Dead Drops: The Offline File-Sharing Network
http://popupcity.net/2010/10/dead-drops-the-offline-file-sharing-network/

routes through finland

http://suse-m.blogspot.com/p/routes-through-finland.html

trip to tampere and hämeenlinna

my trip to Tampere and Hämeenlinna

book I want to have!!

Urban pioneers: 

Berlin: Stadtentwicklung durch Zwischennutzung

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, 2007

Skate parks in abandoned industrial zones, ponies grazing alongside the former Berlin Wall, flea markets in empty warehouses, music and fashion shows in hard-to-rent retail locations and climbing walls in development niches--scarcely a city in Europe has made such radically widespread use of "temporary use" projects as has Berlin in the last few decades. The idea of temporary use--which has been defined as "activity in spaces currently unsuitable or undesirable in mainstream economic cycles"--is of increasing strategic importance for urban development around the world, as individuals and government agencies pioneer new prospects at disused sites that defy traditional urban planning. Urban Pioneers documents more than 40 such projects in the city of Berlin, and comes with a series of essays and interviews that offer comprehensive, timely insight into the subject, proposing new guidelines for shaping urban development.

new secrets of Finnish language

Forms of verbs and nouns... just playing around with different sentence types I learned till now. So everything is made by just: You - Work (as verb or noun)... that's it basically! just some additions!

Sinulla on työtä. - You have work.
Sinulla on työpaikka. - You have a job (literally: workplace)
Sinä olen työssä. - You are at work.
Sinä teet paljon työtä. - You work a lot.
Sinä tarvitset työtä. - You need to work.
Sinun täytyy tehdä työtä. - You have to work.
Sinun ei tarvitse tehdä työtä. - You don't have to work.
Sinun ei tarvitse olla työssä. - You don't have to be at work.

wow Finns... that's everything I figured out that I learned it untill now! But don't think I did it by heart... I do have a good grammar book, made myself!

all forms of just one word! holy shit!
http://users.jyu.fi/~hetahein/tiede/verbikaava.html

finnish tongue twisters

shit...
Jaakko started teaching me Finnish tongue twisters today (the real ones, not the ones all the non-finnish speaking humans would think about... most of that words are even used in everyday life ;-) )
And Heli sent me a link with 77 Finnish tongue twisters! http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/fi.htm#O101035

my favourites for the moment:

Yksikseskös itkeskelet, itsekseskös yskiskelet?
Are you crying all alone, are you coughing by yourself?
they say it's a test about your alkohol level. I can't even do it without any alkohol...

Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon!
- Koko kokkoko?
- Koko kokko.
Kokko (a surname), gather up the whole bonfire!  
-The entire bonfire? 
- The entire bonfire. 

Keksijä Keksi keksi keksin keksittyään keksin keksijä Keksi keksi keksin keksityksi
Inventor Cookie, invented the cookie. After inventor Cookie had invented the cookie, he invented that the cookie was invented.

Ääliö, älä lyö, ööliä läikkyy!
Idiot, don't hit, beer spills!

Hääyöaieuutinen
Wedding night intention news (it is said you find it in the yellow press)

the longest finnish non-compound but totally senseless word:
Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään
es nicht, dass er nicht jemanden zu setzen jemanden, der sich desorganisiert You know? senseless!

what Jaakko teached me so far:
Hääyöaie - we had that already!
matalalattiaraitiovaunu - lowfloortram
alavilla mailla hallan vaara - low-lying land frost risk
and his "all time favourite collection of suffixes: istahtaisinkohan = I wonder if I should sit down for a while." (quote Jaakko)
you see he is teaching me nonsense!

lerning a secret crazy language: Finnish

who still wants to tell me that Finnish language is not crazy (=who really understands the different between the following examples??):
Luen kirjaa. - I read a book (at the moment or only part of it)
Luen kirjan. - I read a book. (the whole book... or the plan to read the whole book)
Luen kirjat. - I read all books. (or whatever... I'm not sure what they mean...)

my field trip with history of finnish architecture class

it was a fun day and a fun trip.
We saw a lot, nevertheless it felt a bit like being a japanese tourist: hop off the bus, take a picture, visit buildings for several minutes, hopp back on the bus - where do we go next?
I was especially impressed by Viikki church. You really can't explain it just with pictures! I am sure that the architects even designed the sound of the doors! They really ask for touching them! Great special construction! then it is about smell! the smell of wood makes you instantly feel safe. It is about light! It is about space! The ceiling is really great! Great church!
But I also liked Myyrmäki church! That's only about light and space! You instantly get the feeling of holyness!

And I learned about housing projects. My first Finnish garden city: Tapiola. lovely place, but todays masses of cars are a big problem over there. Nevertheless it seems that Finns still want to live there. And notice it was build in the 1950th! (that's also pretty old in Finland)

Probably I still have to say something about the geographical centre of Helsinki. It is Viiki, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. It is some kilometers to the north-east from todays centre of Helsinki. Helsinki universitys campus for agriculture is located over there... and it is a very agricultural landscape! ;-)

Ah yeah and I want to say something about Malmi airport. I heard the story that they want to close it completely because they need the field for new residential housing. And the second thing my teacher told me: it is the same thing you've had in Berlin some years ago... Well, NO its not! Tempelhof hasn't had any force to use it for housing. Berlin has no need for new residential buildings! But Berlin has need for public parks and gardens... In Helsinki it is the other way around: They do have a lot of green in the city but they have need for residential buidlings... So if you really need the field: use it!

It seems that I slowly start to understand main features of Finnish architecture. It is about space and about light.. It is about sensitivity!!! that's the key point! Probably I am going to write about that for the essays. We have to write a book review and 5 essays on different topics. My somehow favourite essay topic:
Choose two buildings which you think represent Finnish identity, write a description and analyse the features that create the identity
what in hell is Finnish identity??? Any of you Finnish people want to answer that question for me? Probably I am going to write 10 pages about Finnish identity before starting to describe any building! I don't know... funny topic!

back from field trip, todays sightseeing points: 
Wooden Käpylä(1920-25), 
Olympic Village (1939-40), 
Vallila library an kindergarten (1991), 
Arabianranta, 
Vanhakaupunki, 
Info centre Viikki (1999), 
Wooden apartment blocks Viikki (1997), 
Viikki church (2005), 
Malmi airport (1938),
Myyrmäki Church (1984),
Tapiola: 
Ketju housing (1954), 
Sufika and Mantyviita (1954), 
Tapiola church (1965), 
Urn Cemetery (2004), 
Tapiola swimming hall (1965), 
Espoo Cultural centre (1989), 
WG building (1964-74); 


Suvikumpu hosing (1967-69,1982), 
Niittykumpu fire station(1991), 
Otaniemi chapel (1957)

puuh... feels I have seen whole Helsinki, Vaanta and Espoo.. did I?

my first little game

awful graphics but it works...

maybe I am gonna make birds or butterflys out of the circles? who knows....

design update

updated design, links and put my CV here!... took me pretty long to decide, how I want it to be ;)

and 've still not put any of my works...