Archive for 'helsinki'
70ideas
Tuesday January 12th, 2010. 02:32 PM. Published under Ads, Videos, helsinki. 3 Comments.
I have been working on a new project during Christmas, and the result is here: 70ideas.com, where you can watch the most creative 70 videos of 2009 (ads, short films, animation…) have a look and enjoy watching as I did collecting them.
Helsinki, Walking over the sea
Saturday January 9th, 2010. 06:17 AM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. 7 Comments.
Cost of Helsinki is frozen. (Baltic sea) Today was a sunny Saturday and many people was walking over the icy surface without worry. (Walking, skying, with dogs, kids….). It’s amazing, I can’t believe it. This is how it looks in summer
Eat.fi - Restaurants guide
Monday December 7th, 2009. 11:51 AM. Published under helsinki. 4 Comments.
I found a couple of interesting places in Ruoholahti for the work break in Rouoholahti: Eat.fi
Good as reference, specially real time features like is easy to find which ones are open just now (in green). But I have to say that not all the scores represent so much what I think about some restaurants I know. Some good ones I know have only 2 or 3… and McDonalds have a 4 out of 5.! O_o
A data center under Uspenski Cathedral
Monday November 30th, 2009. 12:42 PM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. No Comments.
From January, Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki’s most popular tourist sites, will be captured and channeled into the district heating network, a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes in the Finnish capital.
Credit: Photo from secondpicture.com and btw, a great tutorial about HDR.
Helsinki transport & Finnish Punctuality
Monday November 23rd, 2009. 12:39 PM. Published under Finland culture, Music, Photos, Videos, helsinki. 4 Comments.
Finnish people are punctual. If they say 11 o’clock, is 11′oclock. Even between friends more than 10-15 minutes delay is considered rude. In Spain… how could I say… we take time in a more relaxed way generally 
This photo is the bus schedule from a City Bus in center of Helsinki. 3 main sections: Ma-Pe (Monday-Friday), La (Saturday), Su (Sunday). First row (in bold) you see the hour (18 for example), and the column under represents the minutes (18:10, 18:24, etc.)
Besides of the strange way of representing the timetable, it amazes me its accuracy . If it says there that the bus number 20 is going to be at 18:52 in that stop… it will be there (90% of times). Spanish urban buses timetables normally only say tells frequency (for example “every 15 minutes”).
In Helsinki every year is sent to home a small book containing all routes and timetables of urban transport (bus, metro, tram).
All this is nice, but in the end is paper, very 20th century thing. Is it not supposed to be Finland a high-technology country? (more…)
Spanish Manchego cheese in Finland
Saturday November 21st, 2009. 12:56 PM. Published under Photos, Spain, helsinki. 6 Comments.
Ouuch! 3x times more expensive than in Spain.
Bing: Bird’s Eye View of Helsinki
Tuesday November 10th, 2009. 12:15 PM. Published under Photos, helsinki. 3 Comments.
Bing’s Maps have a cool feature that Google Maps not: Bird’s Eye View. Photos are made from with Hot Air Ballons with a 40º angle so you can have better perspective of the city than Satellite’s straight down view.
You can see many main cities of Europe. These are two examples:
Bing’s Bird’s Eye View of Helsinki
Bing’s Bird’s Eye View of Tampere
Also, related to this is the project 360º Cities, panoramic views from street level of many cities.
Helsinki - Mannerheimintie Street
Saturday November 7th, 2009. 03:13 PM. Published under Photos, helsinki. 3 Comments.
Mannerheimintie is the main street of Helsinki.
This picture is from the 70’s. Ok, not true.. pass the mouse over the picture to see in real color
If you want to get same point of view, I will tell you the tip: go to the corner of 5th floor of Sokos.
First snows in Helsinki
Thursday November 5th, 2009. 12:17 PM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. 3 Comments.
5th of November. Yes! Powdered-sugar-snow cover the streets of Helsinki… that soon pedestrians walking transform into slippery ice. In north of Finland days ago there is snow already.
Photos were so plain, that I forced them with Photoshop help to give more texture and colors:
Yes! Selling ice-cream in winter, why not? XD
Did you know that Finland is the country with the highest annual ice cream consumption in Europe. 14 liters per person/year
El País in Finland
Tuesday October 20th, 2009. 11:13 AM. Published under Finland culture, Spain, helsinki. 1 Comment.
El País (in English: The Country) is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Spain. Price in Spain: 1.20 €, Price in Helsinki: 2.75.
BTW. You can check the most important today’s front pages in the world in Kiosko.net and even more (838 newspapers in the world) in Newseum. From Finland only Iltälehti.
Iltalehti is a tabloid newspaper (sensational newspaper) and it translates directly as “Evening paper”. And ¿What? Wikipedia says that Iltalehti.fi is the most popular website in Finland as of November 2008. 0_o I didn’t expect this.
