Sin Cos Tan

SIN COS TAN is the new band of producer/DJ/composer Jori Hulkkonen and VILLA NAH’s singer/songwriter Juho Paalosmaa. Having worked together previously on VILLA NAH’s superb debut album ‘Origin’ and on the track ‘Re: Last Year’ from Hulkkonen’s own ‘Man From Earth’ solo record, a further artistic union was almost inevitable. They made their live debut at Helsinki’s Flow Festival on summer 2012.

Forthcoming debut album out worldwide on November 22nd 2012.

More info: www.solinarecords.com

49 999 by Sampsa @ Makasiini L3

Sampsa is the working name of an underground Finnish street artist, whose highly political work is premised on the conviction that art can change the world.

Sampsa
Makasiini L3 (Tyynenmerenkatu 6)
28.11.–9.12.2012
Open 29.11.-9.12. 12.00-18.00, closed Mon 3.12.
Free entrance

More info: www.lenspolitica.net

Tinariwen (live) @ Korjaamo, Helsinki

Tinariwen, is a band of Tuareg-Berber musicians from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. The band was formed around 1979 in refugee camps in Libya but returned to Mali after a cease-fire in the 1990s. Now they are gonna perform in Helsinki, Finland.

Tinariwen (MLI)
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, vaunusali, Helsinki
Mon 05.11.2012
19:00-00:00
Price 33-36 Eur
Tickets from the door 35-39 €, if any left.

Check showtimes: www.korjaamo.fi

Destroyer (live) @ Tavastia-klubi, Helsinki

Destroyer (CAN)
Tavastia-klubi, Helsinki
Sun 25.11.2012
20:00-01:00
Price 23 eur
Tickets from the door 25 eur.

Koti6 -Hollilla

Koti6 from Helsinki is a joint project of a beatmaker and record collector. The band makes eclectic instrumental music with hip hop flavor.

More info: www.soundcloud.com/koti6

Helsinkistreet.fi

Image by Sami Kero.
Finnish professional photographers exploring the city of Helsinki.
www.helsinkistreet.fi

URB 12: The festival of urban art

World Political City Walk (Friday August 3 at 5pm, in English)
Street art project by Timofey Radya (Friday and Saturday August 3-4)
Football Opera (Friday-Sunday August 3-5)
More info: URB 12

Sarpaneva Korona Moonshine

Sarpaneva Watches manufactures mechanical timepieces of outstanding quality, created in the spirit of the traditional watchmaker's art.

Perfectionism, enthusiasm and an infinite passion for watchmaking. Do I need to say more? These products reflect well the Finnish way of thinking. If you do something, do it better than well.

More info:
www.sarpanevawatches.com

Paperfangs - Lifelong

Zebra And Snake, Paperfangs

Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, vintti, Helsinki
Sat 03.03.2012
19:00-03:00
Showtime 22:00

The Best of Tampere Film Festival 2012

A Kiasma Theatre tradition, the Best of Tampere Film Festival screening showcases a selection of the best entries in 2012.

Details of this year’s screenings will be published in the week before the event here.

Kiasma theatre
Sat 17.3. 14:00
Tickets 7eur

Comics in Concert@Kiasma theatre

A Finnish trio consisting of an illustrator, guitarist and accordion player create fascinating new art.

The musicians’ improvised jazz sound is complemented by a third, soundless instrument, while the live comic drawing takes its inspiration from the music. Ville Ranta, Aleksi Ranta and Niko Kumpuvaara are all masters of their own craft but Comics in Concert is more than the sum of its parts; here, drawing becomes music and music becomes storytelling.

Comic artist Ville Ranta has performed at comic concerts at the Angoulême comics festival in France, sharing the stage with other musicians and illustrators. For the past five years, these concerts have ranked among the most popular events at the festival. The collaboration between the Ranta brothers and Kumpuvaara takes the idea a step further towards a deeper and more experimental musicality. The trio have performed at musical and comics events across Finland and in Sweden.

Comics in Concert @ Kiasma theatre
Sat 26.5.2012 16:00
Free admission

More info:
Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary art)

The sci-fi movie Hollywood would not dare to make

Iron Sky, a Finnish dark sci-fi comedy about Nazis who have been living on the dark side of the moon since the end of the Second World War has turned out to be the unlikely hot ticket of this year's Berlin Film Festival.

The mood in Iron Sky is pretty the same as in Finnish Motion Novel movie called Thesis of Evil: dark scifi.

Seems the Iron Sky community has been involved somehow in Thesis of Evil also? The crew of the Thesis of Evil want to thank the Energia/Iron Sky community for the support!

More info:
Official site of the Iron Sky
Review by The Independent

Motion novel: Thesis of Evil

The animators of Thesis of Evil were wondering what to call their project in terms of genre. Is it animation? Well, sort of, but not in a traditional sense.

They (Mutant Koala Pictures) are using computer-generated camera movements to build a 3D space with elements moving in parallel layers to create a sense of depth. They photograph all the actors and add backgrounds, effects and camera movements in post-production. This gives us a look and feel of a graphic novel with live action and sound.

They decided to call it Motion Novel.

More info:
Thesis of Evil