It'll make you weep! In public even!
Sooooo I know that it is not cool to get emotional, to cry in public and things of that nature, but TEARS just filled my eyes in PUBLIC because I clicked play on Eiki Helgason’s Ãsland Born!
First, by way of quick explanation, the Icelandic star has just released an ambitious project in three parts. Zine, Full Part, and Documentary.
The Zine is a collection of stories compiled by different people throughout Eiki’s life and career and is gorgeous (will share tomorrow!)
The Full Part is filmed entirely part in Iceland. Eiki traveled throughout the island, finding spots never been ridden before.
The Documentary features snowboarding journalist and comedian Stan Leveille, as he travels to Iceland to learn how an Island farm boy became a world renowned snowboarder.
Altogether it’ll put tears in your eyes too because Eiki captures something very essential about what we love. This damned obsession, this ill-spent life, and not just in snowboarding either. It is the same weird magnetic grab in surf and skate too. Like, the bit where his dad says, “Whenever Eiki went to the soccer field, all he saw was a snowboard park…” could not be any more perfect.
There’s something slightly busted in all of us, ain’t there though. Something off. Something that sees things that don’t exist in real life.
Yes, we tilt at windmills and Eiki Helgason captures the quixotic better than I have ever seen it captured before.
ÍSLAND BORN // FULL PART from ZOO on Vimeo.
ÍSLAND BORN from ZOO on Vimeo.