North from Eden

You might know that the short and often chilly summer in Finland poses challenges to the gardening, but love – it has no boundaries.The new documentary Eedenistä pohjoiseen by Virpi Suutari is not about seeds or flowers or flower beds or gardens. It is about love. 

The film shows us Finnish couples who love gardening and love each other. It is full of feelings from craziness to tears, from tender togetherness to sweet loss. It shows us the lovely Northern nights when the sun hardly sets (yes, you can weed even then) and the joy of buying plants and bushes, not clothes (in gardens of Eden you can go naked).

Eedenistä pohjoiseen (Garden Lovers) won a few weeks ago the main prize in Tampere Film Festival in the over 30 minutes category.

Now in cinemas in Finland and let´s hope soon all over the world!

Get a taste of the film here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2kMMfPkv0

Eedenistä pohjoiseen | www.finnkino.fi

The perfect traffic jam

Good morning!

I bet this layered apricot, gooseberry and strawberry jam is the sweetest traffic jam you ever tasted!

It is avallable in Anton & Anton, a Helsinki based food market for people who appreciate good, fresh food, carefully chosen producers and seasonal ingredients, both from Finland and abroad - simply healthy quality food available in your neigborhood! (Or sent to you on order.)

Now Anton & Anton has three shops in Helsinki. New one just opened in Ullanlinna, Kapteeninkatu 26, three weeks ago.

www.antonanton.fi

Photo©Paula Hietaranta

The art adventure of colour and design

What happens when two racy creative spirits put their ideas together?

Finnish shoe designer Minna Parikka and illustrator Janine Rewell decided to create a spectacle combining the Minna Parikka SS14 shoe collection and the art of colourful body painting. 

In these pictures you see that a human body is a perfect canvas that gives a three-dimensional approach to painting. 

Who would not like to be dressed in those patterns and colours? 

And hey, look at the shoes as well!

Photos Jonas Lundqvist


Art direction and illustration Janine Rewell


Shoe design Minna Parikka


Body paint Riina Laine & Saara Sarvas


Here in this video you see how it all happened

http://minnaparikkashoes.createsend1.com/t/j-l-iyhlkkl-udijlidl-d/