Diesel is raping Karhu sneakers

Diesel has released a viral campaign starring Finnish Disco guru Åke Blomqvist. Viral video is promoting Diesel's new retro sneakers.

When you take a closer look at the original video of the Finnish Disco guru posted to YouTube 2 years ago, original video clearly shows Åke is wearing Finnish "Karhu originals" sneakers. Well, mash-up is a mash-up. Get your Karhu originals from Finnishdesignshop.com.

The Millioners - Most Sexiest Music

Around the same time in early 2003 as world´s first cloned sheep Dolly died, The Millioners was born. It all started in a shady session which took place at an old warehouse in Helsinki, Finland. Young men with different musical backgrounds came together as one.

They like to call their music "disco music". But it´s not some shitty disco you can rollerblade into and wear a stupid wig. They like their disco dirty. Like italo disco, which is a big influence for them. Kano, Cerrone and so on. French acts such as Daft Punk, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff and Alan Braxe have also inspired The Millioners a lot.

Download for free Up to you (Ercola remix) MP3 from their website.

FogScreen breaks into clubs in Los Angeles and London

FogScreen, Inc., creators of the world’s first walk-through projection screen made of "dry" fog, are proud to announce that the FogScreen™ projection screen is now prominently featured at the entrance way of Markus Thesleff’s new nightclub Maya in London and David Judaken’s new Los Angeles nightclub, Opera.

HELSINKI BURLESQUE FESTIVAL

HELSINKI BURLESQUE FESTIVAL 31st Jan - 2nd Feb 2008

Bump 'n' grind, shimmy and shake Helsinki, it's time for the 1st ever Burlesque Festival in Finland!

2nd February 2008 restaurant Kaisaniemi will offer you an evening full of hootchy kootchy and hot-hot-hot hip shakes. Do you dare to visit the hidden tavern of mystical tropics, enter the secret heart of vice? Forget your problems and enjoy the company of pompous pirates, exotic beauties, sharp smugglers, side-show freaks, crafty cowboys and seductive servants.

In the shadows of the night who will You be and who will You meet - The Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda or Phantom - The Guardian of the Eastern Dark?

Mika Kaurismäki opens Brazilian restaurant Bossa in Helsinki

Finnish film maker Mika Kaurismäki is opening a new restaurant in Helsinki: Bossa. The two-floor eating place at Annankatu 21 will be Brazilian and Latino themed and will have a bar side and an à la carte dining area.

The restaurant will have a capacity of about 300 people and will offer Brazilian food, wine, beer and other drinks.

There will also be live music on offer at Bossa, starting with Brazilian music about once a week. Later on, Kaurismäki would also like to programme a wider range of music performances.
Bossa will likely officially open around the 15th of November.

Mika Kaurismäki is the elder brother of director Aki Kaurismäki.

Mika Kaurismäki earlier co-founded the well-known Moskova and Corona (Eerikinkatu 11) bars in the centre of Helsinki.

Language course in a toilet

"I never have a glass of whisky at 8am in the morning." and same in Spanish. Ambient sound surprises in a dark toilet of the La Cocina restaurant (Kluuvikatu).

Another weird toilet (ladies bathroom) in Helsinki is on the 14th floor in the hotel Torni. It's holding the title of the "Toilet with a best view". Going there for the first time feels a bit weird since the walls are basicly all window. But since you’re sitting on the top of the city, no one can see you, but you can see everywhere.

Some other funky toilets in Helsinki restaurants are situated in Kuurna (Meritullinkatu 6), Bob's Bar (Ullanlinnankatu 5), Stockholm Diskotek (Yrjönkatu 31), Kola (Helsinginkatu 13),.

Helsinki. Kallio. Hip bars. Luft. Kuudes linja. Kola. Soul kitchen.

Just couple years ago Kallio district in Helsinki was full of cheap&shitty beer-halls. Well, it still is, but nowadays Kallio offers excellent alternatives.

Thanks to Dj Lil Tony (Toni Rantanen) more and more new hip bars are rising to Kallio.

Kola (Helsinginkatu 13) was one of the first ones, then came Club Liberte (Kolmas linja 34), Kuudes linja (Kaikukatu 4; entrance from the inner yard), Soul Kitchen (their á la carte menu reminds an old LP vinyl cover, Fleminginkatu 26), Sävel (Hämeentie 2) and Porvoonkadun baari (Porvoonkatu 19). Latest newcomer is Luft (Aleksiskivenkatu 30).

After the strict smoking ban one can nowadays breathe in "always good tunes" bars like Rytmi (2. Linja 2) and Ompu (Siltasaarenkatu 15).

Hostel: part II starring Vera Jordanova

Hostel: part II is a horror movie produced by Quentin Tarantino. Finnish supermodel Vera Jordanova is playing one of the main roles. Premiere is shown in Finland @ Nightvisions Horror movie festival (26.-28.10.2007).

Felix Zenger - Awesome human beatbox

Drums, scratches, bass, vocals, effects, percussion – and just one mouth! Finnish beatboxer Felix Zenger not only produces a wide array of sounds, imitations of musical instruments, and fast complex rhythms, but above all uses his mouth to create new and original music. The 20 year-old, awarded with Artist of the Year honors at the 2007 Funk Awards, has already performed with the J.B.'s (James Brown RIP), DJ Q-bert, Lew Soloff (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and The Coup.

Design District Helsinki - The hub is growing

SoHo in London/New York, SoFo in Stockholm and Design District Helsinki (DDH) in Finland.

Helsinki offers an ideal place to get to know Finnish design and to buy top-class Finnish design products. Located in the centre of Helsinki, the Design District Helsinki is an area full of design and antique shops, fashion stores, museums, art galleries, restaurants and showrooms. Unfortunately not all the best shops and bars are part of the DDH hub.

See the DDH map available on designdistrict.fi.