Heli

Heli

Originally uploaded by Jonas Thomén

This was the helicopter that was circling around our village, that I wrote about in the last post. It was flying way too low and it was noisy… now the neighbor is cutting the grass *sigh*

I googled the internets and found out that this one OH-HLS is registered to a company called “Aero-kuva OY” and is taking photos… so with a little luck it got a photo of our house with me standing on the balcony taking photos of the helicopter, my father sleeping on the garden sofa and the whole garden full of drying carpets… =)

I’m thinking about going for a walk, but the weather is not the very best, it’s windy and looks like it might rain…

Some neigbors dog…

I woke up early this morning by some dog barking… It was a high pitched very annoying bark at around 180 bpm (that’s barks per minute). The general rhythm was something like this: bark bark bark pause bark bark bark bark pause bark bark bark pause bark longer pause and repeat. I stuffed my noise blocking earplugs in my ears and put on some Jocelyn Pook and somehow managed to fall asleep again… When I woke up again many hours later the dog was still going on, same rhythm… It’s probably still barking, I’m in the the kitchen and can’t hear it though…

Added: Now, just minutes after I published this blog entry a helicopter started circling over here… say isn’t it ironic… =)

GPS tracks

Hello…

I just came back from walking an hour ago or so, had a cup of tea and made this blog thingie, I started making these GPS tracks when I walk, but I don’t really know what to do with them. I figure this is a good place to store them… =)

I’ve been out two times today, ones on the roads and ones in the forest, I normally bike but the bottom bracket bearing is not well on it so until I get me a new one from Ireland I have to stick to walking… We probably go trekking in the fells somewhere later in the autumn Mom and Me and I guess it’s a good idea to get some exercise… Here are some of the tracks anyway…

This one is a 8 km road track that I just made…

This one I made earlier today, it’s 5.5 km around the walking-trail at Arbetsplatsberget in Kållby. I shot a whole lot of photos so it’s not quite straight… nice scenery though… =)

13.5 km track on asphalt… This is actually from yesterday night but I didn’t have a blog yesterday, or an hour ago for that matter… =)

I found yet another one, this is a 10 km track from August 1’st…

I think I should say that the maps are made on a webpage called gpsvisualizer.com

Now I kinda feel like going out again, but I really should sleep. I think I’ll have a look if it looks fantastic out there then Maybe I go take some photos… I am a bit tired so probably not… let’s see…

Hello world…

Hi, I don’t really like to write about myself but I’ll try…

I’m from a quite small village in western Finland, called Sandsund, I’m trying to be an artist, actually I just graduated from a BA in Photography and Media arts at a university in south eastern England… Now I’m quite unsure of what to do, maybe start a company, that seems like a good idea at the moment

I’m sort of a geek too… I got my first computer and started programming at the age of 8 (and stopped programming at around 18…) I like sound and have this little ambient project called Ambient Light, that have been around for a while… I actually made music much longer then I made visual arts, funny that it’s visual arts that I stated studying and not sound, I used quite much sound in my projects at the university and the projects that got me the highest grades were actually the video and sound pieces, not the photography ones, and photography was my main field after all…

I have a webpage at http://www.jonasthomen.com/ with a whole lot of more info, this is a blog and I plan to write whatever is floating around in my head here… the webpage is more structured, at least I hope so.

Selfportrait I made a long time ago… (there aren’t much, if any, images of me that I like)