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...

jessica helfands SIX (+2) ESSAYS ON DESIGN AND NEW MEDIA

what I read during the weekend:

quotes from Jessica Helfands SIX (+2) ESSAYS ON DESIGN AND NEW MEDIA published in NY 1997

p8/9

Image programmes, like Adobe Photoshop, offer a plenthora of choices - brushes and filters, pens and pencils, masks and erasers - look at all those tools, all those are toys! Think about it: if you were standing in front of the Mona Lisa and someone handed you a can of spray paint, inviting you to go wild, telling you that anything you did, any alteration or defacement could instantly be erased - wouldn't you be just the least bit tempted?

p9

On screen, we aquire augmented powers: we can dupe and disort, flip and flop, colorize and compress and recreate an image at will. But do we? Should we? Who decides, and how? And when?

p9/10

The reality is that non of us really know just how far it's going to take us [computer development]. Most of us agree that the computer won't think for us, but we continue to wonder: can it engage us - creatively, conceptually - to the degree that it modifies our thinking?

p10

We fire and miss, revert to saved and fire again. The screen becomes an endlessly forgiving sketching suface - gone is the anxiety of 'ruining' the blank first page of a brand-new sketchbook.

p 15 Adolf Loos quotation:

One cannot speak a capital letter.

p16

"Spoken words", wrote Aristotle in LOGIC, "are the symbols of mental experience. Written words are the symbols of spoken words." Today, centuries later, the equation has added a new link: what happens when written words can speak? When they can move? When they can be imbued with sound and tone and nuance and decibel and harmony and voice?

p17

Of what value are typographic choices - bold and italic, for example - when words can dance across the screen, dissolve or disappear altogether?

In the land of e-mail, we all "sound" alike: everyone writes in system fonts.

p18

E-mail is functionally serviceable and visuably forgettable, not unlike fast food. It's drive-through design: get in, get out, move on.

p47

With its electronic language of e-mail and emoticons, its emphasis on bevity and abreviation, the internet is the large-scale fulfillment of the culture of interruption that began with grazing at dinner parties and found it's aesthetic home in the rapid-cut, short attentionspan editing style on MTV.

p 49

In this new world [the internet], the social patterns and bevavioral ramifications of how- and why- users access this material will demand that we conceptualize time and space with more abitious thinking, more intentive models and, undoubtely, more inspired design than presently exist.

So how will theoretical and practical functions of design reinvent - and sustain - themselves in this new idiom?

p64/65

In his excellent book, war of the worlds, cultural critic Mark Slouka suggests that what sets the real world apart from cyberspace is its reliance upon context: without context, he argues, ethical behavior is impossible.

p 71/72

In electronic media, where the tramsmittal of data depends upon the generally unreliable support of varying bandwidth, Real Time is immediate time, everything at once time, time without interruption or delay. Real Time implies no waiting - but in Real World, don't we occasionally wait for things? We wait in supermarket lines, at the bank, in muvie queues; we wait "on hold" on the telephone, or put the VCR on "pause" to answer the door. Information transmittal, whether on CD-ROM or via netwoked phone lines or in face-to-face conversation, takes time.

what I am reading right now

many designers believe that design is the end product. To me, design is merely a language, a means to an end, a means of communication. The question is, what do you communicate - Burger King, or something meaningful? - tibor kalman

boarder city Helsinki

yeah, really everyone skateboardes in Helsinki! I haven't seen any boarder in whole Vaasa during 3 weeks I have been there, but Helsinki is a boarder city! It doesn't care if you are 12 or 35, if you are woman or men... just skateboard! yeah... And I just decided to start as well... but haven't found anyone to teach me untill now... :-( hopefully I will find a teacher... Probably I am to old to start really... but let's see...

Everywhere in Helsinki you can use your skateboard: just take the bikelane next to the street or even through all the parks... little and big skate parks are everywhere in the city. The one with the most beautiful view, which I have seen untill now, is near to Eiranranta, south part of city centre. Just skate and look at the sea, if you have time! Well, it has been full of 15 years old people the 2 times I have passed it untill now...

And they are even skating directly in front of my window. I am living in a area, where is less traffic and on the square outsite my window there is even no traffic at all, cars forbidden... so it is the ideal place for the local teenagers and even other young and middle old (always a question of definition) people to meet and board!

I like Helsinki!

Tervetuola

I dicided to start to blog... well, just what's going on in Helsinki, what is new, what is different... stuff...