miscellaneous
Maybe names such as Laura, Mr Lothar, Eve X, Rakel Leikki, Mariah or Henry Saari do not ring a bell to you… or maybe they do. Undoubtedly, porn and sex industry are not a marginal side of society anymore. As an example, there are 3 big sex festivals, called Sexhibition, all around Finland: In Oulu, […]
Is success coming too fast, Minna? All kind of attention is good and it is nice. I enjoy it and it is good for my business, but my goal has been to move forward very quickly. It is exactly what I wanted. I did not want to start with a small thing, I wanted to […]
The red line is a symbol of democracy. On the 15th and 16th of March of 1907, every citizen in Finland aged 24 and over was able to go to the nearest village to put a red line in the box of their choice on a ballot paper. It was the first time universal suffrage […]
From 17th to 24th of April, Tapiola, Espoo. {mosimage}
You have probably heard about the Gaia Theory, whose name was given by the famous writer William Golding, but who is the man behind it? His name is Lovelock, James Ephraim Lovelock and he happens to be one of the most controversial scientists of contemporary times… NASA's genius inventor Lovelock was born on July […]
Baron Mannerheim is the man without whom Finland might have wasted decades as part of the Soviet Union. He is the only man ever to be named Field Marshal of Finland, but then, the Republic has known no other Commander-in-Chief in times of war. In fact, Mannerheim’s bio reads like a crash course in Finnish […]
Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge may be a comic book character, but (Nils) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) is a very real historical figure. Born in Helsinki, on Bulevardi 5, Nordenskiöld spent his youth and childhood at Frugård manor in Mäntsälä, where he developed an early interest in the natural sciences. Already as a child Nordenskiöld […]
The minimum age for audience members for one of the productions premiering at the festival couldn't be much lower: crawling and walking age children. Working group Anttonen, Nuotio, Davies offers them Rapurytmikarnevaali, an action-packed crab-crawl rhythm and salsa carnival with songs that will make everybody want to swing. {mosimage}Children over five can enjoy Sammakkoprinsessa (The […]
{mosimage}Here I am knocking at the door of sex in the opening paragraph and even bringing pigs into the equation. I am confident that there is an official name for people who are sexually aroused by pigs, but we’ll stick with ‘pigverts’ for now. Swines, boars, hogs, pigs or whatever you call them are helplessly […]
The American producer had bought a super yacht with the revenue he made with his last film. “What about the rest of the money then?” Biotechnics shares was the answer. The Greek producer had remained silent and the other two turned to him and asked what he had bought with the revenue from his latest […]
The industry is suffering, however, as public funding has failed to follow the production costs – not even the general inflation. Film production pays more taxes than it gets in support, plus most of the budget is spent on human labour. The audience wants the films, the process dynamically benefits the society, but politicians have […]
Finnish design has reached all kind of levels in our everyday life. You can see it in the latest model of mobile phone, or carried in the form of a bag by the trendiest teenager in a fashionable pub late at night. {mosimage}Roots & wings Marimekko is the leading Finnish textile and clothing design company, […]
Expectations run high, first impressions are everything, the benchmark of quality must be set and now I am referring to the column, not my sexual technique, which has thankfully improved a little. Columns need to push the readers' right buttons, caress their intimate places, nibble their earlobes, stroke their thighs, lick their…ok, this is getting […]
He told me about it in Messenger. I cannot even remember how was possible to have a date and be at the right place at the right time before owning a mobile phone. My first one was looking (and weighing) more like a brick than like a phone, a huge Motorola, and I bought it […]
MMORPG or massive multiplayer online role-playing is already one of the most popular forms of entertainment on the Internet with more than 15 million users in 2006. It is also a business opportunity whose revenues are expected to reach over a billion dollars by 2009, according to recent studies. {mosimage}Second Life is one of the […]