Oh bugger, the beach was better after all.
...wait, oh no, there's a mysterious hatch
in the ice
First polarbears, then black stallions and
now...
OMG it's the others!
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About Me
- Taiga the Fox
- My father wanted me to be an arson baby. My mother wanted me to be a hammond organist. I wanted to be a showjumper. Well, who am I? Master of the monosyllabic boredom.
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About Obama - In the light of the strangely half-assed military parade in Washington over the weekend, here’s something I wrote 17 years ago about how the American popul...3 days ago
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Che hora c'è? - A short but entertaining post elsewhere about very old books sent me looking for mine, which I keep in a cardboard box in my study hoping that generous ap...2 years ago
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A Letter to Sarah Newton MP About Tuesday's Brexit Vote - This the text of a letter I've written today to our MP, Sarah Newton, ahead of the "meaningful vote" on Brexit on Tuesday. I hope it doesn't come across ...6 years ago
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UK TV Drama Pitch Generator - I got a bit tired of constantly coming up with new ideas for television shows, only for them to be constantly shot down, so I decided to come up with a way...7 years ago
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How to Avoid a Photoshop Disaster - I’ve seen a lot of bad Photoshop work in my day. And while it’s good for a laugh, it’s no fun if you’re the one whose work is being laughed at. Whether you...7 years ago
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SHORE LINE - new print release! - *Honolulu, Hawaii, 2016* *-----------------------------* *Tuesday 6th September 2016, at 4pm GMT*, sees the release of my new mini print *Shore Line...8 years ago
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You like my furry hood? I feel I may be overdressed for the desert - [image: Cholla Cactus]10 years ago
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Huomio huomio!!! - *Valokuvatorstai ei muutakaan WordPressiin vaan Bloggeriin!* Opimme tänään kantapään kautta, että MrLinky ja WordPress eivät toimikaan hyvin yhteen. Tämän ...12 years ago
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Barbakivet - Tytyn ja Tikanpojan kanssa maalattiin pohjat ja äiti nysväsi naamat (isoin kivistä on joku viitisen senttiä). Tää oli joskus ennen Pikkusiskon syntymää. ...12 years ago
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Kolbe - This lovely lady was in an otherwise rather dry exhibition of German prints at the British Museum. I like her hat, and her muscularity (r...13 years ago
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Dream - It's on my back; I can't see it. If I screw my head left until my neck protests and look down out of the corner of my left eye I can see part of it, red, g...13 years ago
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This year's tech news, in brief - This perhaps goes against the grain of this blog somewhat, but... Good grief, I'm getting bored with tech / web stories lately! It's not that there aren't...14 years ago
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Advent Day 11 - And behind the last square window is ... Er. Um. A teddy bear? I think I'm actually going to say it's one of those soldiers like a Coldstream or Grenad...14 years ago
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Lights Out: The Complete Abridged History of Turning Out The Lights - *Sometimes I read out my nonsense at a writers' night thing called Tell Tales. Last week's theme was 'Lights Out'. For a change, I decided to take a no...14 years ago
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A Funny Old Game - Well, it’s been a while and I would like to be able to say that it’s because my life has become correspondingly more exciting and busy. I like to, but it w...15 years ago
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Ensimmäiset... - Ensimmäiset uskaliaat kukkijat (kuinka tekisikään mieli hyppiä riemusta!) Spring blues, originally uploaded by Taiga the Fox. Anemone hepatica, origin...15 years ago
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Update on the Morgan story - Regular blog reappeared - so back we go to Fuglyblog.com. We are in the process of transferring to a new web host so more downtime MAY happen - don't worry...15 years ago
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THURSDAY 9TH JULY - KNEEHIGH - Last Thursday evening P and I went to see Kneehigh Theatre's production of *BRIEF ENCOUNTER. * Cameras were not allowed in the auditorium so the best I can d...15 years ago
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Slaminsky, schlaminsky - You know what? I've been doing this since 2005, and I think it's about time to shoot it in the head and put it out of its misery. (Or send it out to pastur...15 years ago
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Veni, Vidi, Circunambulati - It has been a strange tour of service, these past three years, showing the ghosts of the Camel and Pilot around the world for which they fought and died. O...16 years ago
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Review: ‘Rocknrolla’ - ‘Gloriously ostentatious’ (Total Film) **** ‘A sparkling return to form’ (Heat) **** ‘Arse juice’ (The Done Thing) That said, it’s a bit rich of Peter Brad...16 years ago
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Sharing... - Just a little something... Talking of sharing, here's my brother's blog... He 'knows' things about music, and writes rather well...17 years ago
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Superlon Advent Calendar 2007 - Day 24 - Stejar Strahl and Twilight Turtle came back to the Palace of the Frozen Tears. They hadn't found any treasures; not one shiny packet of happiness, not eve...17 years ago
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11 comments:
A Finnish musician once told me (ok, told the audience I was in) that there is more space per person in Finland than anywhere else in Europe. Looking at those first two photos, it's not hard to believe. So bleak, yet kind of magnificent and beautiful. And those metal cows are great. You take some wonderful photo's, Taiga.
Oh, wow! You've linked to Not 4'33". I'm flattered. I must get around to finding out how to do that.
Is everything in Finland wierd?
Thanks, OPC.
The photos are from Vuosaari, about 17 km from Helsinki downtown. I just managed to cut out all the other 560 000 inhabitants bouncing behind my back.
Well, no, it really is quite spacious here. 17 inhabitants per square kilometre in fact.
The cows are made by the artist Miina Äkkijyrkkä.
Btw. which musician?
Dave, it's just my eye(s) seeing everything bit oddly.
Actually the whole country is filled with polished Nokia engineers and McFeast burgers. I just try to avoid that vision.
>>Btw. which musician?<<
One of the guys from a band called Kiila. Their CD Silmät sulkaset is one of my favourites and their performance here was the best I've ever seen (video that doesn't quite do it justice here). I'm currently very much looking forward to seeing them play in Cambridge again on the 25th. If you go to the jukebox on Fonal Records (Lucy and Albert went there the other night) the ones with Finnish titles, like Kateet linnut, will be off that CD.
[hopes he hasn't written anything obscene in Finnish]
Ta!
Never heard before :)
>>the ones with Finnish titles, like Kateet linnut, will be off that CD<<
Just thought I should clarify that. Obviously you'll know which titles are Finnish, I just included one in case it meant anything interesting. I haven't a clue what any of it's about. Except that one of the songs on the CD has something to do with some big black birds, like crows or ravens, fighting in the sky. He didn't know the English word for them.
I like the sound of them actually very much.
Here's a very BabelFishy translation of the names on Silmät Sulkaset (Feathery eyes) cd:
1. rogues
2. sunsnow
3. rocks and sky
4. jealous birds
5. on Boxing Day opened the mountain
6. me-song
7. monastery of making
8. paused planets
Sorry, I didn't see this before. Thanks very much :) I hadn't expected a translation.
You're Welcome :)
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