Photos Of Dachas By Fyodor Savintev, Published In Dacha: The Soviet Country Cottage (2023)

a small yellow house with walls made from logs, a central tower, and elaborate trim
a blue house with an asymmetrical roofline and bright red trim, dusted in snow
a wide view of many snow-covered cottages, taken from above
a brown wooden cottage with dramatic, almost churchlike rooflines
a brown wooden cottage with detailed trim. with its wide main level, tiny second level, and metal chimney, it looks a little like a boat or submarine
a brown log cottage overgrown with vines
a cottage with a steep roof and many little dormers tucked behind trees

photos of dachas by Fyodor Savintev, published in Dacha: The Soviet Country Cottage (2023)

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u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

3 years ago

“I look to her in the simplest, smallest moments, when she reads or drinks coffee or brushes her teeth and I am breathless, knowing it does not take a million dollar telescope to witness the crushing beauty of the universe.”

— Beau Taplin • T E L E S C O P E S 

1 year ago
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There is a musk that comes from academia, which I'll attempt to describe.

It starts with the smell of wood. Where a building isn't stone, it is old lacquered hard wood that has also been absorbing the elements for centuries. Outdoors, it is wet and slick, but indoors, the dryness preserves it, and absorbs the scents brought in such as leather and cigarettes and cigars and the spilled whiskey.

There is the scent of people as well, permeating throughout. Academia is often thought of as a solitary environment, but lectures and classes and clubs and parties, they bring together women, men and others in a tight space often. There's the scent of sweat and perfume and cologne, but also the inimitable aroma that comes from worn leather and damp wool. Breath these in deep enough, and your mind and soul are transported to events that have transpired over the course of decades, if not longer. The deep bellied laughter, the intimate whispers, and even the silence between two or more forbidden lovers, gazing from across the room.

Finally of course, there's the musk of books. Of paper, flax, cotton and leather, of the glue binding in the spine, and the collected dust of a hundred years. That scent is the book dying, the materials with which it was made slowly degrading over a prolonged period. A finely trained nose might even determine a book's age, from the distinct smell of the materials used by printers at the time.

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2 years ago
Text: "A DESIRE PATH (desire line, cow path, bootleg trail) is a track created over time by human traffic in a place where there is no designated or constructed path." Image: a sidewalk blocked by a fence with a dirt path circumventing the obstacle.
Text: "They may represent shortcuts" Image: The intersection of two paved trails with a detour sign between. Grass is flattened from where pedestrians cut the corner.

Text: "or, conversely, detours" Image: A flattened grass path with a bend to avoid a small stand of flowers.
Text: "A desire path is, in a way, a consensus: physical evidence of thousands of footsteps before, called by the same urge to stray from established routes" Image: A chain link fence with yellow tape across a fallen segment. A dirt path leads straight through the broken section and off screen.
Text: "to follow the path of least resistance between an origin" Image: The dirt path cuts straight through a field with trees in the distance.
Text: "and a destination." Image: A close-up of the end of the dirt path, which terminates in a circle of mushrooms.

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One day you think: I want to die. And then you think, very quietly, actually I want a coffee. I want a nap. A sandwich. A book. And I want to die turns day by day into I want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friends, I want to sit in the sun. I want a cleaner room, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else, I want to live.

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(2) short-form video entertains more than it sticks.

(3) reading is a discipline distinct from listening, watching, or other forms of literacy. It’s a skill that needs to be honed separately.

(4) Absolutely no one comes to save us but us.

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Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

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