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Last week I showed you 16 videos from a Finnish enigma, a man who has captivated the world with his absurd videos. His name is Kari Tykkyläinen, and I chatted with him about his magical life and his body of work.

Kari has uploaded hundreds of videos, few of which make any kind of sense to English speakers, but they have gone viral for their ability to make even the most hardened internet veteran raise an eyebrow and say, "uh...what?" And on the web, that's a huge accomplishment.

I would suggest clicking the above link and familiarizing yourself with a few of his videos so you have a basic understanding of what this dude's all about before venturing into the interview after the jump.
Tell us a bit about yourself and your life in Finland. What do you do for an occupation?

I am a sculptor for an occupation and art photographer.

Are you a part of an artistic collective of some kind? Your videos seem to be full of your homemade art.

I do belong to Professional Artists of Finland and I have an exhibition in my home all the time, but I have had exhibitions in Finland and Germany.

Are you a musician? If so, where can we listen to your music?

I have played Premier-drums 46 years and last 2 years self-made cigar-box guitars with singing blues tones out from my heart. You can only listen my music in Youtube.

Do you collect American cars?

I am an Harley-Davidson (1991 Fatboy) man, but we have Chevrolets (Impala -76, 2 Caprices-85), one Dodge, Plymouth Duster-75, Cadillac STS-87, my boys built them on weekends.

Where do you find so many beautiful women?

They are local women from my neighborhood and they are all from Pudasjärvi, the little town where I live (every woman is beautiful, the beauty is in your eyes).

You have over 800 videos on YouTube. What inspires you to produce so much content?

Every day, my videos are to me like short paintings, little ideas, you just have to do them out of you, when you feel angry, make music, when you feel horny, call some woman with respect and love to make videos with you.

What is the message you hope to send to your YouTube viewers?

I want to show to the people an example, how everybody can laugh to themselves and so have good feelings in everyday life. Life is not so serious place, too much violence and wars, but not so much joy and happiness.

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I asked Kari to provide explanations for a few of his strangest and most popular videos.
"I will never give up." This is the first video of mine. I came one day to home, I was in bad mood and I took a paper and hit myself. My wife took it to video. Next day I did show it to one man and he told me to put that video to YouYube. It was funny, because I had never heard about YouTube and so this career did start
"This woman is an unforgivable woman, it is like feminist video, free the women from homes and works and she shouts that the cold nights do not f*ck her anymore."
"We men are left alone too many times with potatoes to cold loneliness, we men are sensitive animals."
This is Lapland shamanism, big magic drum, bones and ugly native man doing sexual magic to call young women to understand him.