Kalle Id

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Location Helsinki, Finland
Introduction A Finnish maritime historian, journalist and photographer. Exposed to ferry cruising at a young age, decades later this trauma led to the creation of this blog.
Interests maritime history, photography, drawing, architecture, music, science fiction, fantasy literature, franco-belgian comics
Favorite Movies Koyaanisqatsi, Silent Running, Dark City, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Star Trek II, Nausicaä, Princess Mononoke, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Favorite Music Blur, David Bowie, Didier Marouani & Space, Can, Wendy Carlos, The Crash, Daft Punk, Elektric Music, Brian Eno, Fad Gadget, John Foxx, Philip Glass, Gorillaz, Hoe Hisaishi, Jori Hulkkonen, The Human League, Jamiroquai, Japan, Jethro Tull, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Kula Shaker, Ladytron, Giorgio Moroder, Klaus Nomi, Gary Numan, Mike Oldfield, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Pet Shop Boys, Pekka Pohjola, Space, Sparks, Igor Stravinsky, Stereolab, Talk Talk, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Telex, Ultra Bra, Ultravox, Visage, Voyage, Yello, Yellow Magic Orchestra
Favorite Books Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, War of the Flowers, Third Girl, The City and the Stars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey Two, The Songs of Distant Earth, Death on the Nile, Carpe Jugulum, The Portable Atheist, The Liner - Retrospective & Renaissance, The Fred. Olsen Line and its Passenger Ships, North Star to Southern Cross, The Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners, Tie Meren Yli, Baltic Ferries, From High Arctic to Antarctica, The Vorkosigan Saga, Spirou & Fantasio, Valérian & Laureline, Nanna