#Santtu Winter

[gbhbl]

Album Review: Veriteras - The Dark Horizon (Self Released)

United States, Seattle based melodic death metal quartet, Veriteras, are back with their second full-length album, The Dark Horizon, due for release April 11th. Veriteras is an old-school melodic death metal band based in Seattle, Washington. Formed in 2018, they are inspired by the Scandinavian melodic death scene (early-era In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Kalmah), and strive to write heavy songs…

[retadoesthings]

My cosplays from 2022-2023

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2022

AE3803 from Cells at Work! Photo by Santtu Pajukanta Costume made for a stage show; compiled by me & the show team.

Sawamura Haruka from Yakuza 5 Photo by Tamameru Costume made by me. Used in Nordic Cosplay Championship preliminaries in Tracon 2022 (1st place).

2023

Tsukimi Eiko from Paripi Koumei / Ya Boy Kongming Teppo/Isperia as Koumei/Kongming Photo by Raaputtaja Costumes made by me and Isperia.

Retoree from Show by Rock!! Nani as Cyan Photo by Nyymix Costumes made by me and Nani. Used in Assembly Winter 2023 cosplay competition.

Sawamura Haruka from Yakuza 5 Photo by Allion Photography Costume made by me, updated for the finals. Used in Nordic Cosplay Championship finals in Närcon 2023.

Jacqueline from Show by Rock!! Photo by me Costume made by me.

[midgardsorrmr]

21 Questions

Got tagged by @parantajanpolku

1 - nicknames: Kaj, Kaikeli, Kaimaani,  Kauča, Kau

2 - zodiac sign: Sun Aries - Moon Aquarius - Rising Libra

3 - height: 161cm / 5′3′

4 - hogwarts house: Slytherin

5 - last thing I googled: bus schedule

6- favorite musicians: CMX, Susumu Hirasawa, DIR EN GREY, Perturbator, Rammstein, Ruoska, Turmion Kätilöt, Santtu Karhu, Loimolan Voima

7 - song stuck in my head: Devil Trigger (Nero’s Battle theme) DMC5

8 - following now: 224

9 - followers: 302

10 - do i get asks?: Rarely.

11 - amount of sleep?: It depends. I try to sleep at least 6h

12 - lucky number: 7

13 - what i’m wearing: Dark jeans, red and dark blue flannel shirt and grey woolen socks

14 - dream job: Librarian, sexologist... ehhh

15 - dream trip: The Republic of Karelia, USA, Japan, Australia, China, New Zealand...

16 - favourite food:  Šipainiekka with egg butter, different pastas, katsudonburi, creamy salmon soup

17 - instruments: None

18 - languages: Finnish, Karelian, English, Swedish... used to study German and Japanese.

19 - favourite song: Too many.

20 - random fact: I have never broken any of my bones.

21 - my aesthetic: Sunrise, cold winter nights, cool summer nights, snowy forests, corvidae (especially Eurasian magpies), mountains.

Too lazy to tag anyone hahah.

[trash-god]

Rules: Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better Tagged by: @julystorms Name: Sara Nicknames: Trash. Santtu. Zodiac sign: Saggy Height: 5′7″ Orientation: demi as hell Ethnicity: white as hell Favourite Fruit: strawberries? kiwis? peaches? red currants? watermelon?? I’ll fuckin eat all the fruit. they woke me up on the plane over with a little cup of fruit salad and I’ve never been so happy on a transatlantic flight Favourite Season: summer in finland. winter in florida Favourite Book: song of solomon and east of eden Favourite Flower: lily of the valley and sunflowers Favourite Scent: the way my grandparents’ house smelled in the morning. also birch leaves Favourite Colour: mint Favourite Animal: cats. and sharks and rays. Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa?: depends on my mood lmao. coffee: decaf. black. tea: black. hot cocoa: rarely. Average Sleep Hours: 6-8 depending on how carried away I get Cat or dog person?: cats... always had em Favourite Fictional Character: ......nanaba mike hange in that order. plus also kisame and kakuzu. Number of blankets you sleep with: one thin sheet and a throw blanket. fun fact: I used to crawl inside duvet covers to sleep. like a kinda shitty sleeping bag. Dream Trip: that manta ray sanctuary in indonesia Blog created: 2010 Number of Followers: at least three

Tagging: youuuuuu

[tiirabird-cosplay]

I participated in the cosplay competition at Tampere Kuplii (comic con), and I was chosen by the judges as one of the finalists! ^_^ I’m so happy, and now I can stuff this cosplay into storage until Winter comes. But don’t worry! I have plenty of photos of my Kylo Ren that are still un-published.

Kylo Ren cosplayer: @tiirabird-cosplay

Photo: Santtu Pajukanta

[helsinkiheroes-blog]

1. Crazy, conspiracy or supernatural?

I just want to start by saying that I find everything I’m about to tell you really strange. I’m not particularly into conspiracy theories or the supernatural. Even the concept of God feels alien to me, and I was really into Game of Thrones right up until all the magical shit started happening. So I can assure you; It’s just a coincidence that I got caught up in all this stuff. I don’t seek out the weird and unusual and scandalous. But now I tend to lie awake at night wondering about reality, sanity, conspiracy... And of course the tunnels underneath Helsinki. It all started when my dear friend lost their grandmother in early 2017. So I’ll start the retelling from there, and please forgive me if I fail to make sense at times. As I said, I find all of this very strange and am just trying to piece the puzzle together myself, and I don’t know if I will ever get to the root of this. But I’ll try.

Grandmother Liisa - patient zero?

My friend's grandmother Liisa was born in Helsinki in 1936. As I said she passed away last year, March 2017, and was a respectable 81 years old at the time. She had an incredible life, most of which she spent in Helsinki - the capital of Finland. I don’t know much about her childhood, and neither does my friend. Only that she lived with her family in Kruununhaka, which is nowadays one of the more prestigious areas of central Helsinki. As a young adult, she started working as a secretary at a radio company, and she worked there her whole life until retirement. She had a couple of kids, one of them is my friend's mother, and she lost two husbands to cancer and lived the last 20 years of her life alone. She lived through the wartime, which she never talked about, but we know she was one of the thousands of children that were sent to Sweden during the Winter War 1939-1940, but apparently, she stayed in Helsinki with her family at least during some parts of the Continuation War in 1941-1944. But we know next to nothing about her life in Sweden or during the war in general.

My friend told me that Liisa got diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease a couple of years ago. Up until that point she had been doing fine on her own, but it was clear to her family, that something wasn’t quite right, as she became more and more tired, forgetful and developed a rather unpleasing tendency to drool uncontrollably. What they know now is that she had been messing up her medication for some time already; forgetting that she took her morning pills, and therefore taking an extra dose at noon, taking more sleeping pills in the evening than any human should and getting confused about the time of day during the long, dark winters, and so on. So the last year or so of her life, Liisa lived in a home for the elderly, where she was properly taken care of.

You might be thinking that this doesn’t sound strange at all. If anything, this is normal and happens to a lot of people when they get old. But the reason I’m telling you about Liisa is that most of the people that lived or worked with her during her last months seem to think something was going on. My friend used to visit her quite often, and can recall the moment when they first started suspecting something weird was happening. Liisa was tired and seemed incoherent while talking to her grandchild, and all of a sudden she started drawing something in the air with her finger. My friend tried to ask her about it, but Liisa was not responsive at that time. It was upsetting to my friend to see Liisa in a shape like that, drawing invisible things in the air, and they decided to sit down for a while outside her room and maybe go back in a bit later. They never wanted to leave her when she was in one of her more incoherent states of mind. They talked to a nurse, and all of a sudden everything went dark. All the lights flickered for a second and turned off, and nurses started shuffling around, making sure everyone was okay and trying to get to the root of the problem. My friend returned to Liisas side, took her hand and at that instance the lights flickered again, and came back. Liisa looked at my friend straight in the eye, beaming with clarity and said: “There you are, I thought you’d left.”

This still sounds like it’s completely in the realm of normality, right? But during Liisas last months, her condition got worse and weird things started happening more frequently. Sometimes the radio would stop working, or the lights would go out, or elevators would get stuck. Many electricians visited the place, but no-one could find any significant problems. So radios got replaced, light bulbs changed and light switches reinstalled... But the odd behavior continued. That is until March 2017, when Liisa passed away. After that, the place has had 0 electrical incidents.

After Liisas passing, my friend got ahold of some of Liisas old stuff. They were helping their mother clean out Liisas apartment, and found (among other things) boxes full of books, newspaper clippings and cassette tapes with recordings of articles and reports on electricity, electrons, charge, static, and magnetism. It suddenly seemed like Liisa had a hidden obsession. But the thing that really caught my friend's attention was a bunch of medical/research reports from the time after her retirement. My friend knew that Liisa had traveled a lot during that time, but the more they uncovered, the more they started to think she’d been mostly in Sweden during that time, not in all these other exotic locations she'd sent postcards from. She 'd also had a lot of exchanges with a Swedish doctor or researcher called Holvaster Öman, a person neither my friend nor I can find anywhere online, but who seems to have conducted some sorts of tests on Liisa. There were at least a dozen letters, but even after seeing them myself, I haven’t really got a clue on what they actually are talking about. Everything is vague and unclear and feels somewhat secretive. Secretive enough to really peak my friend's interest.

Last summer my friend sent me a voice message on WhatsApp and started what I thought was reminiscing. You can hear the message at the beginning of this post, rough translation below:

“Do you remember that one birthday party I had when I was maybe five or six? You were there, and so was Santtu from our class, and my parents, cousins and grandma Liisa? Do you remember how I got that fancy radio controlled car, that we couldn’t figure out? It wouldn’t work with any batteries and my dad and brother tried to fix it. Do you remember that? And do you remember how after everyone had given up and moved on to eat more cake, grandma Liisa grabbed the controller, gave us a little wink and without her even touching any knobs, the car drove in a perfect circle, and never moved again after that. I had completely forgotten that! How could I have forgotten that? And when we screamed and shouted to everyone that Liisa got it to work, she just pretended like she had no idea what had happened, that she somehow had pushed some button and that for a while the car had worked. Could that really be a coincidence? That she would have gotten it to magically work all of a sudden, by accident? Or is there something there... like... something more? ”

And I did remember. And that’s when I got hooked.

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Santtu Mustonen for NYCB 2017

As a creative, I actually really like the ballet. From everything down from the set designs to costume designs or to the general atmosphere, there is lots to see and appreciate and just beautiful.  New York City Ballet winter shows were showcased between JAN 17 - FEB 23, located at the David H. Koch Theatre.  Santtu Mustonen is a Finnish artist currently living/working in Brooklyn. In his own words... he is “interested in visualizing the emotions of suspense, excitement, distortion, and the surreal through painting, movement, and new technologies.” He combines hand rendered work together with different textures, patterns, technology and platforms, which makes it all the more exciting. So when I first saw his Santtu’s work I was really interested therefore looked more into his work.  However the work done for NYCB is just divine, I’ve chosen to include this on my blog as I was looking more into the movement of the short video that was showcased in the reception at the David H. Koch Theatre... 

NYCB Video: https://vimeo.com/204440607 His website: http://www.santtumustonen.com

[dustinthecity]

#NattyNights: New York City Ballet Art Series 2017

For the past five years New York City Ballet has partnered with contemporary artists for their NYCB Art Series. This year’s collaborator is Santtu Mustonen, originally from Finland and now living in Brooklyn.

The introduction of the collaboration was in conjunction with a ballet performance by NYCB at the David H. Koch Theatre. The night was broken into five separate performances all to the compositions of Igor Stravinsky, but vastly different in choreography, costumes, and set design.

My favorite of the night was The Cage, choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Sterling Hyltin gave a beautifully standout performance as The Novice, where she demonstrated absolute control of every inch of her body to evoke the intense range of emotions the role called for. Another memorable performance of the night was Lauren Lovette and Ask la Cour dancing Aria II in Stravinsky Violin Concerto.

Audience members were encouraged to spend the two intermissions viewing and interacting with Mustonen’s installation in the David H. Koch Theatre Promanade.  It is titled Cross-Pollination, a mixed media consisting of towering video projections and c-prints on aluminum.

“Inspired by the choreography, movement, and abstract storytelling of New York City Ballet works, Mustonen creates a series of immersive digital paintings and general fine art prints that aim to transport the viewer to another world, inviting us to get lost inside the visuals and find our own way of seeing ourselves through a richly creative ecosystem”

Attendees were given custom scarves designed and signed by Mustonen as they left the hall.

Mustonen’s 2017 Art Series installation will be displayed during NYCB’s Winter Season from now to Feb. 26. NYCB will also hold scheduled, open hours for the general public to view the exhibition Feb. 18 to 26 – see nycballet.com/artseries for more details.

To see more of Mustonen’s work visit santtumustonen.com.

[nofomoartworld]

Pixels Dance in a Massive Video Installation at the New York City Ballet

Photo by Alex di Suvero

How do you 3D-render spray paint? “I just paint, then I scan it,” Santtu Mustonen tells The Creators Project, making the process of converting pigment to pixels sound simple.

For a commission at the New York City Ballet, in the foyer of Lincoln Center’s iconic mid-century, Philip Johnson-designed David H. Koch Theater, the Finn artist turned his aesthetic paintings into a towering, prismatic video installation that lights up the building’s crystal facade like an LED light in souvenir lucite. Every speck of colorful 3D abstraction was once a fleck of paint, from buttery ribbons spooling across the space’s quartet of giant screens to confetti-like particles dancing through digital space.

A puff of spray paint frozen mid-flight takes on a gaseous quality, paused before dissipating into the breeze. Mustonen’s installation at the ballet, titled Cross Pollination, was created for the fifth iteration of the yearly NYCB Art Series. For the past four seasons, the ballet has commissioned up-and-coming modern artists—previously FAILE, JR, Dustin Yellin, and Marcel Dzama—to install original art in the theater for the months of January and February. On three nights during the Winter season, the ballet sells every seat in the house for $30, distributes take-away art to audience members, and throws a post-performance party with free beer and DJs.

Courtesy Santtu Mustonen

But months before audiences of young people were flocking to Lincoln Center mid-winter, Mustonen set to work applying his particular style of abstractionism to the landmark building. At the start, the artist says he went “nuts for a couple of days, [spray painting] different versions of stripes, different color combinations, then piling them on my table, like making a collage,” pairing particular hues and textures. Mustonen then rendered everything in 3D and animated it for the screen.

Installation still. Photo by Ben Fitchett

“Some of the movements, they kind of look like napkins, but in my mind, it’s more like the spray paint, like how it’s bursting,” Mustonen explains. I say the conical indigo-and-daffodil mottled shapes look a bit like blooms. “That’s something that I very much like as well, but I don’t want to point to them as flowers,” the artist says.

“I don’t ever want to tell a straight story, or like, show a thing that makes people say, ‘Oh, I know what that is.’ That’s why I, at first, was unsure about the statues [that permanently preside over the space], because my work is never figurative. I want the imagination to take over everything. I more work on emotion and the abstract feelings that you build by yourself,” Mustonen says.

Santtu Mustonen. Photo by Alex di Suvero

Photo by Alex di Suvero

At either end of the foyer in the Koch Theater, two colossal Elie Nadelman sculptures, Circus Women and Two Nudes, square off in marble. It’s not the first time the statues have caused conflict—the nude forms were controversial when Lincoln Center was being built in the 60s. But the architects arranged to have the giant sculptures installed right before the fourth wall of the theater was built, so they’d be impossible to remove.

Mustonen thought about hiding the Nadelmans, but he ended up incorporating them. As particles drift across the screens behind the sculptures, like digital snowglobes, colored light bathes their glossy marble in shifting, chromatic hues. Two additional screens form a lean-to in the middle of the hall. Underneath them, a mirrored floor creates a kaleidoscopic effect, giving visitors mild vertigo if they step inside and glance down to see themselves floating in multicolored space.

Photo by Ben Fitchett

Photo by Alex di Suvero

Mustonen interrogates motion with a dancer’s eye, aware that, unlike the expressions and gestures captured in inert paintings, the movement choreographed into his projections is fleeting. Though not directly inspired by ballet, Cross Pollination possesses the same grace, its ever-evolving imagery echoing the motion of bodies through space. Its presence at Lincoln Center, the Upper West Side mecca for the performing arts, makes for fascinating dialogue between visual art and dance, 2D and 3D, and the progressive and historic.

Photo by Erin Baiano

To buy tickets to the two remaining 2017 NYCB Art Series performances, on February 3 and 23, click here. To learn more about Santtu Mustonen, follow him on Instagram.

Related:

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For Their Newest Video, Architecture in Helsinki Creates Pop Clones, Dreams A Little Crazy

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[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Santtu Mustonen

(image © Santtu Mustonen)

This winter, New York City Ballet’s Art Series returns for its fifth installment featuring Finnish-born, Brooklyn-based artist Santtu Mustonen.

By combining abstract, handcrafted visual imagery with new technology, Mustonen makes visual art that literally moves. Taking advantage of the Koch Theater’s towering height and multiple vantage points, the centerpiece of his commission will feature a large-scale video installation created from a series of original, digitally altered paintings that the artist has produced especially for New York City Ballet.

Mustonen’s work will be on view at three special New York City Ballet Art Series performances at Lincoln Center on January 28 Eve, February 3, and 23. All tickets are priced at $30 and each audience member will receive a limited edition commemorative takeaway created by Santtu.

Get tickets at http://ift.tt/14SB5F8

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