What would Björk do?
It's been approximately 8 months since our favourite Icelandic volcano Björk released her last album "Drawing Restraint 9", which at the same time served as soundtrack for her husband's weird-artsy movie of the same title. So what has she been up to all this time? Past time hobbies of the hobbit-like mother-of-two could very well be bouncing on top of geysers or visits to various fashion houses green-lighting outlines for new rags for her spectacular wardrobe. Although both of the above seem more than likely to have happened, they have not, at least this time around.
Instead, Björk has been embarking on a trip to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, until December 25th 04 known for poor fishermen families residing at beautiful beaches, now more known for even poorer orphans of said fishermen families and overflooded swampy wasteland. Björk launched a charity CD containing cover versions of her hit-single "Army of Me" (off her 95 album Post), donating the incoming dough to Unicef and their work with the thousands of kids in the tsunami-struck region, who managed to get out of the tragedy alive, but left without their parentals. Unicef invited Björk on a trip to see how rebuilding the area has developed, and to get an insider's view on how the fate of the tsunami-hitten children has turned for the better thanks to Unicef, and in part her work on raising money for the project. Non-familiars of Björk's peculiar clothing-style might think the picture above is from a day where the singer was performing as entertainment for the children, but the highly eye-appealing stockings are infact Björk's super cosy, yet fashionable and comfortable even in 30+ degrees celcius, leggings of choice!
Björk noticed the lack of fashion sense, and kindly donated some collection samples, which were
discarded due to lack of lime-green and bird-feathers. As the pictures clearly show, the children were very grateful. Rumour has it that a choir of school children from the region will join her, when the launch of her new album is being transmitted via satellite from Mars. Date is yet to be determined.
Instead, Björk has been embarking on a trip to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, until December 25th 04 known for poor fishermen families residing at beautiful beaches, now more known for even poorer orphans of said fishermen families and overflooded swampy wasteland. Björk launched a charity CD containing cover versions of her hit-single "Army of Me" (off her 95 album Post), donating the incoming dough to Unicef and their work with the thousands of kids in the tsunami-struck region, who managed to get out of the tragedy alive, but left without their parentals. Unicef invited Björk on a trip to see how rebuilding the area has developed, and to get an insider's view on how the fate of the tsunami-hitten children has turned for the better thanks to Unicef, and in part her work on raising money for the project. Non-familiars of Björk's peculiar clothing-style might think the picture above is from a day where the singer was performing as entertainment for the children, but the highly eye-appealing stockings are infact Björk's super cosy, yet fashionable and comfortable even in 30+ degrees celcius, leggings of choice!Björk noticed the lack of fashion sense, and kindly donated some collection samples, which were
discarded due to lack of lime-green and bird-feathers. As the pictures clearly show, the children were very grateful. Rumour has it that a choir of school children from the region will join her, when the launch of her new album is being transmitted via satellite from Mars. Date is yet to be determined.For information about it all REALLY went down, check the article on Unicef's official website:
Unicef article
Unicef article
posted by Malou at 6:17 PM
3 Comments:
How nice for the grief-stricken children of Aceh to get a visit from the Easter Bunny - especially at this time of year ;o)
I want to visit Iceland someday. I want to go to a club in Reykjavik and dance with my eyes closed and my hands in the air.
Yes, yes... but really what we're all asking ourselves right now is who would win in a fight, Bjork or Sigur Ros? Sure, Bjork is but one, but she knows how to go bare-knuckles - although, admittedly, she mainly prefers to spar with the paparazzi. Still I'd pay good money to see that. At least four dollars.
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