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Washed Out’s new album is a true revelation for many people in this world. While his numerous counterparts are still playing in the chillwave’s sandpit, Ernest Green stepped up and produced an album which literally says in each and every track – here comes the next big thing, labels aside.
Russian Internet mogul Yandex has never been short of surprising ideas. It has recently bought a service called ‘The Tweeted Times, which basically arranges tweets into a newspaper-like board giving you an illusion of reading a ‘quality paper’.
Recent festival of advertising in the USSR showed how little we know about day-to-day life of our communist ancestors. It’s commonly accepted that there were no traces of market economy in a totally controlled system of socialism, but it seems even back then certain people were able to buy imported brands and certain state-owned manufacturers still wanted to advertise their products to a wider audience.
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit has introduced his new design-oriented documentary called ‘Urbanized’ which would close his trilogy comprising of critically-acclaimed docs ‘Helvetica’ and ‘Objectified’. Hustwit’s latest film is focused on urban planning and city patterns affecting our ways of lives in numerous ways.
Debating about fashion is a weird thing, though occasionally you might find nuggets of profound thinking in fashion-related threads. Read More
Pop-up markets continue its rapid expansion across central Moscow with the recent addition called Lambada-Market taking place in the strategically important spot Red October island situated just next to the Kremlin.
Fashion collaborations usually work according to the formula which rather peculiarly states that one plus one gives one and a half, not two. However sometimes you may find exceptions to the rule, and the recent collaboration between Pringle of Scotland and Central St Martins is one of those exceptional cases.
Watching an intriguing trailer for the new film directed by Greg Barker and called ‘Koran by Heart’ is a genuinely thought-provoking experience and I already can’t wait its full scale release.
Getting shortlisted for the annual Red Bull Music Academy is equivalent to Olympic gold for the aspiring music makers from Russia. Being the only available platform which regularly picks up young talents from unusual places and ejects them onto the global orbit, RBMA is praised by those who otherwise have no chance to get noticed.
‘Target’ is one of the most impressive movies I’ve seen since Gaspar Noe’s ‘Enter the Void’. The film was produced together by a director Alexander Zeldovich and a popular Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin Read More
As it usually happens with the rapidly developing countries, sometimes poor infrastructure is an advantage rather than a drawback. While most of the countries in Europe are still unfolding their 3G networks, Russia has already jumped into a 4G future totally skipping the previous phase. Read More
Strelka – the trendiest, sexiest and flashiest place in today’s Moscow – has opened its spacious terrace to show the cream of the independent film industry. Read More
The weirdest problem with the Russian bands is that they never get tired of doing the same kind of shit thing again and again. Read More
