Because of [Viking]'s diary, I've been reunited with PostSecret. And I've found a few familiar ones...

Fish's secret
http://bp3.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/Rl1hwYSft_I/AAAAAAAAA7U/wOelVJFymys/s1600-h/jealous.jpg

Mine
http://bp1.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/Rl1hQ4SftyI/AAAAAAAAA5s/ahQIvLMYeg0/s1600-h/socialist.jpg

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

OO1. When's the last time you ran?
Hmm, a while ago actually. Can't even remember properly. What I really love is when I'm outside without a bag and wearing my trainers and coming home, I usually run the street down to my house, the whole block. It's like flying. So when it comes to running I'm definitely a sprinter.

OO2. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them?
Yeap. -_- They always alway always tear from the butt. I don't know why, but absolutely all my trousers tear from the behind, on the same part too. Friggin' annoying.

003. What are you dreading right now?
Having to find accommodation for next year.

OO4. Do you celebrate 4/20?
No.

OO5. When is the last time you saw your significant other?
I don't have one, but the last one I had I saw him about a month ago when he stalked me on the street >.<

OO8. Do you get the full 8 hours of sleep a night?
More than that too.

O11. whats your current favorite song?
If I Had A $1,000,000 by the Barenaked Ladies is teh sex as usual... Dang, I just love all their stuffs. :3

O12. If anyone came to your house on your "lazy days" what would you do?
Is lazy days something I don't know of? But if someone came round I'd do whatever we'd usually do: sit, talk, entertain them in any way necessary. I'd be a good host.

O13. Who last grabbed your ass?
Can't remember... my ass isn't really that grabbable. I'm more "talented" in the frontal areas.

O14. Have you ever been in your school's band?
Kinda. And I was always in the choir. But note that in my schooly things "band" doesn't mean a marching band. It just meant a band with people playing music and singing.

O15. Do you own a pair of Converse?
Yeah, somewhere... I'm not sure if they're still wearable, or whether I threw them out already.

O16. Did you copy and paste this survey?
As opposed to...? Making my own questions? Who'd do that? Or typing the questions by looking at them offa something else? So yes, I copy pasted and wrote my answers in.

O17. Do you eat raw cookie dough?
Nope. I eat cooked cookies though.
Hmm, never noticed the connection between cookie and cooking before... o.O

O18. Have you ever kicked a vending machine?
Think so. I often result to the "frustrated player manouvers".

O19. Don't you hate when the radio ruins good songs by playing a slow one right after it?
Why would that ruin it? Sides there are good slow songs too.

O21. Do you watch Trading Spaces?
No, I don't even know what that is and I don't have a TV either.

O23. Have you ever stayed online for a very long time waiting for someone?
Yes, I often do that. But I also stay online for a really longtime out of having nothing to do, so there's hardly a difference.

O24. Are you cocky?
Hmm, don't realy think so.

O25. Could you live without a computer?
Yes, yes I could. I'd do something else. But as it happens to be available, I'll use it. It's a tool.

O26. Do you wear your shoes in the house?
I don't like to, no. I'd rather take them off, and I'd rather everyone took their shoes off in my house too.

O27. At what age did you find out that Santa wasn't real?
Santa is real. I work for him. Everyone in Finland works for Santa.

O28. How many phones, house phones and cell phones are in your house?
In England I have a mobile and my roommate has one, and she can also make calls on the computer by using Skype. And at home everyone has a mobile so that's six in total.

O29. What do you do when you're sad?
Good question, honestly. I get quiet and want to be alone, retreat away from people. Get restless and annoyed by company and possibly go for a walk.

O30. Who would you call first if you won the lottery?
My younger sister maybe.

O31. Last time you saw your best friend?
I live with my best friend so I saw her in the morning before she went to work and I'll see her at home in a bit.

O32. Who or what sleeps with you?
In the same room my aforementioned best friend roommate, in my bed no one.

O33. Are you in high school?
No.

034. Is anyone on your bad side now?
I'm not sure if I have a bad side :P There are some people I avoid because I don't like them, but I'm not actively upset at anyone.

O35. What jewelry are you wearing?
A crucifix around my neck only atm.

O36. What's the first thing you do when you get online?
Log into MSN if it's available, if it's not go to Hotmail.

O37. Do you watch Grey's Anatomy?
No, but my family does and they really like it.

O38. Would you wear a boy/girlfriends clothes?
Yes.

O39. Where do you work?
Uni, all my work is uniwork.

O40. What are you doing Friday?
Gonna finish taking down the degree show exhibition, have "farewell drinks" with my coursemates and tutors and then prolly go to a pub with my friends and go "oh noes I'll never see you evers again ;_;" - emotional times.

O41. Is Justin Timberlake becoming the next Michael Jackson?
Don't care really, but I don't think that's possible for him to do that.

O42. Favorite name for a girl?
Lucy is a pretty name.

O43. Favorite name for a boy?
Harrison, closely followed by George :P

O44. Will you keep your last name when you get married?
Not likely, I think I'll take his name.

O45. When is the last time you left your house?
Today morning, I came to uni (where I still am).

O46. Do you return your cart?
Yes of course, it's got my pound in it usually. o.O I do even when it doesn't.

O47. Do you have a dishwasher?
No. I don't really mind washing the dishes to be honest (I know this didn't seem to be so to [Draugluin], but I honestly don't. :)

O48. what noise do you hear?
I'm listening to my Yahoo!-radio and it is currently playing Jamiroquai.

O49. Would you survive in prison?
I think so, I keep to myself, mind my own business and have a fair dose of common sense. But then again if I went to prison I'd go to prison in Finland where we don't treat prisoners like animals, so it'd be very different from what it is like in TV.

I was awayness for the weekend and
-all my friggin' stalkees decided to fill in questionnaires that I generally would like to read but not when they've all done them at the same time.
-over 200 postings in junk, wtf. Ally and PUNK, get off the computer for a week *must... catch... up*

Because I never change my mood, I'd like to mention here that actually my current mood is: "meep!" ^^; *hides*

I'd also like to add that "Diversity Provides A Wide Variety of Scary."

I want to confess to a secret, guilty pleasure: I love reading http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com/

It's like masochism, because I'm not the perfect student... But I love to read those ventings by college professors, to think whether my tutors might be thinking along those lines as well... and I read those for hours on end, loving it all.

It scares me a little, because I would like to teach in a college or university at some point, too. o.O


One more art project:
http://www.stanick.com/indexsl.html
(I find these through rhizome.org if you care)

I wore a t-shirt yesterday that said "FREE HUGS" and went around hugging anybody who wanted to claim their free hugs that day. (I wanted to wear the t-shirt today also, so I washed it by hand, but because university accommodation office is so frustratingly unfair all the time, the heating wasn't on all day so it didn't dry in time today - and I was trying to dry it with a hairdrier too! But you can always claim a free hug from me, even when I'm not wearing that tee).

Anyways, some may know what it was all about, some might not, so I thought I'd just link you guys to where it originates from. It's the free hugs campaign by Juan Mann, which has gotten a lot of attention all over (he was interviewed by Oprah about it, for example) and it spread far and wide. I came to know about it through the very inspiring video on YouTube - you can watch it
here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

I just thought of writing free hugs on a teeshirt on monday night when I was already half asleep, had to get out of bed to do the shirt and then wore it to uni the next day.

It is awesome and I heartily recommend doing that to everybody.

Another quite interesting art project: www.braball.com/

Never in my life I imagined that I would complain about this but... the word limit for one part of my professional practice degree show report is too short! o.O I need to write 150 word report about the setting up of my individual degree show space. I've written 550 and that doesn't even start on the physical setting up, only the mental process behind it. o.O And on the other end, I'm meant to write 500 words about individual roles within the groups we were assigned to for degree show preparation... that's... doable, although I do have to write a lot of bs to fill all those words, and another 450 to describe the professional context of my work - this is the painful one, I just don't have interesting things to say about the context of my work. -_-

So. How do I show all my beautiful 550 words of text to my teacher without going over the word limit a zillion times? Ah-haa, appendices to the rescue! What was meant to be my report will become relevant evidence to the report! Hooray! So instead of being a report it will become thoughts written down, more accurately, a diary entry. So yeap, the following might be completely meaningless to you guys, yet I do not apologise for doing it. Because it's pretty cool stuff. :P


READ MY THOUGHTS
To me the thought-process behind the artwork is very important and thus it is something I'd wish to share with the viewer, hence all the notage on the walls. The note-writing is a habit natural to me for many years now, while the idea of actually exhibiting these extensions of thought was prompted by a tutor in a crit. The selection and presentation of the notes is influenced by Marcel Duchamp's boxes of notes that accompany his Large Glass, and by a deaf artist Joseph Grigely (!Check this!) whose work consist of organizing and exhibiting little notes people have given the artist when they wanted to tell him something.

WELCOME TO MY WORLD
I need my degree show space to feel comfortable, inviting and intimate to the visitors. I wish them to feel at home and confident enough to sit at the computer for a while and explore the Flash-work. This is why the space evolved into a kind of installation: I wanted to make it welcoming by making it different from the usual intimidating gallery environment. My work when accessed through the internet will most likely be seen in the user's own home or office, which is a very different space to that of the gallery, so I wished to simulate or at least suggest a more comfortable, casual space. I realised that the space should be a frame for the work, but I also wanted it to promote curiosity and exploration in the viewer and thus introduced many elements that would spark those emotions, such as ambiguous-looking machine parts and interesting books. There were other things I considered adding to the space to create atmosphere, but during the setup of the exhibition I needed to take a step back and remember that I wasn't creating a space, I was using one, so I decided to leave some of the furniture I had considered in order to bring the focus back to the work.

I was very worried about making the space stand out too much from the other spaces near it, but it seems to have worked out quite alright: the natural shape of the area outlined by the walls hides the space from a distance, and only if the viewer approaches the corner can they see the setup. The decision to leave half of the space blank helps isolate the environment, and putting my statement outside the main work helps pin point the entire space as my artwork.

My original plan was to put the pencil drawings on the desk, since I don't want to force any idea of 'right-way-up' on them, and I really want the viewer to touch the drawings. But since they are done on paper with pencil, they have that certain preciousness to them, and I was concerned over the work getting damaged during the exhibition. So I decided on a compromise of hanging the drawings on nails on the walls with bulldog clips: the drawings can be easily taken down and examined closely by holding the paper, allowing the viewer to turn it, and it also heightens the exploration and rewards the curiosity, because when the viewer takes the drawing down, more notes are revealed for them to read.

This is coolness:
http://www.automatedbeacon.net/

Finnish friends, go read an idea for a book in here
http://www.kirjeitaaidille.net/kirjaidea.html

It's fantastic. Someone in Finland is planning to comple a book about letters to mothers, written by normal people. She is currently collecting letters so anyone and everyone is asked to participate (I asked in her guestbook if she'd be interested in getting letters from non-Finns, and I also volunteered to translate if she'd like foreigners - if that's the case I'll ask all of you kittens to join)

The project is still much in the beginning, but she seems to have some very solid ideas, and she is discussing giving most of the profit from the book to a charity.

I will now make a point.

A quick and dirty career quiz, with the following questions (my answers in bold)

You prefer to work:
In a group
Alone

You rather have a job that...
Challenges your mind
Helps people in some way

You work best:
In a less structured environment
With deadlines

You rather solve a problem with:
Reasoning and logic
Solid facts

RESULTS:
Archeologist
Astronomer
Book editor
Business manager
Civil engineer
Designer
Economist
Inventor
Judge
Scientist

Now, if I change the question

You work best:
In a less structured environment
With deadlines

The RESULTS are:

Architect
Artist
Business strategist
College professor
Computer programmer
Mathematician
Neurologist
Philosopher
Photographer
Video game developer

Err, what? At least (possibly all of those) the architects, artists, college professors, programmers, photographers and video game developers all need to work to deadlines in a structured environment. o.O
This quiz's maker doesn't know much about professions, I gather.

Dear English people.
My degree show is on the 2nd of June til the 7th of June. Please come see. :) It's free. In Coventry, West Midlands, from 10am-5pm every day. You are also most welcome to the private view (opening night, free wine) is the Friday 1st of June from 6-8pm (with possibly something else somewhere else afterwards), but I'd like to point out that I'll have to rub elbows with all the really important arty people that evening, and thus won't have much time to just hang out. So if you want a cool arty evening surrounded by art and arty people, do come for the private view; if you want me to show you around the exhibition and what-not, come any other time, I'll be there all the time probably because I've got nothing else to do :P

Wow.

http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/tw-collection.html

Future project: draw them all.

Also the http://www.officemuseum.com/

Boring thing I yoinked from the Devil's lair (aka MySpace) and filled in and posted here. It contains an uber-macro-pathogen-virus that'll drain the life enegry from the Evil One (aka MySpace) so if we all post it in our diaries, we will suck the living daylights outta that place and r00l the dubdubdub as a Collective (of which the Ginger One (aka [Fishbiscuit]) is Queen)
Oh and since we are cooler than MySpace: make an effort filling this out :P

22 Questions (in honour of Yossarian)

1. Is anything wrong?
I am hungry, but other than that, no. Just been to the cinema to see the new Mr. Bean movie, and I was actually writhing with laughter. He is a comic genius. So it's good... I've arranged to go teaching with the new sister missionaries tomorrow, because that is the easiest way to get to know them, so looking forward to that. I also did a fair bit of work today, got some good plans for future Flash-artworks as well as a fair bit done on the current ones, and talked to JM, who is cool. My friends were teasing me about him though. I actually blushed. XD But I was also laughing my ass off. So a lot of laughing happened today.

2. Would you kiss anyone on your relations?
Yes, [Kayne]. <3

3. Where do you want to go to college?
I intend to stay right here in Coventry. :3 But after that, if I go to Finland I'll try to get to that teacher training course in Rovaniemi. Then again, I'd like to go to the army too, and on mission, and do sail training, plus I'd kind of like to stay in England as well... So we'll see. But for the next year or so I'll stay in Coventry for uni.

4. Do you have a good relationship with your parents?
Hmm, kind of. I respect them and their authority a lot, always have and still do. We don't talk muchos, especially when I'm all the way over here. And we don't do like closeness too much - like I've never told them "I love you" (such an awkward and ugly phrase in Finnish >.< To quote Ismo Alanko: Rakkaus on ruma sana - love is a dirty/ugly word) But I do like to spend time with them and talk/listen to them. And I share a lot of interest with them both, music and books with my mom, history and mechanics and some current issues with my dad.

5. Do you wanna change your name?
Do you mean I-naaaaaah-ri or Eeee-nari or Innn-nari or Inari or iippo? :P Not that it matters, I don't want to change my name. It's just annoying (my real name), because nobody - not even Finns - get it right the first time. XD But since it is a gift from my parents and it's a very unique name, I wouldn't change it for anything. And I love the name iippo so much too, it's so fitting and multi-layered and people would hate me if I changed it :D

6. What did you do for your last birthday?
It was a weekday so I went to uni. I wore a little badge that said "21 today" (oh noes you found out my age :P). I went to pick up my parcel form the post office with Fish and shared the chocolate inside. My roommate got me a small gift, but other than that nothing much since nobody really knew it was my birthday (I didn't advertise it). And of course got birthday greetings in ET. :D

7. What time did you wake up today?
Annoyingly 7.30, even though I hadn't put my alarm on. I woke up to the clonking sound of my heating turning on (it's timed for 7.30, even though it says in some paper we got recently that heating goes on at 7 am >.< Bastard uni trying to save in heating bills)

8. What were you doing at midnight last night?
I must have been asleep, because I had a hard day's work behind me... I went to uni at 8, got home around 6, went to Institute lessons at 7 and got back from there after 11pm X_x It's not my fault really, I assumed I'd get a lift and I didn't (because I wasn't being very social, I was helping K. do some voice recordings so we were basically hiding in the stage) and ended up catching the bus to town and walking home (after a half-an-hour adventure in Priory Hall trying to contact some guy who might have been able to join me and K. and walk me home and then walk back with K. or something like that... it was funny at the time).

9. Name something you CANNOT wait for?
Degree show's kind of in the expectation... Can't wait to see everybody's work all done... Especially Fish's temple/church thing and Donna's boxes... And even my own :P And to see everyone who comes to the private view *is social* I'm also looking forward to the summer. And the MA course in september! Plus some wicked cool movies coming out soon: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean 3...

10. Last time you saw your dad?
Early January when he dropped me to the airport ;_; I haven't even emailed him after that. Gonna soon though, to ask him to do the money transfers.

11. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life?
Hmm... I'm pret-ty happy with stuff atm. I wouldn't mind having a computer of my own... And being hard-working when it comes to uni-things, especially the Flash-art, because I love doing it so much. Possiblah a little more sociable and talk to more people I see everyday (kinda like Sue does)

13. last thing you ate/drank?
Half a bag of M&Ms that I shared with my roommate in the cinema... some water. We'll eat fish fingers soon :3

14. Whats your favorite month?
I'm quite fond of autumn, it's so dynamic with things changing... A lot of things start in autumns... Plus it's my birthday in November, and it's stuff like Hallowe'en and Christmas just around the corner at that time... So it's thereabouts, September-October-November.

15. What is your least favorite month?
February is too short and miserable. I dislike winter so much, after living in the land of horrible winters for 18 years.

16. Do you like peanut butter?
Yes, I must say I do. Especially pbj sammiches :9

17. Who's making you feel the way you are right now?
...God? I'm pretty happy at the moment but it's a combination of many things. Like that Mr. Bean -film really gave me a boost, I loved it lots, but I can't say that Rowan Atkinson is the sole reason for me being cheery. JM is also quite... boostful :P

18. Most visited website?
Elftown, no doubt. I use it to work as well as hang-out. It's a fact that I keep in touch with my friends in ET way better than any other way - and this includes real-life friends, even the ones that are in uni with me (the only exception being my roommate, since I see her everyday). So seriously, if you want to keep touch with me (and have a really cool place to hang in online), it's Elftown. I also go to my uni web-course tools site a lot, myspace, hotmail, google, writersco, milliways and lds linkup. I also try to go to that blogspot "Does Today Suck" and I frequent Yahoo! and YouTube alot too.

19. Last person to make you sad?
Migth have been the sister missionaries when they got transferred.. ;_; That was a misty occasion, saying bye to them.

20. Would you help your best friend fight if he/she was losing?
Of course. But why would they be losing? I'm friends with cool people who can handle stuff :P

21. coke or pepsi?
Grah, you pointless question >.< Coca-Cola.

22. Have you been kissed by anyone in the last week?
Pecked on the cheek by a granny in church, but not properly kissed, no (virtual kisses don't count). Not too fust about that stuff, kissing and so on, anymore.

Shaving_Private_iippo. I'll do a proper before-after shot at a point, but those who can't wait, clicky on linky. :)