Feb 19, 2011
Feb 17, 2011
Suheir Hammad: Poems of war, peace, women, power | Video on TED.com
they are great!
Feb 14, 2011
Minun perheeni - writing about my family
Minun perheessä on neljä henkeä: isä, äiti ja veli.
Minulla on yksi isovel. Hänen niemensä on Micha. Hän opiskelee geografia (my teacher wants to say it is maantietoa but is that geography?) ja asuu Göttingenissä. Se on Keski-Saksassa ja entisessä Länsi-Saksassa. Micha pitää Göttingenissä opiskelemisesta, koska hänellä on paljon ystäviä siellä.
Äitini nimi on Jutta. Hän on kaupunkin virkailija. Äiti n naimisissa isäni kanssa. Isäni nimi on Jürgen. Hän työskentelee elektroniikkakaupassa.
Minun perheeni asuu Neurupinissä. Se on Itä-Saksassa, 80km:n Berliinistä.
Minun äidilläni oli kaksi veljeä, mutta yksi on jo kuollut. Hänen nimensä oli E. ja minun enoni nimi on M.
Isälläni on yksi sisko ja yksi veli. Setäni nimi on F. ja tätini nimi on H.
Minulla on yksi isläiti. Muut muumit ja ukit ovat jo kuolleet. Isoäitini on aitini äiti. Hän on paras! Hän on ainoa jota minä kaipaan.
Minulla on paljon sekkuja. E.-enollani on neljä lasta: Jana, Julia, Christi ja David. Jana on vanhin ja minä pidän hänestä eniten. Janan pikaystävän nimi on Hanno. He saavet lapsen ensi kesänä. Julia ja Christi ovan samanikäisiä, mutta Julia on hieman nuorempi. Heillä jo on lapsia. Christin poika, Finn, on nuorempi. Julialla on tyttö. Hänen nimensä on Leira. David on nuroin, mutta hän ja Julia ovat naimisessa. Jana ja Christi ovat oikeastaan avoiliitossa poikkaystäviensä kanssa, mutta Christi mene naimisin ensi huhtikuussa.
Feb 10, 2011
just released: helsinki urban alphabet 2011
I was motivated for a longer time to do this, but today I just did... Instead of the important stuff I need to do. However, here is my magic HELSINKI URBAN ALPHABET first edition (hope there are gonna be more).
To collect the photos I didn't even walk around and shot letters, it's just what is in all your pictures anyway... So in that sense it's pretty representative of what you actually perceive in Helsinki.
What I find interesting about this little animation is that although all of the letters are pretty different, they have one thing in common: They create nice looking patterns when added in a grid... At least I love looking at those patterns... And I quite like is the diversity, but still it's really representative of what Helsinki looks like, from my point of view :)
(oh yeah, and give it some time to load... it's a swf file ... be patient!)
To collect the photos I didn't even walk around and shot letters, it's just what is in all your pictures anyway... So in that sense it's pretty representative of what you actually perceive in Helsinki.
What I find interesting about this little animation is that although all of the letters are pretty different, they have one thing in common: They create nice looking patterns when added in a grid... At least I love looking at those patterns... And I quite like is the diversity, but still it's really representative of what Helsinki looks like, from my point of view :)
(oh yeah, and give it some time to load... it's a swf file ... be patient!)
Feb 8, 2011
suomen sanatyyppi - Finnish word types > a preparation for even more complicated things like using the plural
well, that's what I was fighting with tonight: Finnish word types and how to build the "vartalo" (is it stem in English?) of them. Actually it's a task I got from my teacher. Need to send it tomorrow.
So here it is:
So here it is:
| nominatiivi | vartalo |
| korkea | korkea- |
| leveä | leveä- |
| vapaa | vapaa- |
| hissi | hissi- |
| kuva | kuva- |
| koulu | koulu- |
| kaappi | kaapi- |
| hinta | hinna- |
| tapa | tava- |
| laatu | laadu- |
| vanki | vangi- |
| jalka | jala- |
| suuri | suure- |
| tuuli | tuule- |
| joki | joke- |
| puoli | puole- |
| moni | mone- |
| ovi | ove- |
| tuore | tuoree- |
| lääke | lääkkee- |
| laite | laittee- |
| suhde | suhtee- |
| liikenne | likentee- |
| toinen | toise- |
| onnellinen | onnellise- |
| täydellinen | täydellise- |
| vaarallinen | vaarallise- |
| uusi | uude- |
| käsi | käde- |
| kuukausi | kuukaude- |
| täysi | täyde- |
| valmis | valmii- |
| sairas | sairaa- |
| taivas | taivaa- |
| patsas | patsaa- |
| kohtelias | kohteliaa- |
| raitis | raittii- |
| asiakas | asiakkaa- |
| värikäs | värikkää- |
| puhdas | puhtaa- |
| porras | portaa- |
| jänis | jänikse- |
| ananas | ananakse- |
| vihannes | vihannekse- |
| juures | juurekse- |
| mainos | mainokse- |
| vakuutus | vakuutukse- |
| järjestys | järjestykse- |
| käännös | käännökse- |
| henkilöllisyys | henkilöllisyyde |
| todellisuus | todellisuude- |
| vaikeus | vaikeude- |
| tärkeys | tärkeyde- |
| eläin | eläime- |
| soitin | soittime- |
| kaiutin | kaiuttime- |
| tulostin | tuolosttime- |
| veroton | verottoma- |
| rasvaton | rasvattoma- |
| välttämätön | välttämättömä- |
| näkymätön | näkymättömä- |
| ystävätär | ystävättäre- |
| tanssijatar | tansijattare- |
| näyttelijätär | näyttelijättäre- |
| lyhyt | lyhye- |
| ohut | ohue- |
| kevyt | kevye- |
| olut | olue- |
| kuolut | kuollee- |
| onnistunut | onnistunnee- |
| väsynyt | väsynee- |
| pettynyt | pettynee- |
so Finns: can you tell me why you think you need soooo many word types? I mean, to have some different ones seems ok to me, but this... you know...
Well, hopefully I find time to publish my text about my family tomorrow (already corrected by my teacher). You know I am learning things like: minun perheeni ja sinun perheesi
And today I started to learn how to build plural forms. Until now we only had Plural Nominative, but to make things more complicated lets try: "I go to restaurants" (just in case one is not enough)... should be something like: "menen ravintoloiin" (The underlined oi is the plural part and the fat is the "to go to" [no idea how all your local cases are called actually]).
Jan 28, 2011
docpoint
It's docpoint week in Helsinki. It's a documentary film festival. And I could afford to buy a screening card for 5 films... But I've seen already 8 until today ;-) That's what I call effective! Well, today I've seen 6 Finnish short films in one session!
I thought it might be useful and maybe also interesting to others to write some short thoughts about every film... So here it is:
God Bless Iceland
Iceland, Sweden, Germany, 2009, 100min
(seen on Tuesday at Maxim)
the festival catalogue says:
"It has been said that the collapse of Iceland's national economy in the autumn of 2008 transformed citizens into activists. The global financial crisis hit the small island nation hard, making it a victim of turbo capitalism. Having lost billions, Iceland's three biggest banks went all bankrupt on the same week.
People venting their anger, disappointment and national shame patrolled the centre of Reykjavik for weeks, demanding the government’s resignation and new elections. The director documents the protesters, ordinary people making riotous efforts to make it in a bankrupt society. For many, leaving the country is the only choice.
The director also talks with young business sharks, trying to plumb their thoughts. The film emphasises the relativity of the meaning of money in a distressing way: to most of us it is a lifeline – to others it’s just a tool, mere numbers."
This is already a pretty good description, but I want to state was I was thinking while and after seeing the movie: For me it was at first a film about what money makes with people. It has become the key feature in our society! And the film kind of questions if this is good? It is a film about helplessness of citizens who are immediately thrown into a completely new situation of an economic crisis. It becomes very clear how different people react on this fact. In the end most of the people go out and demonstrate, demanding a new government. Especially the scenes of demonstrations go really close to oneself. There is this one scene I remember pretty good. It was stil in the beginning of the demonstrations when a demonstrant climbed the parliament house hoisting the flag of the icelandic cheapest supermarket (no idea about the name but remember the logo pretty good: rosa pig on yellow ground). Maybe that's not the most important scene of the film, but one that was really impressive to me: People show that there is something wrong with the system. Iceland has been a pretty rich country, but still they have to import almost all their food. So this supermarket becomes a sign of capitalism!
But there where other impressive scenes as well: the "architect of the icelandic bank system" talking about numbers instead of money (he doesn't see money as money, it's just numbers to deal with).
Nevertheless God Bless Iceland is also a film about new cohesion of citizens. They stood up demonstrating almost all together. And even the policemen stated more or less openly that they are on the people's side.
But it's also a film showing that this new cohesion doesn't last very long. Soon after new elections everyone went into his/her own problems, back to the own world. That's nowadays world.
And it is a film about emigration as the only way out for many Icelandic people.
So: go and see it, if you ever have the chance!
Kiri
Finland, 2009, 9min
(seen today at Atheneum)
the festival catalogue says:
"20-year-old Kiri has been a user for years. He stays busy by trying to find drugs and things to steal. As a Subutex addict, he knows everything about his “medicine” and ponders about his life and the future of many of his friends – but is incapable of doing anything to change it."
A film entirely in Finnish (even Finnish Helsinki-dialect subtitles), so I can't really judge. But what was most scary to me, how he lived. I don't know what I thought about life in Finland, but poverty, drugs (ans all these bad things) seem so far away from me at the moment, that I was really surprised. But surprised in a bad way...
Koti (English would be: home)
Finland, 2009, 13min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue says (translated from finnish by me and google-translator):
Home is a reality to most of us, but not to everyone. Helsinki has more than 3000 homeless people. The short film describes Helsinkis exceptional homeless living environment. To the viewer's surprise the text is read by a child, telling a fairy tale.
Cold wind and snow create a strong contrast to the soundinnocent heat. The end result is a chillingly clever critique of society, which often overlook those who don't own homes.
And I pretty much agree with that. The little boy's voice was really surprising and a strong contrast towards the cold, windy (but still very poetic) winter pictures of Helsinki's seaside.
Marja-Sisko (English: Guardian Angel)
Finland, 2010, 19min
(seen today at Atheneum)
a film that really made me thinking about a lot of things... society, how I think, how I am,... all possible stuff... so a really really good short film!!!
festival catalogue:
Marja-Sisko follows Olli Aalto, former male priest of Imatra, now known as Marja-Sisko. The mellow scenes give a voice to the person behind the headlines. The priest tells her story calmly and openly – the grace of the voice is surprising, as hardships are not recounted with bitterness.
Marja-Sisko wants to live the life of an ordinary woman: use pantyhose and mascara. However, at church she experiences more than acceptance and neighbourly love.
Marja-Sisko felt like a woman from her childhood on. She wanted to get accepted all her life, just living the life of an ordinary woman. "Nothing special" she states more than ones.
What I noticed about myself seeing the movie: it starts with a close portrait of a man and it ends with pretty much the same picture accept that she uses make up now. Is this just a visual trick? Would it my perception have been changed in the same way if she wouldn't wear the make up in the end (and so to say, I am not exactly sure any more if she really wasn't wearing it in the beginning)?
This film is a lot about "societal inherent" perception of people? We see people as what we want them to see. And starting to think about Marja-Sisko, feeling herself as a woman, I came up with one thought: It is probably harder for a man feeling him/herself as a woman to get accepted than for a woman to get accepted as a man. Or is this just how I see the world? Do I just feel it would be easier for me to live as a man? I don't know... But this film made me really aware of many things. In the beginning I was even thinking: How can she have a wife? How can she have children, if she feels herself as a woman? But yeah, that's also something I just see her as what I want to see her. And the easiest solution for a man feeling as a woman is to be gay. But actually Marja-Sisko is not... You see: People see others as what they want to see them. I kind of agree with this statement.
Pääteasemana aamu (English: Destination morning)
Finland, 2009. 13min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue:
The trains run around the clock. The night train speeds from town to town through the darkness. In the heart of the night the journey has rhythm, its own pace. The atmosphere is exceptional. The night leaves time for new thoughts and ideas, hopes and dreams.
Pääteasemana aamu a study of the night and work done at night. It criticises the nature of shift work. The film shows us the life of a night worker by using a train conductor as an example.
Basic questions of that film have already been mentioned pretty much: how does it influence our life's to work at night? Even though the train conductor shown in the movie says that he likes working at night time, the viewer easily sees how this effects his life also in a bad way. There are a couple of statements in his speech all the time...
But the film is for me also a movie the silence of night. Even though most people asked what comes first to their mind when they hear the word 'night' would probably answer 'darkness', I was asking myself the same question while seeing the movie. My answer was 'silence'. For me it is a film about the silence and the new hectic at nighttime, about silence that leaves room for ideas, dreams and fantasies. Regarding the darkness the film shows in a impressive manner how our perception changes at night due to the easy fact that there is a lack of light: Humans start seeing the world only in shapes and greyscale images.
It is a film touching also because of great (sometimes still) pictures!
Rudeboy
Finnland, 2010, 13 min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue:
Rudy the cat was serverely injured after hitting the street following a six-storey fall. The options were few: the owner wanted to save her cat, not to put it down. Major surgery is expensive, so a group of friends started to raise money for Rudy's surgery.
The film raises the question of who can be helped, and who cannot. When a pet is in question, expensive operations are rarely an option.
Miten marjoja poimitaan (English: how to pick berries)
Finland, 2010, 19min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue
The cinematography of How to Pick Berries is very precise: the way of composing the lights and colours of the forest is fascinating. Among the twigs, domestic and foreign berry pickers crisscross – and life together isn’t always peachy. They take our jobs and now our berries too. Both sides are suspicious of the other.
Finnish berry picking has also been recently admired at the world’s biggest documentary film festival IDFA.
especially interesting: poetic scenes and music
Vodka Factory
Sweden, 2010, 90min
(seen today at Maxim)
festival catalogue:
The film by director Jerzy Śladkowski, who also directed the sensational Swedish Tango, merges banal realism with Slavic melancholy. Valentina works in a vodka factory in a remote village and lives with her mother and young son. She dreams of becoming an actress. Life is hard in a small community where everyone knows each other. Valentina's workmates mock her tall dreams. Valentina's mother wants a change, too: she has reunited with an old crush and expects Valentina to bear the responsibility for her son.
Husbands are conspicious by their absence from the women's lives. Gossip, daydreams and weary quarrelling add substance to the grey days. Śladkowski's brilliant narration brings forth the Russian romanticism and the brutality of everyday life. Will the women be able to seize their dreams before they wither away?
Vodka Factory won the grand prize at the DOK Leipzig festival.
The last really great movie I've seen today! Actually entirely in Russian. And I even understood stuff :) yeah!
For me it is a film about honesty and openness of the local village community. But of course this is not only a quality. It shows Valentina, who wants to full fill her dream of becoming an actress. But in a pretty brutal way it also shows reality in Russian society: She has a little son and therefore not really a chance to go far away to Moscow to study. And it also shows her illiteracy (it's actually not that easy to become an actress), she is not at all aware of. It is a film about the absence of men in village life and how women can actually go along without their men.
And we are left alone with the pretty much worst and we can imagine: Valentina goes to Moscow leaving her little son at her mothers place. Thereby she does also effect on her mother's life a lot: She planned to move in with an old crush. In that way the movie shows how much our life's can be effected by others decisions.
Another really good film!
Summing up: 3 days, 8 films, out of which at least 6 were really good! That's probably only possible in Helsinki (my love)! There are still 2 other movies waiting to be seen: Saturday and Sunday it's gonna be movie time again!! :)
I thought it might be useful and maybe also interesting to others to write some short thoughts about every film... So here it is:
God Bless Iceland
Iceland, Sweden, Germany, 2009, 100min
(seen on Tuesday at Maxim)
the festival catalogue says:
"It has been said that the collapse of Iceland's national economy in the autumn of 2008 transformed citizens into activists. The global financial crisis hit the small island nation hard, making it a victim of turbo capitalism. Having lost billions, Iceland's three biggest banks went all bankrupt on the same week.
People venting their anger, disappointment and national shame patrolled the centre of Reykjavik for weeks, demanding the government’s resignation and new elections. The director documents the protesters, ordinary people making riotous efforts to make it in a bankrupt society. For many, leaving the country is the only choice.
The director also talks with young business sharks, trying to plumb their thoughts. The film emphasises the relativity of the meaning of money in a distressing way: to most of us it is a lifeline – to others it’s just a tool, mere numbers."
This is already a pretty good description, but I want to state was I was thinking while and after seeing the movie: For me it was at first a film about what money makes with people. It has become the key feature in our society! And the film kind of questions if this is good? It is a film about helplessness of citizens who are immediately thrown into a completely new situation of an economic crisis. It becomes very clear how different people react on this fact. In the end most of the people go out and demonstrate, demanding a new government. Especially the scenes of demonstrations go really close to oneself. There is this one scene I remember pretty good. It was stil in the beginning of the demonstrations when a demonstrant climbed the parliament house hoisting the flag of the icelandic cheapest supermarket (no idea about the name but remember the logo pretty good: rosa pig on yellow ground). Maybe that's not the most important scene of the film, but one that was really impressive to me: People show that there is something wrong with the system. Iceland has been a pretty rich country, but still they have to import almost all their food. So this supermarket becomes a sign of capitalism!
But there where other impressive scenes as well: the "architect of the icelandic bank system" talking about numbers instead of money (he doesn't see money as money, it's just numbers to deal with).
Nevertheless God Bless Iceland is also a film about new cohesion of citizens. They stood up demonstrating almost all together. And even the policemen stated more or less openly that they are on the people's side.
But it's also a film showing that this new cohesion doesn't last very long. Soon after new elections everyone went into his/her own problems, back to the own world. That's nowadays world.
And it is a film about emigration as the only way out for many Icelandic people.
So: go and see it, if you ever have the chance!
Kiri
Finland, 2009, 9min
(seen today at Atheneum)
the festival catalogue says:
"20-year-old Kiri has been a user for years. He stays busy by trying to find drugs and things to steal. As a Subutex addict, he knows everything about his “medicine” and ponders about his life and the future of many of his friends – but is incapable of doing anything to change it."
A film entirely in Finnish (even Finnish Helsinki-dialect subtitles), so I can't really judge. But what was most scary to me, how he lived. I don't know what I thought about life in Finland, but poverty, drugs (ans all these bad things) seem so far away from me at the moment, that I was really surprised. But surprised in a bad way...
Koti (English would be: home)
Finland, 2009, 13min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue says (translated from finnish by me and google-translator):
Home is a reality to most of us, but not to everyone. Helsinki has more than 3000 homeless people. The short film describes Helsinkis exceptional homeless living environment. To the viewer's surprise the text is read by a child, telling a fairy tale.
Cold wind and snow create a strong contrast to the soundinnocent heat. The end result is a chillingly clever critique of society, which often overlook those who don't own homes.
And I pretty much agree with that. The little boy's voice was really surprising and a strong contrast towards the cold, windy (but still very poetic) winter pictures of Helsinki's seaside.
Marja-Sisko (English: Guardian Angel)
Finland, 2010, 19min
(seen today at Atheneum)
a film that really made me thinking about a lot of things... society, how I think, how I am,... all possible stuff... so a really really good short film!!!
festival catalogue:
Marja-Sisko follows Olli Aalto, former male priest of Imatra, now known as Marja-Sisko. The mellow scenes give a voice to the person behind the headlines. The priest tells her story calmly and openly – the grace of the voice is surprising, as hardships are not recounted with bitterness.
Marja-Sisko wants to live the life of an ordinary woman: use pantyhose and mascara. However, at church she experiences more than acceptance and neighbourly love.
Marja-Sisko felt like a woman from her childhood on. She wanted to get accepted all her life, just living the life of an ordinary woman. "Nothing special" she states more than ones.
What I noticed about myself seeing the movie: it starts with a close portrait of a man and it ends with pretty much the same picture accept that she uses make up now. Is this just a visual trick? Would it my perception have been changed in the same way if she wouldn't wear the make up in the end (and so to say, I am not exactly sure any more if she really wasn't wearing it in the beginning)?
This film is a lot about "societal inherent" perception of people? We see people as what we want them to see. And starting to think about Marja-Sisko, feeling herself as a woman, I came up with one thought: It is probably harder for a man feeling him/herself as a woman to get accepted than for a woman to get accepted as a man. Or is this just how I see the world? Do I just feel it would be easier for me to live as a man? I don't know... But this film made me really aware of many things. In the beginning I was even thinking: How can she have a wife? How can she have children, if she feels herself as a woman? But yeah, that's also something I just see her as what I want to see her. And the easiest solution for a man feeling as a woman is to be gay. But actually Marja-Sisko is not... You see: People see others as what they want to see them. I kind of agree with this statement.
Pääteasemana aamu (English: Destination morning)
Finland, 2009. 13min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue:
The trains run around the clock. The night train speeds from town to town through the darkness. In the heart of the night the journey has rhythm, its own pace. The atmosphere is exceptional. The night leaves time for new thoughts and ideas, hopes and dreams.
Pääteasemana aamu a study of the night and work done at night. It criticises the nature of shift work. The film shows us the life of a night worker by using a train conductor as an example.
Basic questions of that film have already been mentioned pretty much: how does it influence our life's to work at night? Even though the train conductor shown in the movie says that he likes working at night time, the viewer easily sees how this effects his life also in a bad way. There are a couple of statements in his speech all the time...
But the film is for me also a movie the silence of night. Even though most people asked what comes first to their mind when they hear the word 'night' would probably answer 'darkness', I was asking myself the same question while seeing the movie. My answer was 'silence'. For me it is a film about the silence and the new hectic at nighttime, about silence that leaves room for ideas, dreams and fantasies. Regarding the darkness the film shows in a impressive manner how our perception changes at night due to the easy fact that there is a lack of light: Humans start seeing the world only in shapes and greyscale images.
It is a film touching also because of great (sometimes still) pictures!
Rudeboy
Finnland, 2010, 13 min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue:
Rudy the cat was serverely injured after hitting the street following a six-storey fall. The options were few: the owner wanted to save her cat, not to put it down. Major surgery is expensive, so a group of friends started to raise money for Rudy's surgery.
The film raises the question of who can be helped, and who cannot. When a pet is in question, expensive operations are rarely an option.
Miten marjoja poimitaan (English: how to pick berries)
Finland, 2010, 19min
(seen today at Atheneum)
festival catalogue
The cinematography of How to Pick Berries is very precise: the way of composing the lights and colours of the forest is fascinating. Among the twigs, domestic and foreign berry pickers crisscross – and life together isn’t always peachy. They take our jobs and now our berries too. Both sides are suspicious of the other.
Finnish berry picking has also been recently admired at the world’s biggest documentary film festival IDFA.
especially interesting: poetic scenes and music
Vodka Factory
Sweden, 2010, 90min
(seen today at Maxim)
festival catalogue:
The film by director Jerzy Śladkowski, who also directed the sensational Swedish Tango, merges banal realism with Slavic melancholy. Valentina works in a vodka factory in a remote village and lives with her mother and young son. She dreams of becoming an actress. Life is hard in a small community where everyone knows each other. Valentina's workmates mock her tall dreams. Valentina's mother wants a change, too: she has reunited with an old crush and expects Valentina to bear the responsibility for her son.
Husbands are conspicious by their absence from the women's lives. Gossip, daydreams and weary quarrelling add substance to the grey days. Śladkowski's brilliant narration brings forth the Russian romanticism and the brutality of everyday life. Will the women be able to seize their dreams before they wither away?
Vodka Factory won the grand prize at the DOK Leipzig festival.
The last really great movie I've seen today! Actually entirely in Russian. And I even understood stuff :) yeah!
For me it is a film about honesty and openness of the local village community. But of course this is not only a quality. It shows Valentina, who wants to full fill her dream of becoming an actress. But in a pretty brutal way it also shows reality in Russian society: She has a little son and therefore not really a chance to go far away to Moscow to study. And it also shows her illiteracy (it's actually not that easy to become an actress), she is not at all aware of. It is a film about the absence of men in village life and how women can actually go along without their men.
And we are left alone with the pretty much worst and we can imagine: Valentina goes to Moscow leaving her little son at her mothers place. Thereby she does also effect on her mother's life a lot: She planned to move in with an old crush. In that way the movie shows how much our life's can be effected by others decisions.
Another really good film!
Summing up: 3 days, 8 films, out of which at least 6 were really good! That's probably only possible in Helsinki (my love)! There are still 2 other movies waiting to be seen: Saturday and Sunday it's gonna be movie time again!! :)
Jan 21, 2011
project: searching (for) umbrellas
searching (for) umbrellas from suse miessner on Vimeo.
Here is what I did during last week's "interactive cinema" workshop with Chris Hales. "searching (for) umbrellas" uses apple's sudden motion sensor to navigate through the film. The user needs to find and follow the umbrella for a certain time to get to the next movie sequence.
Actually I managed to randomly chose 3 out of 11 sequences and play them. Processing checks constantly if the umbrella is inside or outside the user's screen (I recorded the it's position in a semiautomatic process > clicking as fast as you can ;-) ). If it's inside it adds a point to your "score" and if you have reached a certain value you will get to the next sequence. That's actually the idea...
I still happen to have some debugs in playing the movie: Especially when running a lot of other programmes (and recording) it often skips some frames of the movie. The result is that the counting system doesn't work any more... Well, there is something left to improve!
Further ideas for experimenting: sound (adding what the umbrellas/people think) and trying to get this working on a mobile device... that should be possible using iProcessing and a openFrameworks-library to access the motion sensor (sms-library doesn't work on iThings).
That's it for the moment...
Any ideas for improvement? Especially about the debugs in playing movies? Ok guys, thanks for reading (just in case you really read ;-) )
Jan 18, 2011
found my publication online
having taken part in a project called "Stadtquartiere der Zukunft" (Neighborhoods of the future) I just found the pdf of the publication online when updating my CV for some applications for a summer job.
Here is the pdf: http://www.isr.tu-berlin.de/sqz/Files/pdf/SQZ-Studierende_entwerfen_2050.pdf (sorry, only German provided)
and here the weblink: http://www.isr.tu-berlin.de/sqz/studierende_entwerfen_2050.html
great that I found it again... am happy!
Here is the pdf: http://www.isr.tu-berlin.de/sqz/Files/pdf/SQZ-Studierende_entwerfen_2050.pdf (sorry, only German provided)
and here the weblink: http://www.isr.tu-berlin.de/sqz/studierende_entwerfen_2050.html
great that I found it again... am happy!
Jan 17, 2011
happy new year
already late for that, but well we Germans say: "besser spät als nie" so... here it is!
should write about first week with interactive cinema during next days... and I will... seriously. It was a fun week, although my little interactive film didn't work as expected. I worked on it the day after final presentation, now it is a lot better than at that time... I'll try to capture a video of "playing" the film... u will see it here as soon as possible!
ah yeah: it's time for handball world championship... probably noone in Finland cares, but I care!
should write about first week with interactive cinema during next days... and I will... seriously. It was a fun week, although my little interactive film didn't work as expected. I worked on it the day after final presentation, now it is a lot better than at that time... I'll try to capture a video of "playing" the film... u will see it here as soon as possible!
ah yeah: it's time for handball world championship... probably noone in Finland cares, but I care!
Dec 12, 2010
tries learning Finnish again
I hate you Finns for inventing so much wordtypes.
Minä vihaan Suomalainen koska he keksivät paljon sanatyyppi! (hopefully that's the part with most mistakes already):
Me keskustellemme suomalaisesta oluesta. - We discuss about Finnish beer.
Me keskustellemme kevyestä ruoasta. - We discuss about light food.
Me keskustellemme tehokkaasta lääkkeestä. - We discuss about effective medicine.
Me keskustellemme kauniista kuningattaresta. - We discuss about the beautiful queen.
Me keskustellemme kuolleesta eläimestä. - We discuss about the dead animal.
Me keskustellemme puhtaasta vedestä. - We discuss about clean water.
Me keskustellemme työttömästä miehestä. - We discuss about the unemployed man.
Me keskustellemme parantumattomasta sairaudesta. - We discuss about an incurable illness.
Me keskustellemme vaarallisesta huumeesta. - We discuss about a dangerous drug.
Me keskustellemme tuntemattomasta tulevaisuudesta. - We discuss about the unknown future.
Me keskustellemme lyhyestä kirjeestä. - We discuss about a short letter.
Me keskustellemme mahdottomasta tilanteesta. - We discuss about an impossible situation.
Me keskustellemme onnistuneesta kokeesta. - We discuss about a successful test.
Me keskustellemme rikkaasta yrityestä. - We discuss about a rich company.
Me keskustellemme kadonneesta soittimesta. - We discuss about a lost instrument.
Me keskustellemme ystävyydestä ja rakkaudesta. - We discuss about friendship and love.
Me keskustellemme älykkäästä laitteesta. - We discuss about an intelligent device.
and I've tried to correct the little text about my life... (still mistakes?...please tell me, if you read. I will have to learn it by heart to have any chance to pass the exam)
Minulla on vähän vapaa-aikaa.
Mitä tahansa minä pidän nukkumisesta paljon, erikoisesti talvella, koska ulkon on hyvin pimeää.
Tykkään nauttia minun vapaa-aikana ulkon: Menen kävelemään metsään, kaupunkiin ja meren rannalle, pyöräilemään ja käymään lenkillä. Minä olen urheilija. Minä rakastan urheilemista. Talvellä minä nautin hiihtämisestä ja lumilautailemisesta. Lisäksi joka viikko minä haluan uida. Ulkona uiminen on hauskaa jopa talvella.
Minä vihaan Suomalainen koska he keksivät paljon sanatyyppi! (hopefully that's the part with most mistakes already):
Me keskustellemme suomalaisesta oluesta. - We discuss about Finnish beer.
Me keskustellemme kevyestä ruoasta. - We discuss about light food.
Me keskustellemme tehokkaasta lääkkeestä. - We discuss about effective medicine.
Me keskustellemme kauniista kuningattaresta. - We discuss about the beautiful queen.
Me keskustellemme kuolleesta eläimestä. - We discuss about the dead animal.
Me keskustellemme puhtaasta vedestä. - We discuss about clean water.
Me keskustellemme työttömästä miehestä. - We discuss about the unemployed man.
Me keskustellemme parantumattomasta sairaudesta. - We discuss about an incurable illness.
Me keskustellemme vaarallisesta huumeesta. - We discuss about a dangerous drug.
Me keskustellemme tuntemattomasta tulevaisuudesta. - We discuss about the unknown future.
Me keskustellemme lyhyestä kirjeestä. - We discuss about a short letter.
Me keskustellemme mahdottomasta tilanteesta. - We discuss about an impossible situation.
Me keskustellemme onnistuneesta kokeesta. - We discuss about a successful test.
Me keskustellemme rikkaasta yrityestä. - We discuss about a rich company.
Me keskustellemme kadonneesta soittimesta. - We discuss about a lost instrument.
Me keskustellemme ystävyydestä ja rakkaudesta. - We discuss about friendship and love.
Me keskustellemme älykkäästä laitteesta. - We discuss about an intelligent device.
and I've tried to correct the little text about my life... (still mistakes?...please tell me, if you read. I will have to learn it by heart to have any chance to pass the exam)
Minun elämä
Minun nimi on Susanne Miessner. Mutta minä en pidä Susanne-niemestä ja sen vuoksi kaikki sanovat Suse.
Minä olen syntynyt Neuruppinassa. Neuruppin on Itä-Saksassa, 80 km:n päässä Berliinistä. Se on pieni kaupunki järvenrannalla.
Minulla on veli. Hänen nimi on Micha.
Kun olimme lapsia, me asumme Neuruppinassa, mutta usein me menimme mummolle. Mummo on asunut kylässä. Se oli ihanaa aikaa: Me leikimme paljon ulkona. Maanantaista perjantaihin me kävimme koulua ja nautimme vapaa-aikana. Minä tykkäsin pelata käsipalloa ja ratsastaa. Kun olin 12-vuotias, minä päätin mennä lukioon. Minä opiskelin vielä ja minun lempiharrastus oli käsipallo. Se on ihana urheilua, mina todella rakastan pelata käsipallo!
Kun olin 18-vuotias, minä valmistuin lukioosta. Minä en halunnut opiskella Berliinissä ja sen vuoksi minä päästin opiskella Weimarissa. Minä aloin opiskella arkkitehtuuria 2006.
Minä valmistuin kandidaatiksi viime vuonna. Sitten minä aloin opiskella diplomi arkkitehtuuria mutta minä olen keskittynyt kaupunkteihin. Nyt minä opiskelen Helsingissä, TAIKissa. Opiskelen uutta mediaa. Se on erilainen mutta minä pidän TAIKissa opiskelemisesta!
the text about free time is the next one to correct:
Minulla on vähän vapaa-aikaa.
Mitä tahansa minä pidän nukkumisesta paljon, erikoisesti talvella, koska ulkon on hyvin pimeää.
Tykkään nauttia minun vapaa-aikana ulkon: Menen kävelemään metsään, kaupunkiin ja meren rannalle, pyöräilemään ja käymään lenkillä. Minä olen urheilija. Minä rakastan urheilemista. Talvellä minä nautin hiihtämisestä ja lumilautailemisesta. Lisäksi joka viikko minä haluan uida. Ulkona uiminen on hauskaa jopa talvella.
Mutta mina rakastan myös sita, kun en teen jotakin mitään. Tykkään lukemisesta, piirtämisestä ja askartelemisesta.
Minä voin nauttia elämästä.
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