If nature mysticism feels like urban hippie kids bs, you can just call it tradition and appreciation or whatever.
Anyways, just bought the PUIDEN KANSA book new edition. It was filed, not into photobook section, but somewhere along the religious books in small section of "folk arts" or something. Cover image captured my eye, had not heard about the book even if it is pretty famous.
Now just visited the site, and notice there is actually also Japanese, English and german:
Tree People - translation Roderick Fletcher, 192 sivua
Das Volk der Bäume – Translation Gisbert Jänicke ja Cia Rinne, 192 sivua
So perhaps it's worthy to mention here, when people do have possibility to read it.. at least in theory.
It's information book, but just done in ways or art book. There's nothing dry and heavy in lay-out, but well designed spreads of great photos and decent amount of text. It's most of all art-photobook, but with clear purpose also beyond visual side. Different chapters deals with different sides of the old times. Tree People refers to old beliefs and traditions. It repeats the universal "tree of life" myth, which is present in most of cultures - also found in Kalevala stories. It shows and tells about sacred meeting places, old ritual forests, sacrificial stones. It talks about forest as barrier/edge, what used to separate the home area from the large unknown. It talks about mythical bear in finnish folklore how skulls of bears were hung on trees to allow king of forest to return above. It has several more chapters. Some about more recent time, some about past centuries.
It hardly touches issues like "enviromentalism". You will see many types of people in the book as well. From nude kids to old grannies. But there is no "new age"/"hippie" element really. Which someone could expect, but what just isn't there. Stories you find is about 80 year old granny doing sacrifices under oak temple etc.
And why does it matter? I guess it is just the deep distaste towards the urban young adults invading with their unnatural approach into the nature. Those distanced from forests as well as traditional food production. With motivations far away from natural local traditions, replaced by confused disappointment in world. That is the crowd one often see to be loudest, leading the "rest" of people to talk about all the stupid tree-huggers. Anyway, while many of the urban alternatives talk about nonsense of "reclaimin the street", I guess most of the time one could say just keep that shit. There are still areas of old forest to go and visit the ancient. Untouched by the wood industry. Curiously I'm still "corrupted" enough to be in middle of nowhere, but think how great sound some plants are making with crispy new ice covering them in autumn breeze. And regret not having recorder. But I guess have to accept the fact that escape into nowhere is still bringing your own head with you, nevertheless.
It's little strange how their site doesn't give a pre-view of easily the best material in book, but just some random pages which hardly do justice.
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info in english:
http://www.puidenkansa.net/_english/TREE_PEOPLE_PROJECT/Sivut/BOOK.html#4
Recommendations & comments on things related of the topic welcomed!
lascaux cave paintings in france http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/fr/02_00.xml
they dont let people in anymore due to their stinky breathing and its corroding effect on the paintings.
edit: too bad I cant recall any specific numbers but a disturbing amount of the woods here are industrial forrests, not old trees growing and falling every which way but neatly kept fuel for big business. heh, I read in the papers where in lapland they leave forresty landscapes around the roads and when you venture in a little deeper everything is just exploded. -->avohakkuu dont know how its said in english.
That's right up my alley, but 40 eu + postage is a little steep. I couldn't find it listed anywhere in the US.
I also have this book, and I'd say it's worth the price.
I guess, when next time visiting Finland, perhaps Con-Dom show in Helsinki 5.6.2010 (with very unique & rare appearances of some Finnish bands!), few extra days and visit www.outdoors.fi or www.luontoon.fi
Perhaps Helvetinjärvi (Lake of Hell) or such.
This is one image I took from Repovesi naturalpark last autumn:
click the link to open it in new window. Forum settings won't allow too big images (like this panorama) what would fuck up the lay-out of text:
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maybe linked these before, but from same trip.
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Place is perhaps 100kpl drive from Lahti. You could hear the distant sound of heavy artillery & explosions from army training camps located few dozen km for other direction. Otherwise, perfect place at that time of year with no other people, zero human sounds. No roads near by.
The romanticising of urban decay etc rings more and more hollow as cities become indreasingly gentrified. Trendy cafes, so called helvetica bars and restaurants, overblown shopping centres and so forth. The death of the Ballardian landscape if you will. Or at least the change of it. The wild and untamed is found in nature and that's where I draw inspiration from. While walking through London leaves me feeling cold at best, a nocturnal stroll through the pitch black woods is an intense experience indeed. The sheer silence holds much more promise and menace than the brightly lit urban setting with its endless traffic and soulless humanoids. More importantly there's the sensation of realising that we are all part of this. While the cities were built to generate money and house the people who are there to keep the machine going nature is where we came from. As simple a realisation as it is it's a very intense and profound one. Learning to master nature, or rather live in it and off it, is a noble achievement whereas most things I've learned on how to survive in the human beehives we've created only made me a weaker person. I'm looking for a way out. The secluded farm in the middle of nowhere or the cabin hidden deep in the woods where no one would dare tread. Fuck the World.
Those are great looking photos Mikko. I took these during a very early and very cold morning stroll through my beloved MOD training area just down the road from me. I used a mobile phone so the resolution isn't all that but the grainy quality adds an atmosphere that I like.
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spring is nigh so lets put up some hippyshit.
weird circular shroom pattern and pedro
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Wall of Fish. It could be recording.
Or even Harsh Fish Wall? Looks like it, anyway.
the wall is pretty quiet unless you catch the critters going through the airhole in the bottom or the bees nests close by but old rowboats sound good. the oars squeeking and so on. and when its turned upside down for the winter it serves as a echochamber. fishies are mostly northern pike and zander. my contribution is one head.
something I read(listened) a few weeks ago was into the wild, skip the movie and just go to the book. a good one about Christopher McCandless aka alexander supertramp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless the guys story was intresting enough but the book also included a good amount of stuff about other recluses, all died in the sticks. one was this fellow who experimented with stoneage,bronceage styles of life. after 10-15 years he stabbed him self in the heart, the experiments had stopped at this point already and he was just living like regular hermits.
Some shots from the past year. Some from cell cam, others from my regular camera. I'm really into trees. That sounds kinda weird but I really like the way they just stretch and seem to scrape the sky. And they resemble the nervous system. DC/Maryland has some nice wooded areas for exploring as does Pennsylvania. Especially near the old burnt out steel and coal towns.
Washington DC/Maryland
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Kyoto, Japan
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my turn to hug trees .
my hometown's mountains , a few weeks ago :
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Never mountain biked, but I own one...nothing too fancy. Just for riding around my neighborhood. I always thought the new braunfels area would be a nice place to ride, once you get outside of town and away from drunk frat boys. The Hill Country is one of my favorite places in TX. A few of my pics...
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Anyone who lives in Helsinki-area, should visit Pitkäkoski (near Haltiala naturepark). Very nice landscapes and good place for biking
Quote from: halthan on May 20, 2010, 01:56:02 PM
Anyone who lives in Helsinki-area, should visit Pitkäkoski (near Haltiala naturepark). Very nice landscapes and good place for biking
If you do, you should also visit the artificial reservoir lake (Silvolan tekojärvi). In principle there is a fence around it and going there is punishable by a fine but in practice people have made big holes in the fence... Very nice and sort of alien looking lake, big concrete "stations" inserted in the water. When I was a kid I used to think it looked like straight out of a sci-fi movie (maybe Tarkovski's Stalker!). Apparently they took ministers and foreign political visitors to fish there years ago, there was lots of fish planted in the lake. Swimming can be dangerous (so they say) due to strong currents. Just watch out for the security guards, they drive around the lake once in a while.
some cellphone photos of my rural heimat in southwest Sweden (Halland), a few kilometres off the coast (when the weather is clear, you can see Denmark), taken during a walk at dusk last summer. unfortunately, the landscape has been cultivated & controlled for centuries (if not since the bronze age), but still a very pleasant landscape. you rarely meet anyone out there; more cattle than people. in the trailer, they found a polish guest worker killed by another polish guy some year ago, just outside a long-since abandoned mill.
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brings to mind a genre of landscape painting that i am a huge fan of; the SUBLIME. during my years in art history, it really struck home when i began to study the foremost attention to power via dense and overwhelming areas and blocks of detail - which eventually led to the shapes mimicked via impressionism - abstraction - minimalism.
the most obvious is 1800s german landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
the US group: The Hudson River School featuring Albert Bierstadt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bierstadt
and my favourite; Canadian painter Cornelius Krieghoff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Krieghoff
Quote from: THE RITA HN on May 25, 2010, 08:55:32 AM
and my favourite; Canadian painter Cornelius Krieghoff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Krieghoff
Ah, Burned Forest Blackened Landscape cover is his The Passing Storm painting. Strange to see this familiar picture in colour for the first time.
So I didn't know where to put this...
A Soviet missile base in Germany that spy planes never saw
which is now being overrun by the forest. The pictures are pretty cool, remind me a lot of STALKER.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20079147
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This one was taken by my girlfriend. I like the gloomy mood a lot!
Love Earth, Hate People.
cr, tell your bird that's an amazing photo!
Thanks, I'll let her know.
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This one was taken by my girlfriend. I like the gloomy mood a lot!
This is a wonderful lmage, thank you for posting.
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There's a film coming in 2015 about Finnish nature mysticism / mythology. Narrated by A.W. Yrjänä, who's a Finnish punk/rock/pop celebrity and writer. Just watched the trailer and was midly surprised to recognise one of the interviewees to be a guy who used to organise many industrial shows in Finland in 90s and 00s - Genocide Organ, Deutsch Nepal, Anenzephalia, Inade, etc.
Could be worth checking out, let's see...
Ukonvaaja (trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqlOYExL9k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqlOYExL9k)
Don't know if this fits to topic, but I like it.
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That's the view when I look outside my room in the basement.
Some pictures I've taken two weeks ago, when I had some days off.
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Quote from: cr on May 15, 2015, 12:37:02 AM
Some pictures I've taken two weeks ago, when I had some days off.
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beautiful material
From my last holidays. The first one was taken by my girlfriend.
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The waterfall made a pretty good harsh noise wall
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Interesting thread, pictures, and subject.
Society offers very, very little to myself. I don't understand the appeal in some people wanting to be a billionaire, trillionaire, celebrity, famous, infamous, etc. Attention whores are still attention whores, no matter what anyone else says. I have experimented living in the wild, have spent weeks starving, with no food in my system at all. Have hunted, and have lived like ancient men lived. It puts you in a very different state of mind when things like this happen. It puts you in touch with nature. Nature is where I feel happy, and most alive.
I think society provides very little of life's truth worth. The world's becoming more and more extreme Leftist, and Male Testosterone levels are plummeting faster than ever, and Testosterone supplements are in high demand. What a fucking joke. The Human Brain has been shrinking, people are more and more domesticated, weak and dependent upon the state for survival. Male and Female are becoming more and more similar as Feminism is on the rise, and soon enough, there will be very little difference between the two. Humans are comfortable, fat, and lazy, and 99% couldn't even spend a full 24 hour period in the wild.
This is modern man. A joke. A horrible, but arguably hilarious joke. It's about time we revert back to Nature.
The species is literally splitting. Like a Wolf to a modern-day Chiuhuaha (or however the fuck you spell it) is Ancient Man to this Effeminate little Bitch.
There was a study published recently which suggested that the pussification of humanity can be traced directly to a proportional enlargement of the brain. Norwegian "proto-deep ecologist" Peter Wessel Zapffe saw the upshot of this - consciousness - as a curse.
"Whatever happened? A breach in the very unity of life, a biological paradox, an abomination, an absurdity, an exaggeration of disastrous nature. Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a menace to its own well-being."
"The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by overevolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment. In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground."
So perhaps the answer to our prayers, short of extinction, would be mass lobotomization.
I in fact willfully engage in a related therapy:
"The surgery consisted of drilling two holes in the patient's head and then injecting pure ethyl alcohol into the prefrontal cortex."
From
http://global.britannica.com/topic/lobotomy
Yeah, maybe an increase in prefrontal cortex, and a decrease in most other brain regions. To form civilization, men needed to band and work together, to survive. The ability to work well in groups resulted in a larger brain. The problem is that most people are no longer facing any real threats to overcome, so the brain of most people has been wasting away. The only good thing modern civilization has done for the brain, has been an increase in vitamins / nutrients.
To go to the best universities, to use your intelligence in the nerdiest of ways, is nothing to using your wits to survive in the wild.
Indeed. University education is often sold on the promise of ensuring that the recipient need never endure, save by the force if her own volition, the awesome discomforts of nature.
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There was a study published recently which suggested that the pussification of humanity can be traced directly to a proportional enlargement of the brain.
Very interesting! Would appreciate links/sources.
It's a bit of a stretch, I'll concede, but:
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001871
"it is plausible that human brain and muscle were evolving in a reciprocal manner to adjust to the increasing energy demands of the growing brain and to adapt to new types of physical activities requiring greater endurance, both characteristic of modern humans"
A bit more readable, whereby the second article acknowledges, but does not explicitly refute, the "decidedly unpolitically correct" speculations of the first:
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21602988-human-beings-are-brainy-weaklings-muscled-out
http://spartanideas.msu.edu/2014/05/29/is-the-evolution-of-strength-and-intelligence-a-zero-sum-game
problem is that there way too many fucking people on earth crowding lead to stress and agression hell on earth
Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, indeed:
Neanderthals had a higher EQ (encephelization quotient: relation to the size of the brain to body mass to determine intelligence) than human beings currently do, who in like manner, have the highest amongst all animals and are thought to be the most intelligent species to inhabit the earth currently.
Neanderthals, however, were much more physically astute than modern humans, and much stronger.
On another note, I'd expect too much mass (whether by muscularity or by fat storage) to cause more blood to go to the body, than to thee brain, possibly hampering intelligence, but this is forgetting that the sex hormone testosterone existing at high levels is not dependent upon a large body mass to sustain it.
I.e. Skinny fucks can have incredibly high testosterone, and often do.
Well the study doesn't look exclusively at static values but at the very long-term evolution of the brain (in relation to muscle), so who knows how that of neanderthals would have evolved over the same period. Perhaps the proportional change would have been similar: "even more brainy neanderthal weaklings". That's going to be my new project name.
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...perhaps neanderthals were just so damn smart, or "overevolved", that they conceived a way out of "Zapffe's paradox" and found the means to voluntarily do the honorable thing.
If they could do it, so can we. Cheer up! There may well be hope for us after all.
Well, the brain has been shrinking since the days of Agriculture. Basically, the easier life gets, the dumber we get. And Neanderthals did become weaklings: modern-day Humans.
The only reason Neanderthals became weak, was that they mixed with other Homo species, and their population grew too big to where it became a burden, modern-day civilization.
It doesn't feel right to slam Testosterone, and musculature, just because our world is becoming more and more feminine. I think the species is on decline, and I'm looking forward to it/not against it, because the species will split soon and mutate and separate, the men from the boys, so to speak.
Slightly offtopic, but quite impressive considering the harsh conditions of Northern Finland. A young woman living off-the-grid in the wilderness.
http://www.briceportolano.com/arctic-love/ (http://www.briceportolano.com/arctic-love/)
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/ (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/)
Wow! Good article - one of the few I've actually read completely on the computer screen. Thanks for putting that up.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on April 01, 2010, 10:43:12 AM
If nature mysticism feels like urban hippie kids bs, you can just call it tradition and appreciation or whatever.
Anyways, just bought the PUIDEN KANSA book new edition. It was filed, not into photobook section, but somewhere along the religious books in small section of "folk arts" or something. Cover image captured my eye, had not heard about the book even if it is pretty famous.
Now just visited the site, and notice there is actually also Japanese, English and german:
Tree People - translation Roderick Fletcher, 192 sivua
Das Volk der Bäume – Translation Gisbert Jänicke ja Cia Rinne, 192 sivua
So perhaps it's worthy to mention here, when people do have possibility to read it.. at least in theory.
It's information book, but just done in ways or art book. There's nothing dry and heavy in lay-out, but well designed spreads of great photos and decent amount of text. It's most of all art-photobook, but with clear purpose also beyond visual side. Different chapters deals with different sides of the old times. Tree People refers to old beliefs and traditions. It repeats the universal "tree of life" myth, which is present in most of cultures - also found in Kalevala stories. It shows and tells about sacred meeting places, old ritual forests, sacrificial stones. It talks about forest as barrier/edge, what used to separate the home area from the large unknown. It talks about mythical bear in finnish folklore how skulls of bears were hung on trees to allow king of forest to return above. It has several more chapters. Some about more recent time, some about past centuries.
It hardly touches issues like "enviromentalism". You will see many types of people in the book as well. From nude kids to old grannies. But there is no "new age"/"hippie" element really. Which someone could expect, but what just isn't there. Stories you find is about 80 year old granny doing sacrifices under oak temple etc.
And why does it matter? I guess it is just the deep distaste towards the urban young adults invading with their unnatural approach into the nature. Those distanced from forests as well as traditional food production. With motivations far away from natural local traditions, replaced by confused disappointment in world. That is the crowd one often see to be loudest, leading the "rest" of people to talk about all the stupid tree-huggers. Anyway, while many of the urban alternatives talk about nonsense of "reclaimin the street", I guess most of the time one could say just keep that shit. There are still areas of old forest to go and visit the ancient. Untouched by the wood industry. Curiously I'm still "corrupted" enough to be in middle of nowhere, but think how great sound some plants are making with crispy new ice covering them in autumn breeze. And regret not having recorder. But I guess have to accept the fact that escape into nowhere is still bringing your own head with you, nevertheless.
It's little strange how their site doesn't give a pre-view of easily the best material in book, but just some random pages which hardly do justice.
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info in english:
http://www.puidenkansa.net/_english/TREE_PEOPLE_PROJECT/Sivut/BOOK.html#4
Last week I ordered the German version - Das Volk der Bäume - directly from Ritva Kovalainen, it was delivered very fast and I must say it's absolutely worth the price!
http://www.luonnonperintosaatio.fi/fi/Lahjoita
For finns.
Donate, buy a part of pure forest, whatever. Give some money and youll have done more for nature than lifetime of fucking recycling.
Quote from: eyestrain on June 05, 2016, 08:44:43 AM
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/ (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/)
truly poignant. nothing else needs saying
Guess I took this over the summer, some kind of Southwestern native bloom. Intended to do something with them, but can't remember.
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There was another one but I got too frustrated with Tinypic.
Been really into the overcast skies lately, I take pictures, but I'm assuming people who don't live in sunny climates would be unimpressed.
Well, Winter is finally here. Of course a bit of a cliché, but it's my favourite season.
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Something wicked this way comes...
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