Random Arts

This Easter has involved some interesting art experiences. Here is a short description of them:

1. Miró exhibition @ Emma

Miró was on of the greatest modernists in the 20th century. A Year ago I went to see his exhibition at Fundacio Joan Miró in Barcelona and it was very very exciting! The place itself is really interesting and fantasy like. So I was likewise enthusiastic when I heard that his exhibition was coming to my close by museum. Though Emma has done some interesting but little bit disappointing exhibition earlier (Monét exhibition had only like 8 pieces on show, Malevits was a little bit better) this was for once something else. There was about 200 works available! And to my advantage these works were mostly from the Mallorca collection - so most of them were something that I had not seen before! Half of the works were sculptures. I must say that I´m more fond of Miró´s paintings. The Sculptures work better in their correct places and they were much better in Barcelona than Espoo... Anyway, the paintings were yet again a huge isnpiration, I should do some try outs myself.

2. Foot Prints on the Moon aka Le Orme by Luigi Bazzoni

This film has been waiting some time now at my shelf. I finally had time to check it out. I got this from the local movie dealer when I asked him to recommend me some old horror movies in the vein of Don´t Look Now and Wickerman. It does it´s job mighty fine, though this time it´s even slower and more hazy! But the visuals are astonishing and the suspension has been built very sophisticated. It´s a story about a woman who is haunted with dreams about a person stranded on the moon. She has to go to a small town of Garma to find the reason behind all this weirdness. Overall this works well, though some viewers may find the slow pace disturbing.

3. Some photography lessons

I was talking to a friend of mine last week about cameras and photography and suddenly I finally realised some major points in using my Canon 450D setup. Here is some firts results, though I´m still practicing some of the basics:

The first one is my cat Isis and the second one is just a rehearsal.

Cycling season starts tomorrow!

Sweet! My cycling season is about to start very soon! Basically, I will get my bike back from the repair shop tomorrow after work. It has been taken trough spring maintenance and it should be ready for full action! I will definitely take it for a spin right after it´s ready.

Actually I have two bikes. My old war horse is the Norwegian DBS and it´s almost 20 years old hybrid. I use that mainly for going to a local supermarket for shopping. It´s quite nice bike, but it would need a major fixing. It looks a bit worn-out so there is no worry at leaving it in front of a market.

The other one is a two year old Cyclocross by Kona: Jake The Snake 2009. I just love this bike!

Originally I went to a cyclingstore to buy me a new hybrid, but the model that I was looking for was sold out (it was also by Kona). The guys at the store recommended cyclocross bike. They did have one with extra tall skeleton left and they offered it with 30% discount (it was late august and the season was coming to an end) but it was still way more expensive than I had thought of investing. After some testing I was sold, it certainly was the best bike I had ever tried before!

Now after one full season I still think this was the best decision I could have done! I did get a quality bike dirty cheap and it´s even big enough for me, and yes I´m a tall guy so that is not an easy task! And that reminds me about my new cycling shoes:

Look at those monsters!!! These were just sprawling at the store shelf. The amazing thing here is that these are the size 52 in European scale! I do have some difficulties at finding big enough shoes for normal use so this was more than a pleasant surprise! I just can´t wait to try these on with my Jake the Snake and push the envelope even further during this season. I will have to put some real objectives for this summer performance. At least I will resolve to cycle commute as many times as possible!