archive for February, 2004

hurray

2004.02.22 | posted in uncategorised | no coments »

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)

cross forest traffic

2004.02.22 | posted in uncategorised | no coments »

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.

pencil and paper

2004.02.22 | posted in uncategorised | no coments »

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.

lost

2004.02.22 | posted in uncategorised | no coments »

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

banner

2004.02.21 | posted in uncategorised | no coments »

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.