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. 

Polyester white trash made in nowhere

Hi darlings! Much time has passed since the last post. This summer is just driving me crazy! First, in St. Petersburg we faced unprecedented heat - about 30 degrees. Secondly, I have a huge amount of work involved with my projects. I will try to cover everything.

 I've already told you about our little pin up clothing store. We sent several dozen of orders with clothes and made incredibly cute business cards. Just look! 

"Cherry Shop" also participated  for the first time in the fair on the big annual exhibition "City - landscape". It was a great experience for us!

The exhibition was held in an old printing house in the city center. Works of young photographers shocked me with its irony, depth, a new look at the world. It was a real manifesto of postmodernism. The exhibition also held a competition for the best work. One could select five images. Here is one of those that impressed me the most:

Pictures were hung not merely on the walls, but on the old printing presses. This created an incredible combination of tradition and novelty. Again postmodernism!

Other than I do another development project, which is wholly owned my heart. This is "Forest shop", which sells clothes for the elves and fairies. Futuristic design, natural colors, style mix of tribal and psy trance - it is all "Forest Shop." Yes, I wrote about few models of clothes from this store here. Now I select a new collection, and I feel that it will be just stunning! By the way, I can boast of some commercials for "Forest Shop" too. Here is our logo and business card: 

With this shop we visited two large open air festivals - "Warmth of the North" and "Yogart". The last one was special for us. This event is associated with yoga, tribal, vegetarianism, healthy lifestyle. It was very cool to be there and see so many beautiful and free people. Frankly, that trip was not the work, but  a real pleasure! I am very sorry that I didn't have a camera to capture sunrises and sunsets over the lake, next to which a festival held, and our wonderful customers. 

Now I need to take stock of the work done. I must say that I love what I do, even though it takes a lot of strength. I never thought it would be so difficult. Generally, I do not like to sell anything, it's not in my blood. But on the other hand, I love to see the happy faces of the people who found the clothes they were dreaming. It's worth it! This is business for my soul and I hope it will flourish.

P.S. The title of this post is a joke :Р 

I am the captain of my pain

What could be worse than a quarrel with a close friend? This compares to parting with a loved one. Unfortunately now I'm just in such a situation. You can really love the person, but sometimes you get so much negativity that it is no longer possible to stay near and you  leave. Me and my friend Irina were together for many years. We have so many common memories, projects, plans... But lately, only  frustration, rage and anger comes from her. I know that she is very emotional person and often simply non-controlling herself. But I am too tired and can't be the same garbage pit, which merges all the bad things. We are both very sick. I don't want to quarrel and sort things out. I'm on the verge of ceasing to communicate with her at all. I hope it will pass. Now I just need silence, peace and solitude. My boyfriend says that I should not take the quarrel with a friend so close to the heart. But it's impossible, because she is the part of my life. Without her, I would lose a piece of myself. Now my mind is polluted by negative emotions, I need to be cleansed, need some kind of meditation.

The House of Usher

Last weekend I visited the place where I spent my summer vacation in childhood. This is cozy cottage on the edge of the village, on the border with forest. You know, it's a very strange feeling to come back to where you have not been for many years. In my memories remained a quite idyllic picture: a large wooden house, apple trees around, the path to the lake, surrounded by fragrant  rosehips. It was so painful to see that the house stands empty and abandoned, and the land around it is overgrown with tall grass. Lots of beautiful trees are cut down and tracks asphalted. Place loses its magic and forest spirits leave it... We walked a lot draped in plaid along the magnificent lake with blue water and a little rain felt sad just like me, creating a special lyrical atmosphere. I would love to go back to the time when I was so small and the world was so large and unknown.

Audrey's dance

Recent days have been associated with a lot of work, reading, various searches. My work now has two directions. The first is  University. Second - the newly opened by me and my beautiful friend Irina Internet shop with pin up, retro and gothic clothing. We named it "Cherry shop" and this is our cute logo:

Communication with customers, order processing, design of Internet space - all it takes a lot of time. But it's very interesting and I do not notice how my day flies by! Unfortunately :) Beautiful people and beautiful things - this combination inspires me to great deeds! 

However, in the evening, when I find myself at home with a loved one and together we prepare a vegetarian supper - I rest for real. My evening is now once again filled with masterpiece of David Lynch. Of course I'm talking about Twin Peaks. This is my favorite movie and I can watch it countless times. Color, staged frames, nature, characters and their strangeness - all combine to create an unreal world of dreams. Oh, how I wish one day to visit this town, to admire its waterfall and to taste famous Norma's pie with a cup of black coffee! But among other things, one of the main ornaments of this film is the music of Angelo Badalamenti. He managed to create an incredibly sophisticated musical canvas and it's an integral part of the whole. For the past few days in my head sounds composition titled Audrey's dance and I see how delightfully elegant and sexy is dancing my favorite  heroine in cafe "RR". 

So I feel like involved in the life of this strange and magical town, where evil spirits live in the forest. I'm as Laura Palmer, doing something good in the day time but at night the dark forces overwhelm me. Maybe I should go to work in the One-Eyed Jack?)