Adventures In City The City Of B / 02-03/2012

While others have their Winter holidays, I took some time off school and (will definitely be in trouble later) flew to Berlin with Nora. We have been taking easy, going to magnificent parties, seeing exhibitions (I'll probably write about everything later).

Breaking news: I got my first Polaroid camera for nothing at the open air flee market and today, week after the camera, I found Polaroid 600 of the Impossible Project straight off the counter of the c/o Berlin book shop. The Impossible film is trickier than the old polaroid film used to be but after one failure, I got sort-of-visible self portrait out of the camera. So it works. New era has begun!

Only functionable digital device is Nora's photobooth, so.... The mask I'm wearing is a prop for a party in KitKat club, but as in all the best places in Berlin, photography is not allowed, so there are no actual photos of any parties. And all the photos are on film anyway, so it takes some time to get them developed.

Ladidaa. I just feel so happy and thankful (and tired) at the moment.

LOVE SONG/the video / 02/2012

 

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Love Song - Stills / 02/2012

I'm working on my first video. It's really something when the picture moves.

Little documentary about printing and bookbinding.

 

I'm mostly spending my time (days and nights) in this classroom dealing with these miniature letters and the letterpress machine. To print a text you need to find letters one by one from their boxes and place them correctly (upside down and vertically flipped, b looks like d, d looks like b et cetera), then you have to place it on the machine, spill some ink over it and hope the outcome is desired. (Sometimes I hope it would function like that, but really it takes couple of attempts to get the pressure and the amount of ink right.) When you are done printing, you have to clean the letters and sort them back to their boxes, carefully so that you will find them next time you need them. 30 pages of this! (20+ prints/page) Sometimes I think it's slightly insane.

Suomeks, kun puhun sitäkin kieltä:

Lähes huijaamatta, istun ympärivuorokautisesti kirjanladontaluokassa musteiden ja pienten metallikirjasimien kanssa tehden kandiani. Koko prosessiin menee aika valtavasti aikaa, mutta lopputuloksesta näyttäisi tulevan aika mässy. Fonttikoko on 6 (sama kokoasteikko kuin tekstinkäsittelyohjelmissa, jossa times new roman 12 on se basicfontti. Eli puolet pienempi. Yay!), ei helpota, eikä nopeuta hommaa lainkaan.

Kun oon niin innostunut tästä painohommasta, oon ehtinyt jo unohtaa senkin, että tosiaan, tähän prosessiin kuuluu myös sisällöntuontato-osuus. Välillä onni potkii, kun sisältö on pudonnut päästä ulos miltei itsestään.

(Kirjasinten nurinperisyys on aiheuttanut myös innostuksen opetella kirjoittamaan käsin nurinperin. Siitä myöhemmin.)

Cheers,
Heta