soundtrack | Salad: Drink The Elixir

Back to work. Timppa left for Jämsänkoski to put up an exhibition with five other artists from Central Finland. I would have liked to leave with him to help but since yesterday was some sort of thunder head day and I practically slept through the whole day... That's it.


I just made a decicion to divide my work days during weeks to work and fun (read: work and Coloria). Coloria has been linked to YleX radio station pages which has brought me A LOT of new visitors and comments about Coloria. And I'm feeling a bit down about it since I really have wrote only few sentences to the site since the beginning of the year. Last week I received a book by Arturo Péres-Reverte from the Finnish translation for thanks (for a little help with one colour related thing).
I've sort of taken the easy step closer to Coloria. On Midsummer fest I had a lo-fi fest: I went to my parents and left the work totally. I took my portable computer wth me and studied their books and some articles and wrote bases for colour stories. And I had some wool with me which I dyed with madder, Dermocybe mushrooms and nettle with boletus mushrooms ...Could it get more lame? I'm ruining my reputation as rock chick.

Still one more foot note: I still find it nicer to listen to radio (hard core BBC6 fan) while working but I have to say The buther and The Butterfly by Queenadreena... Gives me some extra kick I need in mornings.


And so it begins. Work.

soundtrack | Dover: Die For Rock'n'Roll

Spirited Herring here...
and

Live Herring there...


For your information: No, I'm not dead, just a bit older! Last week was busybusy and then theere were minimal birthday festitives and after that maximal rock festitives. After a long weekend of hectic running around sand fields and bridges over the river at Provinssi-rock working feels like holidays. It was great though - seeing Marilyn Manson and NIN live... The weather was better than good and I found a good festival theme: I started taking pictures of people wearing clothes with skulls. It's a shame I got it so late, I only had about 30-40 pictures. But this will be ongoing theme with me in future fests too - so wear your skulls!


Before we left I managed to finish an awful lot of projects - and still there are many left. But Live Herring is online and so is my new artsy bitsy Uninvited words which is also exhibited at Spirited Herring. And propably in Chicago next month if everything goes well. Today I also filled in the work description for Rhizome ArtBase...


On my birthday (16th) the only festitive thing was a birthday dinner: we ordered all appetizers on the menu except one. Otherwise I worked through the day. ...Well, I had to try: Timppa bought me two PS2 games and I had to try Sonic collection a little. I knew it was a mistake - I almost couldn't stop. After finishing these couple of late project in my hands, I'll play a bit.


So: following are the exhibition space thingy for Mikko in Craft Museum and rest of the site renewal for Kirsi.

soundtrack | Magazine: Shot By Both Sides

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What?! Yesterday night I lost Britain from the world map! Tried to open BBC6 on RealPlayer - and nothing. After a while I thought I lost the contact to the whole world but soon realized that only the British pages were banned. There was no problem in getting to German pages (for some reason the obvious choice for me was to try the homepage of Berlin...) Glad it's back though - most of all BBC6. Right now I'm easing down listening to Phill Jupitus Breakfast show on BBC6. I've said this before but I will say it again: time zones are great! I can wake up at my own time not feeling quilty about not waking up at early morning like rest of the population seems to be doing. When I start my work and open the radio there is breakfast show running. It sort of gives me more hours to day as I can pretend that I have woken up early. I'm actually going to mail this to BBC. Right after I've managed to get through my most important thirty about mail waiting for reading. Actually, I have mentioned BBC6 so many times they should actually send me some stuff for this. T-shirt or something. Today's world as it is: nothing for free.


Anyway, I've done a lot of work. Most recent updates: Gallery Becker, Alvar Aalto Foundation and The Craft Museum of Finland.

soundtrack | System of A Down: BYOB

...god. The beginning of June has been hectic. Most of the time has been spent with Spirited Herring - www.webgalleria.net - now open. Go, register as an artist and submit your Crime associated works! First invited artist is Lea Turto whose interbiew will be translated also to English. So funny - as the Spirited Herring is now a project of The Arts Council of Central Finland I asked them to give me a name of a good translator I could ask to translate the texts to proper English... They actually gave me the name of my old school friend - from about twenty years ago.


I've made some basic updates for Alvar Aalto Foundation and The Craft Museum of Finland but nothing big (if you don't count the Spirited Herring)...