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Everyman’s Right to Camping

Everyman’s Right to Camping

Refined law: Everyman’s Right to Camping The Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry announces a new law called “Everyman’s Right to Camping”. The traditional Finnish legal concept of everyman’s right allows free right of access to the land and waterways. Now the law has been extended to include a right to free camping. The camping [...]

Fashionable Activism

Fashionable Activism

Finnish National Flag Re-design

Finnish National Flag Re-design

World Design Capital 2012 committee demands that the blue shade in the Finnish flag must be altered. “The finnish flag does not stand out from the other white-blue flags, like the one of Greece”, claims the head of committee Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. The new blue will be slightly darker. The RGB code of the blue has [...]

Balaclava is the new style!

Balaclava is the new style!

The balaclavas are in vogue all over the world: “Orange is the colour of choice for Canadians and a slightly lighter orange for Dubliners.” (the Guardian, 17.8.12) Also pink, pea-green and turquoise will be modish in winter. Pussy Riot created a fashion in colours and a certain commando-partisan-resistance fighter style. “The fresh mix of folkore [...]