Archive for 'Finland culture'
Vapriikki - Sitting Bull Exhibition
Tuesday July 21st, 2009. 11:21 AM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Tampere. No Comments.
Couple of weeks ago we visit Vapriikki, the main museum of Tampere. Until Nov’09 there is a exhibition of the life story of Sitting Bull, one of the most known Indian chiefs. Some texts in the walls were translated to English, but almost everything and explanition of the objects were in Finnish.
Some stuff that call my attention:
The Tomahawk with a heart!,.. like telling “I will slam the axe into your head… but with love ok?”, . Joking aside,… was awesome their ornaments, clothes, shoes, etc. all full of color and geometry shapes. They were truly craftsmen.
Exhibition was well staged and background sounds immerse yourself into the atmosphere.
Aside this exhibition there is other zones in the museum, included in the price and I think they are almost everyone permanent: ice hockey museum (of course), toys museum, shoes with the famous finnish Reino shoes, it seems they are getting fashionable among teenagers ¿?.
More information in Vapriikki museum web. This is a photo from outside, where you can see the Tammerkoski river:
Vapriikki means factory and this name was given to the museum when they renewed it due of the fact that it was a old factory from the Industrial Age of Tampere. The center of Tampere actually has this cool looking, buildings of red bricks constructed when Tampere was the industrial heart of Finland during the 19th and part of 20th century. Notice that Tampere is a quite young city, that this year has celebrated his 250 years anniversary.
Finland, Lapland, vikings, Nordic countries, Scandinavia… let’s clear up all these.
Saturday July 18th, 2009. 03:54 PM. Published under Finland culture, Scandinavia. 4 Comments.
I started looking what countries belong to Scandinavia… and everyplace they say something different. So I’m going to try to explain it here from the basis, and also other concepts. And please if you want to correct/add something, leave a comment:
Finland is a country with its own language, Finnish, and Suomi is the name of the country in the Finnish language. It’s a young country, independent since 1917. Its capital is Helsinki as you know.
Scandinavia is a not-official term and quite ambiguous. Geographically, the Scandinavian Peninsula, (more…)
Mmmh… sweet peas from the market
Wednesday July 8th, 2009. 10:04 AM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Summer. 1 Comment.
Herne: 3 euroa / litra
Summer Solstice in Tampere, Finland
Monday June 29th, 2009. 04:43 AM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Summer. 6 Comments.
One week ago, 21st of June was Summer solstice, when the day is the longest (daylight) in the year in the northern hemisphere of the Earth.
In Finland is quite impressive for the foreigners that during these days the nights are really short and doesn’t get very dark. It is like a long infinite sunset that never ends and joins with sunrise again. To see the real midsummer night (sun always visible 24 h) you should go to the north of Finland, Lapland.
As you might know, I’m currently living in the city of Tampere, and like I explained in the previous post, I wanted to check the possibilities of the camera Canon A590 with CHDK. So I programmed it to take pictures in short intervales. I left the camera in a tripod in the top of the building I am living in, and I went to sleep (after closing all the curtains)
This is the result of joining 1000 thousand photographs where you can see the Särkänniemi amusement park and the observation tower Näsinneula, an icon of the city of Tampere, which have an expensive rotary restaurant in the top with really nice views.
Song: Télépopmusik - Breathe
Oficially sunset was at 23.11 and sunrise at 3.42 in Tampere.
There is a Spanish film called Los amantes del círculo polar ártico (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, 1998), and part of the film was filmed in Finland. This small clip from this film shows how it is the midsummer in Rovaniemi, in the Finnish Lapland.
The next image was made by Isilmetriel. It’s not real, was computer made, but it shows beautifully the concept of Midsummer night:
Finland? = Such a cold weather, isn’t it?
Saturday June 27th, 2009. 02:54 AM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Scandinavia, Summer. 2 Comments.
Not always. Summer in Finland exists!. This is the weather for this weekend. Tampere, in the center of Finland, will be 29º today, same temperature than in Costa del Sol, Málaga (Spain).
Full weather page from Aamulehti 27.06.2009 (500 Kb).
* Huomenna = Tomorrow
* Sää = Weather
* Aurinko = Sun
Aurinko dates tells you when is the sunrise and the sunset. You can appreciate a difference between Helsinki and Tampere because of their different latitudes. To see the midnight sun, (”night-without night” in finnish: yötön yö), when the sun is visible for a continuous 24 hours you will have to go to the north, Lapland. For example Rovaniemi, close to the Arctic Circle, midnigt sun is from 6th of June to 6th of July. Of course, more north you go, more days you can see the midnight sun. The extreme is the North Pole with 6 months daytime, 6 months nighttime in the year.
What people do in summer in Tampere? Go to the beach of the lake, their boats/yachts, sauna, fishing,… whatever but try to be all the time they can outside, because summer is short in Finland and you have to take most of it.
Sentimental Finnish men
Tuesday June 16th, 2009. 04:03 AM. Published under Finland culture, People, Videos. No Comments.
Quite funny TV advertisement from Finnish National Betting released this month.
“We invited 127 ordinary Finnish men for screen tests
We asked them about love, feelings, sentimentality and life.”
Wanna see a Finnish man getting emotional? …. Watch it (subtitled in English)
A glance at Tampere
Sunday June 14th, 2009. 10:07 AM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Scandinavia, Videos. 7 Comments.
Since living in Tampere, I would like to show my relatives and friends in Spain that living in Tampere, and Finland in general, is not so cold weather always, I mean it’s not that cold all year long. Now that the summer is coming and I can prove it, I prepared a short videoclip showing Tampere through Näsinneula tower sights. Also I wanted to show the large amount of hours of day light in summer, something surprising even to me. Although I have been 1 year studying before in Helsinki, this is my first summer in Tampere.
You can download it here in in better quality (50 Mb) or watch it just under these lines through youtube (click on HQ button). Spanish version here.
Some details about the video:
- Most information I got it at Wikipedia: Tampere, Tammerkoski, Näsinneula tower.
- Photos and maps thanks to Wikimedia, Google Images, Flickr, and webcam images captured automatically during 24 hours from Sarkanniemi webpage.
- Music: From the advertisement of H&M Matthew Williamson
- Made with Adobe After Effects.
World’s cleanest countries
Tuesday April 21st, 2009. 12:55 PM. Published under Finland culture, Spain. 1 Comment.
Forbes has published a list of the world’s cleanest countries, with Switzerland in first place:
1. Switzerland.
2. Norway
3. Sweden.
4. Finland.
5. Costa Rica.
(…)
30. Spain.
(…)
39. USA.
This study has been made by Yale University and you can see the complete list here and the methodology used.
The report ranks 149 countries on 25 indicators tracked across six established policy categories: Environmental Health, Air Pollution, Water Resources, Biodiversity and Habitat, Productive Natural Resources, and Climate Change.
Although Forbes published this week, it seems the study was made in 2008.
Unicef - Be a mum for a moment
Tuesday March 31st, 2009. 02:54 AM. Published under Finland culture, People. 3 Comments.
Great guerrilla advertisement done by Unicef in Finland with ad agency Taivas. Description in the image:
Here you can see also a vídeo in Youtube.
The message pointed to the web http://unicef.fi/aiti (Aiti is mum in Finnish)
Finnish Embassy and Focus
Friday March 20th, 2009. 01:26 PM. Published under Finland culture, Spain. 4 Comments.
The Spanish embassy in Finland doesn’t have website wrong! it has (thanks daniel), but Finnish Embassy in Spain does. It has interest links to know more about Finland and also I subscribed via RSS. They used to publish news (in spanish, finnish and swedish) every 10 days. Last new is about the magazine Focus, and it’s available in digital format. I didn’t have time to read it deeply, but the photos quality are really good:
Focus Economía y Tecnología 2009
C&P:
Focus on the Economy and Technology 2009, the annual publication showcasing Finland’s strengths and attractions as a target for investments has come out even bigger and better than before. Read the digipaper!
More information, more languages and also 2008 edition in InvestInFinland.fi
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