Not much going on recently, the last days of summer is in the air and the weather was excellent on Helsinki’s annual Night of the Arts evening that peppers the city with countless cultural and artsy events. I wasn’t planning going anywhere beforehand, but eventually I ended up visiting two museums, a live concert and … [ read more » ]
flickering thoughts
A loose diary of what has been happening lately with my life.
August 14th, 2023
A dip in the Flow
Depeche Mode had to cancel their gig in Helsinki due to a pending storm that eventually never came, which I didn’t mind as I didn’t have a ticket to the show and now I don’t have to carry any regrets of missing it. Tough thing for those who already had a ticket, though. Instead I … [ read more » ]
August 6th, 2023
Digital Exhibitions and Road Trips
Heavy rain recently and a bit humid. Rain is okay, humid air not so much. Last month of summer underway and the first sign of it is clearly dark nights. This week I realised that I could download and experience Radiohead’s KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION game on my PlayStation 5, which is more of a … [ read more » ]
July 30th, 2023
Football and fantasy
Returned to work, but it was a rather quiet week as everyone else was mostly still on vacation. Weather has been rain and sunshine, I’m okay with that. I saw the much hyped Barbie movie, which I really wanted to like (even though in ways I wasn’t the primary target audience), but fell a bit … [ read more » ]
July 23rd, 2023
Crime & Chaos
As usual, I’ll start with the weather, which has been quite nice, or at least not alarmingly hot as in other parts of the world. But about me then. I managed to finish two projects during my final week of vacation. One has reading the classic novel Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The new … [ read more » ]
July 16th, 2023
Summer break
Well, it took a summer vacation to break my weekly streak in blogging. I think that is an acceptable excuse. As usual with my vacations, I didn’t have much of a clue what to do, so first I was in Helsinki doing the same things I do anyways (even some sudden critical work). The only … [ read more » ]