(Kuva: Juhana Pettersson)
Kirjoitin Kumppani-lehteen artikkelin kokemuksistani Pohjois-Koreassa. Juttu löytyy täältä.
Vaimoni Maria Pettersson kirjoitti samalta reissulta artikkelin City-lehteen. Se on täällä.

I saw some good movies during the second half of the Love & Anarchy film festival as well. Here’s three.

Possibly the best film I saw during the whole festival was Nicolas Klotz’s Heartbeat detector. The original, and much more evocative title is La question humaine. The movie is about the rhetoric and language of a [...]

We got the photos of our summer wedding today. Its been lovely looking through them. I see so many moments captured that I didn’t see at the wedding, because I was in the spotlight.
All the pictures are by Katri Lassila, who did a wonderful job.

I’ve been sitting through the Love & Anarchy film festival, which started last Thursday and will go on until next Sunday.
So far, the best movies have been these three:

Ken Loach’s It’s a Free World… is a story about a woman who is fired from her job at an employment agency and sets up her own, [...]

…to the same woman. On Friday the 15th of August, I got married to Maria Pettersson in Vanha kirkko, Helsinki.
(The two previous marriages were in Las Vegas on the 7th of July, 2007 and in the Helsinki magistrate office shortly after that.)
The wedding was as perfect as it could have been.
I made a short video [...]

 
I was at the Midnight Sun Film Festival with my wife and some friends, in Lapland. The photo was taken around two at night, after we came out of the screening of the Guy Maddin movie Brand Upon the Brain!.
The drive back to Helsinki took fourteen hours. We drove in a new car with a [...]

This morning, I was talking about larp in an academic seminar called Research Methodologies: Embodiment - and the study of cultural and artistic practices, organized at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. The title of my presentation was Embodied Larp - Questions of embodied participation in the games ‘Luminescence’ and ‘the Plastic Cup’.
It’s always fun [...]

This is the kind of stuff you run across when you’re planning a wedding…

Taken at Tracon, after the way we’re seated in a Piippuhyllyn manifesti comic. From left to right: Mike Pohjola, Miska Fredman, me, Ville Vuorela and Eero Tuovinen.

Check out Piippuhyllyn manifesti if you wish to see us in crudely drawn comics about rpgs.

I was talking with my wife last night, and referred to my “All-Time Personal Top 10 Movies” list. She asked what was on that list, and I wasn’t sure.
After a bit of thinking, here’s what I came up with, in no particular order:
Bruce la Bruce - Raspberry Reich
Takashi Miike - Ichi the Killer
Oliver [...]

Olimme äskettäin Saksassa roolipelitapahtuma MittelPunktissa. Mike pisti blogiinsa reissusta kuvan:

(Photo: J. Tuomas Harviainen, 2008)
Vasemmalla minä.

I’m now a married man. The ceremony took place in Las Vegas, NE, on the 7th of July. It was witnessed by two Elvises and a pink Cadillac. The bride and now my wife is Maria Pitkänen.

America:

I got a stack of old photographs as a birthday present from my grandmother a while ago. I’ve only ever seen a very few pictures of when I was a child, so I was happy to see these. My mother has told me that I used to play the violin when I was a kid. [...]

I woke up thoroughly disoriented, surrounded by beautiful white light. Every detail of my surroundings was etched with sublime clarity, the superhuman distinction of all surfaces forming a riot of detail. Birds were singing and chirping, and it seemed they were right with me. Shockingly close. It was seven in the morning. The wall [...]

I was helping a friend move his stuff yesterday, and got electrocuted. His house has an old elevator, one with a double door made of metal mesh you can see through. A cupboard was two centimeters too big for the inner door to close, and the elevator wouldn’t move. I didn’t want to carry it [...]