This really made my day:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/may/01/lithuania-soviet-nostalgia-theme-parks
Made my day too, thanks for sharing!
I've been to the KGB museum there. Seriously depressing place.
yeah, it's a pity that no one thought about nazi/jewish theme parks with nostalgia for some great holocaust tourist attractions. Maybe some time later... By the way, 2011 is a year of holocaust in here or something like that
There was something like this in Uwe Boll's "Postal" :)
Quote from: tiny_tove on June 03, 2011, 11:33:06 AM
There was something like this in Uwe Boll's "Postal" :)
amazing
I'm kind of proud what people in here are capable of:
http://vimeo.com/23040442 (http://vimeo.com/23040442)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlxHPJAONpE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlxHPJAONpE)
auto events in Eastern Europe : )
Quote from: Levas on June 23, 2012, 08:49:36 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlxHPJAONpE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlxHPJAONpE)
auto events in Eastern Europe : )
Great trips!
yeah. that's why i thought that it is more important to fight properly before having your driver license : )
That's almost like a real life Grand Theft Auto game.
www.englishrussia.com is a good source for crazy and weird russian stuff.
I'm russian and, but I live in Poland for a 3 years now.
The only thing I'd like to say - Yes, Russia if fucking weird.
englishrussia blog is highly recommended stuff, sometimes there some boring shit and stupid ads, but sometimes you can find real gem there.
The bridge to nowhere for ~16 mln euro. Nice going.
Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mfDJRhNgBb4)
Don't know if you are familiar or not. An antenna in Russia that was transmitting something, but nobody knows what for years.
QuoteFrom a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to buzzes, generally between 21 and 34 per minute, each lasting roughly a second—a nasally foghorn blaring through a crackly ether. The signal was said to emanate from the grounds of a voyenni gorodok (mini military city) near the village of Povarovo, and very rarely, perhaps once every few weeks, the monotony was broken by a male voice reciting brief sequences of numbers and words, often strings of Russian names: "Anna, Nikolai, Ivan, Tatyana, Roman." But the balance of the airtime was filled by a steady, almost maddening, series of inexplicable tones.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/ (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/09/ff_uvb76/)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76)
Kids burrying their cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zicU7lWyhjU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zicU7lWyhjU)
Chemical weapon in USSR. Loads of information and even more information will never go out, but anyways. A few interesting things:
http://instinnovstudy.org/aletheia/excerpts/sovchemweapons-excerpt.pdf (http://instinnovstudy.org/aletheia/excerpts/sovchemweapons-excerpt.pdf)
Here you'll find some info about experiments with people, ecology etc.
But one interesting thing is april 28th that is the international day of chemical safety. This day was chosen because of the fire in Novocheboksarsk chemical weapon plant. During the fire, 50 bombs were burned, each carrying quarter of a ton (250kg) of VR gas. 1 ton of VR is enough to kill 100 million people. LD50 through skin is 10mg. Burnt VR gas was enough for all the current population to have LD100 through air several times. We could die and die and die once more, heh
A little more info about that: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/cbw/jptac008_l94001.htm (http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/cbw/jptac008_l94001.htm)
QuoteNovocheboksarsk can serve as an example of the effect of chemical weapons production on those who had nothing to do with this business, who were not favored with privileges and compensatory payments. Chronic illness of children in this city is already 40 percent (much higher than for Chuvashia as a whole), and the level of abnormal childbirth has reached 88-90 percent, no other serious ecotoxicants being known for the city [60, 85].
Among documented accidents and disasters associated with V-gas production, a special place goes to the fire that occurred on 28 April 1974 [27, 39]. It is indicative that, a month before the fire was reported [39], the publication which reported it had stated that specialists at this plant "had not had a single accident" [88]. According to official data that were not made public until 18 years after the fire, the cause was a short in the power line due to failure to complete some construction work [89-91]. The fire resulted in loss of seal of aircraft bombs filled with "product," and temporary loss of control over the latter. The main thing is the totally incredible fact that unfinished work did not show up until two years after the start of series production of chemical munitions filled with highly toxic V-gas that was extremely hazardous for personnel and residents of the city. Accidents occurred with release of V-gas even after that, for example in 1978.
Transportation of V-gas munitions was extremely hazardous. For 15 years the railroad used for the purpose was the Cheboksary-Kanash branch line that was in "unsatisfactory" condition [92].
okay, since today I've been reading about all that - Karabash. The most polluted city in the world (according to UNESCO)
http://www.demotix.com/news/karabash-most-polluted-town-russia#media-166358 (http://www.demotix.com/news/karabash-most-polluted-town-russia#media-166358)
http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/18929-Karabash,-ciudad-mas-contaminada-del-planeta (http://actualidad.rt.com/ciencias/view/18929-Karabash,-ciudad-mas-contaminada-del-planeta)
http://ekimoff.ru/191/ (http://ekimoff.ru/191/)
cheers!
I saw Karabash in 2007 - this is not good place to live in.
Maybe not the best thread to post it in, but anyways - some nice photos of Russian "nationalists". Should I put that word in quotes or not, I don't know.
http://21sergey21.livejournal.com/368426.html (http://21sergey21.livejournal.com/368426.html)
fucking classic
best site I have seen in ages...
Nice social irony on life in Russia. Paintings
http://www.go2life.net/caricature/62-45-sensacionnyh-foto-zhestokaya-socialnaya-ironiya-o-zhizni-v-rossii.html (http://www.go2life.net/caricature/62-45-sensacionnyh-foto-zhestokaya-socialnaya-ironiya-o-zhizni-v-rossii.html)
"top 25 fantastic soviet buildings"
http://englishrussia.com/2013/11/19/top-25-fantastic-soviet-buildings/#more-133588 (http://englishrussia.com/2013/11/19/top-25-fantastic-soviet-buildings/#more-133588)
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on November 20, 2013, 03:45:36 PM
"top 25 fantastic soviet buildings"
http://englishrussia.com/2013/11/19/top-25-fantastic-soviet-buildings/#more-133588 (http://englishrussia.com/2013/11/19/top-25-fantastic-soviet-buildings/#more-133588)
Thanks for the link, they look amazing! #24 in the side of a mountain looks great but #1 is my favourite. I am going to have to look into more Soviet architecture, I really like the style.
Start from this: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05744/facts.frederic_chaubin_cosmic_communist_constructions_photographed.htm (http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05744/facts.frederic_chaubin_cosmic_communist_constructions_photographed.htm)
Quote from: Levas on November 20, 2013, 04:17:01 PM
Start from this: http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05744/facts.frederic_chaubin_cosmic_communist_constructions_photographed.htm (http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05744/facts.frederic_chaubin_cosmic_communist_constructions_photographed.htm)
That looks perfect, thank you very much!
absolutely impressive...
last few links are incredible ...
5 minutes in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDizec5_kwI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDizec5_kwI)
To continue with the post above, here's Russia in 15 seconds:
http://youtu.be/jBqtQjJqSQw
<3 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549277/The-hilarious-Russian-marriage-snaps-NOT-wedding-photo.html
Quote from: Scat-O-Logy on January 31, 2014, 05:56:25 PM
<3 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549277/The-hilarious-Russian-marriage-snaps-NOT-wedding-photo.html
ehehhehehehe...
Quote from: Scat-O-Logy on January 29, 2014, 12:16:02 PM
To continue with the post above, here's Russia in 15 seconds:
http://youtu.be/jBqtQjJqSQw
It's actually from Russian some movie (I keep forgetting the title), but it does sum up life in
some parts of the country pretty well.
talking about russian movies. a couple of years ago I saw a movie that featured a massive skinhead attack to a foreigner fish-market. skinheads were wearing for once actual RAC shirts and not improvised stuff... any idea about the title? is the rest of the movie worth watching?
I hardly ever watch movies, but... could it be "Russia 88"? This is a very sensitive topic here, obviously, so each production somehow concerning it is bound the end up in the spotlight/get caught in the crossfire, and this is the only recent one I can think of.
thanks for the hint, no, the one I am talking about looked like an high-budget fiction movie.
main character was talking on his cell phone when a big group of skinheads arrived at this market run by foreigner-looking guys and crushed the whole place.
it is the most impressive skinhead attack ever filmed and what impressed me was that the actors were wearing real t-shirts. etc...
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/18/decoding-russian-criminal-tattoos-in-pictures (http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/18/decoding-russian-criminal-tattoos-in-pictures)
OK these are more interesting with comments that are in Russian, but anyways, photos are nice:
http://uzoranet.livejournal.com/2053414.html (http://uzoranet.livejournal.com/2053414.html)
Quote from: Levas on January 07, 2015, 05:35:36 PM
OK these are more interesting with comments that are in Russian, but anyways, photos are nice:
http://uzoranet.livejournal.com/2053414.html (http://uzoranet.livejournal.com/2053414.html)
Looks like a great place to plan a vacation.
The photo with the two guys laying on top of the huge pile of money is from "Breaking Bad".
Yeah, all the comments in there are kind of ironic and "taken from rotten West" to show how horribly people live there. Under that particular photo the comment says that "The dollar became so weak that it is cheaper to sleep on them than to buy a sofa. USA".
Comment under the fourth photo says "ecological installation in Brussels, Belgium"
10th photo - "girls are walking past the trumph arc, Paris, France"
12th - overground rail line in New York, USA
17th photo - graffiti on the wall says Kant is a faggot. and the comment - supporters of Hegel declares their disagreements with philosophy of Kant
20th photo - cannibal Friedrich Muhler rests in a park after a difficult day at work, Munchen, Germany
22th - Chaos in the flat of the writer Chuck Palahnuk does not prevent him from writing excellent novels. Washington, USA
and so on
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/26/article-1297520-0A8EDE65000005DC-861_468x324.jpg)
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/828ba5705789d5b7770ff8f26138325f/tumblr_msiw0nSu2L1rr4n2so1_400.gif)
Maybe this could interest some: http://fuel-design.com/russian-criminal-tattoo-archive
Found the second volume of that book in the library a month or so ago and had to scan some of the pictures. Fantastic imagery.
Love that gif, by the way.
I also got the postcards recently
and yeah that gif rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZnFfJpI8Y
wash that chicken!!
Quote from: pentd on July 02, 2015, 02:26:38 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8ZnFfJpI8Y
wash that chicken!!
I like to imagine they shot a porno straight after using the same cast (animals included).
Quote from: Scat-O-Logy on June 09, 2015, 08:10:09 PM
(https://38.media.tumblr.com/828ba5705789d5b7770ff8f26138325f/tumblr_msiw0nSu2L1rr4n2so1_400.gif)
My life is complete, found actual video for that awesome gif
http://www.facebook.com/Idiotswhotheworldwillneverforget/videos/vb.965013046882512/1029927280391088
anybody can point me to a archive or other resource for soviet futuristic concepts and art (pictures, posters, whatever) ? thanks in advance.
Marcin Klimek (½ of Kevlar) have taken some good pics:
(http://marcinklimek.org/i.php?/000/199/img206,xlarge.1416603515.jpg)
More here:
http://marcinklimek.org/index.php?/albums/moloch-1/
http://russiansandgod.tumblr.com/ (http://russiansandgod.tumblr.com/)
Quote from: Levas on July 15, 2011, 12:08:17 PM
I'm kind of proud what people in here are capable of:
http://vimeo.com/23040442 (http://vimeo.com/23040442)
just watched this.
so awesome!
even Alton towers could only smash legs into oblivion!
Lenin was noticed sleeping in weird yoga pose in Lithuania
(https://i.imgur.com/VTGqXkw.jpg)
Konstantin Melnikov and, the constructivist school of architecture, which grew out of Russian futurism, may apply. Melnikov, wanted to create an "Institute for Changing the Form of Man", which was total science fiction. What was actually produced though, is too cheerful for my liking.