--- title: Rhode Island Tourism Video Shows Footage from Iceland description: The Ocean State is making waves canonical: https://time.com/4277760/rhode-island-tourism-video-iceland/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-31T17:51:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:16.575Z og:title: Rhode Island Tourism Video Shows Footage from Iceland og:description: The Ocean State is making waves og:url: https://time.com/4277760/rhode-island-tourism-video-iceland/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rhode Island Tourism Video Shows Footage from Iceland twitter:description: The Ocean State is making waves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rhode Island Tourism Video Shows Footage from Iceland  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 5:51 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 5:51 PM CUT The Rhode Island Tourism Division had to pull its latest video shortly after it was posted online Tuesday because it contained footage shot in Iceland. The three-second scene in question shows a man doing a skateboard trick outside of the Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik, the country’s capital. IndieWhip, the company that edited the video, and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation, which hired the firm, have apologized for the error. “The footage in question is of a Rhode Island skateboarder, filmed by a Rhode Islander,” IndieWhip added [in a statement.](http://blog.indiewhip.com/indiewhip-releases-statement-in-regards-to-weareri-campaign-video-edit?utm%5Fcampaign=Marketing&utm%5Fcontent=30347209&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter "undefined") T-shirts, hoodies, and tank tops that say “Rhode Iceland” are now being sold for charity at [RhodeIceland.com](https://twitter.com/HarpaReykjavik/with%5Freplies?lang=en "undefined") — the kind of enthusiasm that the state’s governor Gina Raimondo says will bring more people to the Ocean State: “Here’s the good news: Now when people go search for Iceland, they’re seeing Rhode Island,” the Democrat told the [Associated Press](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3d40d785b58a4a9a851ec3deff2d3a8b/rhode-island-governor-says-iceland-video-may-draw-tourists "undefined") on Wednesday. > [](https://twitter.com/GinaRaimondo/status/714875605452324864) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4277760/rhode-island-tourism-video-iceland/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4277760/rhode-island-tourism-video-iceland/"},"headline":"Rhode Island Tourism Video Shows Footage from Iceland","datePublished":"2016-03-31T17:51:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:16.575Z","description":"The Ocean State is making waves","url":"https://time.com/4277760/rhode-island-tourism-video-iceland/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4277760/rhode-island-tourism-video-iceland/","name":"Rhode Island Tourism Video Shows Footage from Iceland"}}]}] ```