A glance at Tampere
Sunday June 14th, 2009. 10:07 AM.[Finland culture, Photos, Scandinavia, Videos].
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.
Change of header
Sunday June 14th, 2009. 08:56 AM.[Photos, Scandinavia, Spring, Winter].
Winter left us some months ago. I change the header of the blog that showed the frozen sea of Helsinki.
Thanks to photographer Jono Rento, who give me permission to use one of his great photographs of his Scandinavian / Lapland Travel Diary. Concretly this one is from Oulu. Kiitos!
27
Friday May 29th, 2009. 01:49 PM.[Photos, Spring].
27 years old. It has been very nice afternoon outside with friends & good weather. Kiitos
Engineers’ sex-appeal
Friday May 29th, 2009. 01:17 PM.[Funny, Job].
There is something really attractive on us, Engineers, that makes them crazy, specially when we start talking about algorithms XDDDD
Spot Matthew Williamson H&M
Sunday May 24th, 2009. 04:49 AM.[Videos].
Every 15 minutes you can see this spot of H&M in TV. It’s starting to get boring, but the song still is catchy and I like the surrealistic photography of the spot.
The director of the spot is Johan Renck, (Swedish, as the H&M company). And has insteresting work history with H&M before, other famous brands and made music videos. The H&M spot can be downloaded here (Quicktime, 30 Mb)
It seems the ad is broadcasted in all Europe and also in Spain the song is getting popular, so the authors Malcolm Pardon y Fredrik Rinman have released the song as a single “We need a change” under the artistic name “stereo lies”. It’s in youtube, iTunes and you can download it.
3 CommentsA couple of interest projects
Sunday May 10th, 2009. 07:07 AM.[People].
A couple of Spanish friends are in creative projects that I would like to comment:
Eduardo Alonso, journalist living in Finland is reviewing Finnish music in Glue.fi, where you can see new Finnish bands, interviews, album reviews, etc (in English). Also he is co-founder of Free! Magazine, a discontinued magazine started in 2007.
José Martínez (Bouman Studios) from Barcelona (Spain), a profesional animator, is making a “marathon” to animate during this weekend 8-9-10th of May a short called Hitler in Love, based on true story. Catchy title isn’t it? I can’t wait to see the result, in the meanwhile you can see him in action drawing through his webcam online or making of.
3 CommentsAerial virtual tour of New York
Sunday April 26th, 2009. 06:15 AM.[Photos].
Same technique than 360º cities, but from sky.
World’s cleanest countries
Tuesday April 21st, 2009. 12:55 PM.[Finland culture, Spain].
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.
Fliis, instant song search
Thursday April 9th, 2009. 01:05 PM.[Music].
When you want to find a song fastly that comes to your head, what’s your method? Mine it was to look it in youtube.com or Radioblog.
But today I have discovered the ultimate song searcher: Fliis. (based on Youtube API) Test it! You will not regret. And you can make playlists. Check these 3 songs.
2 panos
Wednesday April 8th, 2009. 03:01 PM.[Photos, Winter].
Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009… the killer tool to create panoramic photographies. I have tested several programs during this years, but this makes everything, you can export in several formats and super easy. 100% recomended.
