It was so nice to be back in Finland this weekend. I had my sauna (at the twins’ house) and my rye bread (everywhere). Went to see Stereo Total on Saturday in Kuudes Linja (I don’t like that place though). I still think that Stereo Total is one of the coolest things in the world, although the gig wasn’t near as good as the one that I saw a couple of years ago. There was lots of drunken idiots on the gig this time, sadly that drew the attention from the band a bit. It was really annoying. I was also quite tired when I went there: my friends Ilya and Roosa had their now traditional Thanksgiving dinner. And I ate loads. Which was, of course, very nice, but not a good thing to do just before going to the sort of concert where the vocalist dives into the audience etc. (whatever the name of doing that thing is).
On Sunday we had a family dinner with all my brothers and sisters and my parents in Porvoo, it is a good thing to do, I recommend. And it was a nice dinner. I didn’t have time to meet my old friends in Porvoo, which was a shame, but I guess I will be seeing them after couple of weeks.
I had to spend the whole Monday doing my stupid essay and after that I was really brain-dead. On Tuesday I finally got out from Kallio for a bit. I just quickly did some food shopping before leaving to the airport. I tried to find winter shoes as well, but it felt stupid ‘cause I’m not sure if I need them. There isn’t going to be winter here in England. But then I’m coming to Finland for Christmas. How boring is this anyway?
Yesterday I went to London to see Roisin Murphy’s concert with Emma. The club (Koko in Camden) was so cool. I think it was an old theatre, a huge building with walls painted red and a massive disco ball hanging from the ceiling. The concert was good, although it got a bit lame in the middle, but then it got really good again towards the end. And Roisin Murphy is quite cool (not cool enough to get into my coolest things in the world list though), we were just talking with Emma after the concert how she has the ability of keeping all the power on the stage, she is not just some barbiedoll dancing there. I’m not sure if you understand what I’m talking about, I hope you do. (It’s just that I have been writing my essay about the gaze and power, and the relation between the viewer and the person who is being looked at. And we had been talking about those subjects with Emma just before the concert started.)
See you all soon in England and in Finland. And in Finland you have to remember to be as excited about me coming as you were now when I came. Ps. Sorry everybody that I didn’t tell that I was coming. I just thought that I haven’t really got time to see anyone, with the essay and all. But I’m really looking forward to seeing everybody now! I’ll be there on 14th.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
I'm getting really lazy with updating.
It has been a really busy week again. We are organizing an exhibition with Tracy, Sophia and Saana (like all the other second year photography students, it's part of our studies). The private view is after two weeks and there's still loads to do. But it's fun, a bit stressing though, I have to say that my group is brilliant.
The pictures that I made for the show were actually sent to Nikon's competition. First we had to submit our portfolios to our tutors who then chose 5 persons from the course from every year course to enter the competition. And of course not everybody submitted their portfolios but it's still quite nice to have that credit for it, because I didn't have any tutorials or anyone to guide me with the project.
In case someone didn't know, I live in Chatham now with Naroa and two greek girls Angela and Felicia. Life in here is basically the same what it was last year, and yet so different. I feel happier here than what I did last year. Maybe I just got used to this place. Or maybe Chatham is just so much lovelier place than Rochester (just kidding, there isn't any difference).
There's also more people coming and going. Tuomo was here and left on monday, Angela's mom was here as well (she cleaned all the time!), Janne is coming from Dublin tomorrow for couple of days. Naroa left to Spain for the weekend... It's nice to have people visiting. Please do that in the future as well.
I think it's my bedtime now. I'm all excited about going to Maidstone tomorrow morning, even if it is only for half an hour, but you know, the life circle in here is kind of small. And yes, Janne is coming tomorrow and I should take him to a party later on, so I'm sure it'll be an exhausting day.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Yhyy!
Skannasin maanantaina lajan kuvia ja nyt niita ei enaa ole. Eika kenenkaan muun kuvia koulusta myoskaan.
Tas on pari myohempaa kasittelematonta skannausta kuitenkin, Ruotsissa otettuja.
Taalla on ollut aikamoista haipakkaa. Kotia ei ole vielakaan, mika on tosi ikavaa.
Jannaa on ollut huomata etta on myos ollut hyva tulla takasin ja olla taalla. Etta ei taalla pelkastaan ankeeta ole, vaan paljon mukavia ihmisia, ja tuntuu hyvalta kun paasee tekemaan jotain alyllista kesan jalkeen (moi vaan hakaniemi jos luette tata :).
Kerron myohemmin lisaa.
Skannasin maanantaina lajan kuvia ja nyt niita ei enaa ole. Eika kenenkaan muun kuvia koulusta myoskaan.
Tas on pari myohempaa kasittelematonta skannausta kuitenkin, Ruotsissa otettuja.
Taalla on ollut aikamoista haipakkaa. Kotia ei ole vielakaan, mika on tosi ikavaa.
Jannaa on ollut huomata etta on myos ollut hyva tulla takasin ja olla taalla. Etta ei taalla pelkastaan ankeeta ole, vaan paljon mukavia ihmisia, ja tuntuu hyvalta kun paasee tekemaan jotain alyllista kesan jalkeen (moi vaan hakaniemi jos luette tata :).
Kerron myohemmin lisaa.
Monday, May 28, 2007
We had an amazing trip to Dublin.
The coach that was supposed to take us from London to Dublin missed our ferry to Dublin. Apparently the drivers (yes, there was two of them, other one giving advises about the route and other one driving) knew for couple of hours that we were going to be late, but they didn't bother to tell that to forty people all going to Dublin. They didn't even tell us anything after we had arrived to the terminal and the gates were closed and the time was, well, too much. After some time they told some passengers that there was going to be a ferry 3 o'clock next morning (we were meant to be in Dublin at 6pm).
Luckily there was another ferry leaving after few hours which took all of us there, but without the coach. When we were going onboard we met an Immigration Department Hero, haven't seen that kind of man ever before, he was like from a film. Anyway, he wanted to see our passports and tickets again, just after they had been checked. Didn't see him checking anyone else's.
The ferrytrip was okay, until we came to Dublin. The staff obviously didn't really know what they were doing. We had to wait for a long time to get out after the ferry had arrived to the harbour, and when they already had let me out I had to go back and they lost the driver of the bus that was to take us to the terminal etc. It was about hundred meters from the ferry to the terminal.
Today's return started promisingly, we were at the airport at 4.30 and through the check-in and security at 4.40. Boarding was supposed to finish by 5.55, but it didn't even start by that. The flight finally left 35 minutes late, and landed late as well. In Stansted we got through the passport check quikly enough (persons travelling from Dublin had to show their boarding cards, but not passports...), but then we queued to buy our train tickets for a very long time with lots of people, until some guy who got to talk with the only officer kindly told everybody that there wasn't any trains to London. We then found the coach station and queued there some more, but this time in the rain and wind.
Those things happen, but you really hope they wouldn't when you're only going somewhere for a very short period of time.
Otherwise our Dublin trip was nice, allthough it was pretty cold and windy and rainy in there. But, I guess we expected that. Janne lives in the centre, near to everything basically. We went to Irish Museum of Modern Art and Gallery of Photography, and to lots of pubs. I bought four books (I guess I could be spending my money to worse things, or that's what I tell myself at least). And of course we bumped into Finns as well. And in the book shop of Gallery of Photography the young woman behind the encounter said to me that "You're Finns, aren't you?", and somehow I wasn't surprised at all, I've been asked the question quite many times now. I bet there's lots of photography students in Dublin as well. But I still don't understand that how can Finns be everywhere, there isn't that many of us after all.
Anyway, about Dublin still. I liked it, and I think Tuomo liked it too. We want to go there again. For me it seemed nicer than London, of course it can be that we saw the right places, and didn't stay too long. But still.
I think the trip was a good mini-holiday for us, we've been both working hard. I still have a week and a couple of days left (can't believe it!). Last crit'll be tomorrow, and after that I'll be in the darkroom doing my exhibiton work. And I guess I have to start looking for a new house as well. We just found out that the house where we were going to move is now suddenly 50 pounds more expensive for person in a month. Haven't heard any reasons yet. That really sucks, because we were going to move our stuff there this week. We'll see what happens now.
This is all for now. I have too many things to do, like always. But see you soon all (and bye guys), Tuomo will be there on wednesday. We've been together for three years tomorrow, imagine that!
(Btw Janne, here's a parody of that film I talked about. You get a pretty good picture of the actual thing as well.)
The coach that was supposed to take us from London to Dublin missed our ferry to Dublin. Apparently the drivers (yes, there was two of them, other one giving advises about the route and other one driving) knew for couple of hours that we were going to be late, but they didn't bother to tell that to forty people all going to Dublin. They didn't even tell us anything after we had arrived to the terminal and the gates were closed and the time was, well, too much. After some time they told some passengers that there was going to be a ferry 3 o'clock next morning (we were meant to be in Dublin at 6pm).
Luckily there was another ferry leaving after few hours which took all of us there, but without the coach. When we were going onboard we met an Immigration Department Hero, haven't seen that kind of man ever before, he was like from a film. Anyway, he wanted to see our passports and tickets again, just after they had been checked. Didn't see him checking anyone else's.
The ferrytrip was okay, until we came to Dublin. The staff obviously didn't really know what they were doing. We had to wait for a long time to get out after the ferry had arrived to the harbour, and when they already had let me out I had to go back and they lost the driver of the bus that was to take us to the terminal etc. It was about hundred meters from the ferry to the terminal.
Today's return started promisingly, we were at the airport at 4.30 and through the check-in and security at 4.40. Boarding was supposed to finish by 5.55, but it didn't even start by that. The flight finally left 35 minutes late, and landed late as well. In Stansted we got through the passport check quikly enough (persons travelling from Dublin had to show their boarding cards, but not passports...), but then we queued to buy our train tickets for a very long time with lots of people, until some guy who got to talk with the only officer kindly told everybody that there wasn't any trains to London. We then found the coach station and queued there some more, but this time in the rain and wind.
Those things happen, but you really hope they wouldn't when you're only going somewhere for a very short period of time.
Otherwise our Dublin trip was nice, allthough it was pretty cold and windy and rainy in there. But, I guess we expected that. Janne lives in the centre, near to everything basically. We went to Irish Museum of Modern Art and Gallery of Photography, and to lots of pubs. I bought four books (I guess I could be spending my money to worse things, or that's what I tell myself at least). And of course we bumped into Finns as well. And in the book shop of Gallery of Photography the young woman behind the encounter said to me that "You're Finns, aren't you?", and somehow I wasn't surprised at all, I've been asked the question quite many times now. I bet there's lots of photography students in Dublin as well. But I still don't understand that how can Finns be everywhere, there isn't that many of us after all.
Anyway, about Dublin still. I liked it, and I think Tuomo liked it too. We want to go there again. For me it seemed nicer than London, of course it can be that we saw the right places, and didn't stay too long. But still.
I think the trip was a good mini-holiday for us, we've been both working hard. I still have a week and a couple of days left (can't believe it!). Last crit'll be tomorrow, and after that I'll be in the darkroom doing my exhibiton work. And I guess I have to start looking for a new house as well. We just found out that the house where we were going to move is now suddenly 50 pounds more expensive for person in a month. Haven't heard any reasons yet. That really sucks, because we were going to move our stuff there this week. We'll see what happens now.
This is all for now. I have too many things to do, like always. But see you soon all (and bye guys), Tuomo will be there on wednesday. We've been together for three years tomorrow, imagine that!
(Btw Janne, here's a parody of that film I talked about. You get a pretty good picture of the actual thing as well.)
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Tiivistettynä: tuun Suomeen kesäkuun alkupuolella ja palaan takaisin tänne ensi syksynä uuteen (ikävä kyllä puutarhattomaan) kotiin Chathamiin. Tuomolla on varma yliopistopaikka länsi-Lontoossa Brunel Universityssä Sonic Arts linjalla, mutta ei tietoa siitä tuleeko se menemään sinne.
Mun ryhmän Setbuild käynnistyy ens maanantaina, odotukset ei oo kovin korkealla koska meidän ryhmässä on ollut aika paljon ongelmia.
Kesän mielenkiintoisin (ainakin mun näkökulmasta) näyttely NÄKYMÄ taas käynnistyy elokuun alussa ja on koko kuun nähtävissä ja koettavissa Kaapelitehtaan Valssaamossa. Esillä on mun ja 14:sta muun täällä valokuvausta opiskelevan töitä, kaikilta vuosikursseilta. Levottomuuksia luvassa myös Taiteiden yönä.
Tässäpä kai ne olennaisimmat.
Mun ryhmän Setbuild käynnistyy ens maanantaina, odotukset ei oo kovin korkealla koska meidän ryhmässä on ollut aika paljon ongelmia.
Kesän mielenkiintoisin (ainakin mun näkökulmasta) näyttely NÄKYMÄ taas käynnistyy elokuun alussa ja on koko kuun nähtävissä ja koettavissa Kaapelitehtaan Valssaamossa. Esillä on mun ja 14:sta muun täällä valokuvausta opiskelevan töitä, kaikilta vuosikursseilta. Levottomuuksia luvassa myös Taiteiden yönä.
Tässäpä kai ne olennaisimmat.
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