Eero: Back to the future.

I was in the library of the Clock Museum looking up on details about the history of speaking clocks. I found a list showing who the "voices of the speaking clocks" where:

• Kaisu Puuska-Joki (alku-1959),
• Sirkka Osmala (1959-n.1980),
• Aija Rikala (1980-2000)
• Voice of man unknown. (2000-??)

I tried to call the personal phonenumbers of the "ex-speaking clocks" but none of them where available. I'll try again later. The library of the Clock Museum is right opposite to WeeGee and it's a nice place to visit. We sat in the kitchen, drunk coffee and talked chop. They thought I was working on my phd.

But I made a discovery! I learned that Koelse has a "mysterious speaking clock machine" in their offices in Vallila.

Looking at a photo of it on flickr taken by anttia.....

I noticed that it's looking exactly the same as machine in a photo in the archives! Koelse has currently not been able to activate the machine. But now we have an educated guess on who's voice well hear. The Clock Museum staff was exited about this finding too.

If I go forward with this, the Clock Museum would be happy to learn any and all details concerning the venture.. If I for example would interview the living speaking clocks etc. and make a brief study about this or a videowork or a lecture.. They would possibly be very interested in this material. That would be an interesting project to do but possibly wields no importance to the district of Tapiola.

Then for something completely different.

<- Here is something contemporary form next to the swimming areas.

Remember the Plootus mentioned earlier? The city museum managed to find the boys behind the story. I could call them too and ask if they know where to find more Plootus. I'd surely love one.

In making this I could also do interviews of the boys – In the framework of archeology: Perhaps linking their social class, the impression of Tapiola being a rich district to the Plootu story. The archeological backdrop would serve well in focusing to the temporary history of Tapiola. Somekind of class struggle thing perhaps.

That's how far I got last time. I like Paulas food blog and when eating in the joint with Timo and her we talked about doing something useful instead of doing something "classically artistic".

Some years back I started to work with the idea of making "commercials for local entrepreneurs". The idea was to affect the circulation of money directly. To use advertisement industry tricks for the benefit of a small company. This kind of actions would be useful for the Tapiola entrepreneur community too. To make fancy advertisement of local small business.. To organize a citizen movement to kick Stockmann out of Tapiola (with their multinational sushi in plastic boxes) and to have a "Heikintori 2.0" there (with a bigger Kalabaari) instead.

And here is a choppy video from the same landscape Timo was interested in. An idea was to drop ants and spiders into the miniature setting. Crafting a horror movie of sort.

Also the idea to dress into a bear suit and steal stuff from shops and piss on street corners was discussed.

- Eero