Hi, my name is Isko Salminen.
I'm an adventure seeker and I love exploring nature with my camera and Australian Shepherd called Fire

Christmas drive time-lapse

​Shot this while driving to spend Christmas with my parents. Camera was set on a tripod between the seats, on a 20 second interval.

Camera: Canon mark II
Lens: Canon 24-70mm/2.8f
Edited with Quicktime and iMovie.

The song is "Sweet Disposition" by The Temper Trap.

MacSlaps!

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​The MacSlap I ordered arrived today and I rushed home to put it on my Macbook immediately. Had a hard time deciding between this one and the Mario, but the Lego guy was just “too cute” to pass by.

You can get these and others from macslaps.com.

My Day, Yesterday

​Video of November 19th, 2009. Filmed throughout the day and edited the next day. This was shot using Canon 5D Mark2, Canon 24-70mm/f2.8 and Sigma 50mm/f1.4 lenses. All the material is straight from the camera and edited together with Final Cut Pro.

This video is my first submission to Flickr group called My Day, Yesterday.

The idea is to record a day in your life, compress it down to 90 seconds and publish it the next day. You’re not supposed to add any music or sound effects, just use what the camera recorded.

Jason Fried on meetings • IskoSalminen.com

[Meetings are] a huge waste of time, and they’re costly. It’s not one hour; it’s 10, because you pulled 10 people away from their real work. Plus, they chop your day into small bits, so you have only 20 minutes of free time here or 45 minutes there.

Creative people need unstructured time to get in the zone. You can’t do that in 20 minutes.
Jason Fried

Jim Coudal on deadlines

The best work that we’ve ever done is work that was done in a very short period of time with the deadline hanging over our head.
— Jim Coudal, FOWD 2009, London

I love this quote by Jim Coudal (from Coudal Partners). I first heard it at FOWD London 2009, wrote it down and as an act of fate, was reminded of it due to recent events.

Congratulations!

​One week ago my brother Niko, and his fiance, Sanna, got married. Congratulations to my brother and my new, lovely sister-in-law!

Seahorse at Birch Aquarium

Went to see the San Diego Birch Aquarium.