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Roller, cutter and a dead beat expression - the holy trinity of signmaking.

I am a signmaker by profession. Here you see our patron saint, the holy signmaker.
He died for our sins of making real bad advertisement. Happy Easter, I´m off to Pori now.

Cheap Czech

Apparently some Czech prankster has tagged Helsinki´s tuomiokirkko over the weekend.
He or she stomped this cryptic text into the snow-covered stairs in front of the cathedral. Pica (can´t find this special c character on my keyboard) is Czech for vittu, cunt or Fotze.
The message of HELSINKI PICA escapes me.

ADDENDUM 04.03.2012:

My Czech blogheads brought some light into the darkness. Looks like the tag translates to "Helsinki fuck yeah!" and that´s something I can most certainly relate to. Thanx a lot, guys!

Jump ´n´ Run

Spotted in my hood. This beauty is entirely made out of cloth straps and looks like there´s a bit of 16 bit action going on. Is it depicting a Nintendo game? I´m clueless and I´d like to know, so if you know, please let me know, you know? Any ideas?

ADDENDUM 24.11.11

Today an anonymous comment disclosed the secret.
Kiitos paljon, now I know: this unusual piece of urban art pays tribute to an arcade game, released in 1986 by Taito. Later it ported to home computers and game consoles. Speaking of dinosaurs, the idea is to navigate the dragons Bub and Bob through 99 (!) levels to finally rescue their girlfriends from monsters. Yeah! Name of the game:

And here´s a screenshot from the actual game, as it is linked in the comment section. Thanks again!

Bubble Bubble can be played with 1 or 2 players simultaneously.

Sid & Nancy

Spotted at Nosturi. Over 30 years after their untimely death someone in Helsinki paid tribute to punk rock´s most notorious couple. Who needs John and Yoko?

SONG FOR TODAY:

Sid Vicious - My Way

SPRAY PAINT THE WALLS!

I discovered this little gem just around the corner from my language school and it put a huge smile on my face. Black Flag had many faces in both metaphorical and literal sense. Just because this piece of urban art gives me reason I wanna add this:

Click to enlarge, then pick your fave member from your fave era.

SONG FOR TODAY:

Black Flag - Spray Paint


P.S.: I recently checked my blog using another computer and realized that my new system for the SONGS FOR TODAY didn´t work. Seems that nobody cares about them because nobody told me. Doesn´t stop me from including them to the posts, I like ´em, so it´s back to the old system with crappy videos on YouTube. I also changed the links that didn´t work in the past few posts.

ADDENDUM 25.10: Finally figured it out, damn it! From now on everything happens only on the blog! Will work on the past posts little by little.

Dawning of a new era

Change of pace in my life from tomorrow on, dear friends. Työharjoittelu is the name of the game and it spells w-o-r-k. I´m happy and excited, mostly about the fact that I will speak Finnish now everyday for 6 weeks. Found myself a great place and I am looking forward to this experience!

SONGS FOR TODAY:

The Specials - (Dawning of a) New Era


The Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death