Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Intro to Ajarn Mikko
On November 26, 1982, fans around the world were piling into cinemas for the 25th week to follow the plight of a certain alien stranded on Earth. Fortunately for this alien, who went simply by the name of E.T., within a few week of his arrival, he was saved from a life next to Santa Claus in Area 51.
As E.T. landed to the sound of popcorn crunching in ten thousand theatres across the world, another strange creature made it’s way into the world, and despite his furious protests at being push out onto planet earth, was not eventually rescued.
Instead, he gradually forgot the indignity of his entrance onto planet Earth and became quite accustomed to his new home, Finland, surrounded by clean lakes, forests, saunas, and strange creatures such as reindeer, salmon, drunk teenagers and Santa Claus.
When he realised that a fat man could not fit down the chimney, the young Mikko turned his attention to drawing sailboats and dinosaurs. One day it dawned on him that he could design a chimney a fat man could fit through, and pleased, joined the drunk teenagers at the faculty of Architecture at TKK university.
During his seven years at university, he managed to forget about Santa Claus, as he became more interested in the stage and Elvis impersonation, which, in turn, led to a certain Thai girl becoming fascinated by him, which, eventually, led him to end up at Suvarnabhumi airport, which one could say, is as good a replacement as any for a spaceship removing him from planet Earth.
Life on planet Bangkok is different from life in Finland, but Ajarn Mikko has been happy to find that elephants are really not too different from reindeer, pineapple makes a great salmon replacement, and that protesting mobs make similar sounds to drunk teenagers and wear nice bright colours. Thai houses have no chimneys, so he’s not sure whether Santa Claus will be paying him a visit.
Ajarn Mikko is happy to discuss art, design, pineapples, Elvis, and other mysteries. You can reach him at:
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