Natasha Enge, where are you?

In the meantime...

Jan. 27th, 2009 | 10:59 am

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Да, поняли теперь рядовые граждане как тяжела участь активистов молодежных движений "Наши" и "Молодая Гвардия". Не так-то легко оказалось провести в Северной Столице акцию в поддержку правительства России. Но все же простые трудящиеся в этот непростой для страны час нашли себе силы собраться в специально отведенном месте на Морской набережной и заявить о своей искренней и горячей поддержке всех инициатив нашего дорогого правительства.

Собравшись в этом людном и оживленном месте, фактически на льду Финского залива, митингующие в едином порыве подняли стяги, хоругви и плакаты с лозунгами: "Да росту цен на товары первой необходимости!!!!", "Даешь повышение тарифов ЖКХ!", "Да 12-часовому рабочему дню!", "Мы согласны на все!", "Да!!!", "Жить стало лучше, жить стало веселее!".

В патриотическом экстазе скандируя лозунги "Больше работы, меньше зарплаты!" и "Кризис, кризис уходи!" демонстранты прошли около двухсот метров маршем по согласованному маршруту под надежной охраной многократно превосходящих сил милиции. В своих речах организаторы акции обратились к правительству с просьбой ввести налог на воздух и восьмидневную рабочую неделю.

Fashion Shows in Paris: Adeline André

Waiting for Obama (Paris City Hall)

Obama Inaguration (Paris City Hall)

Delia

That's how it is

Russian New Year!

Traffic

Triumph of free maconry over a christian king

HAPPY 2009!

New Year's Celebration

Lee Miller's exhibit at Jeu de Pomme

Sweet grand pa Picasso.

Cat from 1948. Animals, like cats and dogs, have no History, at least not their own. It is always fascinating to see photos of animals from long ago. Unlike people, whose faces often date, cats and dogs always look "contemporary".

Olga and Vladimir Berkman, after the Lee Miller show, in front of the Tuillerie, Dec. 28, 2008

One day before 2009: handicapped bike

Former professor?

Beggar, place Concorde...

Last night on Monmartre: le Bateau Lavoir

Bateau Lavoir where Picasso used to live and did drugs back in the early 1900s.

Season's Greetings!

Dec. 23, 2008

Rue Royale. I thought the Paris police was conducting an anti-terrorist excercise at the Crillon, but I was a few hours too late...

Skiing in Meribel/Courchevel

One day in Zurich

Ironing in 1988

Found in the old files

Dial

At last!

Autumn Song

by W.H. Auden

Now the leaves are falling fast,
Nurse's flowers will not last,
Nurses to their graves are gone,
But the prams go rolling on.

Whispering neighbors left and right
Daunt us from our true delight,
Able hands are forced to freeze
Derelict on lonely knees.

Close behind us on our track,
Dead in hundreds cry Alack,
Arms raised stiffly to reprove
In false attitudes of love.

Scrawny through a plundered wood,
Trolls run scolding for their food,
Owl and nightingale are dumb,
And the angel will not come.

Clear, unscalable, ahead
Rise the Mountains of Instead,
From whose cold, cascading streams
None may drink except in dreams.

Exit

Clash of Civilizations

Poet Sergey Wolf

Great Russian poet Sergey Wolf, 1934-2005. They don't make them like that anymore.

London, Oct 8th

Eduard Levé

Surfing today through French sites, looking for information about Eduard Levé books, I realized it was a year day to day that Edouard Levé, one of my favorite French artists, committed suicide. I knew he killed himself, but I didn't know when. It was exactly a year ago, October 15, 2007. I never met Levé, but I knew his work fairly well and always thought highly of him. Writer and photographer, he had a rare for the contemporary French artists, articulated philosophical vision and a sense of sardonic humor. He was, it appears, a true "artist maudit", but unlike most of contempoarry "arists maudis", Levé was good. He was really good. What a depressing coincidence that I thought about him on the anniversary of his death. It rained practically all day.

Some pictures by Eduard Levé

All photos by Eduard Levé