Yiying Lu, creadora del Fail Whale | LTL PRINTS BLOG

16 Jul, 2010 |

‘Lifting a Dreamer’ originally featured an Elephant, drawn with pencil! I wanted to create a visual greeting – a visual ‘comfort’ for my friends back home for all the events that I was missing! I also included this image on my website’s homepage, and I would use MSN to send it to friends and family when I could not attend their birthdays and graduations and parties. Basically, I had this giant wish that is so heavy (the elephant), and the birds represented my free spirit and good wishes. My favorite artists at the time were Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, along with Japanese and Chinese comics, and this was how I pictured delivering my good wishes to the people that I loved who were far away.

Entrevista con Yiying Lu, creadora del Fail Whale.

Soviet Paradise

15 Jul, 2010 |

El fotógrafo ruso Slesarev Oleg Victorovitch visitó Gagra, antiguo resort de Zaristas y Soviets, para encontrarse con un pueblo fantasma.

Almost immediately after the collapse of communism, this former playground of Czarists and lucky Soviet citizens became the scene of open combat and ethnic cleansing. Significant sections of the city were abandoned after the conflict came to an end in 1993, and since then have crumbled into an eerie ruin.

Sigue leyendo War-Torn and Overgrown, Ghost Town Was Soviet Paradise | Raw File.

El extraordinario viaje de Morris Moel

14 Jul, 2010 |

Mark Lamster recoge el testimonio de Morris Moel, de 97 años. El último sobreviviente de los inmigrantes que llegaron a EEUU en un Red Star.

First of all, it’s a long story. My father was here [in the USA]. He came in 1913. We didn’t hear from him for many many years during World War I, and after this the revolution in Russia. Things were terrible. So we didn’t hear from my father for 12 or 13 years. We finally got a message. It came through from Warsaw, from HIAS, the Hebrew immigration society. So my mother went to Warsaw, she left us with my grandmother. She was there for two months, three months, and during that period my grandmother passed away, and my older brother who was 17 became our mother and father. And one winter day a big sleigh approaches the house and a man comes out and asks if we are the Moel family. “We’re here to take you to your mother.”

Sigue leyendo Coming to America: The Extraordinary Journey of Morris Moel at Mark Lamster.