Tag: English
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Eurajoen Lentävä Puutarha / The Flying Garden of Eurajoki
Voit liikuttaa ja suurentaa 3D mallia hiirellä. / You can move and zoom the 3D model with your mouse.
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Ääninäyte Eurajoelta / Sound sample from Eurajoki
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Testifilmi / test film
I shot and developed a test film for our upcoming Flying Gardens. For the final films I intend to use recipes from an artist Elian Mikkola: a developer from used coffee grounds and for the reversal process Elian’s eko bleach.
In this test I developed half of the film only as negative and the other half as positive. As a developing solution I used Caffenol C – developer (instant coffee+vitamin c and Caffenol C with eko bleach.
RESULTS:
Negative development was successful, but the postitive did not really work. The problem was probably that I under re-exposed the film. I will have to do some further testing..
STILLS:
Final result. Final result as digitally reversed. -
Maisa in Copenhagen
Greetings from Denmark! We got a ride to Copenhagen from Sweden by two very lovely German travellers. Me and Maisa spent couple days in Copenhagen eating good food and cyyyyycling!! <3 Folkehuset Absalon soon became our favourite place to get good lunch.
The wind during cycling might’ve been too much for Maisa and couple of her leaves have lost a bit of colour and some pieces. Nevertheless, she’s still going strong! Maisa likes to tickle my calves with her long vines while I pedal and I think she’s a bit too brave with that. I hope she doesn’t get tangled but I guess it’s none of my business if she’s going for that adrenaline. We both fell in love with the brilliant cycling paths and culture in Copenhagen.
We thank our kind host Gabriella for the past days. It’s time to continue to the West coast, wohoo!
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Sonic fertilizer of empathy
I have seen house plants as a form of decoration. They bring colors, vibrancy and character into a space. I have never felt a deeper connection to a plant. It might be the reason, I have had trouble keeping my plants happy. I think I have finally grasped what it means to have a connection to a plant. Perhaps it’s a short of connection you would have with a domesticated animal. A feeling of care and empathy towards it. A feeling that maybe you even understand each other.
Musician and independent scientist Ben Jordan explores in his video essay if sound really affects plant growth. He goes briefly through the history of research and literature in this field and then conducts an experiment himself.
His approach is obsessive and curious, which I like. In his experiment he was rabbit holeing into every possible variable, but the video still manages to keep up a good and entertaining tempo. Jordan makes science about it and the evidence is super interesting, but I think it’s not so much about a trial on optimizing the growing of crops, but more about finding connections between us and plants. Oh plants apparently like to enjoy sound waves also!
Jordan is claiming that anthropomorphism (projecting our human feelings on other species) is a problem in science and I do agree in some sense, but is it necessary for creating empathy?
Inspired of this essay, I did a sonic journey with my tiny Scindapsus pictus (silver vine). I chose an album “Sisarusten toistuva uni” from a Pori based musician Juho Toivonen. (https://discreetmusicgbg.bandcamp.com/album/sisarusten-toistuva-uni) I sat down on the floor, put the plant between me and the speakers and set the record on.
The album begins with a forest like atmosphere, where beautiful melodic tunes seduces you into a sensual and nostalgic trip. At some point you find a campfire and someone sitting on its side drumming. I lifted the plant and started to examine it closer. I gave it some water and held it on my lap. I felt the primitive bass tune resonating in my body. Like waves the music flowed through our matter and finally faded away.
– Uljas
ps. here’s the video I was talking about
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Taking it easy in south of Sweden
Maisa and I are spending this week at a friend’s house in south of Sweden. We will spend midsummer here. Maisa has gotten back the flavour of spending multiple days by the same window. I think she is growing new leaves! Maisa’s leaves turned a bit yellow after cycling in Åland for a week and I also got sick. So now is the time for recovery. Next week we will continue to Denmark stronger than ever!
