CANDY FOR THE SENSES

Hong Kong Ballet 40th Anniversary Season Brand Video from Design Army on Vimeo.I am away performing in Turku but meanwhile here is some brain candy and eye orgasm for your Sund...

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APRIL FOOLS & RUBIES KLUBIT

Entertainment-tip for this weekend:April Fools Burlesque in Pikku Hanhi in Lahti and our RubiesKlubit: Hikiklubi at Sture 21 in Helsinki tomorrow! Come join the f...

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THE SEASON(S) APPROACHING...

Let me first start this by saying that I am definitely and foremost waiting for Halloween (and now that the second week of October is about to start I consider Halloween-season here!).But.While it is...

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LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE

Photo: Neil KendallIt will be a full moon tonight and if the sky is clear I know I will most likely be woken up by it, as it stares straight into my window around 3am with a light strong enough to penetrate...

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SUMMER CELEBRATIONS: THE SHANGRI-LA SUMMER SHOW JUNE 8!

If you want more sparkle in your life, and even if you don't, but just want to have fun and be entertained, come watch our studio's Summer Show Friday June 8th at Sture 21!Coming to a show is always a...

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520 SUNDAYS

Considering how rather unstructured my day-to-day life's routines are, as in not-really-there and lets-see-what-happens-next-week-in-life, and supposing it is not the first impression I tend to give, I am actually rather un-enthusiastic about change.  It's not that I am reluctant to change, just...

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BLUE MONDAY

Lets end the week with some creative music playing. Or making.Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments  (BBC Arts)In Swedish there is actually a separate verb for playing and making music on an instrument, more in the sence of performing it or playing together: musicera,...

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER

You recently saw a couple of the photos we took with AskoJonathan Photography for my Happily Ever After-act.Because behind-the-scenes photos always make things better here's the set up for the series.A...

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YOUR EASTER WITCH

Ok, perhaps not exactly. But suitably for a time of growth, flowers, resurrection and Easter witches Asko and I did a photoseries for my act Happily Ever After, which is something of a reversed Sleeping...

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SUPPORT THE ATELIERI O.HAAPALA BOOK!

Anyone who has rad my blog troughout the years would by this point be familiar with Atelieri O.Haapala,  the neo-victorian portrait studio by Saara Salmi and Marco Melander! The project went on for...

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WONDERLAND

Tonight! At our studio starting 18hrs - Dr.Sketchy's Helsinki presents: Wonderland! Come and draw and enjoy the nice setting, music and atmosphere.Photo by Neil Kenda...

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LUST

Late last summer we shot a series of editorial photos with Karl Vilhjálmsson for a feature article series for Hufvudstadsbladet.  The series is about lust and how it has been depicted and...

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RGB

Altough in general I was always more of a CMYK person.I've been organising, kind of, as in trying to, which rather means: looking at and going trough things at home that have been packed in boxes; drawings and sketches and paintings from my art school years. And then I thought about those years. And...

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DR.SKETCHY'S : COSMOS. AND SOME MORE SPACE STUFF.

Last Sunday we turned our studio into interstellar space -or intergalactic if you so like- they way it would look if an, umm, elementary school or some kind of vaudevillian basement theatre put up a play...

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SPACE OUT WITH US / DR. SKETCHY'S HELSINKI 23.4

It's time for the next Dr.Sketchy's Helsinki! This time we create you a little mini cosmos over at our studio, where the drawing takes place.Dr.Sketchy's is an "anti-art school", a so called 'cabaret...

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SNACKS AND OUTFITS

Pretty much two of my favourite things!(Well you know, depending on what level of life and living you are referring to.)I find these images of snacks matching the outfits; a series named Wardrobe Snacks by...

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I KNOW

This one is for y...

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THE SPECTACLE

A couple of photos from the gigantic number we created for the tenth and final Helsinki Burlesque Festival with both of our performing student troupes from our burlesque school  -We are already on...

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THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES

Some time ago I watched the film Sayat-Nova / The Colour of Pomegranates.It is a1968 Soviet film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov that tells the story bout Sayat Nova, the Armenian 18th century...

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