International Women’s Day history lesson with Driftwood
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Yesterday was the last day Ilan was home before leaving once again, so we celebrated IWD the Russian way: he took me out to eat. (Borsch and bliny at Gorky Park, mmmm …)
This morning I went to visit the Clara Zetkin memorial in Ahrensfelde, a tower block suburb of Berlin.
There were some scattered roses at her feet.
It freaked me out a bit that I only saw Germans in Ahrensfelde (though I’m hoping that some of them were at least non-German Northern Europeans).
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20 down, 67 to go. V`(oo)´V
In honour of International Women’s Day, …
… here are some of my favourite paintings ever. Some can be clicked for larger view.
Building New Workshops, A. Deineka 1929.
Ever Higher, S. Ryagina 1934.
I used to have a photocopy of this on my wall, but I’ve lost it somewhere along all my relocations …
Bridge Builders, A. Belyh 1985.
The Village Postwoman, F. Shapaev 1960.
Warm Day, A. Levitin 1957.
Along the Construction Sites Outside Moscow, A. Deineka 1949.
In the Kitchen, Yu. Kugach 1958.
Motherhood (doggie and human!), N. I. Andropov, 1980.
The Seagull (Portrait of V. Tereshkova), A. Mazitov.
All of these paintings and many more can be viewed in this wonderful gallery of Soviet art.
TungusTkan’ presents: Torrent de Bites kilts!
Ilan is part of Torrent de Bites (VJ Decrepticon and DJ Schnautzi). Here is their demo … (I had my part in designing the nice logo.)
Torrent de Bites: Demo from ilan katin on Vimeo.
They started out as a completely improvised last-minute arrangement due to a lineup change during the Mapping festival in Geneva 2009, but everyone was so excited about it that they in fact didn’t split up immediately afterwards. Now they have a gig coming up at Lunchmeat in Prague, and they need nice new outfits. So I made them pretty kilts in silk brocade. The fabric is lighter than normal kilt fabric, so they are quite bouncy! Can’t wait to see the footage of their performance …
The kilts close with velcro and a safety pin, and they also have belt loops, mostly so you can hang them up for storage to avoid damaging the pleats, but of course also for a belt or sash if the gentlemen should like that.
And of course they have the TungusTkan’ label:
Working with my lovely PMZ sewing machine (photos by Ilan):
PMS OF FURY COMIC, ONE OF MANY
Remember the autobiographical comic about racism that I mentioned that I feverishly drew once when I had PMS last year?
I’m posting it here anyway, even though, looking back now, I’m really ashamed of how I behaved in that situation.
Eva in German on myComics.de
myComics.de is something like “Youtube for German comics”. The upload rules state that no pornography and glorification of violence is allowed, so I thought they probably wouldn’t allow Eva, but then I took a look at some of the “Top comics” on the front page, and, yeah.
