#rjukan

[humanoidhistory]

Rjukan, Norway, 1911. Photo by Anders Beer Wilse.

[bergsmotiv]

Telemark, Rjukan.

Gaustatoppen sett fra Gaustablikk Høyfjellshotell.

[imagine-loki]

Imagine you hail from Rjukan in Norway, and when you’re bringing Loki on a visit to your hometown, you’re super excited to show him the museum in the former Vemork hydroelectric plant because you’ve always had a strong interest in the heavy water sabotage operations that took place there in WW2*.

Loki just kind of goes along with it at first, not wanting to puncture your frankly adorable enthusiasm, but by the end of the museum tour, he has massive respect for the saboteurs (finding their exploits more impressive than anything involving superpowers) and is already planning a skiing holiday following their route across the Hardangervidda.

*Which helped stop the Nazis getting nukes

[mackenskibc]

oh how i wish I could be in Norway again

[i12bent]

Today’s birthday is that of Norwegian textile artist Sissel Calmeyer (May 10, 1941 - 2012). Calmeyer was important in ‘lifting’ Scandinavian textile art out of the home and into the art world of galleries, expositions, installations and museums... She taught for many years in Bergen at the Kunsthåndverkskole/College of Art and Design, and had a successful 40+ year long career, creating and selling tapestries and other textile ‘objects’.

Above, her work: Humleblomster, 2010 - which reminds me of the beauty of an aromatic, dry-hopped IPA!

[vintagenorway]

Kirk Douglas fiming a scene for “Heroes of Telemark”, Rjukan, 1965

[forndom]

© Forndom

[solhrafn]

Midday — Down in the valley, the small town of Rjukan, Telemark. During winter times, Rjukan receives no direct sunlight at all. It is giant mirrors on the northern cliffs that bring the light by redirecting the sunshine down into town.