No rest for the wicked. I came back from Sari's birthday party at early morning, catched a few hour sleep and started staring at the monitor. 42 unread mails, most of them work related. Trying to catch up.
It would be so nice if all the Sundays were holidays. They really should be.
Hey... just wait a minute....
Today at Tampere. First we met (Anssi, Jani and I) to plan The Online Gallery Henkevä Silakka / Spirited Herring. Actually, I just sat there and drank cappuchino and tried to look at the ceiling while the boys discussed about ultimate techical plans. Well, I said yes at some points even though I'm not quite sure to what I have agreed to. No... the meeting was actually first one really pushing this project forward. I just realized how big this is going to be. Suddenly I'm sooooo scared about this. There is still time to screw this up completely. Hah, pessimism on its way... again.
Anssi left straight to home after the meeting but I stayed in Tampere for a few extra hours. Jani took me to meet Hanna whom I haven't seen for a long time. She toured us around her Super Star Collective offices. Envy. What a feeling.
And of course some purchasing-without-mind: the last boxset of the Babylon 5 series. I haven't even got the time to play Jak III and now this. And I just remembered that I was very oriented to take Jani's Kingdom of Hearts with me but I so totally forgot that one while watching him playing Ratchet & Clank II. God, I miss my playstation...
But no can do. I promised to put Teija's Daidalos 'coming up' page online today, the layouts of Sibelius Academy Muhi -project are waiting in Photoshop and I received new images from Arx Architects to upload to server. Nerdish night.
I started working with Jyväskylä Artists' Association blog project yesterday. The association has its jubilee year (60 years) and because of that there will be a couple of artistic projects. One of these is a blog project: artists will write their blogs about their work, life and thoughts during this year. I promised to make one basic layout and show how it all works - it has taken a bit more time than I realized. But for starters, my Finnish art blog opened today as a first blog of the project. ...Though there really isn't any connection to art in it....
And yes, the title is in Klingon. Thanks to that idea goes to my visit to Luova paja office yesterday. (Mental note: avoid the place. It hurts if you laugh too much.)
Yesterday I also had a lunch with Anssi and Jaana from Finnica project. There are still some small adjustments and updates to be made but there is something with my connection... I just can't get the energy to fix it all. But this week I'll do something, I promise.
What else? I've been working with Sibelius Academy Muhi-project a lot but only a few new layouts are finished. A temporary site for ARX Architects is online. Sites for printmaker Aino-Kaarina Pajari and doll maker Piitu Nykop are nearly finished and layouts for textile artist Hannele Ollakka are on their way.
I just received a post card sent by Mitja from Mexico (now I know where Predator was filmed), Anssi is back from Egypt (Cairo was nice, so I heard) and Päivi L is now back in Spain. I'm home with a some kind of flu watching in the dark evening with people floundering in snow outside. I live through the others, that is.
At the beginning of the week I wrote a detailed list of what I should do and when to complete all my tasks. So it happens, that I'm still on Monday. I've tried to fix all the small updates right away but I'm barely keeping up with daily updates.
Actually I guess I should rest well to make this go away but somehow... Today I started talking and not a sound came out. There are a few people waiting for me to call them - but no use since I'm just hissing unclearly. I've tried to get some things done but there's so much unread mail right now it's almost devastating to think about that. I'm expecially worried about Sibelius Academy project. I started with some new ideas last week when I came back from Helsinki but nothing is ready to show yet.
I've been doing something though. First of all, The Project Webgallery Spirited Herring is now its way to a beautiful regeneration. Jani has done a big big job with functional design; I passed all the papers on to Anssi and next week we'll meet. I just hope I'll get my graphic layouts ready before that.
Secondly, I've been in a jury that decides who will get the Iiris Award given away by The Colour Foundation of Finland. There weren't zillions of nominees but still it took some time and thinking. I've said my judgemental words. The award ceremony will be next week.
I give up for today and try to sleep. Tomorrow I HAVE to be healthy enough to go to a meeting about the Colour Exhibition...
Official statistic: 65 emails unread.
No, I'm not dead but thank you for asking. I've been busy. No time for unnecessary words.
Last week I visited Helsinki: meeting on Tue with Aalto Foundation and Colour Association + on Wed with Sibelius Academy People. Considering the projects the trip was good and things are clearer now. But the weather was from hell (no snow, birds were singing like it was May and it rained). And I had a really strange moment when I was going to Colour Association meeting to TAIK (The University of Art and Design Helsinki) - it has always been easy to go there: just take tram no 6 to the final stop. So, I fell half-a-coma and got out on the final stop. It was only then I noticed that the planet had changed permanently. Or actually it was just a thing of a few more stops added to a route. It wasn't far though - no panic. But for a moment I reached some kind of unknown piece of theworld and it felt quite nice. Having no clue where you are.
After the trip the days have filled of different update processes: The Craft Museum of Finland + some of the minor ones: Papiina, Gallery Becker, Kirsi Neuvonen...
I've tried to compose some new layouts for a few projects but I haven't quite found my Michelangelo-moment yet. And propably never will if things keep going this way.
Surprises again. I was checking my stats and I found a curious thing... Ha. There is my interview but I can't remember that one at all. It's always funny to find out these...
Been busy. No life. I've been listening to BBC6 music while working - which is all the time.
Last week I made new layouts for print maker Kirsi Neuvonen - now I'm waiting a word from her about how to proceed. I also made a rough demo sites for print maker Aino-Kaarina Pajari and puppet maker/artist Piitu Nykopp; both sites will be online soon - I hope so.
On Friday we went to JAO to make the final judgements evaluations of the students. The beginning of the day went well - except it took me almost an hour to walk in that watery slippery snow - twice the time it takes normally. Which reminds me of that one other of the three evaluators, Päivi (yes- we share a name; and actually it was her who told me that there were only 8 Päivis baptized last year - I'm old-fashioned in every way) is spending her winters in Spain. Good for her.
Updated Alvar Aalto Foundation and The Craft Museum of Finland.
I have some problems with my server so I can't upload Sibelius Academy layouts... Maybe tomorrow...
And I finally found out the purpose for my art: Go, get yourself a sporty latino man in suit - who has borrowed the background for his sweet sweet introduction from my 7 Sins (of Love).
I started the year with work. So far I've managed to finish a small exhibition about Alvar Aalto's light fittings (soon to be published), updated Alvar Aalto Foundation, The Craft Museum of Finland, Centre for Cultural Affairs of Jyväskylä and Gallery Becker and I've also updated temporary Habitek page - soon to be published with real page.
That was during Saturday and Sunday, after that it has been more quieter. Today I survived dentist, so maybe the relief of surviving alive is too overwhelming to finish anything. Or maybe I'm still so upset because of our small movie moment last Saturday. First we watched Master and Command which was a lot better than I had thought. But after that we tried to watch Van Helsing which is propably the most ___________________ (fill in what you want, I'm done with opinions here) film I've seen in a long time. Actually: I *watched* it through but Timppa gave up after first hour. And as I'm writing about movies: when I came back from the dentist ...with my mouth numb and after falling down to my knees at least twice because of icy weather outside... I decided to watch the movie we won at bingo on NYs eve: Legends of the Fall. Well... there was drama enough for the whole year.
And yes: playing bingo is my annual New Year's eve fun, so I don't have to worry about ageing, I'm already an old soul.
Please, nothing to noisy and flashy for this old lady on special holidays. Might upset too much.