Ministry of Toys

how sweet is that:
centre of toys expertise



St. Petersburg is charming and very ironic city, where even bums and alcoholics speak perfect literature Russian, and curse words are pronounced with exceptional taste and style.

my sweet italian friend

we were true Portland "Loffias" who'd do math analysis homework in front of the professor (and still get an A ^^)
and we still maintain this lazy nerd brand, she in London, me in Moscow.

ti voglio bene, Anny!

wasssuuuuup

aaaaahahahahaa, that's mega lol:

watch it till the end:



that September cover of 'the Economist' fits the topic



/I am neither for democrats nor for republicans. I am for monarchy :D/

empty chair

You love music, and browse billboards for some excellent concert.
You find a concert and buy a ticket, long in advance, half a year or so.
Then you fall sick and nobody can locate where cancer cells come from.
Then you die.
And your seat stays empty all concert.

I love to go to the conservatoire. Addicted to it. If I am not there for a month, I have a withdrawal. It gives 2 hours of pure pleasure. Love to be there alone. I close my eyes, music helps to put thoughts in order.

This time I was in this empty chair. Bach was wonderful as usual.

framing

paintings go to frames and climb the walls...

photographers say

Ralph Gibson:
- when you take pictures in b/w you make 3 steps away from reality: you eliminate color, contract size, come from 3D to 2D. That's why blac&white photography looks more drammatic, cause you make 3 steps away from reality.

Eugene Smith:
- What's use of depth-of-field if there is no deep emotions?

Bill Brandt:
- The distinctive feature of a phorographer is that he looks more intensively at things than other people. He must preserve eye of a child who looks at the world for the first time, or of a traveller who enters a country he's never been to before.

beauty

Lilian Bassman,
born in 1917 (!)
she was one of those who trended and directed fashion photography.
negatives of these pictures were found in her old studio in the garbage bags.
they were revived.

this totally reflects my feeling of woman's beauty and how it should be captured on a still image.







more

she still lives and still creates. admirable!

shoes freak

Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City had 100 pairs. Well, she was 40 years old.
I am 20 years old, and I have 20 pairs.

latest crushes:





looooove Manolo Blahnik. Yes.

+ YSL:



+ marc jacobs:

drunk cat

this is how it looks originally, with upper half:



love red wine. (maybe even too much :D)

local disaster

oh no!!
concerts of Laurin Hill, Little Richard and Chuck Berry have been cancelled! :-(
Well..I have been to Chuck Berry already, but Laurin..I so wanted to see her!

Anyways.
Here is the bluesman I did for my friend's album cover:

old draws

parents found my old sketches. i even forgot I had those!
funny to look back at them..:

some more ghilyana

future children doctor

focus?

evening lights are pretty

pattern?

sunshine!

Maxim-Suntrip

has a first personal photo exhibition. can't wait to see! (in two hours and four minutes I will be there)



it seems that his lens has a soul.

see his flickr

Ghilyana