Helsinki International Boat Show

The Helsinki International Boat Show 2012 ended last weekend. This year’s Boat Show saw a slight drop in visitor attendance, although business was strong throughout the show. The event closed on Sunday following a successful nine-day run.

The complete photogallery with 190 photos can be viewed at the Ibify webpage or using the Ibify application on android devices.

Photos from the event

The Galeon 420

Inside a Coast Guard vessel

The Grandezza 39 is Finn-Marins flagship

Inside the Grandezza

Inside the Grandezza

Inside the Grandezza

The Grandezzas kitchen

Inside the Grandezza

Chris Craft design

The Sea Ray 450 Sundancer was priced 778.000 euro

Boatman Vision Forty Six sailing boat from Bavaria

How about a hovercraft?

The first Flying Finn? S.O. Fagerström from Scuderia Askolin

Hand made using the same methods as 60+ years ago. Yours for 8000 euros.

Boat designer of a boat competing in "Design Boat 2012"  was being interviewed. 

Electronic equipment and navigation.

The Princess v52 welcoming the visitors

The remaining 173 photos can be viewed at the Ibify webpage or using the Ibify application on android devices.

Burlesque Festival Photo Gallery

The two-day Helsinki Burlesque Festival ended yesterday. The theme was:

"Over The Rainbow,we bring you to a land of fantasies, surreal dreams, wicked fairytales, crystal carnevale, a land of ice and glittering snow, it is a land where everything can happen with only your imagination as the limit."

 The show featured performers from around the world:

• Bettie Bottomdollar ( UK, Switzerland)
• Bettie Blackheart
• Blackbird Burlesque Cabaret: (Sweden)
• The Buxotics - Irrepressible bump n grind! ( UK / FIN)
• Cleo Viper & Christopher Wonder: ( US / ITALY)
• Thee Dizzy Daisies
• "Erochica Bamboo" ( Japan)
• Exotic Luna Rosa: (UK)
• Frank Doggenstein
• Hedoluxe (GER)
• Holy Curves! Olivia Rouge and Cherrie A. Dorable
• Cherrie A.Dorable
• Olivia Rouge
• Miss Indigo Blue (US) Reigning Queen of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World 2011
• The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret: - Helsinki's Finest & Funniest!
• Kiki Hawaiji
• Koko La Douce (GER)
• Lola Vanilla
• LouLou D'vil - Untamed glamour from the arctic
• Lucie Goodness & Rudie Ruthless
• Miss Anne Thropy (FRA)
• Miss Botero ( FRA)
• Satan´s Angel, The Devil´s own Mistress
• Scarlett Martini (IT)
• Scotty The Blue Bunny (US)
• Sir Willy Waterlily
• Sydni Deveraux
• Welma Jackpot

The tickets for the saturday show were sold out beforehand. Below are selected photos from the saturdays show. The complete photo-gallery with 43 photos can be viewed from the Ibify-webpage or using the Ibify android app from the android market.

Photos from the saturday-show

The full gallery with 43 photos can be viewed on the Ibify webpage or using the free Ibify android app.

Rammstein: Made in Germany Live!

I've only seen Rammstein play once - and that was years ago in a smaller venue than yesterdays Hartwall Arena. The show might have been smaller but I remember being able to feel the heat from the flame-throwers from almost 20 meters away and being blinded by the bright pyrotechnics exploding in the dark. At that time I thought there's no way they can surpass this show anymore.

I was wrong. Judging by the photo coverage posted on ibify the show was even bigger and better! The show for the "Made in Germany" tour manages to impress again! The whole gallery from Rammsteins gig in the Hartwall arena can be viewed on the ibify website or on android devices using the ibify app. Here are some selected images from the event:

Rammsteins show exceeded expectations again.

Audience waiting for the show. And drinking beer.

Rammstein enters..

... through pillars of light...

... into the light ...

... and Fire!

Rammstein rocks.

Till Lindemann with flame throwers on the tips of angel wings.

Finland vs Russia Icehockey Photo-gallery

The Finland vs Russia icehockey game was played in a crisp -15 Celsius degrees winter day. That didn't scare of the spectators though - judging by the 25.000 viewers in the Olympic Stadium keeping up a good spirit.

Before the game started there was tons of activities. Below are some pictures from the yesterdays "pre-game" ibify-live-gallery.

Leo Lion and Angry Bird posing with the cheerleader girls

The sauna was already warm with smoke coming from the sauna-trucks chimney

Despite it's name this is not an army-vehicle: A "soup canon" cooking pea soup

Two hours before the game there were already a lot of people at the event

Hall of Fame player and Team Finlands general manager Jari Kurri on the stage

The ice was being prepared before the game

Outside the stadium area a balloon was being launched

Spectators trying to get the puck behind Pitsburg Penguing goalie Marc-André Fleury

Nokia was there with a big screen promoting the fruits of their partnership with Microsoft...

...the Lumia 800 mobile phone running Window Phone 7 "Mango"

Judging by a short test the phone still worked prtty well in -15 degrees.

90 minutes before the game the stadium was still empty...

View from the the stadium. The area was already starting to fill with people.

The Helsinki Olympic Stadium tower

Meanwhile the "Popcorn" band was keeping the crowd warm

The cheerleaders dancing along...

... with the crowd and "Leo the Lion"

30 minutes before the game the sun had already set...

... and expectations were high for the finnish fans.

The interior of the olympic stadium before the game

The cheerleaders were leading a warmup exersice for the spectators before the start

The live TV-broadcast studio was behind the rounded glasses

Teams lining up for the game.

Spectators standing up for the national anthems.

The game is GO!

The finnish crowd was silenced 2 min before the end of the first period by Stanislav Tshistov who scored 1-0 for Russia.

Between the second and the third period

Between the second and the third period

Despite the temperature sinking below -15 degrees the spirit was still high

The teams changed ends at 50 mins into the game to ensure equal conditions for both teams

Russia won the game 2 - 0. The complete gallery can be viewed on the www.ibify.com webpage or on android phones using the 'ibify' app from the android Market.