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"Небографика" Максим Ксута \ "Skygraphics" Maxim Ksuta [05:29]
To fail to find a way in a city is an ordinary thing. Another matter is to lose your way there, like you do in a forest. This requires practice. Walter Benjamin "Childhood in Berlin at the Turn of the Century" Losing your way in your own city is next to impossible: you need to possess Benjamin's skills of a flaneur to stray from your habitual routes. Hanging around without any certain purpose is a task hardly feasible for the modern city dweller. A lonely walk is, rather, an attribute of literature, a true companion of romantics and melancholics, not of people always in a hurry on some extremely important business. At the very moment when an imaginary city map with a fantastic topography starts to form in Benjamin's mind, Maxim Ksuta shifts his gaze upwards, and his routes lie in a different plane where the sky of the city is lined with electric wires turning it into a graphic surface. Fussy reality seems to draw back, the space is cleaned to a near sterility — before us there are "sheets" which resemble either works by the American minimalists — from Agnes Martin to Fred Sandbeck, or the static compositions of the Russian constructivists. The comparison with minimalism in this case is far from being casual: Ksuta's works come in a series. The same theme can be endlessly and naturally varied — the artist consciously uses his means sparingly, intensifying at the same time the effect of recognizing more than just specific electric cables in abstract lines and spirals. The ...
Tags: Skygraphics, Maxim Ksuta, Triumph gallery, Art, Cotemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, animation

Yakutsk Siberia coldest place - Sled dogs at -50 degrees - Якутск Чочур Моран [02:48]
These dogs can face extremely cold temperatures that can easily reach -50 or -60 degrees in January and February. This is the coldest inhabited place on Earth: Yakutsk, East Siberia, Russia. They work the whole year in a luxurious restaurant called "Chochur Murán" the whole day, in order to entertain tourists in those sled dog tours, and wneh their day is over they are chained and forced to spend the night in this extremely unbearable low temperature. I made this film at 4:00 pm, when it's getting dark, and the responsibles for them had already gone.They had no food, no shelter, and I noticed they kept on raising their feet, one at a time, taking turns, in an effort to warm each foot at a time. When I made this movie yesterday, it was -42 degrees, so you can imagine what it feels like when it's minus 55. They have to sleep there, do everything at the same place, every single day, the whole year. While I was making the movie my whole fce froze and I could barely speak. While you are at this very moment at the warmth of your house, those dogs are there, surely trembling, feeling pain, hunger and solitude. I came to this place as a tourist, but my trip ended when I got to this place. I go back home begging for help. I can do nothing alone, so I ask you to join together, and lets us do something for this dogs. Yakutks say "this will be in vain". Because they use fur on the whole body, and they strongly believe animals are here to fulfill men's need. But I believe that ...
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NEW YORK 2011/2012 [04:37]
I made this video in new year's eve in New York. This is my first video so I hope you'll like it. Have a nice day ;) Empire State of Mind(New York)-JayZ ft. Alicia Keys
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Russian Vacation Teaser.wmv [00:30]
This is another video I made just like the first teaser video. I know it's a little messed up and kinda weird, but this is a another one of a short teaser video of me going to Russia this year if I try.
Tags: Russia, Trip, Teaser, Trailer, Moscow, Soviet, Union, Short

Comfitel Demidov Bridge Hotel, St.Petersburg, Russia [01:46]
Comfitel Demidov Bridge Hotel is a unique hotel located in the heart of the city. This stylish, cosy, mini-hotel, is conveniently located close to central highway of the city Nevsky Prospect, so it is ideal for both tourists and business people. All of the major sightseeing and business centers are within easy walking distance. The hotel is located at the embankment of Griboedov channel, not far from the metro station Sadovaya at the historical centre of the city. The hotel's windows face the Griboedov Canal, Demidov Bridge and Isaac's Cathedral. The romantic atmosphere is created not only with historical buildings, but also with water buses, that glide by mirror-like surface of the most beautiful canal of Saint-Petersburg. Comfitel Demidov Bridge Hotel is situated on Griboedov Canal embankment, 50, not far from the Sennaya Square, five minutes walk from Sadovaya metro station. Windows face the Demidov Bridge through the Griboedov Canal. The bridge got its name from the surname of the famous Russian mine owners The Demidovs, whose large ground area, was situated not far from this bridge. Demidov Bridge is a great architectural, historical and aesthetic value. Grating of the bridge is a real masterpiece of the artistic iron casting. The mini-hotel offers the visitors the number of rooms with a delightful view on the quiet waters of the giboedov channel and the historical sights of Saint Petersburg. Comfitel Demidov Bridge Hotel has to offer: quiet and cosy rooms at a very ...
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