OUTFIT OF THE DAY: Summertime Sadness

"Kiss me hard before you go,
Summertime sadness,
I just wanted you to know
That baby you´re the best"

Lana Del Ray, "Summertime sadness"

The fact is that July is very soon over and August means end of the summer. That sucks billions out of pennies, which are tiny just like our short summer. I've been cutting shorts and shirts short like crazy. Creating clothes you can't wear in the winter, what a waste of fabric. Maybe I should sew them back together? It would be like the next level of DIY master slave 666 (jokes on you, Illuminati freaks). 

To be honest, all this Illuminati paranoia shit is pissing me off. Christians go all coo coo, when a profit hungry pop singer does some kick ass music video, with horns on her head. Or something provocative stuff with super tight clothes, that leave no imagination, showing all the camel toes, vaginas and swollen tits. To get media's attention to spam us and promote their new songs and CD/s. Which we download illegally anyway? The real power of horns and triangles, wow, this deep shit just got deeper.

I think semiotics is very interesting and mixing a bit with art makes it all more meaningful.

Meanwhile, when singers are kissing The All Evil's buttocks, I am playing an angle. My skin is very white and gets never tanned, just like angels'. I mean, they are above fluffy clouds, grilling under the sun all day long and still white? White men logic.

My friends are telling me: "It's nice to see someone more white than me!" Pff, it's pretty pink not white!

With that mouth it's hard to pretend to be an angle. Said that, the photo of me might have some angel symbolism: the white light coming from the window, looking down at fools and the bed sheets are like those fluffy clouds, where you want to die on Monday mornings.

I took this photo with my tiny Sony Nex-F3 camera I bought for under 350 euros. Every time, when my friends are getting a new camera and ask me for advice, I am a total micro camera worshiper. The image quality is amazing and they are super light in the weight. You don't need a camera that is too heavy to carry around, otherwise your life will be something that is described as hell. 

Of course I photoshopped the shit out of the original image.

It was around 9am and sunny, obviously. I had no tripod or other humans around to take the photo. So I built something out of cardboard boxes and tilted the camera with my friends' socks and put pepper plants in front to get more diamentional result. It is called "framing" in the photo and video industry and there are many ways to frame objects in the imagery.

There is no logical nor systematical explanation of this outfit. All the clothes I bought from second hand shop and they cost me around 8 euros in total. Like ZOMG! The pants are cut short and bleached. I use more bleacher than drink milk a year! But that's only because I am anti dairy.

Right now I am into this Lana Del Ray remix.

And if you are using Facebook (you can log in without registration) or Lookbook.nu, 

HYPE ME, MAYBE?

Aalo

xx

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Rick Day

Rick Day (born 1960), he does boys and girls, in a very beautiful way. In case you don't know this photographer yet, hopefully you will become a huge fan of his work just like me. Because he is self-taught photographer and picked his camera at the age of 28, it makes him double inspiring!

He's the master of male nudes, beauty, fashion and advertising. I would love to intern for him! The lighting, post-pro and models' posing is just perfect. I wonder if he ever captures a bad frame or struggles with the light!

Although Rick Day is good at so many photography genres, his male nudes are the most strongest ones. Day published also several books that according to Wikipedia power boosted his career to a new level.

Hopefully this post is not too NSFW!
You can check out his portfolio here.

This was today's dosage of men meat.
Now you know another big name in photography business!

Aalo
xx

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DIY Sunset Beach tank top

Tervitusi* from Estonia! I was waiting so long this summer to stop working for a while and come to Tartu. Spending time with your old friends and taking it slow is def the meaning of the summer. It's so sunny and hot and I want to eat only watermelons and wear tank tops. 

 Tank tops aka A-shirts are the thing for me this summer. I feel so light and healthy and not feeling like covering my skin too much. I am not used to wear sleeveless shirts and that's why I don't own that many of these. But it's not that difficult to do it yourself from an old t-shirt. Especially if you are not looking for a proper and fit looking result, you can just leave the borders unfinished.

I used my old fav tank top as the "pattern" to get the approximate picture where to start cutting.  The old top is pretty skin-tight which my sister brought me from Thailand! I would die to go to Thailand, just imagine eating cheap and super ripe fruits and freshly sqeezed fruit juices all day long! Mmmm.... 

This t-shirt I got from my friend who didn't like it anymore. It's a bit too large for me but who cares, the colors are rocking! I hope I will get to own the shorts too! Real vintage!

*Tervitusi means greetings in Estonian

All best and keep on DIY

Aalo

xx

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African wood

The weather has been perfectly hot and sunny the whole week and I even got some tan! Being all the time outside and wearing tanktops, yeah, I could do that all year long. If only I lived in a hot climate with summerish winters!

During this week, I accidentally visited more second hand shops than I normally would. Yesterday I bought a lot of stuff, including some interesting textiles, raw food books, shirts that I'd like to turn into tanktops, huge leather coat that I got for free (I am dreaming of white leather tanktop) and a huge wooden African style necklace.

I am really into wooden accessories. They have more value to me than some shiny crappy metal rings, bracelets and other stuff you find everywhere. The one I found for five euros is so huge and noisy, like a musical instrument when you walk with it. A proper wooden statement necklace, that will get barely noticeable when worn on a green or brown garment. Although it looks like an African style necklace, I have no idea where is it produced or where is the tree material from. I wonder if I am its second owner or maybe the tenth? But now it is mine and it's my turn to enjoy it!

 Dear readers,

Before you run to H&M, Gina Tricot or Seppälä stores, please visit your second hands first.

You might even find clothes that are produced in your own country!

Love,

Aalo

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Old times, good times!

Time flies fast but that's okay. It's been over two months since my last blog entry. Meanwhile I've been doing so much stuff and many beautiful and happy things happened to me. I've been surrounded by good energy and beautiful people. Here I would like to share few important moments with you. This post won't be as fashionable as my previous ones, it will be about the happy dude behind this blog. And maybe a bit too much around electronics than it is healthy. I like shiny toys, what can I do?!

I couldn't figure out what would be a better way to describe past time than Instagram. If you are using it all the time, it will become a diary of your life in pictures. Which suits me well because I'll rather look at imagery than read text. And that's been from my early childhood. Call me lazy if you wish!

As a "work" or assignment camera I am using my super fancy Nikon D800 babe. With built-in 36mplx the image quality is really good and I am very happy with it but the thing is, it's heavy as hell! Having one kilogram of camera body plus several lenses hanging on your shoulder is kind of *ouch* on long outdoor sessions. And too heavy for an always-with-ya photomachine. I felt like I need something tiny, light and with a good photo quality. 200% of my images are photoshopped so the new camera should shoot RAW images not only JPEG. Most of the point and shoot cameras, even the advanced one with RAW image formats, seemed to be kinda crappy and limited in their possibilities. After a long search and analysis I decided to go for a micro DSLR and I should say I'm lovin' it!

Here is a selfie with the little, cute and very light Sony NEX-F3 with a fancy flip screen. The photo is taken with a phone, though.

Meanwhile I bleached my eyebrows again. Don't ask why. Soon I need to bleach them again.  

Soon all the snow was gone and everything became beautiful, vibrant and full of energy. I love flowers so much!

 And I was blooming too!

The time of the year was coming closer, when we get older... Soon was my birthday. My dear mom and my sister surprised me with a lovely gift which was totally unexpected. I was a bit mad at them too, because I hate when other people spend money on me! My mom said: "I don't want that my son was traveling with a broken phone!". Which was true, I dropped my iPhone 3gs on the floor and the screen got broken. But that was two years ago and it is still working like a charm!

Later on, at a birthday party, I received a white Samsung Galaxy Tablet... I warned you, this post will be very Hi-Tech and such. For my birthday party my family made me a surprise party like they have done last five years. Which is funny, until that we used to cook with our family for two days, for the big evening, when we will all over eat. And then eat some more!

This is Australian money. Very beautiful, I was WOWing it pretty long time. And it has a little transparent plastic part in the lower right corner. Unfortunately my cousin and her boyfriend, who came all the way from Estonia that birthday evening, were leaving to Australia the next morning. I hope they are happy and happier over there, in a worry-free sunshine land.

Few days went by and I became an UNCLE! Feels still weird. Maybe because my sister is younger then me and it's weird, when your baby sister does all these adult things. Although she's married already over a year and living in their own house!

Shortly after that I've decided to change my life for a healthier life. On 16th of May I woke up that morning and decided that I want to try a juice fast! It's when you drink for some period of time only fresh made juices. No solid food! For inspiration I've watched "Fat, sick and nearly dead". I've juiced all kind of greens and fruits and veggies I could reached. When I've reached my FOURTEENTH DAY of drinking only OMG how heavenly juices, I felt it's time to stop. The weight dropped four kilograms. After that I continued with raw food. Maybe it will become my new way of life. I've lost 9 kilograms in total since I've started with juicing.

New camera lens! Nikkor 85mm F1,8! I've been thinking of getting this for a very many years. It was worth waiting!

 I love when my dear friends come to visit me from Estonia!

 On the 4th June I went to Tallinn to shoot an Indian dance event. I think everyone should sometimes see something that different from your own culture. It's refreshing.

This last shot is very special. Even though the "lighting" is weird, I look weird and the quality is crappier than anything in this world. But the moment was one in a life time, when a tired and skinny photographer is sailing from one capital city to the other at 11 PM, standing alone on a ship deck, enjoying the sunset on horizont, strong yet warm wind. The deck was totally empty and even the bars were closed. It was Tuesday night and it was magical.

Always high on life,

Aalo

xx

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