Kuukausi: heinäkuu 2016

What we need is what we are?

| Henna Timanttimetsä

We are in desperate need constantly. It shows on social media, on magazines, in everything that is placed around. Our emotional life grows out from bodily and mental yearnings, lacking and trying to fill in. To learn what can be filled and what is not necessary is important. It is about prioritizing one’s needs and deeds. To hold down desires is the stoic and religious demand which is still held an ideal even though constant growth is a victorious and ultimate demand. To do the impossible and win, conquer and possess. Hedonism is bad, a sign of decay and is when we give all power to our lust and when we keep lusting for more without care and consideration. Overeating, drinking, thinking that via owning we become better people, through becoming famous we will be admired and looked up, when we are rich we are better than etc. Whatever the needs are everyone has them, everyone battles with them. We are in constant situation where we are compared to each other and we are not enough, we do not have enough and to be good we must gain more. This winning and competing way of living and thinking may work up to a point. When is the braking point we will see, it is going to be smashing. But all this it is nothing more than survival of the fittest, survival of humans who have illusions of grandiose. The fittest and mightiest are those who can grasp the best things for themselves and keep them.

To feel pure joy, feel content, satisfied, have admiration, love and fulfilment are lovely things and we like to indulge, coddle and pamper ourselves and those we love. Needless to say we are able to control our needs very poorly meaning hunger grows while eating. There is always more to be had. Human is a dreamer. The further the better. Basic needs must be filled or we will die. At the moment fulfilling those very basic need could be done more rationally and economically without bloodshed, without massive operations, without causing of epidemic destruction. How to fulfil basic needs of all beings is the question of what can be taken and what must be given back. How much can be taken for granted and when it is time to slow down. Fractured world does not work as one big whole. There are needs which are not met that cause conflicts. Forever growth economy-wise is a dream which is seen a reality as there are natural resources that are not exploited. Idea is what is not yet used all the way it shall be so quite soon. There are needs that are not heard nor seen, they are ignored.

How well needs are to be fulfilled like need for nature to be clean and left in peace. In which ways do we see our needs in comparison to needs of others? By fulfilling our urges where does the limit go of enough because as rational humans we must know when to stop but we do not,. We do not know when to share, what is mine to take, what is not. To give is part of learning the importance of collective fulfilling of needs. To be passive and still is a need. It can be very beneficial for the environment and for people. At the moment tendency is as we know that Champagne does not flow down as the trickle down theory suggests, everybody may not like Champagne. How does it show that to do nothing could be beneficial is a case of deep analysis of how our desires reflect to society, and what is to do nothing. How our inbuilt needs and deeds make society and how our relationships, connections, networks work as functional tools we need.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2016/07/cheryl_lu_lien_tan_s_sarong_party_girls_reviewed.html

Breath of a bimbo, death of a bimbo.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Interesting is how a person who is chased, followed, persecuted and hunted can be a perfect image and how much work does it take to keep that image up. Desired, stared at, a cutout, part played, a poster and a perfect product which has been prepared and designed by herself realized within an industry for many reasons, or maybe reasons are very simple and few. She wants to be this almost a nonperson but strictly hyper female, an entertainer with seemingly light presence but still extremely heavy impact. Peculiar mixture of feather floating in the air and tragedy of a culture, a woman, emotions following when this feather does not perform anymore, when she ceases to exist as a living person and becomes fully merchandised. A mere idol not in any case, she has a story which plays the major role. Where she comes from (excellent novel Blond by Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the story of an abandoned girl based on biography of Norma Jean Baker, partly imagined as she is). A money maker shaking as much as a mark maker who is controlling her image but is strictly under control monitored. As it seems to have been for Marilyn Monroe she was being carefully watched, observed like a specimen for something beautiful to look at but not appreciated as a thinking performing artist as she wanted to be, not given character roles as she thought happened to her. What was her character other than the posing delight? Roles for women weren’t something to be played with. To know what the expectations are and play accordingly. To do something special and artistic in front of camera was to be daring, broken, problematic, profound and mysterious. Scandalous for a woman was to act like a man, demand something better than, have dimensions and will of her own. Still Marilyn played roles of women who knew how to get what they wanted, how to reach out to their dreams. What kinds of dreams was she allowed to have? What was possible for her? Same kinds of dreams girls have today?

Why are you interested in a bimbo, I have been asked. I don’t think her as a bimbo. It is false and distracting. Sexiness and seductiveness do not mean brainlessness. To be feminine is still seen opposite to reasonable and rational. Why do I go back to her again? Her case is extraordinary in a frame where extraordinary meant to realize what was expected of her putting that to an expound still, a gorgeous living shell. To be more than the expectations but to do the expected and nothing more is hard thing to do, a tight-rope, a corset. No wonder she was followed. People waited her to make mistakes. Ironically this is an expectation for her to make her happen as sexual desirable icon to whom many kinds of feelings and thoughts are targeted. The moment when she could not stick to her artificial frame anymore, when she got drunk and out of control, when she could not keep it in her role, when her life didn’t go as planned but fell apart, when things, life and people could not be tuned to follow paranoid fascist rules and predatory celebrity culture. When she brakes the rules hell brakes loose. She represents danger as default and exaggerates this quality, becomes the whore she is, a failure who can’t keep up the speed, a sad figure who has problems, cries in front of cameras, weak human, a woman who is flesh and blood and is to be eaten.

Phenomenon of a bimbo is culturally important as it is to partly exclude, point out what is interesting in women, put aside, hate, poke, use and discard as it is to despise people who look beautiful (sounds odd doesn’t it), are more than most and to keep alive the main function of women for many: to please, look nice and be nice, bring pleasure but not to do anything they are not supposed to. That is true despise, not admiration. Importance is in the interest, where interest lies, what things are paid attention to, why are we interested in certain people to the extent of mania and obsession, what are the things we pay attention to in people and why sexual arousal of mind is crucial in money making, in making movies, why we are so interested in sexy photos. Seduction and sex appeal play such huge role in entertainment, in women’s lives and in everything that questioning it is not irrelevant. Living in denial and having release in exposure. What is in idea of a bimbo, eternal the beauty? Everything. Everything to want, pieces of her, fun of hers, life of hers, to be wanted which is mistaken for love. Her loving the viewers. Bimbo looks for love, for sex, partners, gazes, admirers who watch. She feeds from cult of a bimbo entertainer. It is the presumption which is placed on all women. It is her evil side into which she drowns which drowning she enjoys. The bigger she grow the bigger the pleasure or disaster. She plays her role to the death. Such devotion and dedication is a talent.

To create a role to play in front of millions of people and play that being with every cell, every move, pose, every facial expression is practiced, carefully made up to sculpt a persona in detail. No life of a bimbo without calculative manipulation which matches up the role where bimbo uses her being, body and role to make money and fame for herself and for the machine which takes her, made her. To create an idol is to seduce, understand seduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimbo ”Bimbo is a derogatory slang term for an attractive but unintelligent female. The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish male.
As of early 21st century, the ”stereotypical bimbo” appearance has become that of an attractive woman, often blonde and with a curvaceous figure and large breasts, possibly wearing heavy makeup and revealing clothing.[citation needed] However, none of these traits are strictly needed for a person to be considered a bimbo. It is sometimes associated with men or women who dye their hair blonde indicating that physical attractiveness is more important to them than other, non-physical traits[1] and as an extension to the ”dumb blonde” stereotype.[1]”

Perform a blowjob in a gallery space. Museum space would be even better.

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Perform a blowjob in a gallery space, a museum space is even better.

Instructions: You are among a crowd (friends). Get slightly drunk. Offer a man to get down on him right now in front of all these people you do not know (friends). Fall on your knees and lick his crotch. Open his belt and caress his thighs. Be graphic. If he refuses follow him on your knees. Tell you are very good at it. Ask in front of everybody, if it is ok to perform in front of everybody and perform anyway. Be loud, say please. Ask why he refuses. Don’t you like it? Don’t stop, follow him. Be persistent. Say it is good fun and that you are cheap. If he is not willing ask why. I am not cheap enough, you ask. Say you are desperate. Say that you have heard you like it, I’m sure you’ll like it. Look at my mouth, say. Tell it is good fun and you have been dreaming about doing it exactly with someone like you. I like your smile. Don’t stop until you are removed and kicked out of the place for disturbance and continue to do it outside gallery space.

Another idea: Hire a male prostitute and go to a museum opening among people you do not know (friends and colleagues). When speeches are over and people are enjoying cocktails, themselves, choose a visible spot. Go on your knees and give the male prostitute a good old-fashioned blowjob. Don’t forget to swallow. Don’t stop sucking his penis even though you will be interrupted and told to get lost. Talk dirty, shout loudly and laugh, lick everything.

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend

| Henna Timanttimetsä

When people are treated like garbage is there overpopulation or is it the same problem over again when people use their power to destroy?

| Henna Timanttimetsä
Yes we would like to be interested in how other people are doing, although my empiric research tells most people like to talk about themselves, but it was nice seeing you. To see people does not mean we see them. They fill a void, a room, a space, they function as extensions. Your connections are your cv, how people talk about you is a handshake or a slap in the face. Ill talk functions as dividing and as connecting element. It is to keep those who are not liked in their place, not moving, not liked. There is no need to wonder whether there is anything wrong until it is you who will be slapped in the face. Ill talk turns against those who share information which is not accurate, is shared to hurt, situation could not be more delicious.

Hypocrisy is a phenomenon where people act better than they are. When they want to show their very best intentions even though those intentions do not reach anything other than gaining benefit for themselves. When to act is necessary only when you are in danger, you act to mend your image, retaliate, when you hold a child and make war. To make destruction appears to be a thing people do very effortlessly. Consequences remain with us, far-reaching. To throw away garbage is not just an act of cleaning up. Our casual way of producing gigantic amount of waste and mess seems endlessly woven into our way to live winning without care in the world, until we find the mountain at our door step. It must be karma.

 

Nothing is meaningless.

| Henna Timanttimetsä
When one begins to think that everything has meaning, every action, every thought and everything said, we begin to become cautions over what we do. Thing appear complicated and are so more than we like. Overcomplicated life and people which we like to oversimplify. What else is there other than endless mess which we don’t want to have, see, clean up, take responsibility for. A police officer in John Adams’ musical piece I WAS LOOKING AT THE CEILING says in Song About The On-Site Altercation: let’s keep things calm and clean and clear. There is a quarrel. There is constant conflict. Effort to try and understand action of others and of one’s own in a messy world which has a demand to be calm, clean and clear when nothing is and probably should not be. Impossibility to understand politics of the state, actions of the police, the public, fate, needs, future and most importantly emotions of anybody and of one’s own. Strong emotional reactions like shouting, crying, wanting to use violence to solve authority issues, to solve disagreement, wrong doings that one has faced, to retaliate, get back at not to be left a loser. Work of Adams’ is like the news sung, news of what happened to individuals suddenly one day in a row of days flowing along and forward. How accurate it is today. The rabid movement of events, fast forward occurrences in people’s lives when they hurt, live and try to survive, get what they want and be what they want.
Kuva | | Henna Timanttimetsä

Things we don’t do but should do, things we do but should not do.

Kuva | | Henna Timanttimetsä

 

Kengänkiillottajalle töitä?

| Henna Timanttimetsä

Kengät tekevät ihmisen, kengistään ihminen tunnetaan. Niillä näyttäydytään, niillä seisotaan ja kävellään. Kengät nostavat ihmisen maanpinnasta irti, antavat ryhtiä ja  suojaavat jalkoja, kertovat elintasosta ja elintavoista jotakin sekä arvoista. Kenkiä on oltava joka lähtöön, vaikka itse elin kauan vain muutamalla parilla ja samoilla talvikengillä kymmenen vuotta. Kenkäharrastus on siis melko uusi minun elämässäni ja se huomio etteivät ne enää kestä käyttöä. Alle kahden sadan euron on vaikea löytää hyvälaatuisia jalkineita. Kenkä on fetissi-esine, joita keräillään, joista haaveillaan ja joihin ihastutaan, joihin saa uppoamaan paljon rahaa. Uusien kenkien ostaminen on mukava tilanne silti. Kalliista kengistään mielellään pitää hyvää huolta. Minulla on jopa nanosuihketta, joka suojaa kenkiä kosteudelta, jopa. Ei tarvitse hinkata eikä lankata. Ainetta ei saa hengittää.

Kiiltävät kengät, juhlakengät, miesten kengät, nahkakengät, kävelykengät. Kengän kiillotustapahtuma menee niin, että mieshenkilö istuu tuoliin joka on kuin valtaistuin korkealla, jottei kiillottajan tarvitse hirveästi kumarrella paikassa, paikassa jossa liikkuu paljon ihmisiä kuten asemalla ja kengänkiillottajia voi olla vierivieressä. Kiillottaja hymyilee ja toivottaa asiakkaan penkkiinsä tervetulleeksi, ottaa kiillotuskankaan esiin sekä lankkia, poistaa harjalla hiekan ja ravan ja ryhtyy lankkaamaan rivakoin ottein. Asiakkaalla on luultavasti kiire. Kengänkiillottaja ei ole sama kuin suutari joka korjaa kenkiä. Kengänkiillottaja on tason ylläpitäjä ja kadonneen ajan työläinen, palvelija, itsensätyöllistäjä, jonka työkalut menevät pieneen tilaan ja kulkevat mukana, työläinen joka voi etsiä työtilan mistä vaan. Hyvin vapaan oloinen sarka, pop-up. Paljonko kengänkiillotus sitten maksaa? En tiedä, mutta itse en maksaisi paljoakaan. Ajatus on absurdi, että ohimennen kiillotuttaisin kenkäni. Se ei lienee naisten juttu muutenkaan. Sama kuin parranajo.

Aki Kaurismäen elokuvassa Le Havre päähenkilö on kengänkiillottaja ja kengänkiillotus on maahanmuuttajien ja muiden köyhien hommaa. Erikoinen valinta vanhan ranskalaismiehen ammatiksi, jotakin tekemistä, yrittämistä ja ihmisten kohtaamista epätoivoisessa maailmassa, jonka muutoksessa kaikki eivät kestä mukana. Kengänkiillottajan kengät puhdistaa vaimo. Ne ovat valmiit, kun mies lähtee toihin. Kengänkiillottajan ammattiin liittyy nostalgiaa ja elokuvallisuutta, epätoivoa, halveksuntaa ja hapuilua kun muuta oljenkortta ei ole. Kenkien puhdistus julkisella paikalla ja antaa kenkänsä puhdistettaviksi on perin miehistä. Joku kumartuu eteesi puhdistamaan jalkineesi ja annat lantin, lähdet katsomatta taaksesi. Kengänkiillottaja on kohtauksessa kuin kohtauksessa tärkeä henkilö. Hän kohtelee kuin kuningasta miestä kuin miestä. Korkean arvon olemassaoloon tarvitaan niitä jotka ovat vähempiarvoisia, niitä jotka tekevät likaiset työt, työt joilla ei ole arvoa mutta jotka huomaa, kun  niitä ei tee kukaan. Mies seisoo rätti kädessä, kädet lankissa, nöyrän näköisenä ja aina tyytyväisenä kun saa asiakkaan oli hän millainen tahansa. Hänen luokseen pysähdytään ja sanotaan että on kiire. Kestää hetken ja työ on tehty. Asiakas ehtii avata lehden tai katsoa eteensä kenties näkemättä mitä lankkaaja tekee. Yksinkertainen työ, yksinkertainen ihminen. Kuka sellaisesta olisi kiinnostunut, mutta hyvä että jotakin tekee. Jotakin on tehtävä. Liike ja ajatus pitävät elossa kuten raha.

Kiillotus ja lankkaus pidentävät kengän ikää pitäen nahan hyvässä kunnossa. Nykyään jokainen kiillottaa itse kenkänsä, näin luulen, jos viitsii. Paitsi ihmiset, joilla on palvelija sitä varten. En ole koskaan tavannut kengänkiillottajaa livenä kadulla Suomessa, mutta olen nähnyt sellaisen kengänkiillotuskoneen jossa oli pyörivä tela. Jalka asetettiin jalustalle jonka päällä pyörivä kiillotustela suoritti tehtävän. Kiillotuksen voi tehdä seisaaltaan. Samanaikaisesti ei voinut lukea esimerkiksi lehteä, koska on seurattava minne jalka menee. Jännä vehje, mutta kiillottiko se hyvin koko kengän, lähtikö ehkä sukka jalasta vai oliko tarkoitus kiillottaa vain kengänkärjet?

Kuka kiillottaa kenkiä työkseen nykyään Suomessa? Kerjääminen on paljon yleisempää, mutta se ei ole työvoimatoimistossa ammattinimikkeenä. Kysyn koska työvoimatoimisto edelleen ajattelee että kengänkiillottaminen on varteenotettava business, kerjääminen ilmeisesti ei. Kysyn koska työvoimatoimiston työnhaussa on vielä virallisesti ammattinimike kengänkiillottaja, samaa sarjaa ovat mainostenjakajat ja kengänkiillottajat. Aki Kaurismäellä jotakin asian kanssa tekemistä, onko elämä elokuvaa? Mainoksia nykyään jaetaan enemmän kuin ehtii lukea. Onko mainostenjakaminen palkitseva työ, ehkä liikunnan kannalta, ehkä klikkausten kannalta, ja mainostenjakaja sellainen tekijä joksi kehtaisi itseään kutsua, työ josta voi kertoa saamatta kummallisia katseita ja voi sinua tyhmeliiniä-mulkaisuja, tuleeko sillä toimeen-kysymyksiä ja mikä sinussa on vialla. Työllä on oltava rahallinen arvo, muuten sitä ei kukaan arvosta. Sanotaan ettei se ole työtä, jos ei siitä rahaa saa. Naiset ovat tehneet palkatonta työtä aina, he tienaavat myös yleisesti vähemmän kuin miehet. Kun työstä maksetaan sen tekemistä on joku arvostanut? On pystyttävä elättämään itsensä.  

Käyttävätkö ihmiset kenkiä joita täytyy kiillottaa? Keinokuidut ja lenkkitossut ovat vallanneet kenkäbusineksen. Miksi noin vanhahtava ammattinimike pitää pintansa virastossa, vaikka on varsin selvää ettei alaa enää ole? Työvoimatoimistolle ei ole muu selvää kuin, että työtön on roska, josta on päästävä eroon keinolla millä hyvänsä ja aivan sama mikä joku ammatti on nimeltään. Millaisia metodeja kengänkiillottamiseen on ja tarvitaanko siihen ammatti-ihmistä? Millaista työtä nykyään on tarjolla? Sandwich Artist saa Subwayssa paikan, juontaja on taiteilija, juonsi hän karaoke-esitystä tai markkinoita. Siinä saa esiintymiskokemusta. Olethan innostunut tekijä. Olemme kenkiemme kuluttajia ja kenkiemme kiillottajia, siis jokainen on kengänkiillottaja, mutta tuleeko sillä toimeen, elääkö sillä ja ovatko ne samoja asioita? Kun yksityiskohdat lakkaavat kiinnostamasta millainen tulee kokonaisuudesta? Kun bulkkituote myydään taiteen kohottavalla voimalla mistä on kysymys? Eihän taide ole nykyään kovassa huudossa, mutta taiteen nimi ja ajatus silti antavat arvoa tuotteelle, joka on joka paikassa samanlainen, kuten Subwayn patongit, ja ajatus sama kuin missä tahansa hampurilaisketjussa.

Kiiltävät kengät antavat hyvän kuvan käyttäjästään. Hän on huolellinen, säntillinen, pitää huolen omaisuudestaan ja ulkonäöstään. Lika ei saa näkyä. Odotan aikaa, kun prostituoitu on laillinen ammatti. Prostituoidut käyttävät ammattiinsa sopivia jalkineita. Vähintään 10 sentin korkoja, jotka kopisevat, korkokenkiä, saapikkaita tai saappaita. On näytettävä viettelevältä lyhyessä hameessa ja kireissä housuissa. Peniksen kiillottamisesta kai jotakin tienaa.