I feel so alive

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Taking his hand when mine's cold and his is warm,

Not only feeling the coldness of the weather, but smelling it.

The fall's come, and the colors of nature may finally bloom.

Leaves fall, which isn't what I really look forward to during the year.

Today it seems alright.

The feeling of a cool breeze usually seems depressing, I know summer's over,

but today it's refreshing. 

The freedom of a brush stroke following the unknown paths,

discovering new colors, as they mix together creating a piece that you couldn't plan out. 

Inspiration, welcome back.

The drop-down bass beating through my head taking me to another world,

mixed with memories, fingers running down his head. My head.

Looking into his eyes just a little longer than I'd normally dare to,

finding joy in a cup of hot chocolate.

Paying attention to the little details in the middle of fog,

only wishing they could be captured.

Dreaming for a second, 

to be able to stop time from running.

Daring to take a leap of faith, 

trusting my Father, remaining sensitive to 

His voice.

As cliche as the following will sound,

cliche's have only got their reputation due to their

truthfulness that's been proved 

over and over again,

 over time. 

Relationships are to be valued, 

Food is to be tasted, and

Music is to be felt.

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I feel so alive.

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Rest in peace

<3

I feel blessed, I truly feel priviledged.Why? I had the opportunity to get to know all of my four grandparents up to the age of just almost 19... I always wondered what this would feel like. 

Four is now down to three. 

My grandfather, my mother’s dad, will be missed, never knew him as well as I wished, I guess you always run out of time. Some say death is the end of it all, but I believe different, which gives me confidence, that some day I'll see him again. 

You can never have too many people that you know you care for, and people who care back. Though then you have more to let go of. It’s such a cliché, but life should be made the most of while we’re here. 

Especially, please pay attention to the people around you; make sure they know how you feel about them.We can never tell another person how much we care for them too many times.

Rest in peace Grandfather, I love you.

Exhibition

Oh it's been a while.

The IB visual arts program includes an exhibition towards the end of IB, and hence we've now completed it. We completed it with four other people, and I must say, it's been amazing two years of staying after school, more or less completing our artworks and more or less getting pumped up by loud music and food.

Even though it almost seemed that we wouldn't finish everything on time, we did (yey for us)! I had 18 works  in my section of the exhibition, and I now present a few of them:

Katri 2013

 Hetken uskoit sen olevan totta 2013

Mindful of it all 2013

Your Identity 2012

y=0.042x^2-1.512x+14.39 2012

That's that. :)

School's almost over, final exams start on the 2nd of May. Good luck to all my dear IB fellows out there anywhere around the world.
Peace.

Viiksekkäät Penkkarit

Tänään ei ollutkaan mikään tavallinen päivä. Ei ollut niin ihmeellinenkään päivä, mutta ihmeellisempi kuin normaali tavallinen päivä. Tästä toki voisimme alottaa analyysikierteen, missä voisimme ajatella jokaista päivää erityisenä, koska jokaiselle päivälle riittää omat kommelluksensa ja kujeensa.
Aloittakaamme nyt ihan siitä, että tässä tulee tättädää ensimmäinen suomenkielinen blogipostaukseni.
Päivän erityisyyteen liittyy vahvasti Abivuoteen kuuluva Penkkaripäivä, jolloin hehheh kaikille jotka eivät tiedä, abit viettävät viimeistä lukiopäivää ja siirtyvät lukulomalle. Koulut siis tyhjenevät abeista. Jee. Tämä sääntöhän ei koske IB oppilaita ja me kiltisti ja nöyränä palaamme koulun penkille.
7 henkilöä viiksissä, epäilyttävissä lakeissa, laseissa sekä pitkässä takissa oli hyvä syy mulkoilla ja tarkastella ympärillä olevia ihmsiä, sekä iloisena jakaa karkkia kilteille lapsille. Alla oli asianmukainen haalari, well see for yourself.

Kuvasarjan aloittakoon Rebu:

Vaikka viikset lähti irti jo muutamia tunteja sitten, nenän alapuolella kihelmöi edelleen. En selvästikkään oo tottunu viiksiin, siispä ei ehkä kannata kuitenkaan ite kasvattaa.

Se herätti hieman hilpeyttä rekan päällä ollessa tietty, että siitä huristeltiin miehen ohi, jota ehkä noi Rebun viikset (viimenen kuva, vasemmalla) kuvaa kaikkein parhaiten. Ihmiset ei tunnu osaavan ymmärtää mitä sana "tööttää!" tarkottaa, vaikka ikkuna auki ilosesti vilkuttelee valoissa ja ohi ajaessaan .Voi tietty olla että oltiin vähän noloja mutta se ei todellakaan haittaa, ei se väärin oo. 

Vilho kiittää ja kuittaa.

An awesome mess of red paper pieces

Today's schedule included a small photoshoot for an advertisement, and here's some of the shots taken.

I am not going to bore everyone by typing a long text (although I could, I'm in the mood for non sensible writing) Thank you for Aino, Hanna, Aaron, and Noora our awesome assistant;)

I'm just gonna say that it was for Valentine's day thingy we're gonna have at our church, so every one in finland reading this, welcome! Or even if you weren't anywhere around (yet) you're still welcome.

Peace!

Coffee cup project

Hoi,

I've somehow given people an image that I'd drink a lot of coffee. By this small experiment I wanted to actually see how much I drink coffee in a week. 

1 week

15 coffee cups

14 pictures 

(Yea at a friend's place I forgot to take a picture of the coffee cup I drank)

There is absolutely no deeper point in this, just out of interest.

To conclude, approximately 2 cups per day isn't too bad is it.

Peace;D

Figure 8

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The three mediums

It's been a crazy time.

Not only because I've been packed with work, but somehow all the crappy crap everyone goes through has left it's mark but not necessarily (only) a bad mark.. Somehow it just feels like the more I concentrate on my attitudes towards those things I need to overcome, the more easier it gets. I am officially becoming more and more convinced, that my life isn't in my hands, and I'm so glad it's not. 

I've re-discovered a band that I used to listen to all the time, mainly in Sri Lanka. check out Family Force 5;)

I've been doing some large-ish drawing again! Which I thought I would share the process of, with you all.

The inspiration honestly came from my friend's WhatsApp image, which I saw completely wrong from the little image from the corner, which is actually something very very different when you see it full screen. I sketched the picture as I first saw it out on monday night, continued for a bit on tuesday night, and finished it last night. In total it took me roughly 3 hours? It's the size of 104x72cm and made with three mediums: Soft pastels, charcoal and pencil. I quite enjoyed the combination of the three mediums, I think I might do something more with them very soon;)

I sketched the outline of the face out with a pencil. This is the stage I left it off on monday night.

Pencil lines started to form details to the hair. At this stage I had no idea that I would end up using other mediums than pencil as well. It was highly an experiment.

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Aaand the final product:

Peace out and goodnight!