The Diary of Sauli Hirvi

Archive for January, 2010

Uvumi – A Thesix­ty­one Alternative

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

A few days have passed since thesix­ty­one did their rad­ical redesign and made some major ideo­lo­gical changes. The site now feels like a lonely place, as they removed all vis­ible signs of human inter­ac­tion; neither com­ments nor recent hearts are to be seen. They also did away with the abil­ity to down­load songs, and – […]

Rol­lei Retro 400 S Impressions

Posted on January 23rd, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

I shot a few rolls of Rol­lei Retro 400 S and I must say it was the most dif­fi­cult film I’ve used so far. The con­trasts are pretty wild and expos­ure is hard to pre­dict, but when you suc­ceed the res­ults are very pleas­ant. It has a dreamy qual­ity to it. Over 50% of my […]

thesix­ty­one Redesign

Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

thesixtyone.com did a major redesign pretty much out of the blue. The inter­face went through a com­plete rehaul and some extens­ive con­cep­tual changes are under way. Their fans at Face­book are not happy. First thing that struck me was that you can no longer leave com­ments on pro­file pages. From now on com­ment­ing is reserved […]

New Song — You Knew Someone

Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

Our second song, You Knew Someone, has been released to the wil­der­ness and it came out bet­ter than I had hoped. We have two more songs in the queue. Once again I hope we’ll fin­ish one next week, but these things have a way of belat­ing them­selves. I’ve been toy­ing around with the idea of […]