Ad Review
From time to time we have some examples of what amateurish ex-Soviet marketing genius may produce.
First one is pretty cool, it was published in Minsk and the media for it was an egg, or thousands of eggs that were sold in local stores. Text on eggs were inviting people to visit “The Prodigy” concert. Pretty cool, isn’t it.
No U-Turn
What people tell about those photos is: “Some guest from the proud Southern Republic came to Kharkov and wanted to make a u-turn where it is not allowed. At that time the road code was protected not only with silent road signs but also with 30cm (10 inch) thick layer of gravel stones.”
The Story of the Blind Artist
The paintings you see in this post might seem not be worth publishing from the first site. The thing can make us look more closely at them is the story of the artist who brought them to life. What makes them special is that this person is… blind. I don’t know if he is unique or there are some more people around the world who are totally blind but here his story.
He was not blind from the birth. He lost his sight during a digging operation in the forests of Ukraine, where they tried to find remains of Russian soldiers who are considered to be missing since the World War 2. He got blew up on the 50 year old German Nazi land mine and since then he couldn’t see with the both of his eyes.
One of the Dmitri’s works.
Before this accident he had already some recognition among the local artist community and his works didn’t look like those later ones. You can see one of his works when he still was able to see as the last photo of this post. Then when he lost sight he lost everything. He became a disabled person whom nobody needed or cared about. He was in deep depression, and once he has got a call from his old friend, who tried to support the artist and offered to conduct an public exhibition of his old works. Of course he agreed. Then they had some time before the exhibition and Dmitri - that is the name of our hero - decided to try to draw something again to present at the ongoing exhibition, to show the world that he is still an artist, even with a missing sight. He called it “Even the longest way starts with a tiny step.”
At first he couldn’t draw anything that reminded the sane painting. But after hours of practice and persistance he managed to give a birth to his first painting of his new life. Now there are 250 new works, created after the accident in which he lost his sight, and some of them are highly recognized by critics and were bought for private collections of Russian and foreighn art lovers.
Dmitri, the blind artist.
“When I see the works of Dmitri, I became ashamed of ourselves, how often do we complain, how often we say that life is not fair with us, and still we can see the world around us. But Dmitri can’t, and still he doesn’t complain, he works. Every his painting is a piece of the world he knew, he knows and he would know. We, proffesionals from art, don’t care that he can’t see - he still remains a proffesional artist for us. Of course, his style has been changed, but still he is a good colorist and stylist and we don’t make any discounts on his wound, when saying this.”, says Valentina Myzgina, the chief manager of Kharkov Art Museum.
Orchestra in a Subway
Yesterday there was a symphony orchestra performance right in the metro hallway. Trains came, people were coming in and out and then the music started. See the video below.
An Appartment in Kharkov Style
One Russian guy in Kharkov, Ukraine preferred was obsessed with some idea which he tried to express in writing on any flat surface he met. All his flat carried his scriptures, the local lobbies and walls of houses also had not stayed untouched.
Nazi Lvov
These day Lvov (Lviv) city downtown looks like it was again oppressed by Nazi troops…
Flags on the buildings, soldiers in Nazi uniform, some aren’t shy when yell “Zieg Heil” Nazi greeting for the passers by.
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