Flow-Mo 'Response' theatre piece

Flow-Mo has come out with new theatre piece called Response.

Premier is tonight in URB-Festival. Check it if you have a chance!
Recognize Crew from Serbia will be doing a piece too at the same night. It's always nice to hang with them guys (they smuggle RAKIA booze over the borders :D).

Response

RESPONSE looks at the possibilities of combining the movement of dance with moving image. The work's final form is achieved as the result of an open process where each member of the artist group has an equal chance of affecting the end product.

Growing side by side with URB, Flow-Mo approaches breakdance from a new perspective. The interplay between dancers in terms of improvisation, the mood of a certain moment, and the reactions of the audience are explored. Equilibrium between peace and chaos, between the purity and impurity of movement is something the dance considers.

Video designer Petri Ruikka approaches breakdance through moving image. He explores the real-time merging of image with movement, and the whole that this creates. At what point are dialogue and a common space between the two created? Contributing to creating this space are light designer Jani-Matti Salo and sound designer Taneli Bruun.

Dance: Flow-Mo
Light design: Jani-Matti Salo
Video design: Petri Ruikka
Sound design: Taneli Bruun
Duration: 30 min

More INFO : www.urb.fi



And be sure to visit my fellow crewmates blogsites (today is bloggin day, 1st for all of us actually for a month haha) :

Focus
www.taukojalka.com/focus
Hatsolo
www.taukojalka.com/hatsolo

www.taukojalka.com is a a site worth to check anyways too!! It's mostly in finnish tho.

boat trips + shows + summer jams = random stuff

This is how to put boat back in to water for summer...


Getting to a new dock..



Chillinn, in Helsinki centrum with topi & markku.


Yesterday I was on the sea with my girlfriend... engine crashed, so we had to try to dock with natural forces only wind with us! We almost made it back before we got stuck to the seafloor haha. With no engines and nothing it was impossible to get the boat move again. Until I saw some waves coming so as a wise & very experienced captain I lifted up the sails and when the waves hit the boat, we got moving after couple of touchdowns. When we got away from there the docking was surprisingly even easier than with motor.. luck? who knows.


Flow-Mo was having a show at Mbar, it was Funky Elephant festival's opening. Our show was craazy to be honest.

Check some pics.. that's me:



A.T.


Focus


and Flow-Mo's graff artist Tolin's graff from the night


Evening got heated on the "dancefloor" too..

Ohyeah, Jeniwai's birthday was also 2 days ago..
things got interesting at times..

Hotpanties performing :)

Next weekend to wednesday i'll be at Kuopio tanssii ja soi (Kuopio) with antopio & dance.fi. Theatre shows and i'll be spinning @Intro on monday.

Jams's in Finland this summer:

1. Mid Summer fest.get driuuuuaank 19-21.6.2009
2. Oulun Katutanssit (Oulu) (3vs3 bboys & showcase competition) 4.7.2009
3. Payback (Jyväskylä) (2vs2 hiphop, 2vs2 bboys) 10-11.7.2009
4. Trevenge (Tampere) date ????
5. Pori Jazz (Erykah Badu, Raphael Saadiq etc) 16.-18.7.2009
6. Taukojam, circle prinz, UK champ eliminations, etc. 21.-22.8.2009
7. SADE -festival (Helsinki)(popping, locking, house, hiphop 1vs1 battles) 4.-6.9.2009


See you in most of them, I HOPE.

Holla,

Free download of I love 90's hiphop mixtape from last year. The mixtape is trackmarked so it's easy to listen and also definately 1 of my favorite mixtapes. For the people who bought it before, downloading it gives you the tracklist aswell. Track 17 is produced by me on Onyx's - Take 'em up.



Mixtape is definately diamond for hiphop dancers & bboys!!

Please share and post where and whoever you want to,

Download it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?8f8j9rbosrs9ut4

BRING IT BACK,
Enjoy!

-Olli

summer thoughts in stockholm

Today I came to Stockholm to see my girlfriend and chill. I was going to holla Damon Frost but I felt too cheapass to use my money on transportations, so i tried to walk to centrum - got tired, bought beer and sit down and watch the sunset beside the sea.

I didn't think about it before but now i know that next summer i'll be wasted. Shout outs to my homies...

Drinking carlsberg to 'erykah badu's - back in the day' with fresh sneakers in Stockholm.




Badu in Pori Jazz 2009 this summer..

Exploring finnish culture

We are in Savonlinna having couple workshops and a show... The area is a must-to-visit for nature lovers.. the Finland's biggest lake Saimaa and boats made me look forward for summer and sailing. Kalsse and Dabo had points !!

I'm happy we didn't ride here with this school bus.. Poor fellas.



Bridge to Olavinlinna




It says: "Mitä vaatii suomessa vapaus vaan, se isästä poikaan maksetaan" Ruff, finnish war history. Fathers and sons payed lifes for freedom.



An Old school castle called Olavinlinna




Local delicacy "lörtsy":



Inside castle:


POWERFUL IMPACT -BOOOM- FROM THE CANNON!


from hotel window:


workshop organizer Miha:

Time for some action

Thesis is done so it's time to get busy.

For the poppers, I can promise a new CD coming in couple months.

Last weekend we had Mr.Wiggles giving workshops here in Helsinki, thanks to Jenny's & Jeniwai's DOUBLE J. I've heard rumors that SADE -festival that's coming in autumn will be crazy.

Summer is coming too, so the jams to watch out in summer will be Oulun Katutanssit 3-4.7. where I will also play at. Remember to check Payback jam as well in Jyväskylä 12.7.

My sailing boat is getting pimped for the summer. Let's just hope for a warm and sunny summer.

Adidas 60 years anniversary

Adidas had it's 60 yrs anniversay in Tavastia couple weeks back. Flow-Mo had a show there among other shows like Kemmuru, Loost Koos, Rudy Rok, Martti Kuoppa, Super Janne, Dj Anonymous, Dj didier, J-laini, DJPP etc. It was pretty cool event. At least for me.. it went on till 9 AM with sauna afterpartys.

Few pics:


catering

shiit, who's cool now?


Aksim from Kemmuru holdin it down


AT & Focus
T-Flow


Ah... these are from our show. Otso Kääriäinen took these pics with my camera, I thought to add a few from the minimal 350 pics he took. So it's like, what..less than 1 pic for a second? cool.. Check his gallery for pics from different jams: http://www.kaiku.galleria.fi/kuvat/














Right now I concentrate on my thesis so I hope you won't hear anything of me in next couple weeks. I hate deadlines.. but on the other hand, I couldnt get anything done without them.

KPO Breaks 10 pics

KPO Breaks 10 was dopeness. It was nice to see all the friends and party. I feel sad that Kimmo & Jussi will not organize it anymore. Let's organize KPO breaks afterparty next year at least :)

Best things:

1. Premiere of Kpo Breaks DVD 2000-2008

If you have chance, go and buy one. Alot of Finnish bboy history there. I remember how it was when the movie was starting. Atmosphere was exciting!

2. Oldies Battle

Final was between Jesse 13 & Antopio.. It was real close and Jesse13 has some mad serious skills yo I gotta say. Our fellow jury gave it to Antopio anyway who did good as always! Props for both!


Jury for Oldies Battle


3. Afterparty

Afterparty was wild. Cool djs including me, anonymous, rome-1, tibbz, roope-setä.
And After the afterparty is another after party like always.


Pics from cyphers:

Parkes - Ghost Crew

Focus - Flow-Mo
Dark Mark - Ghost Crew
Ima - Ghost Crew
Hatsolo - Flow-Mo
Freakwency - Rancid Rockers
Tumba - Sticky Ruckus
Antti - Deep Forest Dealers
Flaco - Ghost Crew
Tumba - Sticky Ruckus

Flaco - Ghost Crew
Norsu - Beat Warriors
Rexu aka T-Rex

Jesse 13

Freeze - Ghost Crew
Jesse13












Kpo Memories Golden Forever.

PEACE!