Thursday, November 17, 2011

How do birds see?

Yesterday a bird flew into our studio through the door.

We opened the two windows that could be opened but it didn't know how to get out. Our space is very high, we couldn't reach the bird and hush it out (no tall lightweight objects around). the bird was sitting on lamp chords like they were reeds sticking out of water.

Getting it out back through the door was out of question: we could have got it back into the corridor but the corridor has no windows that can be opened. If we got it out through the door through which it had entered, we should've first chased it first into the corridor, make sure it doesn't turn left towards the light, but down the stairs and then make it sure it doesn't fly towards the light coming in through the window in the stairs as it can not be opened either, but make sure it flies down the stairs, and then out of the front door. I'm pretty sure birds don't get the concept of "going down the stairs".

Luckily just as I had googled "How do birds see?", and seen this potentially helpful image



the bird flew out the open window.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Agent



This is my illustration agent Marjo Granlund.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Colorscape

There was weird light at my studio today.



colorscape1

I turned the folder around.

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The color of the light got dimmer.


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I tried a piece of moss,


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then coal.

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Moss and coal are nice but they don't really work here. I grabbed a red pencil box for some contrast,


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then a roll of tape.
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(I tried the tape before the pencil box but I switched the order so the best would come last).

After playing I realized what the photos reminded me of. The colorscape that was installed in Turku for the past few weeks. Inflated rooms in cel-like constellations where you could wander and sometimes hear music. It sounded nice but I was unable to go. Some friends went but didn't take the time to wait, there was always a long queue. A Facebook friend had taken photos there. Families smiling, posing and goofing around in flowing capes, it looked like utopian imagery from the sixties. Everything bathed in RGBs.

Friday, August 19, 2011

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".


Sunday, July 31, 2011

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!