Budapest: Ensivaikutelmasta eteenpäin

Miksi Budapest? Sattumako?
Heittäydy elämykseen... Joskus se on pakon sanelemaa.

Tämä on se toisenlainen matkaopas.
 
Tulin kaksi vuotta sitten heitetyksi Budapestiin täysin sattuman kaupalla. Kauan tähdätty vaihtokohteeni Barcelona oli sulkenut ovensa kielitaidottomalta viime hetkellä ja monen vuoden haaveilun ja suunnittelun jälkeen olin vaihtoon haussa nollapisteessä, kun hakuaikaa seuraavan vuoden kohteille oli jäljellä tasan kuukausi. Paitsi, että aikaa oli vähän suhteessa siihen, että vuosi 20-vuotiaan elämästä on suhteettoman paljon aikaa, lista elämäni kohteista oli typistetty mitättömäksi. Muistan punniinneeni Kööppenhaminan, Tukholman, Oslon, Brysselin ja Budapestin välillä. Kaikki hienoja kaupuneja, mutta kaikki niin kovin tuttuja ja turvallisia. Paitsi Budapest. Kirjoitin hakemukseni. Kävin kiireellä läpi kurssivaihtoehdot ja jäin odottamaan vastausta. En tiennyt, mitä tuleman piti. Tässä vaiheessa olin jättänyt kaiken jo arpaonnen varaan.

The Best Things in My Life..

...are the mistakes I've made. 
Meanwhile I take my chances and go for the sun I might as well reveal you something by the morning coffee. I've wanted to talk to you about mistakes for long. It is a risk, I know, but worth taking. And thanks to many bloggers dealing with the issue these days it's easier for me to start. Many of them has actually made the main point reveal quite nicely. So again I can only feel grattitude and give my small part to the wholeness. To place the piece that I feel is lacking.

Source: bing.com via Anu on Pinterest

Jolie, you inspire me!

 Katja & Jutta, Jolie!
Thank you girls! I must say I felt the love when visited you on Uudenmaankatu and got my Autumn make-up on Katja's hands! Your energy and courage just sticks on me even though the make-up is washed off. And again, I must say I love what you've done to the premises. One more Boutique to make Punavuori the wonderfull place it is.
Again great thanks! Have the best Autumn! Have the best Everyday!

Unfinished, ready for life.

Ready to face the winter.

A City like you are

 

Someone might wonder, why to be attached to one in such way I am?

I guess the answer is: The city is like me. I found my home there. Not playing sleek and shiny outside. Getting off what it is there, both good and bad.

Broken and alive - the more broken the more alive.

 

Nothing to Add

I'm using this photo a lot, but something tells me you can't use it too much!
So, whatever happens:

Source: facebook.com via Anu on Pinterest

Roskan uskomaton elämä

TheUnbielieveableLifeOfGarbage! Just Love this!


I just love this production of IBM for the world design capital of Helsinki! I think releasing endles flow of data to the people in a beautiful and understandable form couldn't be better DESIGN!


So please enjoy this wonderful film experience on this site:

http://www.roskanuskomatonelama.fi/

Kesän muistot osa I: Joutomaiden salaisuudet

Älä aliarvioi maata missä kuljet. Katsahdus varpaisiin tai ojanpenkkaa saattaa käntää harmaankin pöheikön yllättäen aarreaitaksi.

Laulun ja hengityksen dialogi kehossa

...Niin ja tosiaan, tarkoitukseni olisi noista tunteiden vaikutuksista äänenmuodostukseen vielä kirjoittaa lisää, koska se nimenomaan vaikuttaa äänen luonnolliseen syntymiseen, kestoon ja äänialan laajentumiseen. Inspiraatio sinänsä hengityksessä tulee ja sitä voi käyttää itseään riemastuttamaan milloin tahansa jos kaipaa piristystä sillä mikäpä on ihanampaa kuin onnen "kurina ja pörinä" rintakehässä ja koko elimistössä, sitä se on kun happi löytää oikeisiin paikkoihin ja avaa lukkoja.

Source: via Anu on Pinterest

Two Years Ago In Budapest

Let the pics speak for themselves...

Asutko sinä puutarhamajassa?

-Virva-

Minunpa ystäväni asui

3/3 The Excitement of Breathing

Source: favim.com via Anu on Pinterest

I had now understood how the breathing worked muscularly and physically but when I started to sing something did not connect. Then it was time for Päivi, the singing teacher, to poke me again. 

"Now you feel the breath, but what about the song? Aren't you telling something with it?"

2/3 The Lesson

...of singing

turned into a lesson of breathing and presence.

And even better into a lesson how to motivate yourself, go from passive existing into active being and therefore it took me into the origin of inspiration.  

@Ringofirefly

"Your breathing seems passive as well as your singing. Actually you've quite a passive body and presence. "

1/3 The Origin of Inspiration

© Jenny Earnest 2012

Is the origin of breath.

@violeta en pausa, a photo by A6U571N on Flickr.

"Don't wait for it, just do it

@Max Streicher's Mind Blowing Floating Giants

like we did it for millions of years,

as you did yesterday,

as you did minute go,

as you do it now,

@Ilse Moore Photography

breathe,

it's the most natural thing for you to do."

"

In`spi*ra"tion (?), n. [F. inspiration, L. inspiratio. See Inspire.]

1. The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.

2. The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.

3. (Theol.) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
         "
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828)

There's something for you to chew and think about at first glance.

I don't want to make you choke at the first bite

To be continued...

What's Up Today?

It's a News Feed day at Bohemian's residence. Since I have officially let my self this day just to update what is there all over in the Internet you'll be able to enjoy the best of now:

ARCHI-TECTURE FIRST

Kilden Performing Arts Centre; Kristiansand, Norway / ALA Architects © Ivan Baan

1. I'm passing for the others to write about the Finnish Pavilion of New Forms of Wood in Venice Biennale, even though it's much more on the news now. Even though Timber Is the New Concrete as Alex de Rijke aptly said in this year's Alvar Aalto Symposium Crafted I find this exhibition far less interesting that the upcoming massive building projects of this century's most moving media companies.

© Foster + Partners, ARUP, Kier + Wright, Apple

2. Apple announced it's plans for the new headquarters not later than about year ago (August 2011)

and now quite sharply a year after (August 2012) it was seemingly time for Facebook to update their symbols and give their answer to Apple in the form of Frank Gehry's Fb Hq expansion plans. Take a look at the profile of the architect, their plans and see the message they're giving. Isn't Apple sleek, round and shiny first, only then ecological or social if at all? And what about FB doing expansion with trees above and interiors with Start Up mentality highly visible in the design? 

Well these thoughts are not my own invention. Looks at the articles written about:

Photo: Frank Gehry/Gehry Partners via Bloomberg

NewYorker an LA Times about Apple HQ

The Atlantic Cities about FB GQ

2# Upcoming Goodies

Have you ever had problems in motivation, inspiration?

© Jenny Earnest 2012

Yeah, I was guessing that too. It's an usual symptom among creative people too. There's also an enormous  amount of good and not so good advice about getting rid of creativity blocks in several books, blogs, aforisms, improvisation classes and so on... And I will add one up here in my blog since I've never seen one of this kind before. Just wait! You'll be amazed by the sheer simplicity!

Upcoming Goodies

violeta en pausa, a photo by A6U571N on Flickr.

Even though the summer is sweet and it's always bittersweet to give it up, the Autumn breeze is refreshing and thanks to rains cleaner than the dust smelling summer flow, You're careful of what you eat, remember also to inhale the clean air as to enjoy.

The Lore Of Spices

The Lore Of Spices: Their History And Uses Around The World by Jan Öjvind Swahn


This book presents around thirty known spices, their backround, folklore and tradition around them, usage and a few recipes. For some reason I think I will get back to this book often, and not the least beacause of its vivid illustration.
The Author is Jan Öjvind Swahn, person who has dedicated his time and knowledge for folklore research, especially food and food traditions. I think soon I might find more of his books at my shelves. This Book is something I've been looking for quite a time since I've for long had a dream to slowly develop myself a relevant knowledge about local spices and ingredients to farm and use in kitchen. And there it was! A perfect piece of folk knowledge just when I was on the mood to once really buy something. Today I set my I on it accidentally when I was strolling around Jyväskylä. It was a gray rainy day so I for once glanced at something else but the sky.

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Kuva puhukoon puolestaan. Kesä on viimein täällä ja vihreä on päivän sana. Vihreä. Luonnosta.

On kuin se ei olisikaan ollut poissa:

Omenaa

Cassuja

Kurpitsansiemeniä 

Kurkkua

Salaatinlehtiä

Sitruunamehua

Koivun ja voikukan lehdet maistuvat siltä kun pääsisi nauttimaan kesästä sisäisesti.