| Moscow winter |
[14 Apr 2008|12:49am] |
Ah, Russia, forever acontrast with everything and with itself!
When Sasha and Liouba left the States at the end of March 2005, from crocuses in full bloom and the beginning of second harvest of grass they plunged into this:
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| Celebration of the vampires |
[14 Apr 2008|12:52am] |
Something fun always happens in Russia. Historically, it’s been a place with much more action than any hollywood film. O.k. This doesn’t compare with 1917, but it was still full of passion and contradictions, and all that is so wrong and wonderful with the human soul.
Sasha dropped by the celebration of Red Easter by Alexandre Dugin and his sheep. Russians are not worse than anybody else and so fetishism and gadgets have an appeal with the young and dreaming (of a bright future filled with shiny gadgets) and when a youth has his armpits bandaged by Dugin’s arrows, well that helps develop an intelligent, concentrated look, the one that is dressed in school, when the teacher’s pet looks at her wide eyed and big mouthed, ready to gobble anything that would give a chance to a cakeful life.
But not all of them are vamps:
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| Moscow in spring |
[14 Apr 2008|07:26pm] |
Funny how the use of language can influence our experience of reality. If people are told repeatedly that green is black and that yellow is green, that’s what they begin to see. In fact, there are numerous experiments in the study of psychology of language, where it’s been observed that when different shades of the colour blue, as an example, have been flashed to native speakers of languages that had different names for these colours and to those who didn’t, the native speakers of the more shades of blue perceived them as different and separate colours, whereas those whose native language had only one term, saw them as basically one colour.
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