a little bit of Finnish culture

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

for no apparent reason I feel like a lot of things Finnish have been crossing my desk lately. from mentions of Lordi to YMCA, here are a few YouTube videos of what people have been talking about:

Finnish YMCA cover:

Lordi “Hard Rock Hallelujah” music video:

Finnish Defense Forces military exercises:

how to disco:

finland without snow

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

My friend and fellow artist Simo Alitalo wrote me this morning to inform me that Finland is without snow this winter. FINLAND… WITHOUT SNOW. I mean, cmon!! He writes:

Greetings from the darkness!

There is an old Finnish Christmas Carol where they sing that Christmas
is like a summer in the middle of winter.

The global warming is giving a new literal meaning to the song:
after the very warm year we are having extremely warm winter. No
snow, no ice, instead green grass and buds in bushes – and because
there is no snow the darkness is unbelievable!

The image up top was snapped from http://62.73.32.2/ , a URI Simo sent of a webcam pointed at a Finnish square. Look at how pitiful that Christmas tree near the middle looks. Just pitiful! Normally Finnish squares are a blanket of white!