my first few months in college in dublin were spent sharing a room in a family house in whitehall in dublin. it didnt last long. then i moved into a apartment above the best sandwich shop near my college. it didnt last long either. then i moved into 78 stewart hall with some friends (this was may 1996) and over the next few years somewhere in the region of about a dozen people lived in that apartment. i slept on the couch for months. we played cards and were woken up at 8am by josh wink songs at really high volume. we laughed for ages at one flat mate who kept his socks on the window cill everynight to get rid of the smell. then it came time to move, so after a while of running around town looking at flats we eventually settled on an apartment on the same floor, it made moving everything so much easier. so we moved in there (no 81). i cant remember when it happened though. sometime around 98 or 99 i think. over the next few years a few of us lived in there, sleeping arrangements changing every few months. i laughed constantly at the purple carpet in the bathroom, sitting room and bedrooms. the horrible sofa and the dreadful curtains. the horrible layout where we got almost no direct sunlight. but it was home, so we all loved it. i left the apartment in august 2002 to move to here and friends of mine continued to live there until today. paul sent me the picture below just now as he left for the last time. bye bye 81!

super furry animals play in dublin a few hours after i leave on march 28th. doh.

a silver mount zion play st. petersburg a few hours after i arrive back into helsinki on march 28th (there is no way i could get to st. petersburg from here for the gig). so i emailed the record label and asked them to see if they could get a gig here. tiny infinitesimally small chance.

there is a sign across the road from our apartment, just the other side of the tram stop, its a green sign for a finnish company, etera. the green sign is catching the fog we have at the moment, so the air is green. its such a beautiful sight. no camera though. hence this message.

i’ve spent the last few nights reading ‘delirious new york’ by the dutch architect rem koolhaas. most of it goes silently over my head.

goddam poles. such super cool photo websites.

jestzajebiscie.ownlog.com

b.art.pl

thanks to maja

taken a few weeks ago. a few hours later the fresh snow was all ruined by the rampaging päiväkoti (kindergarden/preschool) kids.

hurray. according to jose-gonzalez.com, josé will be playing two gigs in finland, the first in jakobstad (pietarsaari) on april 16th and the second in jyväskylä in central finland on april 17th at the curiousily titled “y rock”. hmm, i think i remember seeing this festival on a tv show last year, it had some signs at it saying “y not?” or something. anyway, i actually have a concert here in finland to look forward to.

edit: the train to jyv?skyl? is almost 40? each way. so its 80? before any other expensese. (therefore ruling the two gigs out for me). i emailed jos?’s manager about a helsinki gig, and he said that they were on the look out for one. so fingers crossed.

20/2 haugesund - stødden 21/2 stavanger - checkpoint charlie 22/2 bergen - det akademiske kvarteret 23/2 förde - pikant (n) 26/2 tromsø - kaos 27/2 trondheim - blæst 4/3 köpenhamn - klubb revolver @ vega (dk) 5/3 vara - konserthuset 13/3 jönköping - jönköpings teater* 14/3 stockholm - chinateatern* 24/3 karlskrona - kino* 25/3 malmö - kb* 26/3 västerås - konserthuset* 27/3 umeå open* 2/4 göteborg - storan 16/4 jakobstad (pietarsaari)- after eight (fin) 17/4 jyväskylä - y rock (fin)

just went cross-country sking for the first time ever. here are some interesting facts:

distance travelled: about 2km number of times i fell: dozens

thank you.

there is a college course that im (very) interested in. it starts next september, but i have to do some drawings as part of the application process.

ennakkotehtävä 1; mahdoton huonekalu kolmiulotteisia kappaleita paperille piirrettäessä tai maalattaessa on mahdollista hieman huijata katsojaa. sopivalla harhautuksella voi esittää kuvia kappaleista, joita ei oikeasti ole olemassa. kehitä oma mahdoton kappaleesi ja sovella sitä kolmiulotteiseen huonekaluun, jollaista ei siis voi olla olemassa. tee lopuksi kuva, jossa tämä huonekalu on sijoitettu sopivaan realistiseen ympäristöön. ennakkotehtävä 2 : no sehän sopii kuin … piirrä 6 - 12 ruutuinen sarjakuva tai storyboard seuraavasta kertomuksesta, johon voit kehittää oman onnellisen - tai onnettoman lopun: saila on ostanut kirpputorilta suuren huonokuntoisen jugendkaapin. hän on onnistunut hurmaamaan antiikkikauppiaan tuomaan sen autolla kotiovelleen. nyt on vain saatava teemu auttamaan mööpelin kantamisessa ylös nuorenparin kaksioon. asunto on neljännessä kerroksessa ja kierreporras on hyvin ahdas. kaappi on umpipuuta. siitä ei uskalla ottaa oikein mistään kunnolla kiinni. kun kaappi on saatu kovan sähläämisen jälkeen viimein ylös, käy ilmi, että koko eteinen täyttyy niin, ettei kaapin ohi sovi kulkemaan ja huoneisiin johtavat ovet ovat kaapin peremmälle viemiseen aivan liian kapeita. arvokas antiikkilöytö ei näytä sopivan oikein mihinkään. käsin piirretty mustavalkoinen tai väritetty esitys yhdelle tai kahdelle a4-kokoiselle paperille. mahdollisimman vähän tekstiä.

(thankfully päivi translated it all)

ennakkotehtävä 1 : impossible furniture when drawing or paintin 3d pieces, it is possible to cheat the viewers using a bluff. you can make picutres of pieces that dont really exist. create your own piece and use it for a 3d furniture (which cant exist). finnis it by doing a picture where this furnuitre is placed into a suitably realistic environment. coloured picture done by hand or by digital means on a4 paper. ennakkotehtävä 2 ”well that matches like….” draw a 6-12 squared cartoon or storyboard from the following story, where you can make up your own happy or unhappy ending. ”saila has bought a big jugend style drawer/bookshelf which is in a bad condition from the fleamarket. she has sucessfully charmed the antique seller into binring it by car to her homedoor. now she only has to get teemu to help her to carry it up to the young couples one-bedroom apartment. the apartment is on the 4th floor and the spiral staircase (kierreporras) is very cramped (ahdas).the shelf is all wooden and its hard to find a good way to carry it up. when finally, after a huge hassle, they get it carried up. the realise that the whole hall fills up (the kaapi is so big, the hall so small) that you cant really get by it, and the doors are to the other rooms are so small that you cant take it any further. valuable antique discovery doesnt seem to fit anywhere.” by hand drawing; black and white or coloured presentation on one or two a4 sized paper. use as little text as possible

part one shouldnt be too much of a problem. part two is a little bit more. i have begun to lay out the story so far, but every time i take up a pencil and start to draw something, it ends up looking like something a 2year old would draw. anyway, i have to submit it during the first week of april, meaning i have only a few short weeks to discover some artistic talent. uhoh. i’ll put what ive done on here in may sometime, when i’ve found out if i have been accepted or not.

music to listen to as green field go by. not sure what it is yet. i’d better find out.

if the banner on this website is annoying you (it annoys me but will cost me 65euros a year to remove it), then maybe give mozilla or firefox a chance. i havent seen the banner in months!. the banner thing doesnt apply thankfully to the livejournal feed or the xml atom feed.