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About Rafskinna
Rafskinna is a DVD Magazine for
1. visual arts and other visual material in Iceland.
2. Encourageing the producing of such material and
3. introducing artists, musicians, designers, architects, poets, novelists and other creative human beings, Icelandic or not, old and new, man and women, in or out of Iceland. Therefor it is bilingual, Icelandic and English.
It features interview with Björk, Ghostigital, Skakkamanage, GusGus, Rass, Jimi tenor, Ben frost, Scope, Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, Hugleikur Dagsson, Finnur Arnar, Hikaru Toda, Kristján Loðmfjörð, Jimi Tenor
Rafskinna takes on a wide range of artistic output embracing the term moving images besides giving room on it’s printed sheet for text, photographs and drawings. The bulk of the material in the Magazine has until said publication not been accessible, not previewed for a long time, hard to find or only available through the Internet in a non-satisfactory manner quality-wise. In addition to publishing and distributing these hard-to-find gems Rafskinna produces and has produced for each issue new, exciting, exclusive works of documentaries, interviews, music vidoes etc.
Still the old has it’s seat in Rafskinna who’s fully aware of the fact that nothing comes of nothing. So, in each issue we bring you old rarities which fulfill something of the following:
1. Was a hit back in the days, but today is lost on most people.
2. Has something to say to modern viewers.
3. Is interesting but unavailable
4. For some reason not gotten the attentioin Rafskinna feels it should have.
Packaging and mailboxes
Publishers of Rafskinna go to great lenghts in marerializing each issue, designing a fresh and artistic packaging. New designer is hired for each issue of Rafskinna which hits the stores 3 times a year. DVD disc, poster, printed material and various additions to each issue is wrapped in a folder measuring 20 x 270 x 270 millimeters. This gives designers a lot of space for their work withe the downside being on the receiving end; standard mailboxes measure in at a itty-bitty 25 x 260 millimeters which means Subscribers and those who order Rafskinna via rafskinna.com must, with a glee of excitement, sprint down to the post-office and fetch their over-sized work of unparallelled beauty. Rafskinna: hand-made by us, hand-picked by you.
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Parts of Björk's interview have been available as the Volta Podcast.
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