tiistai 29. toukokuuta 2012

... dance

Helsingin tanssiopisto (the dance school of Helsinki) had a performance at Stoa, Itäkeskus a month ago, and my friend from our dance group, Pilvi, took some pictures. These are the two of me she sent me today. Check out her inspiring blog at pilwi.tumblr.com :)

This is a still from my own choreography "Olen ajatellut joskus..."

 I want to put here just one more of her pictures from her blog, because I like it so much.
http://pilwi.tumblr.com/
Simply beautiful, this photo.

maanantai 21. toukokuuta 2012

... movies movies MOVIES

I´m a movie aficionado. Of course I have tried to control myself to not to make every post a film review, but now that I haven´t talked about the subject for a while, I feel like I can praise this fine art a little again.
As I have stated before, a good movie is an unusual jewel (and when it comes to quality, you can´t always trust Rolling stone). However, when this unusual jewel is found, it is easy to be enthralled by its beauty. I can´t emphasize enough the influence some films have had on me. There are few days during which nothing reminds me of the feverish music or the dreamlike rock ascending scene of Picnic at the Hanging rock, or the bewitching, ominous ambiance of Vertigo. I also immensely admire good directors (Ang Lee, Alfred Hitchcock, Won Kar-wai), because some of their visions are something I´ll always remember.
    I would so love to be a director myself. I have a dream I would some day make a short film called Elokuva masentuneille,  Movie for downcasts. I have specific visions for it. It would have a scene with a pair kissing in a train, and while they are kissing every passenger in the train will kiss each other, too. It would also have another scene with a child walking down the road and stopping to scrutinise a butterfly. After watching and wondering (and there will be a flurry of thoughts in her head) the child will go on walking down the road, which would eventually take her to a arcane, abandoned villa (but it won´t be shown). I would also love to have bubbles and growing flowers on it somehow, and a scenery of an old, dusty cottage with a checkered kitchen table cloth. If I only had time and money to make my visions true...
   I have lately watched older classics, like Nosferatu, The Philadelphia Story and To have and have not, but I must admit, that usually, the older the film, the clumsier its narration. Romantic comedies like Some like it hot are of course still funny, but their charm leans on nostalgia as much as on comical inventiveness. 
     There is nevertheless one film that is over 50 years old and still mesmerizes me the way it would have mesmerized in 1958: Vertigo. For me it is naturally an extremely miserable story about impossible love, but also a story about unexplained deviation of destiny: like a reminding of the fact that reality can´t be controlled, that it is possible that no matter how much you strive, everything will go wrong. Chaotic (so chaotic it is depressing), yes, but somehow very beautiful, too. Like a devastating hurricane or hundreds of moths fluttering around a storm lantern.
      Threre are few films like Vertigo, and I doubt there will ever be. Nevertheless I made a list of movies worth to watch (my first, but I know it won´t be my last). No indifferent flick in it, I ensure.

 Movies to watch

1. Thelma and Louise  
http://blogs.whatsontv.co.uk/movietalk/files/2012/02/Thelma.jpg
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7326
http://www.mediaknowall.com/as_alevel/MovieGuides/movieguides.php?pageID=thelma
Beautifully feministic roadmovie about two ladies hitting the road of no return after revenging all women in the world upon a misogynist redneck. Bonus: the coolest clothes ever.

2. Duel

http://jigsawslair.blogspot.com/2009/12/duel-movie-review-78.html
http://cinemasights.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/duel-1971/
http://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2010/12/cult-tv-movie-review-duel-1971.html
Inspired thriller/horror film with an everyday setting has a persistent tension. Brilliant Dennis Weaver plays perfectly corny common man, who rises to challenge his almost paranormal opponent. Bonus: from time to time the monologue reaches hilarious levels of black comedy.

3. Erin Brockovic

http://skymovies.sky.com/erin-brockovich/gallery-erin-brockovich
http://skymovies.sky.com/erin-brockovich/gallery-erin-brockovich
http://skymovies.sky.com/erin-brockovich/gallery-erin-brockovich
A movie based on true story about a single parent mother who engages an evil large-scale enterprise to save a community from serious health issues. This films makes you believe in yourself like nothing else. Bonus: Julia Roberts wears epic noughties fashion.

4. Falling down

http://tandoma.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-60.html
http://bigthoughtsfromasmallmind.blogspot.com/2012/05/scene-stealer-falling-down.html
An unemployed engineer lets loose - with violent consequences. Perfectly liberating film for the annoyed. Bonus: Pleasantly infantile toning.

5. The Crying Game

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20483133_20500937_20973653,00.html
http://www.thepinksmoke.com/secondchancesthecryinggame1.htm
http://www.thepinksmoke.com/secondchancesthecryinggame1.htm

A psychological thriller explores the themes of love and sexuality with a political backround. This film must not be explained beforehand, or else it will lose part of its magic.

6. Into the wild

http://www.listal.com/movie/into-the-wild/reviews
http://andreaismrsenglish.blogspot.com/2012/03/into-wild.html
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qJQQ6GDNiIU/S64BptknJwI/AAAAAAAAB24/C_PnihrMa9c/s1600/into_the_wild_still.jpg
Again a true story about a young man who decides to fight the career-focused expectations of the world and his parents by starting a hike toward the unspoilt wilderness. This road movie encourages shy voyagers to fulfill their wildest dreams about expeditions into the wild - and themselves.

7. Le Mepris

http://andreasangelidakis.blogspot.com/2010/09/la-mepris.html
http://matthewasprey.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/capri.jpg
http://beautepeople.fr/2011/12/15/test-beaute-courbes-exquises-amande-occitane/le-mepris-604/
Strange drama has an inimitable tone of mystery. Bonus: The wig.

 8. Brokeback mountain

http://www.myspace.com/69371778
http://www.altfg.com/blog/gay-and-lesbian/brokeback-mountain-awards-and-nominations/
http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2009/05/06/brokeback-mountain/
Heartbreaking love story.

lauantai 19. toukokuuta 2012

... fair denim


I found simply perfect denim shorts in a take-here-please-thanks box again. Nowadays my wardrobe is simply deluging with lovely dived clothes and jewellery, I wonder if my outfit will some day be 100 % refuse.
Today I only made it up to 80 or so, for the belt is from H&M, swan ring is a gift and shoes are Jeffrey Campbells. Rest is however, as I said, a treasure once hidden into the skip.












tiistai 8. toukokuuta 2012

... ballads for May

I was absolutely perplexed again when I realised Toukokuu is May. What´s the sense in that?
Never mind, here is the soundtrack for the bursting spring.



Rather ethereal, I admit.

keskiviikko 2. toukokuuta 2012

... plainness

Again time for some outfit photos: I have buyed something new for a change. It´s a bleak dress, but I have great plans for it! In winter I´m going to wear my grey pullover underneath it, and thick leggins. Now there is a perfect conflict between the dress and the vividness of the spring surrounding it.

dress: H&M
necklace: dived
stockings: flea market, shoes: weekday vintage


 I love my halloween-like nails.

jacket: grandma´s old
narcissi
siberian squills
Musti sniffs emerging poppies



irises