Unauthorized drones over Helsinki? Not anymore — Helsinki.moi came up with a way to protect the city’s airspace from intruders: by releasing a few mechanical dragons into the sky. Natural, beautiful, and effective. At least if you ask AI.
Drone problem: solved. But who will chase away the seagulls stealing meat pies at the Market Square?
No. They dance on ice!
Kluuvinlahti in Helsinki’s Kulosaari had gained a paper-thin layer of ice today, 27 November 2025. At our request, Google Gemini captured this lovestruck pair of bears. The background — lighting and all — is real.
Helsinki is planning to demolish the Kulosaari Bridge because its concrete structures are in poor condition. The suspected cause has been sloppy construction. In reality, however, the bridge’s pillars are being weakened by whales bumping into them. You see, the whales have taken an interest in tourism and swim into Vanhankaupunginlahti to admire the original site of Helsinki, the landscapes around the old royal manor. Or at least they would—if AI had its way.
This video was created for us by Google Gemini, based on a photo snapped from the rooftop park of Redi, looking northeast.
Early this autumn we went to see what the former parking lot of Finlandia Hall looks like these days. It was green. And there was a grand piano. There wasn’t a bear, though — even if in Helsinki of the 2020s you can spot all sorts of semi-tame wild animals. So we asked Google Gemini to add a piano-playing bear to the scene. This is what it came up with. Pretty cute, right?
Our proposal for the working groups pondering how to enliven a city swallowed by the winter darkness: more musically gifted bears in Helsinki!
