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Päippä Shaw
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I saw it with mine eyes
January 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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I spoke to the stars of Fallen Leaves, one of my favorite films of the year, about why this droll Finnish comedy feels so vital
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November 26, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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notquitelight.bsky.social
Ashton Canal, dusk #Manchester

#photography
November 13, 2023 at 5:30 PM
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Elokuun yö (An August’s Night) by Alfred William Finch (1854-1930)
November 14, 2023 at 9:57 PM
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Celtic Month of the Reed begins today.
🖼️ Swans in the Reeds,
Caspar David Friedrich, c.1820.
Swans in the reeds at twilight, painting.
October 28, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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Still Life with Orange and Lemon
October 22, 2023 at 6:33 AM
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Photo by Pentti Sammallahti (Solovetsk, Vienan meri, 1992)
October 21, 2023 at 10:42 AM
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Dawn at Helsinki airport.
Dawn at Helsinki airport. A snap of a rock garden a floor below, seen through safety netting, a person sitting on one of the rocks. A few other travellers walking by.
October 20, 2023 at 8:40 AM
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"Ilmatar" by Joseph Alanen (1885–1920). #Kalevala
Painting by Finnish artist Joseph Alanen shows Ilmatar, a virgin spirit and Goddess of the air in the Finnish national epic Kalevala, naked in the sea on her back, with her arms thrown behind her head and with her long brown hair and body becoming almost one with the blue-green waves, shown against a blue-green background of stars, clouds, the moon and the sun. In Kalevala, Ilmatar got bored hovering in the sky for hundreds of years and finally descended into the primal sea, where she was impregnated by the sea wind. Years went by and while she waited and waited for the child to be born, a goldeneye nested on her knee. According to Kalevala, the cosmos was created from the fragments of the eggs that fell out of the nest when Ilmatar moved her knee. ('ilma'='air')
October 16, 2023 at 9:09 PM
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Tile Number 30, ”Forest Dwellers” - Alan’s Lee’s contribution to the Art on the Tiles charity auction to repair the roof of the Curzon Clevedon cinema in 2019. For more works, all painted on local 1920s tiles, see: facesofclevedon.com/2019/12/01/a...
Charcoal and pastel drawing of two mysterious characters of the forest on a 1920s roof tile, by Alan Lee. The work was part of a charity auction to repair the roof of the Curzon Clevedon cinema in 2019. The Curzon Clevedon is one of the oldest continually running purpose-built cinemas in the world.
October 14, 2023 at 4:16 PM
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A Public Garden with People Walking in the Rain, 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13892
October 12, 2023 at 9:39 PM
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October 11, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.
September 21, 2023 at 1:27 PM
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These astonishing autochromes were taken by Mervyn O’Gorman in 1913 at Lulworth Cove in Dorset. They feature his daughter, Christina wearing red, a colour the autochromes process is able to reproduce vividly.
October 9, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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Today I bring you Tove Jansson’s actual flower crown from *that* pic. And yes it was plastic; wild flowers aren’t always to be found on a rocky outcrop in the Finnish archipelago, y’know. From the excellent Houses of Tove exhibition in Paris.
October 5, 2023 at 7:29 AM
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‘I am fascinated by the way nature reclaims spaces that were, essentially, only ever on loan to humans.’

-Kai Fagerström

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Photo of a squirrel in a deserted house, its shape reflected in a dusty old mirror. Photo is part of a winning portfolio by Kai Fagerström (Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Urban Wildlife category, 2012). ”Once, some 40 or so years ago, a family of 13 people lived in this cottage in Suomusjärvi, Salo, Finland. They have long gone, but though the building has fallen into disrepair, it is still a winter home to many woodland creatures.” ‘I am fascinated by the way nature reclaims spaces that were, essentially, only ever on loan to humans.’ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2012-secret-lives Fagerström’s photos can also be found in the stunning book “Viimeiset vieraat” (The House in the Woods)
October 9, 2023 at 7:26 PM
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Photograph by Ismo Hölttö ‘Woman and teenage girl’ 1967 Hakaniemi, Helsinki, Finland.
October 9, 2023 at 4:12 PM
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In Japanese folklore, yogen no tori is a bird of prophecy that resembles a two-headed crow with one white head and one black head. These yokai have the ability to speak, and appear as messengers of the gods to deliver important information to humanity, including warnings about epidemics.
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Illustration of a black bird with two heads, one black and one white. Illustration of a black bird with two heads, one black and one white.
October 6, 2023 at 11:31 AM
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today is a good day to learn about the Finnish "formally neutral but informally reverential pronoun, that in spoken use is almost exclusively used sarcastically to communicate that this person actually is not respected" (often used for pets)
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I know a whole lot of finns have already made posts about this (and with my notoriously shit memory, I may have already written one too), but too late, I can't be stopped: Finnish pronouns. I can't recall where I got any of this info, and if someone who knows better can verify whether I'm right or wrong, I welcome it. The finnish language has the pronouns hän, which is she/he, and se, which is "it". In official written finnish, hän is the pronoun used of people and people alone, and se is of animals and inanimate objects. But this is where it gets funny. Written finnish is different from all dialects of spoken finnish - no spoken form of finnish naturally uses the pronoun hän in normal conversation. The entire human pronoun was introduced to the finnish language artificially, as the men who translated the bible to it felt it was ungodly to not at least have a distinct pronoun for beings with an immortal soul. However, the attempts to introduce the new pronoun soon ended up somewhere but the king and God are Hän (and please show up to church sober)", so the whole pronoun more or less ended up as a linguistic equivalent of those fancy plates your grandparents have in a glass cabinet for Extremely Special Guests, and nobody is actually fancy enough to require such formality. Regardless, this has stuck to spoken finnish, but mainly as a stylistic choice of sardonic people, sarcastically using "hän" of people they do not actually respect, heavily implying that this person has far too high opinion of themselves and their own importance. Hän funnily enough also emerges when some people talk about their pets, though the sarcastic implication of "this person considers themselves more important than they truly are" is there - a bossy, spoiled tiny dog is hän the same way your snobbish and difficult great-aunt is. There is probably a number of languages that have one or several pronouns that are defined by a person's status instead of gender, but finnish is the one langua
October 8, 2023 at 12:27 AM
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— TS Eliot, The Dry Salvages, The Four Quartets
October 7, 2023 at 6:42 AM
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Fairy Maidens of the Waters, 1919–1920 by Joseph Alanen (1885–1920). The Kalevala-inspired work shows Aino - having drowned herself rather than marry old Väinämöinen - with water goddess Vellamo’s daughters in the background.
“Neiet nietten nenissä” Fairy Maidens of the Waters, 1919–1920 by Joseph Alanen (1885–1920), tempera on canvas. The Kalevala-inspired Image shows Aino, having drowned herself rather than marry old Väinämöinen, with water goddess Vellamo’s daughters.
October 7, 2023 at 9:38 AM
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Kalevala-collector Lönnrot was Finland's 19th century Renaissance man yle.fi/a/3-7114585
October 6, 2023 at 4:09 PM
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"One of my favourite pictures of this time is Top Withens on the Yorkshire Moors (1945). I was then trying to photograph the country which had inspired Emily Bronte..."
Bill Brandt
October 4, 2023 at 7:46 PM