All curators are bastards

2014-02-14-DSCF8381.JPG, a photo by anttia on Flickr.

Hockey fever

2014-02-10-DSCF0494.RAF, a photo by anttia on Flickr.

shade

2014-02-07-DSCF0143.RAF, a photo by anttia on Flickr.

Rest in peace Tea Ista

Yesterday I was surfing the net minding my own business when stumbled upon some theater photos I had taken couple years ago from Mr Vertigo by Kristian Smeds. For some reason I did feel very emotional.

Today I read that Tea Ista, one of the actors had passed away. She was a radiant human being and a stunning actress, I feel really lucky that I had a change to experience a short glimpse of her.

It was very unfortunate and surprising that MR. Vertigo ended up being her last work, but in a way it was a good conclusion for a long career.

Thank you Tea, it surely was a privilege to work with you for this short while.

 

Random photo of the day

_MG_9866.CR2, a photo by anttia on Flickr.

I was browsing trough my archive, and for some reason this photo did catch my eye this time.

Some urban exploring

When I was visiting Tallinn, a friend of mine took me to a tour in a soviet factory-complex. I had not done any urban exploring for a long time, but this place really blow me away. Factory was huge, even thought bigger halls had been cleaned out some places like the chemistry lab was virtually untouched.

It was an unique opportunity to get a glimpse to another world. Soviet union is long gone, this factory will probably be renovated soon for some more contemporary use.

New Nokia

Today is a very emotional day for Finnish people. Nokia mobile phones have been important factor in our national self-esteem for decades, and now they are sold for Microsoft dirt cheap.

Nokia was known for very good engineering, they made practical products that were reasonably priced. The problem was that they were never very hip. Hipsters buy I-phones, not because they are well engineered or cheap, but because they are desirable and cool.

I thought Nokia never had any cool products, until last summer I found this pair of Nokia Kodikkaat from a flee-market in Alajärvi. These are some kind of indoor slippers, but they have a rubber sole thick enough for light urban outdoor use as well.

Right now everybody is speculating on which direction would Nokia turn next. Could this be the new Nokia? Hipsters would buy these like crazy, what could be more ironic than Nokia slippers? For a hipster it would also be an urbanistic statement: I am so urban, I don't even have shoes. For old people these could be sold with nostalgic reasons, and they do not need to go outside anyways.

And these would be perfect for ex-employees who can now finally dress casually, and only leave the house to buy beer. 

 Only time will tell what Nokia will end up producing, but we can only hope it would be something as cool as Kodikkaat are.