maanantai 7. syyskuuta 2026

vermehrt schönes

There is animation format I really like: small notebooks sponsored by Austrian Erste Bank. A new stack was recently gifted and brought to me from Vienna (originating from Waltraud in Tricky Women's office, transported by David - danke schön!). It's a nice notebook with a thin paper working like onion skin. Occasionally, the pages have aphorisms on beauty. Also a Bipa (cheap cosmetics shop chain) bag has an aphorism concerning beauty. Is this an Austrian thing?


 
The notebook in question.

my German skills are so lousy that I can live oblivious about these deep thoughts.
This animation was so "long" that it consumed two notebooks.
 
 
I have to admit that Bipa has a very good shampoo for sensitive hair.

 

maanantai 10. elokuuta 2026

anibar faces






I was invited to be in the jury in Anibar, Peja, Kosovo, from July 12th to 19th. It was hot, warm people, loads of feta cheese and rakia and roasted bell peppers, films in open air, and a lot of trash and street dogs and memories of the recent war. Best thing was a puppy dog up the river in the swimming place. I didn't meet any cows, despite the high expectations. There's nothing wrong with traveling except for all the flying and polluting and being an idiotic priviledged tourist who should have never left home. I send my hopes and prayers for that god damn long Rail Baltic project.

Me waiting for the Rail Baltic.