dienstag.

[xjeunefillex]

i'm feeling unmotivated to do or make anything when i get home lately. i was on such a good roll, then the weather got nice and i was even more energized, but now the weather is cold, rainy, and gloomy and once again i feel sluggish and unimaginative. now i know why h. felt that portland was an awful place--too rainy and dreary. however, if you

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[v_drug]

You can check this web-site.
http://conclaveobscurum.ru/

It's a sort of weird art installation including computer-made graphics and animated pictures by designer Oleg Paschenko aka Cmart. The language there is neither Russian nor English. It's some sort of quasi-Latin I guess :) as he is very much into Alchemy and these type of things.

Choose Sulfur Album -> Pictores and you'll fing his graphic works.

BTW, he's got a LJ account which is http://cmart.livejournal.com/

[xjeunefillex]

thanks for the link...quite interesting and creepy, i must say. but it is nice to see post soviet art that isn't either cold and stoic or 'folky'. his aesthetic is very nice, but i wish the site had a bit more.

i have a funny request for you...i am quite interested in this symbol from the cyrillic alphabet---> ж
i like it because it looks like two "K"s back-to-back and that makes my initials, and of course K is my favorite letter. i feel like it is very balanced yet asymmetrical, and it stands sturdily on two feet. =) so, i am just curious what letter that is, what kind of sound it makes, and other nerdy things like that.

ok, back to eating peanut butter!

[v_drug]

Bon appetit )

Ж is a consonant and sounds like the bold on in usual. When Russian names containing this letter are written in English the sound it makes is usually (hehe!) transcribed as ZH. Like for instance Voronezh - the name of the city in central Russia. The name of the letter is "Zhe". Yet in very old, medieval Russian (in fact it originally comes from Old Church Slavonic - language of Southern Slavs as of mid 9th century when Cyrillic alphabet was created) this letter had a name with a meaning, as all characters had. It was called "Zhevete" - something like "Do live!"

The funny thing about letter Ж is that ЖЖ (pronounced Zhe-Zhe) in today's Russian web jargon stands for... LJ, LiveJournal :) It's an abbreviation for Живой Журнал (Zhivoj Zhurnal).

Polish caracter for the same sound is ż.