Lack of appreciation

I was sitting in car, minding my own business, when someone said it. "Your blog sucks". This person said that it is contrived and boring. This someone also said that I should quit the whole thing. He might be right. As a protest, I publish today a boring picture of my (so called) friend sweeping slush on me. This certain someone might, or might not, be in the picture.

Party people @ party

Lazy Sunday

At least the sun was shining today.

Polaroid from Kenya, Ngong Hill.

Today is the last HUGE! night. I'm glad it's over... Not really, it was fun :-) This man is the Man behind Huge. In this pic he is the man behind a double exposure.

Unwanted Christmas presents

Not all Christmas presents are good - especially if you try to get some sleep in the mornings..

so much fun

I've always said that cameras are so much fun! For example, you can spend time taking close-up fisheye pictures with your home made ring flash while partying your ass off. Or you can overexpose a film shot of your friend taking a close-up fisheye picture with his home made ring flash while partying your ass off...

Boring random shot from the airport of Nairobi. I've been so lazy with my camera...

Ice Cube, Helsinki 23.7.2008

still black and white

Sometimes I found myself wondering if I'm going to still live in the same hood when I grow up. I hope not. This old couple has lived their whole life here where I live, at least I think so. Cheapy film..

one more

If you're looking for something else than snowboarding in the cold weather today, the place to be in Tampere is YO-talo and Jesse & Ka So Re co-gig.

A promise

I kind of promised to a friend of mine that I would go and visit him this week as I got back from my trip. Not it seems that I have to renege. I'm so sorry. But you he'll get his Christmas present, that's a promise!

More from yesterday. Shadows against the snowy ramp.

Back in black and white!

I got back from my little African trip yesterday. Today was the harsh back-to-reality-day. We went hang out and take some pictures of this little snowboarding session at the ramp. It was really dark and cold and I couldn't feel my toes. The conditions we're very different from those in Africa. But at least I like the pictures, really grainy and black-n-whitish. And it's always fun to see some friends for a long time.

Did you know that those Japanese tourists are everywhere!

Update

Okay, time to update the situation. It's going to take a bit longer here in Kenya than I expected. So please come back after Christmas :-) Sorry. And that one is an old Maasai man in our pick-up.

Sorry for the break. Come back in the beginning of December =)

Believe it or not, those old female funguses play slot machines in Turku also.

Courage

This is Antti. Everyone has been teasing him for his whole life because umm.. Well, because he is Antti. I wish that someone would have the courage to stand against the harassers. The power to make people stop. That someone is not going to be me because umm... Because he is Antti :-)

Camera equipment

You can't never ever understate the importance of proper camera equipment. It might come handy when needed.

Clean up

Since everyone is so tired on Sunday, Monday is a brilliant day to clean up the mess you may have caused.

Sundays

Sundays are always the worst. This Sunday was not an exception.

Lost in Turku, once again.

Turku hello

Tomorrow it's time to go watch Niki do some funny stunts in funny clothes. Good times.

Backlight

As you might have noticed, shooting against light has always been a thing I like quite a lot.

I can have a black and white season if I want to.

Same old black and white

As I like these photos so much, let's keep on going with them. A comment on the yesterday's photo summarized it well; these were good photos but I have a problem next time I'm going to shoot the gig again: what next? Well, that's not my problem - yet :)

Fresh Huge!

It was Huge once again last Friday. I was mentally bankrupt because of the fact that I would shoot the same photos for the fifth time. It was time to take a different approach. So I decided to shoot without a flash and in black&white. To my mind, it turned out pretty well.

One more week left.

Sunsets

Don't know why the sunsets look much better this time of the year.

Welcome to the Huge today at Tabu. On the stage tonight the most hunted dj's.

The highlight of someone's little misery life

My friend is getting old year after year. Now he has decided to arrange a small party thingie. He needed a photo for the card, so I had to help him out because he wasn't able to do it himself. Loser? This is not the picture used in the card. This is randomness during the session.

The highlight of the year

Hmm.. Few days ago I realized that it isn't that long for January anymore. And what's special in January? Everything. New year, new tricks. And what could be more suitable way to kick off the year than a five-day-long fun-having-trip to beloved Estonia. I should be at the army at that time (since it's mandatory here in Finland), but I guess that they don't leave me any other choice than postponing it. In the picture Niclas is having jolly good time in the streets of Tallinn :-)

A shock to wake you up

Okey, it was the morning of 14th of October. I get a cup of tea, sit down and what do I see when I open the daily newspaper?! A hell of a group of those little guys with their pointy red hat's taking over a page. Oh come on! Why won't they let me enjoy my wonderful autumn on itself. I do not need that kind of instigation yet. I've also heard that Lidl has begun to sell their Advent calendars... But on the other hand, why not? Since Christmas wants so bad to be Autumn-like (meaning the weather conditions), why can't Autumn be also Christmas-like?

Snapshot

Quick snapshot of a drunken masta after falling down from a bench and a sporty bicycle masta.

Nothing worth writing today. Except I woke up today at 2pm and spend a nice sunny autumnal day outdoors.

There are not that many moments that would make me smoke a cigarette. Now would be one of those moments. Extremely frustrating situation going on.

Friends

It was nice to see friends last night for a long time.

I'm like a crazy professor; MORE MOREEE!!! HAHAHAHAHA

Another view

And another view from the bus right after the previous one. Waiting for the bus is often quite boring. However this fancy old man seems to be not-so-bored after all, maybe he's looking for birds or something. Good for him :) (Ps. but he had an angry escort with him)

And then a view inside the bus. I like this a lot.

About public transport

Since I've begun working a bit farther than before, I've started to take the bus instead of riding my bike. I have to admit that I like it quite a lot. It is nice to stalk your co-travellers and watch the scenery go by from a warm bus pench. Plus who would want to pedal in pouring rain. Unbelievable as it sounds, I don't even mind the half an hour longer commute. It's fairly relaxing to just sit and listen to music for 40 minutes before your workday. Leave the automobile home, ride the bus!

Getting things started

Night shift

I made a visit to my local kebab-pizzeria last night. The guys there are super. They made pizzas almost in world record time. In the photo is one of the employees. Don't know his name, sorry :(

Boring work days III

Since it's Friday and time to get loose, this is going to be last one of the boredom shots taken during my workday. Tires and blackness, I bet you wouldn't have known that without me.

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Someone very tired on a lecture at the University of Tampere. The topic in the auditorium was "The four ways of making money". Ummm.. Work, work, work, being lucky? Don't know. But what I know is that that's not me in the photo, though I have same kind of state during these sleepy and overwhelming three-hour-monsters.

More work boredom

A pack of washers.

Boring at work

Tools and a lamp.

The line

The border between summer and winter is soon going to be in front of us. It's the moment when all the vivid fades into murk. Let's try to hang on the other side as long as we can, okay?

Time machine

In times like this, I really think that some really intelligent engineer should invent an time machine. It's Sunday evening and at the time being I'm bored to death of my home town's night life. Wish I could be with these fine young men in their wetsuits in the warmth of Labor day sunshine in Lapland...