Year 2011

A year just ended and brand new one started. This post is dedicated to the year 2011 and things about it I'm more than grateful.

Lots of ACTING in theatre gigs, training improvisation, speaking role in professional television production and interesting independent short film projects like Keiju (photographs from the set of Keiju with Heini Haapaniemi).

I wrote a PLAY! Or we did together with Linnea and Sini. The play was called SimpanssiSpektaakkeli and it was performed by the theatre of Zoo last Eastern in the Helsinki Zoo Korkeasaari. I played the part of the dull professor (photograph below).

Actually going trough with the KALEVAN KIERROS half which is a sport challenge of six endurance sports (speed skating, country cross skiing, running, rowing a boat, bicycling, orienteering) during one year. Just to accomplish that (even though my ranking is not something I could brag about) made me feel that I can do just about anything I set my mind to.

Being accepted to the MASTER PROGRAM in VISUAL CULTURE in the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. I hadn't heard about the study program Visual Culture before my dad gave me a piece of paper he had cut from the newspaper advertising the program and said "This sounds like your thing". I was skeptical at first but when found out more I was really excited so I applied. I am super happy I did that and was accepted since I've truly loved my studies here. This is a place where working with multiple materials is encouraged and there is active conversation about art theory and the philosophy about one's own art making.

P.S. If you feel like this might be your school too check out the application progress that has just started for the next semester.

Moving to the beautiful city of PORI, taking over its streets, meeting its people and getting new FRIENDS for a life time.

Starting the studies and moving to Pori also brought SOMEONE very SPECIAL into my life. Among my student colleagues I found a handsome, talented and simply unique companion. Funny thing is that after living few hundred meters apart from each other in Helsinki for almost a decade we had to come all the way to Pori to meet. But I'm a strong believer that things happen as they do for a reason and I feel lucky I've found him now.

THANK YOU marvelous year 2011!

WELCOME new adventures of the year 2012!