Thursday, December 29, 2011

For sale, again.


I'm selling my Zenzanon - PS 35mm f/3.5 Fisheye for Bronica to a good home to fund a new project, since I'm not using it anymore. 
Really good condition, signs of use, but that's pretty much it. no scratches on lens, both caps.
Looking for £500, which will just cover my flights :)
email me for more info. info@toiviainen.org

I've also got a Elinchrom Skyport EL trigger set for sale ( one transmitter, three receivers ) including cases, charger, etc. and two nikon flashes, SB-24 and SB-25. email me for more info on these as well.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

first cover

Got my first cover on Hangup Magazine. Pretty stoked! Thanks guys!


Sunday, December 4, 2011

uni project

Just finished editing my uni project on custom build bikes. All I need to do now is print these and start writing a 4000 word dissertation, hah.... You just gotta love uni sometimes.


Thursday, December 1, 2011

Update

Had a pretty hectic, but still an amazing day today. I drove to Bury St Edmunds to Krazy Horse Customs for my uni project that I'm working on at the moment. The day turned into a 12 hour mission in the end, but was worth it. Here's a few photos from today. I'll post some more later on. Now, time for some sleep.

ta!





Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Public Domain

when this video came out I used to watch it about ten times a day. the good old days...
if you're in finland on 3.3.2012, these dudes are playing in my hometown jyväskylä.

Newark autojumble

few photos from newark autojumble that I went to on sunday. it was absolutely massive. Almost as massive as my hangover from Rollerburn. I have never seen anything like it before.






Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nathan

Nathan and Aki were working on his Triumph again tonight. It's looking pretty good...



Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Krisse

I've been trying to find one skate photo of Nikke for his interview in Hangup Magazine from my hard drive for pretty much the whole day, but instead I keep finding other cool photos from previous years. I think I need to archive my stuff better...
Anyways, this is Krisse from summer 2010, somewhere in Finland...


Rollerburn

This Saturday. More info on Sideburn magazine blog.


website

Finally got my new website online today. Go check it out at www.toiviainen.org
Let me know what you think.


-Mikko

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Test

since I got my Graflex Crown Graphic 4x5 camera about a year ago I've wanted to use it for portraits mostly. And now that I finally got a good lighting kit as well I thought that I'd do a test at home to see how they work.


I used a really simple lighting setup for this portrait of Liam (check out his work!) and I think the polaroid came out okay. Actually it came out pretty much what I had imagined it in my head.
I think I need to play around with the lights and stuff, but I'm definitely going to do a portrait project soonish...

peace!

-Mikko

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Alcan Highway

A road movie of a mobile man with mobile plans.
Looks amazing! More info on the movie here.


Alcan Highway - 4 min Trailer from Ulla Simonen / MADE on Vimeo.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wednesday

Went to see the guys at Sick Boyz Customs today and  had one of the best days in a while. Cheers guys!
Check out their website here.

I'll post more photos tomorrow. Now, more beer!

-Mikko 











Mikko Kivikoski

Haven't been shooting lots of b&w skate photos in a while. It's so much easier to shoot digital now I guess. I do miss it though. I Just love the grain and the whole process of photographing on film...


Mikko Kivikoski. Backside Ollie. Helsinki, Finland.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Sunday

Took a few photos today whilst Nathan was working on his Triumph.

-Mikko



Friday, October 28, 2011

Skateboarding

Here's some photos from summer 2011.

Jani Mäkelä. Backside Ollie. Helsinki, Finland.

Jani Mäkelä. Frontside crail slide. Helsinki, Finland.

Nikke Alin. Frontside 50-50 grind. Helsinki, Finland.

Nikke Alin. Backside noseblunt slide. Helsinki, Finland.
Ville Keituri. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eetu Sundvall. Backside kickflip. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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Nathan @ Battistinis Custom Cycles

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Digging the crates

I was cleaning my external hard drive and came across this photo from last summer. I'm not sure if Tommi landed this trick or not, but I thought I'd upload it anyways.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Battistinis Custom Cycles

Here are rest of the photos I took at Battistinis Custom Cycles in Bournemouth earlier this week. I was shooting with digital and b&w, just to try stuff out and had a blast. I'm thinking of doing an editorial piece on the shop, so stay tuned.

I hope you like these.



-Mikko