Pyjama Infinity by Elina Minn

My flipbook won the 1st honorary prize of Napa Flipbook Competition 2008 and now it's printed! Buy it online here or at Napa Shop in Helsinki.

Tuhru / Taiko & associates

Tuhru is now represented in Asia by Taiko & Associates illustration agency!

Looking for Barbara

Huomenna on B:n kokeellisen joulunäyttelyn avajaiset, jossa olemme mukan. Avajaisissa ei ole vielä kuin vihje tulevasta, näyttelytilaan ilmestyy koko joulun ajan joka päivä uusi teos. B-taiteilijat etsivät töissään mysteeristä Barbaraa. Lue lisää B:n sivuilta ja seuraa näyttelyn edistymistä B:n blogissa!

Tomorrow is the opening of B:s experimental christmas show that we're in. Only a hint of what's to come can be seen in the opening because every day a new piece appears in the gallery space. A group of B-artists makes work about a mystery person called Barbara. The process will be documented every day in the B blog!

Shapes

An animated short film by Bendik Kaltenborn and Kalle Johansson.

Paper work

Anna and Elina made a paper installation for a knitwear editorial in November issue of Trendi.

Flipping through our 9-book

Available in Helsinki at Napa and Kiasma shop.

Available in Turku at B-butik.

Animaation vallankumous 2008

music: Yrjö Saarinen

Our book is finished!

9 by Böcker Flickor

9 is 5 points of view on the same 9 sentences.

Artists:
Ami Lindholm
Elina Minn
Alex Brixel & Teresa Mattas
Malin Rosenqvist
Anna Virtanen

Layout:
Antti Hiljá

At the moment available at B-butik for 12 euros.

More stockists soon!

Window painting

for Napa Illustrations group show Karkkia / Candy at B-galleria

Opening tomorrow at six!

Animaation vallankumous

Lisää kuvia eilisestä taaphtumasta täällä. Suuri kiitos kaikille animaatiohahmoille, Ollille kuvaamisesta ja sadepilville vallankumouksemme kunnioittamisesta!

More pictures from yesterday's animation happening in our Flickr.

Napa Illustrations / B-galleria

Flyer by Jaakko Pallasvuo

Come and see the Napa Illustrations show KARKKIA! at B-galleria. Tuhru takes part in the show with a window painting and three candy themed pieces. Opening on Friday 31st of October from 18.00-20.00, welcome welcome!

At the same time with the sweet Napa show Tuhru & Böcker Flickor are showing their original pictures from their collaborative book project 9. The book launch party is on Friday 31st as well. More about that later...

What might go wrong

Jennifer Zwick's 100 etchings about things that might go wrong, see them all here. (these are the things I think about when I can't sleep)

Hi mum, I'm in Zurich

Here's what I'm expecting from my trip to Zurich:

















(Insight Guides: Switzerland)

Animaation vallankumous

Tuhru järjestää vallankumouksen kansainvälisenä animaationpäivänä 28.10.2008 klo 9.30 Samppalinnanmäellä Turussa. Tule animoitavaksi!

Tuhru starts an Animation revolution on the International Animation Day 28th of October!

New things

I made some new things to be sold at B-butik

Chocolate

This illustration on chocolate will be at the Napa Illustrations' stand at Illustrative Zürich 08 17-26.10.2008. Ami is one of the 22 nominees for the Young Illustrator Award 2008 of animation.

Poster design

A nice one from Camilla Engman for Gothenburg Film Festival.

Helena Ohlsson

Illustrator Helena Olsson

John Broadley's Books

This weekend I discovered this amazing artist from the internets. He is John Broadley who makes beautiful serigraphic books. Some of his work has been published by Le Dernier Cri.



It was really difficult to choose which images to put here, but I am especially fond of his book cover designs. His work is worth a further look, so please visit: John Broadley's Books.

Drawing demonic women

Barbara Steele in Maro Bava's Black Sunday a.ka. The Mask of Satan inspired me to draw yesterday. She has a great face to draw: strong cheekbones, high brow, biiig eyes wide apart and that pouty lower lip.

Another Barbara:



(Muji paper got a bit wrinkly from me pressing it so hard. Ami brought this sketchbook from Japan last week and I'm almost finished with it already. Creative Times!)

Ryöppy

Elina & Anna made a paper installation at Kokoro & Moi studio as a part of YCNlive. More pictures here.

Please take it freely!

Kuten japanilaiset itse sen sanovat:
A lot song should eat a delicious dish and should dance it all together.















Growth is our nation. Our mission is to make.
Wearing favorite something i'd like to deliver joy.
A ceiling becomes low
Please take it freely!

Arigatogozaimaaaaas

Hiroshmassa ollaan !
Kuumuus on uskomatonta. Meidan naytoksessa oli tasapuolisesti laitettu kaikkiin leffoihin 4:3 kuvasuhde mutta muuten meni aika hyvin ja sali oli taynna.

Finnish animation 1 Stars of Students:
Highwaymen / Antti Laakso
Tulips / Anne Savitie
Shadowplay / Sanna Vilmusenaho
Bamboozled!!! / Simo Ruotsalainen
The Irresistible Smile / Ami Lindholm
Bird Ｈouse / Tuhru
Aurora / Anne Savitie
The Last Elephant / Antti Laakso
Stage Fright / Elina Minn
Death in the Yellow House / Anna Virtanen
The Year I Cut My Hair / Ami Lindholm
Idol / Sanna Vilmusenaho
Harmonica / Leevi Lehtinen
Pianist / Tanja Lappalainen
Metropolia 3d show reel

Hiroshima animation festival 2008

Ami is soon leaving to Hiroshima Animation festival. There will be a huge presentation of Finnish animation. Tuhru-films to be seen are The Irresistible Smile, Bird House, Death in the Yellow House, The Year I Cut My Hair and Stage Fright.

Suomalainen animaatio esittäytyy kattavasti Hiroshiman kansainvälisellä animaatioelokuvafestivaalilla 7-11.8.2008. Tuhrun elokuvista nähdään Ilo irti, Toinen huone, Kuolema keltaisessa talossa, The Year I Cut My Hair ja Stage Fright. Ami lähtee mukaan varmistamaan, että kuvasuhteet ovat oikein...

Animaatioleiri / Animation camp

Ami oli viime viikon Kuhmossa Animaation Apupyörän animaatioleirillä. Teemana ääni, kokeellinen elokuva, huskyt ja Venäjän raja. Avanto, pidä varasi.

Ami spent the last week at Animation Camp in Kuhmo, Eastern Finland. We made some weird experimental films while toasting marshmallows and pancakes over the campfire.

B-butik

More info: www.suunnitelmab.net

Tuhru in Cheap Art Party

Anna, Ami and Elina have cheap art for sale at the Finnish-Spanish Cheap Art Party held in Duduá, Barcelona 1.-30.8.2008

Latest illustration

for audio theatre project Turku Audio Draamat by Elina.

Meanwhile, our friend Jenna has been playing with sand. This is sand is a fun project, a digital sandbox where you can make your own creations by throwing around tiny, colorful rgb-sand. Read more about it here and try it for yourself:

this is sand

We graduated from Turku Arts Academy

.. as animation directors... and mysterious medianomes. Hooray!

Also, Ami won the award for best student film in Zagreb with her Irresistible smile, hooray Ami.


painting: Anna Törrönen

Today, while the rest of Tuhru are attending Napa picnic in Helsinki, I'm staying in with a flu. Roaming about I found out lovely painter-collage-maker Anna Törrönen has made a website. The site is not finished so in the mean time you can see some of her paintings here.

I am lucky to baby sit for three of her paintings over the summer, in August I will be taking them to Spain for the Finnish-Spanish Cheap Art Party we're (that's B) organizing together with Duduá-gallery of Barcelona.

Tuhru graduation films

See the Tuhru graduation films and films by other graduating animation directors from Turku Arts Academy at Happy End.

Turku premiere 21.5 kl19
Helsinki premiere 29.5 kl20

More info: Happy End


Ami Lindholm The Year I Cut My Hair / Sinä vuonna leikkasin hiukseni


Elina Minn Stage Fright



Anna Virtanen Kuolema keltaisessa talossa / Death in the Yellow House

Art animation in Kiasma Today

stills: Christoph Steger, Mother

Kiasman olohuonepaneelissa tänään 25.4 aiheena taideanimaatio

Animaatiopaneeli kl 17

Keskustelijoina Heikki Jokinen, Veli Granö, Christian Lindblad ja Ami Lindholm(!).

Paneelin vetää: Tatu Pohjavirta

Animaatiota käytetään tänä liikkuvan kuvan aikakautena kaikkialla kännyköistä kadunvarsimainoksiin. Samalla myös taideanimaattoreiden määrä Suomessa on kasvanut huomattavasti. Digitaalisten efektien myötä ero live-elokuvan ja animaation välillä on hämärtynyt. Missä taideanimaatiota voi nähdä ja miten se määritellään? Animaatiota on hankala luokitella elokuva- tai mediataiteen alalajiksi, vaikka selkeästi se onkin molempia. Pitäisikö animaatiota käsitellä omana itsenäisenä taiteenlajina, vai onko kyse ainoastaan tekniikasta, jota voidaan hyödyntää taiteen eri alueilla?

Taideanimaationäytös kl 19.00 Kiasma teatterissa

Ilmainen! Mukana mm. Stegerin Mother

Sigmund

Girls with pencils

Laura Laine
Her sense of form reminds me of old favorites like Erté and Egon Schiele.

Hanna Terese Nilsson
I love her piles of folded cloths and the discreet color palette.

Amazing Norwegians pt. 2

Andreasbanderas on Flickr
Andreasbanderas portfolio

He also keeps one of the best image blogs:
Bevel & Boss

Mothers

1. New York Stories, Oedipus Wrecks by Woody Allen
2. Postcards from yo momma

Amazing Norwegians pt.1

Stine-Stine

Even the ghost of the past

Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner