Category Film and photo
The roots of punk: Sex pistol’s John Lydon speaking in London
Listen to John Lydon himself with Gideon Coe and an audience of 150 people in central at BBC in London. Where the safety pins a symbolic ornament from the beginning? Listen to the BBC broadcast to find out…. And a film about when punk came to a small town in Finland. The devil came too….
Temple Grandin my hero!
Temple Grandin what a brave women! She gives me courage! I have seen the short movies with her, the HBO movie with Claire Danes about her and listened to interviews with her I can not stop thinking about how amazingly brave she really has been in her life going through all “the doors of life” […]
Africa for Norway: raising money in Africa to help poor Norwegians struggle through winter
Who says Africa can’t contribute to us in the cold north? The Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund – an aid agency in Norway (www.saih.no) – has made a video in cooperation with South African students which turnes the tables and question about solidarity and power relations concerning third world development organizations are put in […]
Zlatan´s ego in French
“Les Guignols de l’info” (news puppets) is a French satire program known to make fun of famous people. Now Les Guignols has taken on Zlatan Ibrahimovic and has created a doll that resembles Zlatan and he has several times been “interviewed” by the news anchor doll in live broadcast before and after games. He responds […]
Läshunden Alfa – Alfa the readingdog
Läshunden Alfa finns på plats varje tisdag fr.o.m. 2.10 kl. 13-14 på Ekenäs stadsbibliotek. Uppmaningen på bibliotekets hemsida lockar: Tycker ditt barn om hundar? Går han eller hon i lågstadiet och behöver träna extra med sin läsning? […]
The first photograph ever taken in Finland
A fellow blogger – Mats Söderlund – has published on the Crop Factor blog the first photograph taken in Finland. Wow! It really looks as something someone could have taken with a pinhole camera at our Photography summerschool at Goldsmith! It was taken by Henrik Cajander, a doctor who lived on the very street the photo was taken. […]
Maj Lind competition in Finland – many 100.000 finger movements
We had taped the Maj Lind competition and watched it this grey Sunday morning on Finland. It is amazing! In many ways, artistically of course and for me as a non-professional it seems just overwhelming and hard to understand technically that anyone in such a skillful way can move their fingers across the keyboard so fast […]
Lönar sig livet?
Lönsamhet vad är det? Lönar det sig att leva? Jag har funderat mycket på två kommentarer, en som min pappa fick när han efter 20 år som bibliotekarie på Ekenäs stadsbibliotek beslutat sig för att säga upp sig för att heltid börja jobba på Emmaus, där han redan jobbat all sin lediga tid i många […]
How blogging is a rhizomic practice
Rhizome is used by many and maybe not even 100% understood by anyone except perhaps by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the philosophers who coined the term. Maybe we are not supposed to “master” nor totally grasp the concept of rhizome. But what I do understand concerning the concept is enough for me: It describe a way to […]
Felt hats and the wonderful people who make them
The above slideshow is about some beutiful people who make and wear very colorful and imaginative felt hats. Check out Felt Factions web site – a company founded by Elina Saari and Aki Leppänen in 1999. They make unique hats, clothing and wall textiles and almost anything out of felts. They describe their lifestyle with […]
Ylva Rancken-Lutz
"I am linked therefore I am" 