LONG READS, BUT TAKE THE TIME

In today's hectic life and it's social media climate, where you don't always have the time to sit down and read the paper properly but still have the time to scroll, and a lot of what the news feed feeds you is articles ("articles") that seem to just consist of screenshots of how people commented on...

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...

LUST

Late last summer we shot a series of editorial photos with Karl Vilhjálmsson for a feature article series for Hufvudstadsbladet.  The series is about lust and how it has been depicted and received in film, literature and society in Finland.The articles talk about censorship of erotica...

SKAM

I'm going to end my little blogging hiatus here by telling you that I've been watching the Norwegian teenage drama SKAM a lot lately. It has the unanticipated and dubious effect of me kind of wishing for my late teenage years again, which I guess says quite a lot about the series as I knowingly loathed being a teenager. (But to be fair, the gymnasium years, between age 16 and 18, were rather nice...

UMK: TWO MORE DAYS TO GO

Most of my time the past months, or if not most then at least a lot, has been taken up by my participation in UMK; the competition for new music, which in other words is the national selection for the Eurovision.It has been an interesting project in many ways, but we'll get back to all that next week...

SHOOTING THE MUSIC VIDEO

The other day we shot the music video for our UMK song.The second look for the day.  That's a lot of brushing and hairspray there I tell you....and a lot of conditioner afterwards.A bunch of fabulous friends as well as our burlesqe students joined in on the shoot.My glitter boots are surprisingly...

UMK!

Photo: YLE / Miikka VarilaSo, you know I've been rather (add ""...) lately, and one reason is the fact that I am part of UMK, which is the competition for the song to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest.I'm a huge lover of all things kitsch and camp and thus also a huge Eurovision...

TÄHDET TÄHDET; ALL THE STARS

I'm home from Prague and started my week by visiting the rehearsals of the Tähdet Tähdet-show, where we got to coach fabulous singer Johanna Försti some burlesque posing and confidence.You can see it on Sunday evening at mt...

ROCKABILLY DELUXE

Hello there! I am back again from my - I think- longest blogging hiatus so far. Not that it really was an actual, planned one; I just don't find myself, the computer and time in the same sentence anymore. Internet, I miss you! It is also not always easy or the first thing that come to mind to blog about...