Maybe we all have some sort of a perversion including shit look-a-like food. Some of you might’ve heard stories about dessert Mämmi, made out of water, rye flour and powdered rye malt:

A bowl of mämmi. (Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

…or you’ve even heard about “mustamakkara”, which is traditional food in the area where I’m living now (Tampere). It’s translated “black sausage” and it’s made out of blood and hulled grains. For me it tastes rather good, but having it on your plate isn’t most aesthetic experience:

Black sausage with lingonberry jam. (Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

Newcomer in series is this candy translated “licorice minium”:

Photo by Jokapäiväistä leipää -blog

I’m sure this is going to be a big hit among childrens. Me… I don’t even want to try this.

Inspiration bath is something, where you surf trough some good lookin’ and outstanding graphics/photographs/websites/what ever. Maybe you will get some creative energy out of it, or perhaps catch a few ideas or tricks.

For graphics/photographs DeviantArt or Flickr are one of the best places to start, but how to find good websites? Google? Nah!

CSS Zen Garden used to be the one, but that was like over 6 years ago…

CSS Line is Finland-based, but they accept websites from all over the world. Obviously it’s still mostly just finnish ones.

In Templatemonster.com they sell layouts. It includes a lot of Very neutral/boring looking material, but you can find some good ideas from there.

Vierityspalkki – uudet julkaisut – Finnish (big) companies publish their recent works in here. Campaigns, company websites… everything. Good stuff and a lot of background info (in Finnish, though).

And just to list, don’t know these too well: CSS Lite and CSS Remix

These are of course good galleries to find out trends in modern web design. And then what do you do? You BREAK those trends. Don’t follow what others are doing (that much).

Free textures (for commersial use also):

• CGTextures
• Mayang Textures

Cheap stock images:

• iStockPhoto.com -also sounds & videos

Free stock images (for commersial use also):

• stock.xchng

Plus! Did you know that in DeviantArt there is a category for stock -images? Usually you can’t use them for commersial works, but it’s a good archive otherwise.

…and yeah, it’s a good thing to own good enough camera. ;-)

See it.

How the years go by and so much is gone… I just found an old train-ticket between the pages of “Winnie the Pooh”-book. I was reading it on the way to Turku at summer 2005. It says on the ticket; “Civilian-service card must be presented” (for ticket was free for me). People go to do civilian-service instead of military-service in Finland if they don’t want to join army. It was my last day on service. I bought yellow flowers on the way to the trainstation, from flowershop next to the marketsquare. They were going to close that shop few days afterwards.

In Turku, it was over +20 °C warm in the park of old church of Turku. Cold wind was rising among the river “Aurajoki” and it made corners of our picnic-cloth to dance.

Today it’s -20 °C, though I’m still on my happiest mood!

I would still appreciate you giving a comment when I’m writing something silly. Or I AM a silly person doing grazy stunts sometimes, but just when it comes to misspelling. ;-) That’s how I’m learning, trough feedback. I’m native finnish.

Finnish speaking readers can check my Wanderlust in finnish