Comments on: Behind the curtain - retro Russia

Behind the curtain - retro Russia

madamjujujive — Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:32:09 -0800

is a retro look at Russia through engaging and often playful snapshots - it has all the feel of rummaging through a box of photos in an attic. Communist Store Windows offers another, more recent glimpse behind the iron curtain. Both galleries are like shots of peppered vodka.

By: troybob

troybob — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:40:54 -0800

What great time spent. My favorite.

By: tonelesscereal

tonelesscereal — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 01:00:56 -0800

Delightful collection of pictures.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 01:09:25 -0800

I love old family photos and vintage window dressing--and now a vast, ad hoc museum of a great failing utopia: sweet and bittersweet with ironies. Valeri has new vehicle! New Hungarian Socialist Peoples Breast Pump! Wonderful postage, madamejj.

By: condour75

condour75 — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 02:18:02 -0800

awesome mj

By: iamck

iamck — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 02:37:22 -0800

For more, see Dziga Vertov's Man With a Movie Camera, an avant garde silent film documenting the everyday life of a the Russian citizen. Recently redone with a new score from Cinematic Orchestra.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:37:10 -0800

I'd say you should try to see Man With A Movie Camera without the Cinematic Orchestra's godawful jazz-funk lite stylings. I saw them soundtrack the film live a couple of times last year, and they damn near ruined it with a clunkingly unsubtle interpretation. (The Michael Nyman score is better, and best of all is the Alloy Orchestra's based on Vertov's own notes). Sorry, that was blindingly off-topic - great links madamjujujive!

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:41:44 -0800

so, what's so funny about the pictures in "catch the humour?" Or is that the joke? great find, juju.

By: plep

plep — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 06:10:15 -0800

Great. Thanks mjjj.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 06:53:33 -0800

wonderful : >

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:17:54 -0800

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By: volk

volk — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:15:04 -0800

Wow, cool find!

By: Ljubljana

Ljubljana — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:31:19 -0800

This is wonderful. There's still a great deal of nostalgia for these days, now that eastern European cities are awash in neon lights and billboards for things like delicious, ice-cold Pepsi Blue^tm. What I mean is that even though most people are wealthier now, and drive something a bit better than the lawn-mowers of yesteryear, you'll still find a lot of people who speak fondly of these days of deprivation. They don't want to go back to communism, but they don't necessarily regret it either. Individual results vary, of course. Also: I don't use the word "hero" very often, but madamj³ is the greatest hero in Metafilterian history.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:21:38 -0800

Wow. Very cool. Did anyone think this one was kind of creepy?

By: funkbrain

funkbrain — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 13:58:32 -0800

I am reminded of this, which is also very cool and is even topical.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 02 Sep 2003 16:34:13 -0800

That is one excellent link, funkbrain, and I hadn't seen it before - thanks for posting it! And iamck, thanks for the pointer - that's new to me too. ...awww, Ljubljana, you are sweet! / blushes