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Läkerol Commercial: Vampire

Posted on March 30th, 2011 by Sauli Hirvi

Last week, we shot a commercial for Läkerol in an abandoned mansion near Vilnius, Lithuania. The place used to be a soviet era hospital and there was still some medicine cabinets left. The director, Jalmari Helander, offered 50 euros if I tried some pills from the cabinets, but I declined. I could’ve used 50 euros, [...]

New Song – Closing Time

Posted on March 29th, 2011 by Sauli Hirvi

Semira and I managed to finish an old song of mine that had been lying in a drawer for several years. It sounds like a decarbonated beer at an empty pub, where the upholstery smells like cigarettes and Rohypnol.

Todo – A Simple Productivity App

Posted on December 28th, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

During the holidays I spent my leisure time doing some programming. I’ve been using the simple and brilliant notepad.cc to keep notes I can access anywhere and I thought it might be nice to have a visual todo list alongside it. So, I grabbed my keyboard and went to work. Features include drag’n’drop sorting of [...]

New Song – Lost in the Clockwork

Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by Sauli Hirvi

I finished a song I had been working on for some time. The piano parts had been lying around in some form, but I had not been able to construct a song from them. Until now. I had recorded the pianos without a metronome, which is a bit problematic when you want to add percussion [...]