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.

Nathan

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

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...

Legacy Tattoo.

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

Earth. Time Lapse View from Space

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

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

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.

Stefan Ruiz

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.