High expectations

This happens often; I have high expectations about something and usually end up being disappointed in some way. Such thing happened with Rockville, a rock musical, in Helsinki. I expected a lot from that play since it was made by professional theatre. But no. It was disappointment. The youth theatre in Rantasalmi did so much better version of it (and me and three other classmates made costumes for it and they were awesome). They just gave so much more to it than those professional actors together.

But sometimes your high expectations are met. Like this movie I expected a long time and was so excited about it. That movie, of course, is Iron Sky. Following description is from their site:

"In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers."

Sounds cool idea huh? If you're interested to learn more about the movie, go here.
That movie was real eye candy for a costume geek like me who's into military gear. I could watch it so many times and just examine all those uniforms and other costumes.

I saw the movie when they were doing preview-touring: Iron Sky on tour. Ticket to the preview event included Tour T-shirt, signed movie poster (signed by the director), iron sky -buttons, of course the movie and 45-minute seminar with director and producer.

Tour T-shirt <3

As the closing statement I add my favorite Iron Sky trailer (teaser trailer 2), and say this:

Go watch it!!

Kittys!

My mom's kitty Nöpö

My kitty Pam who found new comfy place to sleep

 I got cool new earrings and since they are cat-themed, pics ahoy!

Kinda looks like it's crawling through my ear lobe

...I will be the crazy cat-lady someday.. 

..who has epic flame boots <3

Digging around my picture folders

Well that is scary though!

This is so true sometimes...

The last cup of coffee on earth

This is just so fun :D

Pics are taken from various places on the magical world of internet

Revealing Garments: A Brief History of Women's Underwear

A lecture about women's underwear, duration about one hour.

Why?

Because it's very interesting.

 

Underwear takes the stage in this talk by H. Kristina Haugland, associate curator of Costume and Textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The history of feminine undergarments—corsets and drawers, bustles and brassieres, stockings and shoulder pads—reflects changing ideals of women’s figures and societal roles, and reveals that ideas of beauty, hygiene, modesty and respectability are both remarkably transitory and enlightening. Drawing from works of art, advertisements, cartoons, literary sources and surviving garments, this generously illustrated lecture enhances the understanding of past and present attitudes and aesthetics. Supported in part by the Art Institute of Indianapolis. 
www.artbabble.org

Random googling FTW!

Happy New Year to all who happen to see this!

Better updates when I get back to my place.

In the meantime, you can look at my cat. :D

<3

To The Moon

Recently I came across a beautiful little game by Freebird Games. It's an indie RPG that has the most touching story I've heard in a long time. The music in this game is also amazing and perfect for the story. This is a little sentence from Freebird's website:

To the Moon is an indie RPG/adventure game, 

about two doctors traversing through the memories of a dying man 

to fulfill his last wish.

Picture from Freebirdgames.com

Game has some comedial elements but mainly the story is deep and so very captivating, that I played it through in one sitting last night. Word in mind is ...wow. 

Best 12€ I've spent in a long time.

For more information and for a free one-hour trial, go to http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/

Ink things and a serious question

A while back I took my second tattoo. My friend wanted to see pic of it so I might aswell make a post about my marks. First tattoo is on my left arm, the other on my right wrist. My tattoos don't have any deep meanings or heartwrenching stories behind them, I just like them.

First one I got few years back. It's the Air ambigram from the book Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I liked all of the ambigrams but decided to go with Air 'cos it's the element of Gemini (it's my horoscope). I don't really believe in horoscopes but it kinda helped me to choose which one to take.
As I mentioned tattoo is an Ambigram, which means that it can be turned upside down and it still reads the same word (try wikipedia for further explanation). In my case the Air text is also in mirror writing (Da Vinci fan perhaps? :D) I like the idea that not everyone realise that it's actually a word, not just some squiggles.

His Master's Tattoo, Savonlinna

The second tattoo is kinda representing my love for theater (and other forms of performing arts) but still no deeper meaning. It's a picture on theater masks, a very classic image in theater world. I found this design from internet and was pretty much sold right away. I like how simple (like a quick pencil doodle) yet complicated it is. I like how their expressions are subtle, not the usual exaggerated faces.

Pate's tattoo, Savonlinna

And now to the serious question:

WHY haven't I found these earlier?!

They are friggin' delicious! I am 'a bit' addicted to chocolate so these are just perfect: chocolate cookies with chocolate mud cake filling. You dip them to a glass of milk and... Yum!
I bought a package few days ago and the only complain I have is that the box is already empty.