Moscow
aka The Third Rome, The First Throne, The Forty Forties, Whitestone
Office Boxing
In a few months Moscow office workers will get a chance to fight each other in a very intelligent and healthy way on the way home. The idea to create a fitness club where all the training is based on boxing came to Helen Malov more than six months ago. Read More
The Rollings in Nice
Music fans are waiting for the Cannes premier of the of the documentary Stones in exile directed by Steven Kizhaka. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts became producers of the film themselves. A video is featuring the record of the album Exile on the Main Street which many critics have called one of the greatest rock album in history. Read More
Social Networking can be enormously helpful
Q: How do you feel about social networking sites/applications/services? Why do you feel this way? How does it affect how you use these things?
A: Tyler Brule coined a brilliant phrase which I wholeheartedly support, “There is a kind of social network that works really well for business and play. It is called having a glass of wine”.
Socializing – Just like old times
Q: How do you tend to socialize with your friends? How has this changed over the past year? How do you expect this to change over the next year?
A: Working in a glossy magazine you simply have to socialize as hard as possible even if you have no desire to do it. Read More
Live TV all day long
If you don’t like state-controlled TV channels, create your own! Broadcasting tests of a new media project Rain Optimistic Channel has started in Moscow this April. As channel creators “there is a possibility that at first Rain TV will be an absolute experiment, the first ever on Russian television”. The key part of Rain programming will be news from all spheres of modern life. In addition this channel will have a clear art orientation, “it will show exhibitions, performances, the process of creating art objects, drama, performances and concerts”.
The channel will also feature talk shows, theme programmes on science and art, documentaries and it’s going to be fantastic that 60% of broadcast time will be live and back to local TV culture after a decade of its suppression.
New label for start-uppers
Finally you can jump straight to big festival’s stages without queuing in a line of penny-whistle bands. Yuri Chernavsky, old-school musician and producer based in LA, with the help of a popular openspace.ru web portal presented Record v2.0 which is supposed to turn into “a virtual international producing center”. Read More
Fast fashion
Mass brands have finally defeated podium standards in their run for young consumers. Nowadays it takes less than six months for Zara or Topman designers to analyse pret-a-porter collections, select next season tendencies, copy most successful models and launch their budget versions. The prevalence of plagiarism in the fashion industry has a solid economic basis. It takes only two weeks for mass brand to develop a design and promote the product on the market. And who will be ready to pay for an original pattern twenty times more if you can afford practically the same things at a very reasonable price? Read More
Save your night out
With the recession still ruling the show, it turns out that saving can be very interesting. You can walk instead of driving, buy fruits and vegetables in the farm shops and dig out vintage items at flea markets!
Goritbilet.ru is exactly the case when the term “spontaneous purchase” becomes a positive thing. Suddenly you have an opportunity to rapidly program the evening with a whole range of attractive prospects. This website sells cheap last-minute tickets yearning to find a happy owner as soon as possible. There are no worries about sudden change of plans, volcanoes or piled deadlines, it does not deprive you of the possibility to “recapture” money spent on the ticket. The registration procedure is very simple, everything is perfect to ensure that they place in good hands tickets for travel, gigs, sports events and musicals.
Factory boy
There was an impressive debut in the recent Sundance Festival, also showed in cinema halls in Moscow. Director Tamra Davis presented ‘Radiant Child’ a film about his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. Read More
Get unshelled
Some questions may remain unanswered for decades. Just like this one – what’s the problem with the young Russian designers? Everybody keeps on talking that we need young blood but at the output what we usually get is a bleak copy of something seen long time ago. Read More
What’s the Zef?
Smart music critics were right to predict that next-big-thing would rise from the outskirts of civilisation. This time it is Cape Town and the heroes are Die Antwoord. Read More