TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

2:42 PM
Posted by jodi rose

landed back in helsinki on a rainy monday afternoon, dropped by mari's to pick up my other suitcase and then straight to sophea's for decompression. Lounged around talking about art and existential matters, drank polish cranberry vodka and ate the lithuanian pilot chocolates I brought back - sadly the honey liquor slipped out of my hand while opening the door, crashed and spilled.
Mentioned to Sophea that I was totally up to my eyeballs with electronic avant garde music and really needed some sleazy disco, which turned into an idea for a rapid deployment unit to make an intervention at the final night of makro lab on suomenlinna island. So, we got on the internet and downloaded a selection of 70's mp3's (it's raining men, ring my bell, celebration, we are family), loaded them onto her mobile phone and took our RF38 loudspeaker out to the island to get the tactical response unit dancing. Andrew and Ben created a disco ball from empty chip packets, a football, string and video projector and we did our best to drag the makro-lab people away from the red and green dots and music selection on their laptops, but to no avail. Full report from Sophea to follow!