Russia With Love

Vintage photographs from the 50s and 60s in Russia.

Strange Angels

In Vitebsk, Russia millions of tiny butterflies flocked to a bridge one night and began to die.

Epic Fox

These are really awesome fox photos. Apparently this guy (the photographer) had to move to a nature preserve in Kamchatka for 6 months, and had nobody to look after his cat. After some deliberation, he decided to bring Ryska along. These are some resultant shots from their stay.

No Idea

Seriously, I have no idea what to say about this. Apparently this is the "Sect of Gadget Hackwrench" in Russia. Here is their mission statement (manifesto?):

She is the divine being, the most untouched and perfect sibling of the great God on Earth”, say one of the participants. “Why I love her? It’s stupid question, how I can’t love the Godess?”. “She is strict, cute, optimistic and her level of technical knowledge is unachievable for a mortal being.

So yeah...I have no words.

Christian Photo Retouches...Russia Style!

Okay, more Russian stuff today, because I am endlessly fascinated.

Here is possibly the most heinous photo-retouching/photography company ever. Seriously.

 

Oh yeah, it's that bad. But wait! What's that you say? They do weddings? Oh, we must see:

 

 

 

Oh how lovely! We really must see one more instance of strange clip art and backgrounds inserted at random into photographs. I insist. That should be a trend.But this is nice too:

 

See them all here. I know you want to.

 

That's It...

I absolutely must live in Russia at some point. Seriously...eagles are trendy pets in Moscow. EAGLES.

 

Translated quote from source site: "Lately numerous occasions of people with eagle pets have been reported from the centre of Moscow. Looks like this becomes trendy?"

Belarus бабушка

This woman from Belarus plays a bluesy version of an old folk tale--using a lightbulb as a slide. I find it charming, sad and wonderful all at the same time.



(originally from here)

Hedgehog in the Fog

Hedgehog in the Fog or Ёжик в тумане (1975), is an incredible animated film. It's based on a Russian folk tale, and apparently many Russian children grew up and are familiar with it. It won several awards, including best animated film of all time at the Laputa International Animation festival in 2003. It's charming, evocative, and oddly eerie in a way--I'm absolutely enchanted. I'm also learning Russian this quarter, so it's nice to hear it spoken so fluently, and with accurate inflection. It's such an intricate and beautiful language.