Picture this: a guy in a tiny travel agency has filled it with his collection of red cassette decks. Just because he can.

Shi & Nji

Published a video essay “What Cities Say in Anime”, a project I've been working on since August. Tons of sources, meticulous editing, calm narration. It's in Russian, but you can turn on automatic translation. youtu.be/jkMrCjJP_zw

Voronezh

ano × Žižek public talk when

An elegant vessel for a more civilized age.

Rostov-on-Don at night

よもやエドゥアルド・リモノフの映画が公開されるとは。しかもキリル・セレブレンニコフ。しかもベン・ウィショー。必見だわ。 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyJm...

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Russian fast food chain Dodo Pizza gave the girls leggings and stockings. The "we're a family-friendly brand" excuse doesn’t really hold up: even wholesome Beard Papa's is in on the collab in the US, and over there, Anby and Burnice are bare-legged.

How deep is your passion toward to be a premier man

The first article by tag on the Chosun Ilbo website 😏 www.chosun.com/english/nsea...

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Empty is run about freely.

Recently two Japanese organizations have declined our requests for interviews with figures from the anime industry, citing concerns about a possible negative reaction to such cultural exchange. Fortunately, not everyone in Japan is avoiding contact with Russia.

It turns out that Whoosh's scooters are actually Segways. So, it seems Dean Kamen's dream, which we read about in tech-related media a quarter of a century ago, has come true. But, as they say, there's a catch.

Nemtsov Bridge has likely never seen so many flowers. It's as if the "Summer in Moscow" festival brought back everything swept away by street cleaners over the years.

На следующей неделе обсуждаю «Акиру» с кинозрителями в Новосибирске (по зуму) и Москве (очно). 💊 16 июня (пн), Новосибирск, кинотеатр «Победа», начало сеанса в 19:00. Билеты: vpobede.ru/movies/akira 💊 19 июня (чт), Москва, киноцентр «Октябрь», 19:30. Билеты: karofilm.ru/film/14409?d...

As our school English textbook stated, "Moscow has many places of interest".

Oh, I completely forgot to mention it here — last month I finally managed to catch the ticket window for the night tour of the metro depot and a ride on a vintage underground train from the 1930s. A one-of-a-kind experience.

Patriarch Ponds

Triumfalnaya Square

Saturday night (live)

How I discovered that the granny from Atomic Heart has an add-on now.

The new infinite transfer maze in Tekstili is notable for its monumental smoke ventilation jet fans by the Spanish company Zitrón.

это ж надо было 新しい学校のすゝめ так записать

Voronezh, Komissarzhevskoy St

"Lazarus" is set in the year 2052, and Russia is still represented on the world stage by Lavrov.

And so, our paths diverge. A magnificent game set that will be missed.

I spent an entire hour sharing everything I know and think about the film, but when someone asked about the "Italian animator", it didn't ring any bells at all that Miyazaki borrowed the pig’s name from Marco, the son of Nino Pagot. Where there’s Pagot, there’s Alzheimer, apparently.

Haven’t seen a fridge transported on the roof of a car in ages. Back in Soviet times, this was a rather common sight — people used to haul old fridges out to their dachas.

Why hello Dr. Zorndyke, long time no see!

Moscow's classic Novapril (November-through-April mess).

Figured out what to do with my old YouTube channel: rambled for almost 18 minutes about Tretyakovskaya station. I love the Moscow metro as a cultural marvel; many more stations to cover. The video is in Russian (sorry), but YouTube's auto-translate does a decent job these days. youtu.be/JIShJFjG3WY

I met Pixel, a cleaning robot made by a company called Avtonomika. Their website says it's fully autonomous and self-driving. But in reality, a guy was walking next to it, controlling the thing with an Xbox gamepad. I even asked if the robot could move on its own. "We only operate it this way."

What can drive a person to the park early in the morning? Only a sudden snowfall in the middle of a thaw.

🌺🌸🌼 #Momo #모모 #TWICE #트와이스 #twicefanart

Gensou Yasuda's Make a Girl feels like a fever dream if you don't immediately accept the vague rules of its world, which the author never really explains. The Russian distributor went through the trouble of translating and retouching some of the fleeting on-screen titles and texts.

Woke up at 5 a.m. to car alarms going off in the area and listened for a while to distant cannonade — air defense was shooting down drones near Zhukovsky. Wrote a news piece about the Hatsune Miku and Gundam collab, then crashed back to sleep.

Saw Navalny's grave today at Borisovskoye Cemetery. Church there is strange, something Mediterranean about it.

At Skuratov Coffee (Myasnitskaya 13/2), a mosaic by Rastebina Studio symbolizes the coffee shop's connection to Omsk, the "garden city." The panel depicts local plants — apples, pears, apricots, roses, tulips — and the silhouette of the Irtysh and Om rivers' confluence.

Cindy and Curry

Care to watch a video report on our small exhibition — 30 years of anime, manga, and fandom history? The video is in Russian, but there's plenty to see: for example, back in 1988, Alex had to photograph Soratobu Yūreisen off a TV screen and make his own manga version because he didn't have a VCR.

Tomorrow

Finally, ADHD ASMR for Dogme 95 purists youtu.be/VwEpEKQxRig

The Zotov Center for Constructivist Studies is situated in the renovated building of Bread Factory No. 5. This factory is also regarded as an example of constructivist architecture, as its shape was entirely dictated by the circular automatic production line proposed by engineer George Marsakov.

Evening stroll