MAY IN HALF A MINUTE

Now that we have lived one week of June, lets have a look at May in thirtyone secon...

THIRTY SECONDS OF APRIL

Not totally sure whats going on, if I am standing still in space or what, as time seems to go faster day by day and year by year. So just like swish! April went by and here is what it looked like, compressed to one tiny second per d...

FOUR THINGS THIS SUNDAY

In between of being away working on Friday and Saturday, and before starting rather hectic May, this Sunday was a day off, letting the to-do list be for a little while.From snow to flowers in a couple of weeks! Apart from coltsfoot the scillas are always the first to bloom.The cows are also out now....

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW

Or, that were today.Long time no smoothie! I have a bit of chaga at home of so I made an antioxidant-rich smoothie out of chilled chaga-tea, mango, some cherries and physalis.Admiring my super huge (1,81m) Mucha-poster that I ordered from the Mucha museum. I saw the original sized theatre posters there...

AND THEN WE HAD MARCH

Not sure how it happened, but apparently the first quarter of this year has gone by already?That can only mean that It'll be Christmas again in no time!But first, lets set our minds on spring and the eventual summer! Here's what the switch from winter to spring looked like, and everything else and  in between, a second a day in March 20...

TWENTY EIGHT SECONDS OF FEBRUARY

Because March is almost over by now, let us naturally (dum di dum...) look at the month before that; one-second-a-day: February 2019These are so fun to do and I love watching other's mini videos of their mont...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW: SUNDAY EVENING

Sunday evening moments -Corrected a final seam to a jumpsuit I sew myself last night and intend to wear to the very last filming of Vintage Valtakunta season 2 tomorrow.I also sew Dag a plush seal. It was the first plush toy I ever made. Dag has this new phase where ninjas have had to move over for...

COLOURS AND FROST

Today it's the gloomy Halloweenish weather one would expect with mid-October approaching (already! What? How?), but yesterday we woke up to a breathtaking colourful frosty sunrise that I even tossed out barefoot for to try and catch with my phone -The view to the south is often like a painting. This...

THE SEASON(S) APPROACHING...

Let me first start this by saying that I am definitely and foremost waiting for Halloween (and now that the second week of October is about to start I consider Halloween-season here!).But.While it is as little as 80 days until Christmas (!!!),  it is only 56 until our yearly Christmas show, which...

BLUE MONDAY

Lets end the week with some creative music playing. Or making.Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments  (BBC Arts)In Swedish there is actually a separate verb for playing and making music on an instrument, more in the sence of performing it or playing together: musicera, as can you say 'musisoida' in Finnish. One can refer to that as musicerande (kind of like something...

YOUR EASTER WITCH

Ok, perhaps not exactly. But suitably for a time of growth, flowers, resurrection and Easter witches Asko and I did a photoseries for my act Happily Ever After, which is something of a reversed Sleeping Beauty ghost story.Photos by Asko Rantanen / Asko Jonathan PhotographyConcept and muah by ...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW - IN THE AFTERNOON SUNSHINE

Four things right-right now.The books above my head.A cat in the after noon sunshine.Reading the Egytptian Book of the Dead (but now I got distracted with a documentary on Marie Antoinette's coiffures.)I want Mikael Hadreas pants.As a side note; this was the first time I made a post in one sitting without...

EASTER BRANCHES - VAIHTOEHTO VITSALLE

(Half of the headline is indeed in Finnish in case you had to look twice. It gives the content of this post away.)Easter is just around the corner and over here, if you have kids, it's time to decorate some branches!(If you can find some, that is, as winter has lingered around longer than usual this...

SUPPORT THE ATELIERI O.HAAPALA BOOK!

Anyone who has rad my blog troughout the years would by this point be familiar with Atelieri O.Haapala,  the neo-victorian portrait studio by Saara Salmi and Marco Melander! The project went on for a decade, and there were many amazing themes, backdrops and set ups, with thousands of beautiful...

WONDERLAND

Tonight! At our studio starting 18hrs - Dr.Sketchy's Helsinki presents: Wonderland! Come and draw and enjoy the nice setting, music and atmosphere.Photo by Neil Kenda...

FROM FROZEN SPARKLE TO SEAGULLS

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THE VINTAGE REALM

Ok everybody!Long time no internet, and happy we-are-totally-living-in-what-was-once-sci-fi-future-2018!So, last year I was working in this production that will now be on TV1 starting March 29; Vintage-valtakunta:Here's the teaser clip! Sadly it won't show abroad, Finland only:Vintage-valtakunta | Teaser...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Hi there! I am still around, believe it or not!I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!Let's see if we'll see more of each other in 2018, perhaps?Photo: Asko Rantanen / Asko Jonathan photogra...

BUNNIES OFF DUTY

The Helsinki Burlesque Xmas Xtravaganza event I performed at all weekend long was truly fantastic but really sucked the juice out of me as well. Here's a Lynchian moment from when the party was over last night, with some go-go bunnies off-duty chilli...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW: IRANIAN COOKIES AND ALL THE STARS

Things are not too busy over here. I know, but meanwhile in real life I am very busy picking cocktail bites from a silvery platter of burnout. I apparently can't seem to both plan posts and actually post them, just either way, but here's a little bit of almost right here right now -Eddi came home after...