Yesterday I treated myself to a fine Glenfarclas 10 year scotch and a pint of the house stout at The Telegraph, a local pub where fans of the St. Petersburg Zenith Football club gather to watch european premier league matches. As the pub became concentrated with pint-pounding russian hooligans, I made a quick exit to a relatively sunny, exhaust filled, Nevsky Prospect in search of some other kind of saturday afternoon action. As I walked, I passed one of the many high-end fashion boutiques that line the prospect. This one was dedicated to modern men's fashions. Standing on display, staring at me out the window was this...
I'm not exactly sure what this haircut means. I haven't seen many (strike that, ANY) Russian men with this style in effect. I suppose I should give it a few weeks though. Nevsky shops are tastemakers. If I spot this 'do on an actual head, rest assured I will capture it and report.
I continued walking. The scotch warm in my belly, I hoofed parts of the city previously unexplored. Behind the Moskovsky train station, on the other side of an auto repair/salvage yard, I found this old castle (church) boarded up and fenced in. Nearby two Turks in leather jackets who appeared to be undertaking some sort of street negotiation frowned at the sight of my camera, so I chose not to linger and read the sign you see posted on the fence there. Though its origins and purpose remain unkown to me, I still find the building quite striking.
After leaving the Turks and their business (whatever it may have been), I proceeded southwards until I encountered this small church. It doesnt look fit to hold more than 40 people, yet again, the design struck me, and demanded to be recorded and reported. The way it seemingly stacks layers upon each other reminds me of the old scandinavian wooden stave churches and also the massive wooden church (over 28 onion domes, and only wooden pegs used to hold the thing together!) on the island of Khizi (which I intend to visit soon). It was a quaint sight in an eyesore of a behind-the-railroad-station kind of a neighborhood.
In this same neighborhood, I found a small club (the Red Club) advertising live rock n' roll; a band called "cartoons." After a brief interrogation at security, (where my pens (I always have at least two on me) were checked to make sure they weren't actually knives) I was ushered into a small, dimly-lit smoke filled, people packed room. It was sparsely decorated and there was an air of anticipation. Cartoons it seems, are local favorites and roughly 85% of the kids in attendance knew the words to every song. They were ecstatic. Leaping, shouting, sweating, pulling hair, screaming, yelping, shouting requests, skanking, sliding, twisting, dancing, and shrieking like the beatles had just come back to the USSR. It was really amazing to see people reacting so strongly to music. In America, Austin especially, were all so jaded it takes a really great performance to get us enthused. These kids were probably seeing their favorite band for the 18th odd time, and they were freaking out! What a joyful outpouring.
On the way home, I chanced a quick photograph of the elegant subterior of the Ploschad Vosstaniya/Mayakovskaya metro station. Few are the pictures taken of the Russian underground, so please enjoy! Thats all for now...hope all is well in America. I send my love.
I'm not exactly sure what this haircut means. I haven't seen many (strike that, ANY) Russian men with this style in effect. I suppose I should give it a few weeks though. Nevsky shops are tastemakers. If I spot this 'do on an actual head, rest assured I will capture it and report.
I continued walking. The scotch warm in my belly, I hoofed parts of the city previously unexplored. Behind the Moskovsky train station, on the other side of an auto repair/salvage yard, I found this old castle (church) boarded up and fenced in. Nearby two Turks in leather jackets who appeared to be undertaking some sort of street negotiation frowned at the sight of my camera, so I chose not to linger and read the sign you see posted on the fence there. Though its origins and purpose remain unkown to me, I still find the building quite striking.
After leaving the Turks and their business (whatever it may have been), I proceeded southwards until I encountered this small church. It doesnt look fit to hold more than 40 people, yet again, the design struck me, and demanded to be recorded and reported. The way it seemingly stacks layers upon each other reminds me of the old scandinavian wooden stave churches and also the massive wooden church (over 28 onion domes, and only wooden pegs used to hold the thing together!) on the island of Khizi (which I intend to visit soon). It was a quaint sight in an eyesore of a behind-the-railroad-station kind of a neighborhood.
In this same neighborhood, I found a small club (the Red Club) advertising live rock n' roll; a band called "cartoons." After a brief interrogation at security, (where my pens (I always have at least two on me) were checked to make sure they weren't actually knives) I was ushered into a small, dimly-lit smoke filled, people packed room. It was sparsely decorated and there was an air of anticipation. Cartoons it seems, are local favorites and roughly 85% of the kids in attendance knew the words to every song. They were ecstatic. Leaping, shouting, sweating, pulling hair, screaming, yelping, shouting requests, skanking, sliding, twisting, dancing, and shrieking like the beatles had just come back to the USSR. It was really amazing to see people reacting so strongly to music. In America, Austin especially, were all so jaded it takes a really great performance to get us enthused. These kids were probably seeing their favorite band for the 18th odd time, and they were freaking out! What a joyful outpouring.
On the way home, I chanced a quick photograph of the elegant subterior of the Ploschad Vosstaniya/Mayakovskaya metro station. Few are the pictures taken of the Russian underground, so please enjoy! Thats all for now...hope all is well in America. I send my love.
posted by Lukin at 9:11 AM
2 Comments:
The architecture--beautiful. The mannequin hairdo--not so much. Continue to love the photos and your entries.
Happy Easter! angela
Julie thought we should let you know of this in case you need to review your credit reports etc...
Computer records on 197,000 people breached at UT
Students, alumni, faculty with ties to business school at risk of ID theft.
By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Monday, April 24, 2006
Electronic records of nearly 200,000 people, from students to corporate recruiters, have been accessed illegally at the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business, the university announced Sunday.
UT President William Powers Jr., speaking at a hastily called news conference, urged anyone with ties to the business school to take steps to guard against identity theft, the unauthorized use of someone's personal information to obtain goods, services, loans and the like.
UT delayed notifying the public because the breach was initially thought to affect a small number of people, President William Powers Jr. said.
The university has set up a special Web site, a phone bank and an e-mail address to take questions and provide guidance.
"We're very concerned about this breach of security," Powers said, adding that the state attorney general's office has been notified. "We take it extremely seriously, and we take responsibility for it. We're doing everything we can to protect the people whose data may have been exposed." ...
... The records contain names, biographical information and, in some cases, Social Security numbers and dates of birth. No personal financial information or student grades were accessed, he said.
The latest breach was discovered late Friday, when officials at the McCombs school noticed unusual activity involving databases and concluded that there had been unauthorized access.
It appears that the access began as early as April 11, Powers said.
University officials did not announce the breach publicly until Sunday afternoon because initial indications were that the number of people whose information was compromised was small enough that it might be possible to contact them directly before disclosing the breach more widely, Powers said.
But by late Saturday, before efforts to contact people had begun, it was clear that there were too many for that plan to be feasible, he said....
...Powers said the source of the intrusion was a computer in the Far East. He declined to be more specific...
...Powers said he was fairly confident that no other colleges at UT have been affected, and he noted that UT is curbing the use of Social Security numbers to enhance security but that they must be used for payroll and financial aid purposes...
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