Icelandic bottom fetish?

Whether you call them “bums” or “butts”, they’re everywhere you look in Iceland at the moment.

Bum-wiggling for charity

Mbl.is recently reported on a new music video produced to raise money for Mottumars (Iceland’s answer to Movember). The video involves various Icelandic male celebrities wiggling their bottoms to the strains of ‘Hossa Hossa’ by Icelandic reggae band AmabAdamA. Mot­tumars is a fund-rais­ing and aware­ness-rais­ing cam­paign run by the Ice­landic Can­cer So­ci­ety as part of the fight against can­cer in men. The video has so far had over 60,000 hits on YouTube. You can view the video here:

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Bottoms on canvas

An altogether more refined way of satisfying your booty-viewing needs might be to visit the “Rassar í sveit” [Bottoms in the Country] art exhibition by Jóhanna Bára Þórisdóttir at the University of Akureyri Library. Þórisdóttir’s paintings depict the backsides of various Icelandic animals against mountain-landscape backdrops. The exhibition will run until 31 March as is open on weekdays.