Art Nouveau in Saint Petersburg
Being a big fan of Art Nouveau it wouldn't be possible for me not to post about all these beautiful buildings in St. Peter's built in this style. Also here is a great gallery of the Leningrad snaps from 1980es (that's how the city was called back then).
images above by Olga & Arek
images from the Hermitage by Olga & Arek
White Nights
It turns out I actually almost never posted about my last summer travels to - what people would usually call 'Eastern Europe' - but I'd prefer calling them trips to Russia and back home - to Belarus. Ok, in fact I wrote one post about Kaliningrad here - check it out it was really educational for me... And now it's been already more than half a year since these trips, however the memories - especially about Saint Petersburg - are still as bright as if it happened last week.
Saint Peter's is a truly wonderful place, definitely a cultural capital of Russia, as opposed to Moscow, which is a political one. We especially chose to go during last days of June to be able to visit during the time of white nights - the nights when it never gets completely dark in northern latitudes. I have loads of photos from the streets, palaces, canals and museums of St. Peter's - but here are some I love the most, captured during that strange time of the year, when walking the city's streets and roaming the canals becomes especially magical.
Photos by Olga & Arek
Political Avant-Gardes
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The Limits Of Control
Very visual, with every single image thoroughly thought through, extremely vivid and implicit. I loved every single minute of this movie. For me this is a very good example of form taking over the content, which does not happen all that often in modern cinematography. I'd say this movie is a MUST see.
images via Google
images via Google
m-m-m-M-M-Maldives...
Some very warm (not to say hot) memories from this January, spent in the strikingly beautiful part of the world. It was - and still is - hard to believe this beauty really exists - so untouched and authentic... but it does - such a calm and even solitary place where nothing seem to be able to go wrong.
Photos by Olga & Arek
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