Hey, I'm Jessi.
This is where I publish my art. I used to make lots of music. Now I mostly write, sketch and doodle.
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This is where I publish my art. I used to make lots of music. Now I mostly write, sketch and doodle.
I found this hauntingly beautiful version of The Bong Song from the depths of my archives. The song was remixed by our drummer Mikko Herranen, and I think it eclipses the original version.
I was going through my old archives and found these collages that I made for the Between Force and Fate album covers.
I started reading tarot cards maybe 15 years ago. The cards provided excitement for many long nights with my friend or my mum, when over a glass of red wine we’d be discussing the joys and worries of our lives.
I used to love sleeping late on weekends and would've never in a million years thought getting up early on a Saturday is a good idea. Children change so many things in life.
Everything is a story. How we think about ourselves, how we think about the world. How the world is described, events in the present, in history.
In a world full of stimulation, constantly feeding our addiction to novelty, what happens when we become saturated? Nothing is exciting anymore. We've seen it all. We're unimpressed.
When I decided to finally stop exploring and re-publish my blog last week, I didn’t really know what to expect. I had built a nice email list of subscribers teaching online marketing and business. Now I was suddenly going into a completely new direction and I had no idea what was going to happen next.
But I was tired, and I was ready. I didn’t really care what was going to happen next, I just knew that this was a direction I wanted to take, so I was just going to bite the bullet and see what would happen.
I'm really excited to share this conversation that I had with Andrea Klunder of CreativeImpostor.com. I sat down with Andrea to discuss creativity and what is known as the imposter syndrome.
In the beginning of the year, I wrote a long post summarising my 2016 making lofty goals for 2017 to make my business reach new heights. I had the planners, I had the excel sheets, I had the release and marketing plans, ready to go. I was so going to do it.
Except I wasn’t feeling any of it at all.
I’ve been thinking about goal-setting a lot in the aftermath of my 2016 annual review. As I was writing the review, it became really clear to me that the way I’ve approached and executed my goals hasn’t worked for me at all.
A few years back I decided I wanted to learn to draw and paint. I enrolled in an art course and spent 4 hours at class, twice a week for an entire semester. The art school was a respectable old institution, and it stood on a weather-beaten island just outside my hometown Helsinki, Finland.
So, I’ve been working on this new project and it’s been exhilarating, and a bit scary and a lot of fun. I’ve discarded all thoughts about what it should be and what others might think about it. Instead, I am selfishly and joyously doing what feels good. Having fun, dancing around, collecting interesting ideas and working in a quick, light-hearted manner.