Movies from Europe

Happy Holidays from Helsinki, 2007. I think Spector is far better than Finnish xmas music, but pictures are authentic Helsinki. 10MB Check also my xmas card.

One minute from Budapest with Félix Lajkó's gypsy jazz. It took me some time to find a way to import this to iMovie, but finally I managed. Budapest is great, a small Paris of sorts, and this reputation is thoroughly deserved. 5 MB.

Bruxelles et Paris, with Jacques Brel. 16.5 MB. Again, I did buy local jazz - only to find out that everything was copy protected, so I used an old song by Brel. For someone who mostly listens to music with a laptop, this is not good news. However, here are pictures from two great cities, Brussels (Bsussel/Bruxelles) and Paris, Oct. 07. (Here's the same movie with Belgian jazz by Jean-Louis Rassinfosse and Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, Note! 22.6 MB).

Milan, Italy, Oct 2007. 9.6MB. I visited Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Politecnico di Milano, and had a few hours to explore the city - in flu, but still... As always, I bought local jazz with the intention of adding local music to the track. However, they were copy protected, and I decided not to break the protection. Thus, music is from Pittsburgh, since I thought that Stanley Turrentine somehow fits Milan. Here's another version with Milanese jazz, which actually works pretty well: its feeling is mysterious, not romantic as with Turrentine (10 MB).

Barcelona with Carles Benavent's flamenco jazz. 10MB What a great town for design, food and architecture. In contrast to the North, you can see Catholic, Arab and artistic movements of the 20th Century pretty much everywhere. // Identical to the one above, but a smaller file: Barcelona with Carles Benavent's flamenco jazz.

Berlin im Licht. 8MB. I love this music, originally from the cabarets and music halls of the 1920s, but still a living tradition in by people like Herbert Wolfgang, Leopold Kern and Mihai Grigoriu.

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London is Calling. As you see, exact timing of shots in iMovie is pretty difficult. And it crashes constantly.

Sights from Nordic Design Research Conference, May 2007, Stockholm. 11MB. One of the nicest conferences I've been to. Music not by Abba, by God, but by The Wannadies, a Swedish band from the 1990s.