Shine on you crazy diamonds

Stills from documentary Boheemi elää about the great Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää. As a film it's horrible but the 8mm films from Peltsi's childhood are amazing and inventive. He made them with a friend who lived closeby. There was one 8mm still image I wanted to include, opening credits with letters placed on two red pillows, but it was hard to find because it was edited further away from the other 8mm bits. I didn't remember what part it was linked to and I couldn't bear to rewind and forward among the messy documentary for very long. So this is what I gathered:
















The lady in the last pic was a neighbor (?) of Peltsi's, "a natural born actress".

Pattern with girls

Pattern with girls, originally uploaded by Elina Minn.

Via Flickr:
Based on a fashion illustration I made circa 1992-1993.

Internet content

I feel bad for my last post.
I didn't even leave a link to a nice italo song.
So here, a classic:

Valerie Dore - The Night on Youtube

Also

two fellow Napa illustrators just started Tumblrs that are pretty funny:
kasperstromman.tumblr.com
twisteri.tumblr.com

Kasper's blog deals with one of my favorite themes (like Tati's Mon Oncle, one of my favorite films ): how funny and humiliating design can be. Christer's blog is a collection of screen caps. I have to warn you though, if you're not a Finnish speaker you might be missing something.

My relationship with my blog is boring now

It's summer.

Listen to italo!

Cover art for Tv-resistori

Turku based pop group Tv-resistori is releasing their third LP in April. Yrjö commissioned me to make the cover art for their self titled release already in 2008 but then things like babies and solo projects happened among the group and the process was put on hold for over two years. I didn't feel like using the images from 2008 anymore so I compiled the covers from various pencil drawings that I made with Jaakko Pallasvuo.

Retreat

Retreat
Zine out now on Medium Rare

Drawings from 2009 by Elina Minn and Jaakko Pallasvuo
34 pg / 8.25 x 10.5 / full color
digitally printed / perfect bound
edition of 100

Isles of Maybe

I'm so glad now I didn't get rid of my National Geographics (mainly from the 70s) when migrating to Berlin.
i'm now browsing them at my studio in Turku. Such gems, like this kodachrome by Adam Woolfitt in the article about the Faeroes, titled "isles of maybe".