Lapland under the Stars

Helsinki

Thoughts.

There is something about Nokia that is just so cool, hard core techno elegance, as if we had reached the apex of where technology meets art, and we are looking backward into the past. When I handle a Nokia product I get this feeling that we are finally heading into the baroque period of digital product design.

I love the Finnish people. They define friendly and fun. They also love to drink and eat and laugh. I noticed that when I first got to Helsinki, the laugher on the streets seemed to ring throughout the city.

I met a Finnish girl that was such an unexpected surprise. She was blonde, fun and outgoing. We traveled to Lapland to catch the festival for shamans last year. I remember her loving laughter while we lay back looking at the stars in a rough wool army blanket. We were tripping on those rare hallucinogenic lichens that grow in the north. It was a special treat, for it was the first time in many years since the meltdown of Chernobyl that the lichens where no longer radioactive.