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Outi Kotala
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Service designer, artist and work culture enthusiast living in Finland. Työnohjaajaksi (STOry) opiskeleva taiteilija ja palvelumuotoilija.
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Trump's plan could shut down most of the tourism to the United States. Or would you willingly provide your social media history AND your telephone numbers and email addresses used from the last 5 years, plus more information about your family members, just for a holiday in USA? (link in comment)
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Did you know? Dwarf planet
Pluto hasn't yet made a full orbit around the sun since it was discovered in 1930!
thefactbase.com/pluto-hasn-t...
A drawing that depicts the dwarf planet Pluto's orbit around the sun in relation to other planets and the asteroid belt in our solar system.
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Finally a trend that suits me like a large mug of coffee in the morning: "tired girl" makeup trend. Eye bags naturally included! Juggling house renovations, work and studies (plus other unexcpected things) this autumn has helped me to achieve this glam look...
www.marieclaire.co.uk/beauty/make-...
A New Celebrity-Approved Beauty Trend Has Officially Declared Eye Bags Chic—Enter Tired Girl Makeup
Eye bags have officially been declared chic
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October 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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Young swans by the lake today. I was just biking by and...
October 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Tampereen peräkonttikirppiksen löytöjä: Arabian vanhoja uuninkestäviä Teema-tarjoiluastioita ja Marimekon keittiöpyyhe.
Some fleamarket finds today: Arabia and Marimekko towel. One of the biggest fleamarkets in Tampere is a drive-in "trunk fleamarket" where sellers sell stuff from their car trunks!
In the picture there are four different size ceramic, squre shaped serving bowls that are dark green in colour. Their size is approximately 10 cm per side. Behind them is a colourful kitchen towel with slightly naivistic style illustrated hand-drawn vegetables, berries and other food related items.
September 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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"Meditation by the bog pond" (Meditaatio suolammella)
Oilpastels on paper, 2025. Drawn at the site, 22nd of August 2025, Porras, Tammela, Finland. #pleinairpainting
A drawing of a dark-watered small bog lake or a pond. The pond is pictured from a grassy shore, facing towards the opposite shore of the pond. A white, t-shaped wooden pier is reaching towards the pond's center, upwards from the bottom of the picture and its edge. There's a thick, densely-wooded forest with white birch trees and darker pines at the opposite shore. A bright-green bed of reeds, among the forest behind it, is reflected on thw dark, almost still water of the pond. Behind the tall trees, pale blue sky with thin white clouds can be seen.
August 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Yesterday I was doing some aquarelle sketching with my friend. At the Kopparnäs seaside, the temperature was approx. 24 Celsius, wind speed was 5 meters per second. Quite nice. We saw a grass snake swimming by the sea shore, swans and a flock of flying great cormorants! #pleinairpainting
A watercolour painting depicting a seashore view. There are some vaguely sketched pale pink cliffs and rocks lit by bright sunlight by the shore, and a blue sea behind the cliffs. In the distance a forested cape is seen. A watercolour painting is attached to a plywood drawing board, which is resting on a pine tree trunk outside by the sea shore. There's a glimpse of sea showing behind the trunk and watercolour painting. The painting depicts a view to the sea, in the foreground there's a pebble beach and some rocks in the sunlight, in the horizon there's a silhouette of a forested island or a cape.
July 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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May I present... my pen syndrome! These were found around my home when I was packing. We didn't have many pens at my chilhood home, and those few we did were always missing. The common question was "where's the pen?" (Don't understand why we didn't have enough of them, as they're a cheap commodity)
A box full of different pens and pencils: ball point pens, graphite pens, felt-tips and marker pens of different colours.
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Tälle tulee ehkä pian tarvetta. Valitut Palat, Kodin korjauskirja, vuodelta 1976. / Reader's Digest 1976, 1000 repair instructions for home and appliances, 1976. #retrokoti #70shome
Kirjan kansi kirjasta: Valitut Palat, Kodin korjauskirja, vuodelta 1976. / EN Book cover from a book in Finnish: Reader's Digest 1976, 1000 repair instructions for home and appliances, 1976.
July 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Another batch of seagulls on their way? Spotted this hatching gull on the rooftop of a house in Tampere. The first gull nestlings have already left their nests for this summer.
Gull sitting on its nest on a rooftop.
July 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Iva on tamperelaislähtöinen nuorten taiteilijoiden kollektiivi, joka tekee esityksensä tiloihin, jotka tuntuvat paikallisesti keskeisiltä tai jotka muuten olisivat tyhjillään. Särkänniemen entinen delfinaario on nyt ”epätila”, jossa nähdään teatteriesitys.
www.aamulehti.fi/teatteri/art...
Särkänniemen entinen delfinaario on nyt ”epätila”, jossa nähdään teatteriesitys
Tamperelainen taidekollektiivi Iva on tehnyt jo vuosia taidetta omilla ehdoillaan paikkoihin, joita ei ole suunniteltu esityskäyttöön. Särkänniemen delfinaario toimii näyttämönä nykypäivän arkipäiväis...
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July 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Meta just introduced the best doomscrolling prevention tool and app timer feature for Instagram. For free! In the free plan, every time I'm forced to stop scrolling my feed and watch some ad, I wake up and close the whole app. Thanks for giving me back my time and attention, Meta!
July 1, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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@skskirjat.bsky.social vähän ikävä pettymys kun sain käsiini näin kauniin kirjan... aloin etsiä tietysti kuvittajan nimeä. Onko tämän kirjan kuvitukset tosiaan tehty tekoälyllä? eikö sisällön suojaaminen koskekaan muiden sisällöntuottajien pääomaa kuin kirjailijan itsensä? #TDMrep
#Midjourney6
Reetta Rannan kirjan "Pyhät puut" kansi. Kirjan on kustantanut SKS kirjat. Kustantaja kieltää teoksen digitaalisen yekstin- ja tiedonlouhinnan kaupallisiin tarkoituksiin. Kiellon alla on maininta että teoksen värikuvituksiin on käytetty apuna Midjourney 6.0 eli tekoälyä.
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Work in progress. Unlike all the other Finns that go to their cottages in the countryside (this might be a slight exaggeration btw), I'm spending my Solstice Midsummer day at my art studio space. And by the sound of it, I'm not the only one! Someone's playing the piano downstairs...
Unfinished painting (detail) of a Midsummer night's sun reflecting on a surface of a lake, with couple of paintbrushes on top of it
June 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Merry Solstice! Hyvää Juhannusta!
A Midsummer Wreath hanging from an old wooden garden swing frame with texts wishing Happy Midsummer in Finnish and Merry Solstice in English.
June 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Pre-ordered Adele Walton's book "Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World"!
"Our digital world is currently fuelling crises that only empathy, agency and humanity can resolve".
Read her interview about the book: notesandcuttings.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
The cover of the book "Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World" by Adele Walton.
June 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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The wonder of artistic presence: Anna Tahkola's mesmerizing graphite pencil drawings and ceramic sculptures at gallery Mältinranta Tampere. The artist spent two weeks at the Källskar island residence studying the nature of Finnish archipelago.
May 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Jotkut ihmiset: "Vie mennessäs, tuo tullessas".
Näiden elinkumppani: "Where ever I lay my socks, that's their home"

– Arkiaforismit osa 1
May 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Enpä olisi uskonut 20-vuotiaana, kun hairahduin hetkeksi opiskelemaan filosofiaa yliopistoon, kuinka paljon olen saanut oivalluksia ja työkaluja kyseisestä tieteenalasta omaan työhöni. Tässä taas ollaan filosofian äärellä, tällä kertaa ratkaisukeskeisen työnohjauksen opintoihin liittyen.
Kirjan kansi. Antti S. Mattila: "Ratkaisu: Ajattele toisin" WSOY
May 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Ei nyt ihan voittajan tunti mutta opiskelijan vartti päivän aluksi. Menee varmaan vappukin osittain opiskelun merkeissä. Hyvää työn ja opiskelijain juhlaa kaikille!
Pöydällä näkyy kahvikuppi ja sen edessä kirja ja kirjan vieressä lyijykynä. Kirjan nimi kannessa on TYÖNOHJAUKSEN KÄSIKIRJA ja kirjoittajina näkyvät Kai Alhanen, Olli-Pekka Ahtiainen, Anne Kansanaho, Marko Kangas, Tiina Soini ja Jarkko Soininen
April 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Scientists enabled test persons to see a new, extremely vibrant colour named "olo" by stimulating eye's M cone cells. The test might turn useful in studying colour blindness.
This image depicts a shade that's closest to olo, just a lot less saturated.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Image has a solid block of bluish-green colour: according to the scientists, this shade was the closest to olo, which is much more saturated than this image.
April 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Happy Easter, fellow humans! Let's be kind to each other.
warandpeas.bsky.social War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · Dec 15
Explain this, humankind
Comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: Two green aliens are at a press conference, sitting behind microphones. One alien happily says, "Jesus? We love that guy!" Panel 2: A human reporter with a microphone looks surprised and says, "We’ve been waiting centuries for his second coming." Panel 3: The first alien casually responds, "Really? He comes to us every year." The second alien adds, "We invited him for cookies. What did you do?" The reporter starts to sweat. Panel 4: Both aliens pause, looking inquisitive. One alien asks, "Wait. What did you do?" All reporters sweat.
April 18, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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"Spring Equinox (Waiting for the blackbirds) — Kevätpäivän tasaus (Mustarastaita vartoessa)". Oilpastels and pencil on paper, 42 x 52 cm, 2024.

Throwback to last year's March equinox, when I started this oil pastel & pencil drawing. A larch tree was bare, waiting for the spring and birds to arrive.
A lightly coloured, slightly abstracted drawing of a larch tree (conifer tree that loses its pines for the winter) The tree is depicted on an early spring day. The tree is bare, its bare branches reaching out to both sides of its trunk, creating an elongated triangle shape on the paper. Behind it, a pale sunset sky is depicted using light peach and yellow colours fading into pale blue sky on top of the image. At the bottom part of the image, behind the tree, a blue body of water, maybe a frozen lake surface, is seen.
April 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Starting a whole new series, with a different style and medium than my previous works. Water soluble oil colour on plywood: I'm testing the technique, as unprimed plywood basically soaks up the oilcolour instantly. This piece was finished 3 years ago and it's still holding, so it may just work out!
A light voloured painting done with light, semi-transparent colours on unprimed plywood. It depicts a serene landscape that may be from a sand desert or perhaps a snowy field, with sun shining on the dunes.
April 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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WhatsApp application icon on the left side of the image is crossed with red lines drawn over it. From it, a right-pointing arrow goes to the right, (this arrow being also red in colour) crossing the round Meta AI icon, and ends up pointing towards the Signal app icon on the right side of the image.
April 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM