Monday, June 26, 2006

Leningrad, St Petersburg here I come

Today I will take a train from Helsinki to St.Petersburg. So put the vodka on ice Ruskipeople! ;)

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Midsummer flowers :)

Midsummer Magic: Foresee your future husband

Pick up 9 flowers and place them under your pillow in Midsummer night.

I checked out if I can find 9 flowers from my summer house (Kristinestad, Finland), and yes there was nine flowers and more....









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I don't know the names for these flowers except the wild strawberry flower (above).

- did you do any midsummer spells or magic?



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Midsummer solstice 21/06/06






Happy Midsummer!!!

today is the longest day of the year, hurraa!!!! the day of magic and spells...

Midsummer, what it is:

Before 1316, the summer solstice was called Ukon juhla, after an old Finnish god Ukko. In Karelia, people had many bonfires side by side, the biggest of which was called Ukko-kokko (the "bonfire of Ukko"). At present the midsummer holiday is known as Juhannus, or midsommar for the Swedish-speaking minority, and is the year's most notable occasion for drunkenness and revels.



Most of
Finland burns bonfires (kokko) at lakesides and eats smoked fish from the same lakes. In the coastal areas that are the stronghold of the Finland-Swedish, these are supplanted by a maypole tradition transferred from Sweden and pickled herring.



When Finland was Christianized, the holiday was named after John the Baptist (Johannes) in order to give a Christian meaning for the pagan holiday. The traditions, however, remained quite unchanged and survive in modern-day Finland although they have lost their original purposes. In folk magic, still well known but no longer seriously practiced, midsummer was a very potent night and the time for many small rituals, mostly for young maidens seeking suitors. Will o wisps were believed to be seen at midsummer night, marking a treasure.

Midsummer in Finland is celebrated a lot more intensely as in Sweden. A great many people get indecently drunk and happy. The statistics of the number of people drowned and killed in accidents are morbidly counted every year while the number of assaults also peaks.

Finns, Danes and Baltic people amongst some other groups believed will o' the wisp is marking a treasure. Treasure was deep in ground or water, and could be taken only when the fire was there. Sometimes you had to do some magical tricks, too, to uncover the treasure. It was also believed in Finland and other northern countries that midsummer was the best time to search the will o' the wisps (and treasures below them). It was believed that when someone hid treasure in the ground, (s)he made the treasure available only at the midsummer, and set will o' wisp to mark that exact place and time so that (s)he could come to take the treasure back. Finns also believed that the creature guarding the treasure used fire to clean precious metals bright again. Yet another Finnish explanation of will o wisp was that it was a ghost of a dead child.

(source: wikipedia)

Take it easy with booze over the midsummar weekend and have good spells

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

C'lus Universe Experience - progress report #01



First documentation of the C'lus Universe Art Experience:

19.06.06 17:05 - [from the start: 2 days, one hour
and 16 minutes] - the black substance has started
drying and the surface has cracked.





C'lus doc #01

During this experience i will take as much nice pictures of the formation as possible.... enjoy!! :)



C'lus doc #02


C'lus doc #03
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C'lus doc #04


C'lus doc #05


C'lus doc #06


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C'lus doc #07



Monday, June 19, 2006

Snæfellnes 18/06/06 Digital pictures


Snæfellnes, Grundarfjörður, unfortunately i only had a chance to take a picture from a moving car and through window.


Snæfellnes, Between Grundarfjörður and Olafsvik


Snæfellnes, Olafsvik


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Snæfellnes, Olafsvik


Snæfellnes, Stykkisholmur Kirkja


Snæfellnes, Stykkisholmur Hafn


Snæfellnes, Stykkisholmur Hafn


Snæfellnes, Stykkisholmur Hafn

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Snæfellness 18/06/06 Filmcamera pictures


Snæfellness, View from Helgafell


Snæfellness, View from Helgafell


Snæfellness, View from Helgafell, Stykkisholmur Eyjar


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Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur kirkja


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur hafn viti


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Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur hafn


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur Eyjar


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur Eyjar


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur Eyjar


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Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur Kirkja


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur hafn


Snæfellness, Stykkisholmur hafn viti


Snæfjellnes, Langá Lax river


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Snæfjellnes, near by Eldborg