Neal Asher

Earlier today I finished The Skinner written by Neal Asher - Wild, wild and weird story from a very harsh planet called Spatterjay. Asher is masterful depicter of imaginary or otherwise exobiology...

Now I've already began to read another book written by Neal Asher - The Technician.

Juha H.

Aurinko laskee

Sunset today. - Now it's official: Machine Men is no more. (Juha H.)

Sinin talvea

Sini in the winter. (Juha H.)

Koivu

Frozen birch. - Yesterday rehearsed InterGalactic FolkMusic Orchestra. The photo above is from the front yard of the studio where the band rehearses. (Juha H.)

Kirkasta aurinkoa taas

One more bright and cold day. (Juha H.)

Kirkas aurinkoinen

Sunbright. Photo with Nokia E72. (Juha H.)

Vuoden tekemiset

Above most of the CDs and DVDs I did last year - 2010. On some of them I was merely a recording engineer - with some I did pretty much everything. Some DVDs/CDs are released officially, some are more or less for private use... (Juha H.)

Talvi

Winter view from my backyard. It may seem warm and bright or something nice - but in reality it's like hell freezing over... (Juha H.)

Toinen ilta

Another night studying Sini's Toshiba AC100. I'm slowly getting used to it and slowly adding more software. The gadget is finally beginning to feel like a good device...

Painfully cold weather keeps this country in its grips.

Juha H.

Koko ilta

All evening I just tried to get used to and learn to use Sini's new Toshiba AC100 mini-laptop. Some good and some bad news. I'm not used to Android - at least not yet... It'll take its time. But while travelling the tiny little machine may be of some good use.

Juha H.

Luminen tie

Snowy road. This winter's been very cold. Today in the morning the temparature was -32 Celcius degrees. (Juha H.)

Talvinen maisema

Wintry scenery. Bright and quite cold was the day. (Photo with Nokia E72; Juha H.)

Improvisages-video 4.

One more Improvisages video. It might be the way Ari sees women - and/or how I see he sees the women folks. Jori played piano and I blew soprano sax. All music is totally improvised, naturally. Pehmeat paikat (= Soft Places) can be found here. Enjoy!

Juha H.

Aurinko laskee

Sunset today. (Juha H.)

Talvitie

Winter road. (Juha H.)

Ruusut unessa

Roses sleeping. (Juha H.)

Takapihan lumet

The amount of snow in my backyard today. (Juha H.)

Kuuset

Firs. - InterGalactic FolkMusic Orchestra had a very nice rehearsal. Great fun! (Juha H.)

Kuoro vierailulla

Some young singers - 17 schoolgirls were here and I recorded their singing with a pianist accompanying them. They sang two lullabyes. And then here were some more singers and some musicians - an acoustic guitarist and an accordionist. I recorded their music, too. Great fun!

Machine Men have ceased to exist. This is quite sad. But that's the way it is. Nothing lasts forever. More than ten years the band worked , recorded four, five albums, toured across Europe and that's it... Life goes on anyways.

Juha H.

Hautausmaan talvea

Graveyard in winter. - Sini and I watched and listened to Transatlantic and their wonderfully wonderous DVD Whirld Tour 2010. Fantastic music performed so very skilfully. Beautiful!! (Juha H.)

Linnoitteita

Towers of Tallinn. - And in the evening I recorded domra. (Juha H.)

Patsas

Statue. (Juha H.)