April 14th, 2013
Nothing much happened lately. Quite busy at work. Spring has come (well, at least thermal spring in Helsinki), which always comes with annoying street dust in the air. Watched a few movies, among which I liked Mullholland Drive the most, even though it mostly didn’t make any sense. I also started to read Haruki Murakami‘s … [ read more » ]
April 4th, 2013
For Easter I went to the countryside and did some cross-country skiing. I think I haven’t skied this much for at least a decade. It was pretty relaxing stuff, most likely will do it again next winter. Since the sky was very clear every day, I decided to give a try in photographing star skies … [ read more » ]
March 25th, 2013
Saw Fields of the Nephilim last weekend. They were one of the first gothic bands I listened to back some twenty years ago, so it was great to finally experience their music live, even though I wasn’t much of a fan of their newer material. One thing I did regret about the gig was first … [ read more » ]
March 17th, 2013
Recent activities have been related to music. Last weekend I went to see Eva & Manu at Gloria. Nice gig, just as expected. I’ve seen them once before back in the summer of 2011 pretty much by accident, as I was called there on a short notice to photograph the gig by a friend who … [ read more » ]
March 5th, 2013
I’ve owned an old Canon IXUS compact camera for over five years and only now I noticed I can take time lapse videos with it. I’ve always been interested in these kinds of videos, so naturally I’ve been fiddling around trying out different shots like day breaks, street traffic and tea leaves opening up in … [ read more » ]
February 24th, 2013
Movies. I’ve been watching Hollywood movies lately. Ten in total. Contagion (a static observation how today’s society would function during a deadly pandemic), Broken Flowers (a very odd take on relationships during life), Crash (small, intersecting social and racial strains among the people of Los Angeles), Anna Karenina (movie adaption of Tolstoy’s novel), Brokeback Mountain … [ read more » ]