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January 29, 2007
Jason Brooks and his girls
Is it possible to depict human image in a more beautiful and ideal way than we see on fashion photos of glossy magazines? It proves to be so. The artist Jason Brooks has created the perfect world of absolute beauty and luxurious enervation. If the diamond is considered to be the standard of perfect beauty, then it’ll be possible to say that people, interior and life-style in Jason Brooks’ pictures are akin to diamonds. You’ll see brilliant, irreproachably perfect and crystal-refined lines, proportions and mood. The women have got slanting (perhaps they are also called almond-shaped) eyes and long thin arms. Having turned their necks, they are preciously holding wineglasses on thin stems.
Jason Brooks’ pictures are incredibly popular and are especially willingly used at avatars. As there’s nothing more pleasant than to hide beyond glamour image and even if just a bit feel one of the celestials.
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July 7, 2006
Photographers differ.
Brian McCarty is a photographer and the owner of McCarty PhotoWorks studio. The most distinctive feature of his works is that he takes photos of dolls in realistic interior. It’s a very unusual and beautiful show.
Studio’s philosophy is the following- there are no contradictions between art and commerce. Just as there are no contradictions between joy and work. Vibe and Penthouse are among his clients. You can have a look at the photos. There are not humans, but dolls on them.
I strongly recommend visiting galleries on the studio website. The pictures cheer you up considerably.
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May 22, 2006
GZ - Glavnoye Zdanie
Author.::.Phil
By chance it happened so that I have absolutely no bearing on MSU, but I’ve got great number of friends, who are Moscow State University graduates (and even my wife is!).
That’s why when they all were students; I used to spend much time in GZ (Glavnoye Zdanie = Main Building). Of course it’s not comparable with the students themselves, but nevertheless it’s a lot. The scale and grandeur of this building impress me greatly. I’m not even speaking about the old wives' tales, connected with it!
I’ve always thought of some analogy with iceberg, and one conclusion has always been drawn: the underground GZ part is at least thrice bigger than what we see. Perhaps this point is the basis for all the rumors about the ramified cave system under the building.
One more theory that emerged while looking at GZ was the following: such a huge and vast structure can’t stand independently. And there surely exist huge machines and mechanisms the aim of which is to prevent any trouble. The most close to this theory rumor is that there are huge cooling plants, freezing the soil under the building in order to prevent it from falling away into the Moskva-river.
Why am I saying it all? I fall into nostalgia, having found the photo gallery with the category “GZ outside” and “inside” on mathematics and mechanics MSU faculty web site. It’s impossible to turn away from the web-camera located on the 13-th flour of MSU GZ.
And here it’s possible to enjoy the Moscow panorama, opening from GZ (830 kb). You may have zoomed-in fragment image, clicking on any panorama part.
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April 21, 2006
Metro amenities
Author.::.Phil
It has become usual for us to hear that Moscow Metro is the most beautiful in the world. We’ve got so used to it, that we even don’t think of the way other undergrounds look. Really, our metro is so habitual for us that we don’t notice its marvelous amenities. Because it’s not possible to notice them only looking under your legs.
Today I looked through the pages of "Metro Arts and Architecture", where the photos and descriptions of the most beautiful world metro-stations are collected. I strongly recommend looking it over (I was greatly impressed by Stockholm and Lille).
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November 16, 2005
How to transmogrify Apple iBook or the complex of white surfaces
Author.::.Phil
I've got a kind of one specific reflex - a big white surface evokes my desire to do smth. with it. If it's a clean sheet of paper, it's absolutely necessary to write or draw smth. on it. If it's a white window of a program, it should be indispensably used somehow or got stuff with information. If it's a wall... well, it's clear without any words. If we don't take paper into account, the largest white surface I've recently got, is Apple iBook. It's clear that it didn't stay white long :-) While by while it became covered with stickers. At the moment F2 and NASA logotypes inhabit the upper cover, DaKine and Smith - the lower part.
And today, one of our authors, 4zy, who's a great fan of Apple production, thrust the photogallery on flickr called "Mac Stickers", under my nose. It's about such guys as I am, who take a fine thing and transmogrify it with all sort of rubbish. I'm not the only one, we've got a whole movement here!
(It's not me, but Cory Doctorow on the picture; the photos are from this very gallery)
UPD: I finally made up my mind to photo my sticked Mac.
How to transmogrify Apple iBook or the complex of white surfaces (RU)
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