Ukraine List

I know this topic isn’t all that timely with the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident ten months ago, but here is some interesting poster art that came out for the anniversary of the accident.
The first two pieces were taken from plakaty, which hosts a series of posters from various Moscow graphic designers. The […]

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This photo of Pripyat is quite amazing. The photographer by the alias of “Astro-Chimp” has embellished it in such a way that it looks like a miniature, snowy (but radiated) city. I would really recommend looking at the rest of his photo set too. They are all miniature-like photos that are quite interesting.

I guess the […]

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The BBC has an interesting (short) piece on the first photographer, Anatoly Rasskazov, on the scene at Chernobyl. Some of his film he shot just came out black from the radiation and graphite, but some other rolls made it with only some clouding and discoloration.

Photo from BBC 
After taking the photos his rolls of film were […]

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This photo is by Gerd Ludwig. He has taken a series of fairly recent photos featuring the Chernobyl zone and its victims. His site also has some interesting Soviet pollution photos.
This photo is of the control room for reactor number four. It was here that in 1986 a series of errors during an experiment caused […]

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Well, I was searching around for a topic for today — and now it is no longer today but the next day. Anyhow, I wanted to do something about music, so today’s topic will be Gogol Bordello, a Gypsy-punk-Ukrainian-emigre-fusion-cabaret band. Well it is a bit hard to characterize. One source described Gogol Bordello’s new […]

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This photo is by Reuters photographer, Damir Sagolj.
Here is the caption that accompanies the photo on Flickr: “Elderly Ukrainian illegal settler in the 30-km exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant crosses her hands as she attends an open air concert organised by the Ukraine Ministry of Emergency Situations and Chernobyl Affairs in […]

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Since 2006 was the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, there has been a lot of coverage on TV and the internet. Therefore, I thought I would go onto YouTube and see what is available in terms of video footage. Most videos have added music soundtracks (some effectively and others not so), and there […]

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Well, I am slowly starting to get the blog portion of this site going. Today I am surfing del.icio.us. It took several search pages before I came up with anything that was new to me or worth mentioning. I will be adding the URLs to the pages of this site.
The first site of some interest […]

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