#Russian lens

[retroactivepixels]

Ah, beautiful november...

[calochortus]

Fog in Macondo.2 by •°°••°Aureliano Buendía°••°°• Via Flickr: via Lomo OKC1-22-1

[ultralowoxygen]

Music scene by J Radcliff Via Flickr: Kiev 4, Jupiter 12, Lomography 400.

[thewhimsyturtle]

I am King Kirby, and my hidey hut is my throne!

[blueskittlesart]

WAIT. katya and sofia are technically not copyrighted characters which means i can submit these drawings to my college's scholarship competitions

[queenlucythevaliant]

Fun fact about the editing in Goncharov (1973)! So the long montage scene with Goncharov, Andrey, and the clocks is an homage to the early Soviet filmmakers who pioneered the art of montage, like Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein. Scorsese has said as much in interviews. So far so good.

BUT what you probably don't know is that a lot of the Soviet achievements in montage were brought on by material necessity as much as by creative vision. The USSR dealt with chronic film stock shortages in the decades following WW2. As a result, a lot of directors would spend their time splicing together old films in new ways to create new, emergent meaning when new film simply wasn't available.

So to me at least, the use of Soviet montage techniques isn't just an homage to a handful of great Soviet directors, but also a subtle commentary on how the memory of the regular food and supply crises of the Soviet Union still follows both Goncharov and Andrey even in Naples. The cultural trauma of growing up in that world still binds them together, in a way. It transcends time, which is perhaps an added dimension to the significance of the clocks.

[yougetsick]

I think fluency in a second language gives you an even more advanced understanding of it than having it as a first language, from like the combination of deliberate learning and natural flow

[liverpoollomo]

Blaenplwyf transmitting station. Lubitel 166B. Lomography 120.

I have always wanted to see the Blaenplwyf transmitter up close. As a child I could see it across the bay from my bedroom window at my grandparents house. Driving past it meant we where not far from New Quay.

I managed to snap a few shots inside before being asked to take photos from outside the perimeter fence. However the engineer was friendly and we had a talk about the history of the site and my camera. As I write this I can see the mast over the bay.

[frengerino]

[retroactivepixels]

November sunset skyline. One of the pics was shot with a manual vintage Zenit Russian lens; can you guess which one?

[firnen-the-teragram-teabag]

[thewhimsyturtle]

GRUMP DESTROY 😤😤🐢

[beccaiscold]

i recently went down a rabbit hole on the soviet players from the 90s and the cold war era and how they were basically tortured and forced to play for the red army team under the worst possible conditions and couldn't see their families for almost a full year and how they all bonded through their collective traumas and how they had to sacrifice so much to play in the nhl and potentially risk going to prison if they ever returned to their home country and it was all worth it bc they created new records and won the cup a few times together and paved the way for all of the current russian/ex-soviet players and and and...

now i'm extremely endeared by igor larionov and alexander mogilny

LOOK AT THEM (photos taken from @/fedoroved and @/chunkletskhl respectively)

[coffeenuts]