I am not a football/soccer person but every time I come to Asha in summer my dad and I go see the local football team in action. I like the feeling of belonging with the other supporters perched on the wooden benches, a bottle of cold beer in hand, on this cosy stadium surrounded by [...]
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Out of Russia: Football game as a duty
Posted in Home, Out of Russia, tagged Asha, football, game on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Out of Russia: Asha from above, more visuals
Posted in Home, Out of Russia on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few pictures from the same vintage point, different directions.
Out of Russia: Asha from above
Posted in Home, Out of Russia on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It hadn’t rained in Asha for two months by the time I got there so I climbed up one of the mountains and offer a desperate-for-rain dance to the local gods.
The smoking chimneys on the other side of the river that at that point almost completely dried out belong to the local Metallurgical Plant. [...]
Out of Russia: Hedgehog in the Fog
Posted in Films, Out of Russia, tagged cartoon, delusions, fears, hedgehog, stop-motion movie, transformation, Yuri Norstein on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My short visit to Russia made me nostalgic of the good old cartoons we grew up with in the former USSR. “Hedgehog in the Fog” (Russian: Ёжик в тума́не, “Yozhik v tumane”) was never among my favourates when I was a child: it had no songs in it, hardly any words at all and although [...]



