Top 10 material

An hour ago a lady rang me and told that my add design was one of the top 10 of this years Newspaper Union's national competition that was open to all design students in Finland.

I'm quite happy. I mean I didn't win the competition but considering that I spent 3,5 hours (doesn't include planning) to make the poster and post it. So I'd say I'm pretty pleased. 3,5 hours because I forgot the deadline was that day.

Work time includes: printing a photo of a shoe in school, going home, making a small "photography studio", shooting the idea, editing the photo, finalizing the work, going back to school to print the work, realizing that the photo is too yellow, editing the photo, having to change the fonts of the work to really tastless fonts: 'Impact' & 'Helvetica' (those are the NO NO's of graphic design right after 'comic sans'), fighting with the printer for 1 hour, finally succeeding (still not being happy with the print quality), going to post office, using 9 euros to envelopes and stamps, mailing the envelope and going home.

So being number 2-10 of Finland is just fine for me. Now Helsinki and award ceremony here I come.

Oh and the final work.
(Actually it's stupid to write this blog entry in english since the competition is in Finnish and the slogan points to one of our ministers and foreign politics. :D well, not going to write all this again.. )

The colors are actually not as bad as this web-version of the print might suggest.

Youtube video

Blogi vinkki

Mietin pitkään laitanko tämän linkin blogiini. Tässä se nyt tulee silläkin uhalla että saan sovinistin leiman otsaani.

Tässä yhteydessä täytyy sanoa että en laita linkkiä teille sen takia että olisin blogin kantavan idean suuri fani. Mutta kun pääset otsikon ohi ja alat luea blogia saatat nähdä sen nerokkuuden. Kaveri on ainakin verbaalisesti nerokas.

Minusta tämä blogi on yhdenmiehen vastaus Sex and the City-sarjalle. Seksi myy. Ilman seksiä tätä blogia tuskin lukisi kukaan. Itse uskallan jopa kyseenalaistaa blogin todenperäisyyden. Se peruteluista. Lukekaa itse ja päättäkää sitten olenko sika vai en ja onko kirjoittaja sika vai ei? Oma mielipiteeni molempiin on: ei.

Blogin esipuhe

ja itse blogi:
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This movie You really have to see

Call me crazy or paranoid. Some conspiracy theories might very well be true.

Just finished an interesting documentary about religion and politics and our money systen and I have to say its scary. 'Scary' is the only word I can think of right now.

So the challenge is for you to watch the movie and make me look really stupid by telling me which points in the movie are totally made up. Especially the economics part is something I know nothing about.

You can watch it online:
http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

or download the torrent (I'm 100% sure this guy wont sue you):
download here.

So make me look stupid and tell me what is wrong with this documentary. Tell me I'm paranoid and an idiot for even considering this kind of stuff to be the truth. I really want you to diss me on this one.

ps. it's at least better than latest Pirates of the Caribbean.

5 months of stress to come...

Two projects before I can graduate. Both for friends so I really don't want to screw these up. The first one shouldn't be a problem but my final project for school really requires me to step up a gear. So a bit of stress between shoulders.

The funny thing about stress, at least for me, is that if I do anything else except work I feel guilty. When I should be studying how to program but I'm chatting I feel guilty. When I'm with my friends eating a bit longer than I need to I feel guilty and start worrying. When I'm reading magazines instead of trying to invent a good idea for my project I feel unease. Worrying leads to frustration, frustration leads to fear and fear leads to suffer, or how did Yoda say to Luke..

I know that by pushing yourself your're suppose to learn new stuff and become a better person etc. But what's the point if you get ulcer, sleep deprivation and red eyes. I guess not being interested of any sport at the moment doesn't help. But hey this is the Finnish style of living and there is no room for complaining. Perform, perform, perform..

I wonder why Finns suffer from depression and heart attacks and high blood pressure... And please don't say reason for alcoholism is our low price of beer. That's just stupid!

I've got two other projects, a bit smaller ones, and they are going to be part of my weekly routine. First I'm going to feel guilty for writing to my blog when I should be studying and the second is that I'm going to get drunk on saturday. Those will be the 12 hours when I'm not going to worry about anything and I'm going to sleep like a log.

EDIT: thing about inventing and creating is that when you do get a good idea it's really a nice feeling. But still "worrying" vs. "nice feeling" -ratio is hard to keep balanced.

EDIT2: For now I'm relieved. I thought of a OK idea that I could work with. Tonight I'm going to sleep without worries. One good idea a day keeps the insomnia away.

Kulttuuriministerimme suosikkileffa

Koettakaa arvata mikä on kulttuuri- ja urheiluministerimme suosikkielokuva?

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Titanic.

Saataisiinkohan Suomeen joskus kulttuuriministeri joka on oikeasti kiinnostunut kulttuurista. Edellinen oli tietysti ex-missi joten ehkä se kuvaa suomalaisten kulttuuria varsin osuvasti. Missi ja kulttuuriministeri! Jotenkin nuo kaksi sanaa eivät minusta sovi yhteen aivan kuten Titanic ja kulttuuriministeri!!!

Suomalaiset ajattelevat kaiken tehokkuuden kannalta se tässä kusee. Ei kulttuuri ole tehokasta! Jos faarao olisi halunnut olla tehokas hän olisi rakentanut kansalleen taloja eikä itselleen hautaa. Suomalaiset rakentavat iteselleen tehokkaita elementtikerrostaloja ja siinä samalla kulttuurihautaa.

What movie to watch after Pirates of the Caribbean IV?

Ok, now I really need help. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (that's the 4th I think). It was the biggest piece of shit I've seen in a long time. I honestly don't even know why I saw it. Someone is controlling my so called free will!

What an earth should I watch after that piece of garbage that destroyed 2h 40 minutes(!!!) of my life during two nights (first night I fell asleep because it was too boring)?!?!?