Art questions December 2020

Q: How do you define success?

A: I want to give you experiences. That's thing number one. Strong images and powerful music.

If the first thing out of your mouth is numbers and money, you have a serious problem. And we have a serious problem because of these people.

These cowards don't take any risks. "In order to succeed, do something someone else is doing". Then they wonder why we have this ass-backward atmosphere.

You just kept accepting these things.

Q: Did you have any favourite artists growing up?

A: Hugo Simberg (1873–1917). He mainly painted symbolic visions and scenes with sympathetic devils and skeletons representing death.

Theodor Kittelsen (1857–1914). His art was quite similar but more focused on folklore and landscapes.

Gustave Doré (1832–1883). Illustrations for The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost.

Oversaturation is noise pollution

Vahaliitu - Wax Crayon

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Likainen työ - Dirty Job

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Counting all the compliments I've received as an artist

Not joking.

Rattaat - Wheels

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

My top 50 Black-and-white films - 1924-1994

TINTED FILMS NOT INCLUDED.

1924 Sherlock Jr.
1925 The Gold Rush
1926 Faust
1926 A Page of Madness
1927 Metropolis
1928 The Man Who Laughs
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1930 The Blood of a Poet
1931 M – A City Searches for a Murderer
1932 Vampyr
1932 Freaks
1932 The Old Dark House
1932 Island of Lost Souls
1933 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 Duck Soup
1943 Seventh Victim
1943 Day of Wrath
1946 The Spiral Staircase
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1950 Rashomon
1951 Strangers on a Train
1952 The White Reindeer
1953 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
1954 La Strada
1955 Ordet
1955 Les Diaboliques
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1960 The Virgin Spring
1960 Eyes Without a Face
1960 Black Sunday
1960 Psycho
1961 The Innocents
1962 Carnival of Souls
1962 Cape Fear
1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
1962 Lolita
1963 The Haunting
1963 The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963 8½
1963 Il Demonio
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1964 The Last Man on Earth
1964 Onibaba
1965 Repulsion
1968 Kuroneko
1968 Night of the Living Dead
1977 Eraserhead
1980 The Elephant Man
1989 Tetsuo
1994 Ed Wood

Favourite films top 50
http://saapasnahkatorni.blogspot.fi/2016/06/favourite-films-top-50.html

Kaupunki - City

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Musta kissa - Black Cat

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Roast of Professional Complainers

Does the union of freedom and full potential fill you with excitement? If it doesn't, then you just might be a professional complainer.

Professional complainers are mind-bendingly self-centered and they frequently evacuate verbal diarrhea. Speech worship knows no bounds. Speech is the new salvation!

Projection is the new positive! As a self-centered stooge you have to protect yourself. Just fill your day with meaningless attacks. Wow, you really put the mean in meaningless.

Objection is the new original! We are building a world where full potential gets steamrolled by cynicism. A world where real creativity is for crackpots.

Insipid is the new inspirational! Yes, "anything is possible", but apparently you're not ready for it. You would rather eat ice cream and fart on a pillow that says "Anyone Can Do Anything."

Lament is the new legit! We are building a world where fascists are complaining about dictators. A world where people with ingrown toenails sit at home, form their own online group and send death threats to podiatrists.

Anxiety in, anxiety out. Anxiety is the new amniotic fluid!

Tunnistus - Recognition

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Mielenosoitus - Demonstration

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.

Art questions November 2020

Q: Has 2020 affected your creativity?

A: Positively. 2019 and 2020 have been incredibly productive. 

I recorded 60 album tracks for 8 different albums. Some of them were loosely based on old demos and notes. All that while studying, finishing a film, working on an animation and creating drawings.

I studied at home in April, May and October. Now I'm back in school. 

I will finish my 14th album in 2021. Yeah, just another "lazy millennial".

Alaston - Nude

Wax crayon / wax on paper. Rinta-Perälä, 2020.