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.

perjantai 10. heinäkuuta 2026

gli uccelli


Helinan tanssitunnilla...





Muistumia Päivi Hartzellin elokuvasta Lumikuningatar (1986)

Slovenialainen sitra.

 

tiistai 9. kesäkuuta 2026

reading the thesises

 

On the last weeks of May, I read 22 written thesises. It was a lot of reading, but also very inspiring: to read about other animation artists' practices, methods, backgrounds, struggles and revelations.

The project descriptions of the graduating students reminded me that same kind of struggles repeat in the film making processes throughout our careers. Be it in school, with a producer, on our own, with a team, and naturally all the personal situations included. For me, it always has been the case of tolerating uncertainty about the result and the feeling that I don't know what I'm doing or/and I'm not good enough. In that sense deadlines help a lot; you just have to let go at some point, despite the fear that you spent a long time on creating something that is meaningless. 

As I'm again stepping in the paddle of film making, I want to congratulate everyone who ever finished their work, and hope to join that group again, rather sooner than later!

 

keskiviikko 20. toukokuuta 2026

cover illustration for hea laps

 I made a cover illustration for May issue of Hea Laps magazine. Thanks Mette Mari Kaljas for asking!



Summer is just around those bushes