Hot Wheels...Motor Burn!

August 7-10 in St. Petersburg held annual festival of  Harley Davidson - "Harley days". Thousands of bikers from around the world come to participate in the parade in the city center. It was a powerful experience! And immediately felt that St. Petersburg is the European city level. A few days went concerts of rockabilly and rock and roll music, and the festival was adorned with participation of pin up girls. I was among the lucky ones too;) I'm a little embarrassed to say it, but it looks like we were the most vivid girls at the festival. Everyone wanted to take pictures with us. All this inspired us to develop pin-up movement in our city. Let's see what happens :)

Tell me about the forest you once called home

Yesterday while  sitting with my sister around the campfire, I suddenly thought that you have to go in the forest only the two together.  Only this way creates the very feeling of escape from civilization, which we so crave in the city. When you surrounded by huge pines, and on the horizon there is no a single human soul - only this time you really are in the woods as in your true home. Then comes the peace and silence, and you feel like a little stranger in this big world full of wonders, mysteries and blueberries :) And you are not afraid of anything anymore, because no matter what happens you will have this little world with a secret place for fire, about which know only two people. And sitting by the window in the last train, carrying you back to the city, and catching glimpses of the sunset over the lake, you realize that this is the joy of life, the simple forest joy. 

To be beautiful is to be almost dead

I was lucky enough to chance upon a new masterpiece of Gothic horror  in the vastness of the internet. I'm  talking about amazing miniseries called "Penny Dreadful". Its authors are obviously inspired by tabloid horrors of the late 19th century. The film takes us back to the Victorian era, where in a dark and dirty London live side by side vampires, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, professor Van Helsing, and other well-known characters of classic books. Frankly, I don't like mixing such subjects, but here it looks very natural. The film creates a special atmosphere, filled with spiritualism, magic, esotericism so that the presence of all these monsters around doesn't seem out of the ordinary. The cast is also marvelous. Eva Green, as always, combines fragility, elegance and gloomy beauty. Besides all this, the show perfectly captures some of the phenomena of culture and art of the time: the Grand Guignol theater, addiction to absinthe, superstitions, Tarot, elegant dresses, false morality, the study of the East, Neo-Gothic.