Eat whatever you want...

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Sounds promising, doesn´t it?

This is the message of a book written by Teemu Ollikainen, a Finnish psychologist and psychotherapist, who approaches dieting from the mental starting points.

Food and feelings are intertwined, and many of us overeat to control stress or calm down.

In this clever book Teemu Ollikainen gives us expert advice how to negotiate with yourself and find the reasons for your impulses before acting.

Why and when are you tempted to eat more than you need? Can you distinguish hunger from ghost hunger? Are you really hungry or just thirsty? (Drink water to find out.)

The writer himself tested these psychological weight control advices a few years ago and lost 20 kilos. I met him shortly at the book fair in Helsinki and asked how many kilos he has gained since.

- None, he said. And smiled.

Teemu Ollikainen: Syö mitä mielesi tekee (WSOY).

www.wsoy.fi

PS. First translation rights of this book are sold to Estonia. 

Photo©Paula Hietaranta

Light to the darkness of our soul

 

The artist Jaume Plensa yesterday in EMMA. 

Eyes. Hands. A brain. And a heart.

And light to our world and to the darkness of our soul.

That is what Jaume Plensa´s art is made of.

His exhibition In the Midst of Dreams opened yesterday in Espoo Museum of Modern Art, EMMA, and is open until 27.1.2013.

www.emmamuseum.fi
Photos©Paula Hietaranta 
 

 

And the winner is....

... Jasmiine Julin-Aro!

Our internationally known clothing designer got today The Kaj Franck Design Prize 2012 for her suberb acchievements in the field of designing functional and good-looking outfits for motorcyclists, skiers, golfers and sailing enthusiasts.

Well done, Jassu!

The pieces of her long freelance career are now exhibited in Design Museum Finland showing the different aspects of her innovative and strongly functional spirit. 

Worth of mentioning are also her ideas of a sustainable design even before the idea was as well-known it is today. There is for example a down coat Alaska she designed 1985, sent back to the factory Joutsen Finland for minor repairs by it´s Swedish owner. (Who got a new coat for letting this one to be exhibited but wants to get this dear old one back!)

Interesting exhibition pieces are three motorcycling outitfs showing how they saved their owners in an accident. For example this black Rukka APR AirVision outfit was sent back by  it´s Canadian owner telling how he hit a large deer at about 95 kmph, and slid appr 60 meters after the collision. The motorcycle was gone, but the owner came through with some abrasions, general soreness and a minor concussion.

This new white motorcycling outfit, designed for Rukka/L-Fashion Group Oy this year, is not only good-looking with it´s elastic, breathable material and reflective prints but has effective D30 protectors activated upon impact.

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The exhibition is open until 2 December, check the details there:

www.designmuseum.fi/en/nayttely/kaj-franck-design-prize-2012/

Photos©Paula Hietaranta

Messages from outer space

Marika Mäkelä: Tibetan Bridal Saddle II, 2012. Oil on wood, 160 x 160 cm. 

Photos Jussi Tiainen.

Have you ever wondered how it would be to travel into another reality?

Well, now you have the possibility – just go to Galerie Anhava in Helsinki and immerse yourself in the new paintings by Marika Mäkelä.

They are space ships to a secret places, they touch the magnetic fields of your heart. They show you the wonder of reality becoming unreal.

They are waiting for you at Galerie Anhava in Helsinki until November 25th.

www.anhava.com

 

Marika Mäkelä: Three Times Warm, 2012, 197 x 197 cm.

Marika Mäkelä: Guardian of Happiness, 2012. Oil on wood, 197 x 197 cm.