Ahh, ‘tis the season for a cranky old geezer to be annoyed by everything, especially Christmas!

It is always wonderful to be invited to make a poster image for a new play or a performance of any kind. Every occasion is a new opportunity to make an image that will convey the world that has been–or will be–created on stage or on location.

Stop me if you've heard this one. A man, a mermaid and a rhino walk into a bar.

Breaking the two-year cycle between immersive pieces, Flow Productions has created a new work called NIGHTTOWN this year for the Lumo Light Festival in Oulu after last year’s hit VARIKKO. And so it is time to break down another poster image and explain how we got there!

Two years since my previous blog post? And two years since the previous immersive experience from Flow Productions? Coincidence? Think not!

Flow Productions Presents: HYLKY. This is the poster image for the upcoming immersive performance. It’s shipwreck-themed, both actual and metaphoric. How was this image created? Read on!

Ah, white seamless. Let me count the ways I love thee! It’s versatile, it’s clean, it’s crisp, it’s professional, and it’s not such a pain in the ass to pull it off. I was hired to do professional portraits of architects by two architectural firms in Oulu, and turns out they both wanted portraits on white. So, white is what they got!

When it came time to photograph poster art for the second iteration of VILLA, I decided to try out some Polaroid. Instant film=instant art, see? That’s the joke, but turns out Polaroid shot on a medium format back really brought a nice, weirdly painterly feel to a piece that’s quite mysterious.

You may recognize Tommi Ojala from the Chilluminati launch shoot I did a few months back. Tommi gives “great face”, as they said in the ‘90’s, but he’s also a talented singer-songwriter. I asked him to sit for me in the studio and a few weeks ago we made time for a shoot.

It so happened that my dear friend and regular partner in crime, Sampo, got together with Vili from Wulf&Supply to think about a line of clothing. You know, tees and hoodies and stuff. Having broad tastes when it comes to popular culture, Sampo set to work designing prints that flirt with the occult, secret societies, and pizza. No! The All-Seeing Eye, I mean.