Sarah Wrote That | in soviet russia

"a huge, irrational, metaphysical Canada"

- Russian blogger Aleksei Navalny, describing his hope for a future Russia (tens of thousands protested today).

In Soviet Russia, horse whisper to you.

photo: Reuters/Ria Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin [via: everyone on the Internet]

Sovietski!

Soviet artifacts have the strangest quality of seeming to be ancient relics from a distant future. To me the jaw-dropping thing here (in Google’s occasionally off Russian translation) isn’t even the gargantuanism (James Cameron with an unlimited budget and actual military?) but how different the Lun ~~battlestar~~ ekranoplan—and the thinking and design sensibility behind it—is from anything in the West outside of science fiction.

Lest one think only in Soviet Russia, according to the photographer the U.S. Air Force and NASA recently toured it.

Because pirates and the terrorists would never see this coming.

via xplanes: BoingBoing: Philip J. Hollenback

Reblogged from x planes

In Soviet Russia, Hair Cut You

My shallow but sincere reaction to this still from 1972’s Solaris (in New York’s Avatar-bandwagon, but still geeky fun, piece): what were Communist haircuts like? When did the U.S.S.R. get blow dryers? Did they have hairspray? Mousse? Really. In the 80s did they suffer from perms and shortages?

For all the billions of dollars and rubles we spent arming ourselves, how little we know of daily life that is passing out of memory into history.

22 Dec 2009 10:30