taken.
Did you know that the word geyser comes from the old norse verb geysa? The phenomenon geysir is named after the great Geysir in Iceland, thereby naming all they geysers in the world.
Here’s our previous entries for David Bowie week
- Hallo Spaceboy (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Quicksand (cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
- Star (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Moonage Daydream(cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
- Star 2 (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed (cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
- Joe the lion (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- What in the world(thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Sound and vision(cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
- Stars 3 and 4 (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Moonage Daydream(cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
- Shadow Man (walkingforequilibrium.com)
- A new career in a new town (cardinalguzman.wordpress.com)
- The Drowned Girl (walkingforequilibrium.com)
- In the heat of the morning (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Star 5 (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Love you till Tuesday (obsoproject.wordpress.com)
- Heroes (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
- Stars 6 and 7 (thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com)
Now, that is class! What a great, otherworldy, photograph – did you post-process it?
June 29, 2012 at 21:47
Yes, definitely. It’s 3 photo layers and one brightness/contrast layer. The day of shooting was extremely gray, rainy and foggy – like so many other days on Iceland.
June 29, 2012 at 21:50
Love the post CG, love the pic and luv the song
Will you be going out on the street for the latest challenge??? I said Scr#w u and posted a different setting….ooops
June 29, 2012 at 22:00
It doesn’t seem like I’m welcome over at the dailypost.wordpress.com anymore. They didn’t appreciate me sharing my opinions, so my comments are marked as spam and so are my pingbacks.
The WordPress policy seems to be:
“Freedom of speech? Yes, as long as you say something nice, agree with people and don’t come with critisism.”
I guess WordPress is just following the new American way: “if you say something we don’t like, we will silence you.”
June 29, 2012 at 22:06
Can I (we, members, your followers) do something to restore you??? I am gutted by this.
June 29, 2012 at 22:09
I don’t know. I just recently filled in a form / complaint to Akismet after I sent them an email were I wrote:
“I’m experiencing the same problem as in this thread:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/help-comments-not-appearing-marked-as-spam?replies=3#post-876848
WordPress’ suggestion is to contact: “Support at akismet dot com and ask for your ID to be un-spammed.”
Then they wrote me back with a link to some form that I had to fill out. So I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
I guess the support team have a lot to do, considering the amount of blogs that are out there
June 29, 2012 at 22:16
I hope they resolve this soon… but I would like them to go even further to admit the error of their ways
June 29, 2012 at 22:19
Paula: They’ll never do that, they’ll just come up with a technical blah, blah and play pretend.
June 29, 2012 at 22:21
P.S. And you are right… I would love to find myself on that planet some day
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June 29, 2012 at 22:01
What a fabulous combination, the atmosphere is definitely out of this world and so past and future.
June 29, 2012 at 22:17
Iceland is truly a fascinating place. I understand the vikings that left Norway in favour of Iceland!
BTW: check your spam, I have a comment in there
June 29, 2012 at 22:24
You had two comments in WP Jail! I know comments sometimes slip into spam but I had no idea there was a Sheriff in WPTown ready to slip on the handcuffs for words
against the grain. I always thought WP comments went to spam after too many being made by the user in a particular period of time. If that’s so then why on the stats page do they suggest “making comments” to get more traffic?
Hope this is resolved soon and am looking forward to your honest comment and opinion getting out and about again!
July 2, 2012 at 11:47
Great post BTW, thank you for sharing!!!
July 2, 2012 at 12:05
They slipped the handcuffs on me – I didn’t even spam anyone, I just rudely shared my opinion on click-whores
So, be careful not to criticize other bloggers. WordPress seems to be all about cozy comments without too much substance.
July 2, 2012 at 19:32
There’s a campaign here . . .
July 2, 2012 at 19:57
Neat shot. Good luck with the unspamming
June 29, 2012 at 22:26
Thanks. Totally awesome place. Everyone should go!
July 2, 2012 at 21:05
Another corker!
June 30, 2012 at 09:13
I’m not familiar with that expression, but thanks
July 2, 2012 at 21:04
A bit of English slang for you!
corker [ˈkɔːkə]
n
1. Slang
a. something or somebody striking or outstanding that was a corker of a joke
b. an irrefutable remark that puts an end to discussion
July 2, 2012 at 21:08
Thanks for the grammar lesson, I definitely needed that.
July 2, 2012 at 21:10
You have traveled quite a bit. I am jealous.
June 30, 2012 at 15:11
And I’m jealous on you for having been to Bangalore.
July 2, 2012 at 19:34
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