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Bieke Depoorter, Belgium
‘For three periods of one month, I have let the Trans-Siberian train guide me alongside forgotten villages, from living room to living room. Some Russian words scribbled on a little piece of paper allowed me to be welcomed and absorbed in the warm chaos of a family. Accidental encounters led me to the places where I could sleep. The living room, the epicentre of their life, establishes an intimate contact between the Russian inhabitants. In this room, they sleep, eat and drink, as well as cry. For a brief moment, I was part of this. Their couch became my bed for one night. This way, I experienced transient, but very powerful, shared moments. We communicated without words. We understood each other somehow’.
BLDGBLOG: Book of Space
magique !painstakingly precise laser-cuts made into the pages of a blank sketchbook. As the book is opened and its pages begin to turn, these cuts work together to form a spatial representation of the single, highly choreographed 90-minute shot that is Alexander Sokurov's film Russian Ark.
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October 2009
Computer Programming - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
August 2009
ephemera assemblyman: Russian Revolutionary Periodicals 1905-1906
Russian Orthodox Choir, Sacret Russian singing Chesnokov's "Gabriel Appeared"
July 2009
LAÏKA (SHORT VERSION) on Vimeo
June 2009
April 2009
Russian Wall-E Case Mod
A solid-metal Wall-E computer case, each detail carefully cut from the metal sheets processed and put in place. Swiss precision homemade heavy metal WallE geeky step-by-step
Online dictionary service in English, Spanish, German and other languages by Collins Lexibase
February 2009
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2002 | The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910 - 1934
January 2009
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
December 2008
Raw Photo Processor (RPP)
Internet Archive: Details: Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1868-1917)
Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery
During the 1960’s, faced with an unstable foreign policy as well as a high demand for resources, the People’s Republic of China was forced to delocalise most of its heavy industry and armament factories. Originally situated on China’s coasts and in the North East close to the Russian border, these factories were obliged to relocate in the countries heartlands, hidden away and better protected...
June 2008
May 2008
