Spo's photos with the keyword: mv

One small step for mankind, one giant leap for a man.

This is why we don't have an eight number system even if it was more, well... handy.

And they went, and they melted.

Just a snapshot of another boring landscape again. Incidentally downtown Helsinki is seven kilometers in the direction of the tracks. Yes, Helsinki, the capital of Finland, the most urban hipsterious city in the world!

This is my second picture ever. I took it with my first camera, Yashica TL Electro X slr. I was 13 or 14, and the horse was awfully big and I remember being afraid of it. I was also afraid of my new camera and that the horse might eat it. He didn't, not even the film, which is Kodak Plus X Pan. The sun had already set, so the slow shutter speed may explain the softness. Edit 5.4.2015: At the closer inspection of my negatives it looks like this was my second shot outdoors ; prior to this I had taken two or three indoor pictures of my little brother, probably the same day or the previous one.

To add to the puzzling title I only say this: children's songs in odd time signatures should be outlawed because they lure innocent children into prog-rock.

This reminds me of a song by a Finnish singer Edu Kettunen. The song is about generations, about a family outing from which the father chooses not to return - instead, he turns himself into a tree on the seashore. (Yes, believe me, the sea is right there behind the man.) It is a finely crafted song but so abysmally sad that I cannot listen to it too often.

Taking A-train.

A film group of the epoch movie Härmä (Once Upon a Time in the North) left this sign behind in 2012. The tree is portrayed in the opening scene of the film (and I think it should have reappeared in the end, to close the cycle). It is a brilliant movie, though. "Please don't fell" the sign says in local dialect - probably because the crew had rigorous training on the dialect at the location; to get into the feel they even spent their nights at the local museum. There is only two words in the sign, because there is no such word as "please" in Finnish, expecially not in *this* dialect! I'd say this attitude is what the film is about.