April 27, 2007
Arktikum, a museum and a science center in Rovaniemi ordered a small animation from me for their new permanent exhibition in the Arctic Center. My instructions were that I need to do an animation of a map that shows the transportation of oil from the Yamal peninsula to Europe and the animation should also contain four slideshows that show the different ways how the transportation affects the people and the enviroment. Especially how the oil industry affects the lives of the Nenets people living in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district.
Here it is. Done on a pretty tight schedule because Arktikum sent me half of the pictures I needed for this only few days before the opening of the exhibition. So, I’m not 100% happy with the result (I never am with the stuff I do) but I’ll improve this a little bit once I have time. Namely the movement of the ship and I also need to add some ambience sound. The sound is not really that essential part of this because of the space where this is displayed but I will add the sound later on.
I’ll post a picture later from the Arctic Center so that you’ll see how it’s being used in the exhibition.
April 21, 2007
Spreadshirt is finally offering 100% organic cotton t-shirts from American Apparel and Continental Clothing. As of today, I’m selling only these shirts in the store. Maybe I’ll add some other American Apparel shirts a little bit later, but for now I’m going 100% organic.
This decision means that the colour selection isn’t going to as wide anymore and these shirts are also a lot more expensive, but I’ll keep my provision as low as I can. I’m not selling these shirts hoping that I would get rich.
Hopefully Spreadshirt will continue to expand the product line with more sustainable and sweatshopfree products. I for one will support that.
There’s a special campaign running from now to the 16th May. From every shirt sold there is going to be a donation of 3 euros to the Earth Day Network
Get yours from the online store.
April 9, 2007
Once again it’s on. Radio Säteily brought to you by the University of Lapland. FM 104.4 in Rovaniemi and www.sateily.com everywhere else.
I’m doing two shows:
Måndag Rytmer
MON 19-21 (Finnish time)
Alfons Åberg och Vaxtastisk
Funky music and lessons in Swedish language.
Kostox
SUN 16-18 (Finnish time)
Hesher & Waxtastic + special guests
Beats, Breaks and Bullshit. Some exclusive material from Finnish artists.
April 7, 2007
Here’s an old mixtape from 2003(?). Mainly hip-hop, some blends that turned out pretty nice and a little bit of amateurish beat juggling. The idea was to make like a guide book for all the wannabe-djs out there. You know, just to show how this mixing-business should be done. This is what turned out of it. Listen and download here.
I should make more mixes, but I’m just not happy if don’t come up with a really good idea like Jamaikasetti was. I don’t want to make any mediocre mixes. I promise that I’ll release a new mixtape in the summer and it’s going to be something fresh.
