SoftPanorama, a vast resource with a Russian edge
February 5, 2012 6:12 PM Subscribe
SoftPanorama / SoftPanorama Switchboard, created by Nikolai Bezroukov, is one of those vast, practical resources with a fun side too. There is the excellent and very useful Classification of Corporate Psychopaths | Coping with the toxic stress in IT environment | Surviving a Bad Performance Review | Information Overload: How Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime | Science, PseudoScience and Society. But then there is the fun side of the site too: Russian Music Oldies on YouTube | economic crisis humor | Songs from Famous Russian Cartoons on Youtube.
It's not especially beautiful to look at, has some quirky Russian-English grammar/misspellings and dead links but is well worth exploring.
These are a few examples of the Russian Oldies:
ВИА Верасы "Люблю тебя" Песня года - 1979
My Address is the Soviet Union
VIA "Flame" Song of Friendship
На сопках Манчжурии / The Hills of Manchuria
Then there is the basso profundo collection. Wow. I never heard any human voice that low! (Except for the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir) check this one out: Vladimir Pasjukov - Do not reject me in my old age | Basso Profondo LOW G CAGE MATCH! | lowest note Vladimir Pasuik & Viktor Wichniakov | The Largest bass voices | Russian Red Army Choir - Song of the Volga Boatmen (1965) | Evening bells - Вечерний звон - Abendglocken | Mark Reizen sings Song of the Flea
A couple of the economic crisis humor gems: Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis | Greek Debt Song
A couple of Songs from Famous Russian Cartoons on Youtube: Львенок и черепаха мульт (the lion and turtle song) | Four inseparable cockroach and cricket
It's not especially beautiful to look at, has some quirky Russian-English grammar/misspellings and dead links but is well worth exploring.
These are a few examples of the Russian Oldies:
ВИА Верасы "Люблю тебя" Песня года - 1979
My Address is the Soviet Union
VIA "Flame" Song of Friendship
На сопках Манчжурии / The Hills of Manchuria
Then there is the basso profundo collection. Wow. I never heard any human voice that low! (Except for the Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir) check this one out: Vladimir Pasjukov - Do not reject me in my old age | Basso Profondo LOW G CAGE MATCH! | lowest note Vladimir Pasuik & Viktor Wichniakov | The Largest bass voices | Russian Red Army Choir - Song of the Volga Boatmen (1965) | Evening bells - Вечерний звон - Abendglocken | Mark Reizen sings Song of the Flea
A couple of the economic crisis humor gems: Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis | Greek Debt Song
A couple of Songs from Famous Russian Cartoons on Youtube: Львенок и черепаха мульт (the lion and turtle song) | Four inseparable cockroach and cricket
And while you're in the Russian cartoon songs section, don't miss the Goluboy Vagon (Blue Railroad Car), sung by an animated crocodile with accordion!
posted by homerica at 8:26 PM on February 5, 2012
posted by homerica at 8:26 PM on February 5, 2012
lol, this is wonderful, had no idea of this version existing. I kind of love how the Russian has no the, so it is just Vinnie Poo(x)h
More Винни Пух
There seems to be quite a lot of Винни Пух on the web, somehow survived the soviet era youtube cartoon cull of last year.
Thank you for sharing these links.
posted by infinite intimation at 9:01 PM on February 5, 2012
More Винни Пух
There seems to be quite a lot of Винни Пух on the web, somehow survived the soviet era youtube cartoon cull of last year.
Thank you for sharing these links.
posted by infinite intimation at 9:01 PM on February 5, 2012
I should make another Soviet animation post at some point. There's so much wonderful stuff here!
I know MeFi is all over Vinnie Pooh and Cheburashka, but maybe I can suggest something slightly different: a beautiful baritone from a "groovy 70s" musical version of the Bremen musicians story. It's quite a voice. Its owner died in 2008.
posted by Nomyte at 9:39 PM on February 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
I know MeFi is all over Vinnie Pooh and Cheburashka, but maybe I can suggest something slightly different: a beautiful baritone from a "groovy 70s" musical version of the Bremen musicians story. It's quite a voice. Its owner died in 2008.
posted by Nomyte at 9:39 PM on February 5, 2012 [1 favorite]
Каштанкa, a rotoscopic animation based on a short story by Anton Chekhov (1952).
posted by hat_eater at 2:55 AM on February 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by hat_eater at 2:55 AM on February 6, 2012 [1 favorite]
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