nega at kuucvaals

so, we toured around baltic countries for last weekend and played in tallinn and somewhere in the forests of latvia
we did shows with nega, and solos by me as nosfe and taphead on his own.

here's some video from the show nega played at kuucvaals industrial festival

blue moment. 5. place at Solskogen 2011 newschool gfx compo

The World Must Burn

MVI 8381

did some shooting today. maybe will release something soonish

VR Makasiinit palasivat hetkeksi eloon

lukekaa lisää tuolt

Color Infrared Film Photography

ASUS does not want me to work

After struggling for some time with severe over heating issues and some other minor problems with my ASUS g50vt notebook I had it taken for repairs. And now after three weeks I made the original call to ASUS, I still have no idea when I'll be getting it back. While my previous notebook was also from ASUS I never took it to repairs, not that it didn't have any hardware problems, but mainly because it had taken a blow or two that I only had to blame myself for and it didn't look like it would be covered by any warranty. So, this is the first experience I'm having with how ASUS deals their customers on warranty repairs. Can't say I'm happy about it.

Before having machines from ASUS I had couple Ibook models from Apple, and where first one of them which was a g3 model, had a lot of problems due to some problem with that general model which caused the mainboard to die, the repair service was always fast and reliable and never caused that much harm to me. Actually, I think that the 6 or so times my ibook went for repairs took less time together than the 3 weeks I've now been waiting for ASUS to get things done.

Until I get the machine back I can't do any work with video or photo editing, which is starting to cause me bad delays concerning the up and coming exhibitions.

UPDATE:
They answered my mail that I send today (29.4.) saying that they are _supposed_ to get the missing parts next week and deliver my machine back then. So, no definite promise to get the machine back to me and they don't want to give me a replacement until I get my own computer back. I'll be calling the consumer agency on monday to get their opinion on this case.

update2. today(5.5.2011) I received an email from ASUS, that they don't know when they'll receive the missing part. I once again contacted the customer support and after some phonecalls and emails, was promised that they can replace my machine with a new one. But, only after they've send my old machine from sweden to netherlands for some weird fucked up reason I can't even begin to understand. Apparently they need to somehow evaluate my old machine to figure out what they'll give me instead, the bets are on how many days/weeks that'll last...

update3. today 6.5. ASUS informed me that it'll take 2-3 days for the notebook to be transferred to netherlands and that I _SHOULD_ get an offer for replacement machine during next week. I regret not buying a new computer immediately when I sent out my old one.

whitecu.be

I got invited to a new website which has artist portfolios, I'm gonna upload more things there when I get my machine back from ASUS (they took it away for repairs)
Anyway, here's my portfolio at whitecu.be

testing rss feed

trying to get rss feed to fb fan page.. lets see if this works

Grey Park & Dieter Müh at AAVE festival, Malmitalo, Helsinki, 15.4.2011

We're doing a concert with grey park at AAVE festival, held at Malmitalo in Helsinki.

15.4.2011 starting at 21:00
the excellent Dieter Müh will perform after us at 22:00 so come and see them too.
free entrance!

Color Infrared Film Photography

things i havent seen

most of the pics from "things i haven't seen" exhibition held at the malmitalo gallery 27.1.-19.2.2011 are now online at picasa

grey park@myymälä2

check out the video from grey parks gig last sunday at myymälä2


also the varropas set on the same page

difference between ir and regular photos

quite many people asked how the infrared photos are different from a photo which would've been taken on regular film. now here's two example pics taken on efke820 film. when the photo is taken without filter the film acts like regular b/w film.

without filter

with 720nm filter

my show 'things i haven't seen' is open at malmitalo gallery until 19.2.

Vartti wrote about my exhibition at malmitalo 26.1.2011

there's a small article in the local newspaper Vartti on the issue that came out 26.1.2011
so at least the exhibition got mentioned somewhere. :)

going to jyväskylä tomorrow to finish setting up the exhibition there at the museum, opening thursday at 17:00

building our new show at jyväskylä

opening at jyväskylä art museum 3.2. 17-19

2011

two residencies abroad, one group exhibition at a museum, 7 solo exhibitions around finland, one curating of a show

and that's just the start of it.

this is gonna be one fucking busy year.

showdown again

I'm once again taking part in the showdown at saatchi online with my work Saint Bunker, which is an infrared photograph taken in the village Saintes Maries de la Mer in southern France back in October. That same picture is also used for the invitation card of my up and coming exhibition 'Things I haven't seen' which opens 26.1. at Malmitalo art gallery, but more on that later.

go and vote for me here

my work shaft of light did well at the showdown competition at saatchi online, now there's a small interview of the top finalists at their web magazine.
check it out here

I just dumpster dived some film materials from the remains of the legendary movie theater Bristol. enough heads and tails to keep me bleaching and scratching film for a while! and a 2000m reel which is also quite usable. Also some cardboard film boxes and plastic film cans.

yle 20.2.0 is out, i made some little tiny minimal sound work for this but mostly it's by virne/kooma
http://beta.yle.fi/badnews/

i lose.

ok, i dropped out of the saatchi online compo.
next up: maybe this?

top-8 in showdown!

now this is getting more exciting day by day, now i got already to top-8!
there's still more than 24 hours to vote in this round until the top-4 are announced.
so go and vote for me