21.10.2009 Muodin viimeisimmät tuulahdukset

Totuus löytyy Nortamolta:

Kyll räkning o semne, ett flikklapse muuttu,

Ja muuttuva niim bali huanomaks vaa,

Ett kon dätä fundeera, oikke siins suuttu,

Eik lainkka stää harmi pois miälestäs saa.

Heilp pääknupp on däynnk kaikengaldassi aatteit,

Joist enne ei hualitt ei merkkikä juur.

Ja kat heijä askreitas, kat heijä vaatteit.

Niis huama, ett mailmas o surkkius suur.

Heil’ liiveis o seitmändoist krääkki ja lenkki.

Ja piukkaham brassatt, ett ihmettle mnää,

Kui lainkka hes semsis saa vedetyks henkki,

Kyll vailnaiseks vissi se toimitus jää.

Em mnää tiäd, jos sillp pidäis naurat taikk itki,

Nep parselli ova niin glookusten deht,

Ko niis ovak knapikki selkruatto pitki,

Ja kaulaukk nii suur, etei kattos sinnk keht.

Heillk kengis on dupsu ja suippneva nirko,

Ja kalossip pääll, ettei kipakak kast.

Mutt virskiri, raamatt ja lukkri ja kirko

Heild unhottus saa, se o surkkia vast.

Ja hiusrusting täynn valla neoloi ja naoloi,

Om börröseks poldett ja jakkaust vaill.

Ja treijuis o rihmoi ja nuori ja paoloi.

Hek kaupungilaisiks jo ruppeva maill.

He mamselleit o, eik het turppeit viit tonkki,

Jos tarhaha öksyvä, voi suas hiis!

He hakkava liäppeihis ooderkolonkki

Ja haistan go Saaroni liljap presiis.

Ja tanseis hef fliitova hiljasse yähö,

Ei siihe heild aikka eik harttautt puut.

Mutt pankkast nek kambraati lailissen dyähö,

Nii nokk heill o nyrppeis ja väändleväs suut.

Kyll flika o muuttunn, mnuun däyty se sanno,

Ja miälestän niim bali huanomaks tull,

Ett naima en men, se mnää luppa ja vanno,

En mens, sill ett sillo mnää olsi vast hull.

Hjalmar Nortamo, 1920

20.10.2009 Current issues in Arts Management?

After a very hectic two months, it was time to summarize what is yet on the to-do list before christmas.

First notion: instant shock: HOW IN EARTH I WILL SURVIVE ALL OF THIS?

Second notion: Oh well, at least the subjects are interesting: cultural policy priciples and practices in x country (propably Sweden), group assignment on new Swedish culture policy (in swedish), critical essay about arts management issues...

Tomorrow we are visiting Zeeland Society in Töölö and the most feared place in the World: Culture section of Helsingin Sanomat in Sanoma-building.

Wednesday trip to Malmitalo in Malmi and meeting the director of Malmitalo. On Friday to Music & Media conference in Tampere and finally on Sunday to book fair in Messukeskus (my day off).

Somewhere in between some Workshop arrangements to Night Visions-festival, and meeting with the working group and Spring Awakening-musical in Helsinki City Theatre. And maybe some sleep if I am lucky...

8.9.2009 Photo-quiz

What is this?

A) Reconstructed model of communistic party´s congress  in 1930´s Moscow

B) Protoype of audience in the upcoming Music House (made for acoustic tests)

14.9.2009 I love Tšehov

While waiting for Mental Finland:

Smeds Ensemble: The Bollywood Cherry Orchard

9.9.2009 Helsinki Design Week: Pecha Kucha -night

What: "PechaKucha, sound of conversation in Japanese, is an informal forum for creative people to talk about creative things. The presentation format guarantees that no one will be bored: each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each, giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up." -Helsinki Design Week- pages-

Where? Cable Hall, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Ruoholahti

Why? 25 euros, prize includes the drinks. Drinks and idea sounds good, so why not?

The speakers varied from yet unknown artist (Riitta Ikonen, loved her work!) to very well-known fashion designer (Daniel Palillo), advertisment agency-guru (Ami Hasan) for graphic and other designers from Netherlands (Lotte van Laatum, Marcel te Brake) and for Artek head of design (Ville Kokkonen).
I personally favoured the Palillo presentation, where he introduced us the children´s wear collection he designed years ago as a school project in TAIK. Well, it sounded quite surreal, as school projects aiming to catch some ECTS  usually do. While laughing to the t-shirts with texts Star Wars (star overlined) and Super Man (super overlined), I realised that maybe he was also making little bit of joke about himself as an appraised designer and the over-serious design business in Finland (you know, those people dressed in black and heels with over-sized specs and symmetric haircut).
Well, it worked, I laughed more than I would have in Helsinki Comedy Festival (if  ever went there).

 

We Work In A Fragile Material (design group / Sweden) 

  

Ami Hasan (Hasan & Partners)

  

Daniel Palillo presenting his not-so-recent collection. 

5.9.2009 Helsinki Design Week: Design Market

What? Annual Helsinki Design Week and its most user-friendly happening: Design Market.

Where? In the Cable Hall of the Cable Factory there was a gathering of designers, design shops and other design-related companies.

Why? There´s a recession going on. Buy more design-stuff to keep the people in the business.

Compared to the last year´s event, the willingness to sell items has increased 100%. Last year the tables were in a less-creative and less-attractive mess and the sellers were just talking to their friends or sulking behind (or under) the desk. This year some of them even tried to take contact to me, even though, due to my recent student-status, I was (definitely) not buying anything.
Last year I bought some clothes from Mieland-company, since they were the nicest guys in the hall (no, I don´t know them personally even though they are from Rovaniemi), and their info-material, table and overall image was well designed.
This year there were some designers selling their very expensive clothes made from recycled cloth and  on the next table some other company selling exactly the same things (or ideas) with half the prize.
It kind of reminds me of a flea market where some people overestimate the value of their beloved clothes and in the consequence nobody is buying them. I think with the recycling idea, prizes have to be just a little bit less than with clothes made of new fabrics.
Recycling, traditional fabrics and patterns, woollen socks and shirts, print clothes (!) and pouches and bags were the trends in the market this year - and pretty much the last year too. Where´s the new?

Yep,  somebody was actually knitting their products at the place -great idea!

13.9.2009 At the start

Dear friends and colleagues and yet unknown people,

This is my attempt to keep up with my thoughts, ideas and interests in the field of art. In this blog I try to collect current issues in the field of arts, politics, and pretty much everything (even distantly) related to these things.
And, let´s be honest, in my studies there is a course called "Current Issues in the Field of Arts Management", which earns me couple of ECTS, so this is for my studies too..

Welcome!