Cheek feat. Illi "Kanssa tai ilman" VIDEO OUT NOW!

Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bH0rEb4CZ0

Comments welcome!

IUAV Venice: Directing course "Prince of Homburg" 2007

More slides on my archives! Here is one from my studies in Venice. The course was directed by Elisabeth Schweeger http://www.berlin-school.com/en;faculty-research;faculty;d:431.htm and it was about the play "Prince of Homburg". Each student had to analyse it, direct it, make the scenography to it, and costume it. Only as a rehearsal luckily, the production wasn't really made on-stage in reality. Lucky for me, my idea would have taken millions.
Here you can see parts of the final idea that Ms. Schweeger finally accepted, and gave me good points for it. After calling me a "Kitch Noodle" for first fighting so hard to make the world pretty, and pink, and filled-with-fairy-tales. But I do thank for it, because I was able to reach new kind of ideas that I haven't tried before!

Ps. Unfortunately, this fine idea crashed at once, when 6 months after the course, I saw the movie "300"....Shame, I would've like to use this some day.

The Books of Elliot

"Elliot glanced up in pain. Now he heard the bells coming nearer, somewhere in the ghastly horizon barely shown by the fog. His wings were finally free, but still hurting. Everyone aboard still dead.. he checked. Nothing new since he had fallen asleep in fatique. Should have listened to Basil."

Since 2005 Nrj Fashion awards, I have been writing a fantasy book in finnish, by workname "The books of Elliot". In a nutshell, the book is about angels upon earth, with the true freedom of choice, when human has it only inside certain boundaries: but the question is which ones are truly free, pure, and safe, when the world is getting closer to it's final day and only the angels happen to know all this. "The end is easy for a human -he needs only to die." -Elliot

The work continues slowly (due to my work on other parts of career), but it is growing page by page. Some day, hopefully within 5, or at least 10 years, I plan to publish it. First in finnish, later in english. Forgive me if the upper quote from the book contains mild or bigger mistakes, I'll leave the final translating to professionals. It is a huge dream to catch, but I would not be the first one in Finland to be able to do that! Others have managed, I might too. Time will show.

After the success of Elliot on Nrj -and the Ropecon 2006, where the role-playing audience gave it's great acceptance to him, my hopes got up that he might have a bigger space open in the people's hearts, if I just keep pushing him forward. Some day. I don't want him to be forgotten, not by me, nor by others.

Right now a new costume is coming up into the collection. Partly for schoolwork, partly for my own need. It was time to remember the fabrics, the form, the spirit of the collection. Maybe through this new outfit some new will come up to the book too, we will see! I'll put pictures up later!

Cheek feat. Illi, The videoshoot summer 2008

I have been working as a second director, and as a stylist/scenographer for Cheek this summer. The video "Kanssa tai ilman" is now finally finished and will be published next week at http://www.cheekki.com/

It is directed by Daniel Art and will be shown at least on The Voice tv and Music Television.



The videoshoot was absolutely lovely. I so adored the two boys, and our whole crew. Everyone got along extremely well, and our long hours of work was resulted into many strange things. Few of the most memorable moments were the on-set battle between Illi and our dancer Maria Serena Järvinen about gum, and another on-set fight between our dancers with pillows (both fights were made for the silhuette shots of Illi). Not all was easy through these months, but I nevertheless enjoyed every moment of it. This was a good sequal to my work for Apollo on the side of rap-entertainment.



All I kept thinking for months and months, was violet, white, yellow, fashion, violet, fashion, rap, violet...and wooden dolls. The wooden dolls we decided to have as the main idea of the video, was working quite well. I think they represent the lyrics very well, and so far it has turned out to be the right choise to go on with that idea. We'll see what the public thinks of it!

Many paper coffee-cups were destroyed, tons of tortillas eaten, one little dog being traumatized for life, hours of films rolled, and the results will speak for themselves. I hope. At least we had amazing time those months and days, and I thank everyone for their strength, patience and contributions to make this video live!

In the pictures: Jare Tiihonen, Aleksi Sariola, Laura Vienonen, Norppa.

"Ahtolaiset" Finnfashion Awards 2008

This collection was at the Finnfashion Magazine awards 2008. Unfortunately the whole competition was cancelled, but it won't be the end of these costumes! ;) The live images are by Kanerva Mantila. If you want the MUSIC OFF, push the image of Volume on the up-left.

Nrj Fashion awards -A dance for Elliot

Here's a new slide of my old (and new) work on the Elliot! Click on the image of volume to turn the music OFF, if you please so. The song "Lost and damned" by Kamelot was originally played with the costumes on the Nrj fashion awards 2006.

Castle officially opened

Welcome to my new Blog! I am happy to finally gather my works under one website. Here you can view my art in videos and slideshows, and follow my ups and downs that my journey in the world of costumes has, and will be, facing. The joy of creating and the hard work, shall hopefully one day reach all the goals I promised to myself to do, when I was 17 and having the passion for costumes grow in me. Now i'm close to the age of 25, and I have worked, studied, cried, studied, worked and yet again cried to reach the point where I am now. On the verge of moving my whole life to Italy this autumn, I decided to start a blog to share with you the journey coming. Hopefully my work shall give the audiences much pleasure and joy in the years to come!