...Just Like Summer
So I'm currently working on a (probably) overly-ambitious project to organize every photo that has ever passed into my possession, ever. This involves editing all the image files' metadata to ensure the correct date/time is embedded, as well as doing all sorts of extra content tagging for location, people, events, etc. And in going through every photo you've ever had, ever, you can get pretty nostalgic.
On another note, the weather had finally gotten consistently nice and sunny for the past two weeks. But yesterday and today have been cloudy/rainy/pissy, and have immediately filled me with dread at the thought of 9-10 months of rain to come. So since it's an icky day, I'm here at the house tagging photos and I just so happened to be on the folder from my trip to Scandinavia in 2006. Cue music to reminisce by....
I was at the Kiasma Art Museum in Helsinki, and wandered into a viewing room for a video installation. The featured video was called "Helsinki Complaints Choir," and the concept was that a composer conducted a survey asking a bunch of Finns what their biggest complaints about life were. She then consolidated all the complaints, set them to music, and got a large choir to sing the song about all these random (and very Finnish) frustrations of daily life. It was completely charming and wonderful...and I loved it so much that I sat in that video installation room and watched the video from start to finish three or four times.
Just like I did a few minutes ago as I was tagging it. And sadly, these two lines caught my attention as far too relevant:
The rest of it isn't quite so depressing: Helsinki Complaints Choir on YouTube.
On another note, the weather had finally gotten consistently nice and sunny for the past two weeks. But yesterday and today have been cloudy/rainy/pissy, and have immediately filled me with dread at the thought of 9-10 months of rain to come. So since it's an icky day, I'm here at the house tagging photos and I just so happened to be on the folder from my trip to Scandinavia in 2006. Cue music to reminisce by....
I was at the Kiasma Art Museum in Helsinki, and wandered into a viewing room for a video installation. The featured video was called "Helsinki Complaints Choir," and the concept was that a composer conducted a survey asking a bunch of Finns what their biggest complaints about life were. She then consolidated all the complaints, set them to music, and got a large choir to sing the song about all these random (and very Finnish) frustrations of daily life. It was completely charming and wonderful...and I loved it so much that I sat in that video installation room and watched the video from start to finish three or four times.
Just like I did a few minutes ago as I was tagging it. And sadly, these two lines caught my attention as far too relevant:
The rest of it isn't quite so depressing: Helsinki Complaints Choir on YouTube.
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