I wrote a post some time ago about the Rock Summer 1988 festival and the experimental multimedia I did on that for YLE Teema. Then, three days ago I went to the screening of the documentary done on this same event called Eesti vabaks! Rockfestivaali joka ei päättynyt ( Free Estonia! Festival which never ended!) . But I had hard time …
This is not brilliant, far from it — but it is different, I dare say. Something I did now in the spring and finally I thought it is time to show it. Show that there are options — that it is not that hard to do something this simple, yet totally different. That there are possibilities outside the …
I thought I share one aspect of my work which I don’t usually talk so much about and that is commissioned R&D and consulting. For obvious reasons — usually client is paying for your input and they would not be happy if you gave that away for free to a competitor. But, in this case I think there is no …
I seem to be into “defining” these days. My last post was on “truth and reality”, now I am addressing “journalism” — and “photojournalism” in particular. Those are big words and I am totally aware that some people might be offended by this. It’s been a break in my writing for a couple of weeks — due mainly to a temporary …
About two weeks ago I was surfing the net and I stumbled on this image on a Helsinki Times page. “Nice HDR-work” was my initial reaction (took me c. two seconds) and then, WTF? Byline with photographer and STT/Lehtikuva/Reuters… What was this? I got interested, googled this particular photographer just to see if this was his style in general. …
The best benefit of teaching IMHO is the fact that you learn yourself so much. And when trying to pass this information further, one naturally tries to formulate one’s thoughts as clearly as one can. Doing linear storytelling thru images — and trying to teach it — I have come up with a half a dozen rules — or call …