Annual Melon Day, Turkmenistan: The Facts
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I decided to write about Turkmenistan’s Melon Day after a friend brought it to my attention. It sounded like something I should know more about. At the same time, I found the idea...
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Awesome Photos From Russia With Love – Part T
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Welcome to your next installment of Russian LOLz. Today we have all manner of nonsense to show you, including ultra strong grannies, gangster wannabes and lama-loving bikers. It’s all there for the taking....
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Mangystau: The Incredible Stone Balls Of Kazakhstan
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The Mangystau region of Kazakhstan, near the borders of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, is a huge, empty place. In total, it covers 165,600 square kilometers — an area larger than England. The geography of the region varies between tundra,...
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Awesome Photos From Russia With Love – Part S
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Here you are. Another bunch of the best of the best as far as funny Russian photographs from Russia are concerned. Get your guns out, pop a dram of Vodka in your face...
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Awesome Photos From Russia With Love Part Q
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I haven’t popped up one of these compilations for ages; sorry if you’ve been hanging around waiting. I’ll make this a jumbo edition to make amends. For anyone who hasn’t visited an “Awesome...
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Ice Bathing On The Chinese-Russian Border
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Blagoveschensk is a small Russian city on the border of China and home to the only ice bathing bath house on the Russian/Chinese border. Meaning “the city of good news,” Blagoveschensk has around a quarter of...
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Peder Balke: A Bleak Norwegian Master
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Peder Balke (1804-1887) painted the bleakest most impressive parts of one of Europe’s bleakest and most impressive countries. Famous in Norway for his romantic visions, he has largely been ignored outside of his home country....
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PHOTOS: North Korean Interiors
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I found a Tumblr the other day that posts photos of the interiors of North Korean buildings. These Soviet-inspired oddities are a work of silky softness in one of the least silky and soft countries on...
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Huge Statue of Mao Zedong Dismantled In Rural China
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In the middle of rural China, very far from anything of note, a massive and recently built statue has been flurrying across Asian news. The structure in question is a whopping rendering of our old...
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José Ortiz-Echagüe: Beautifully Bleak Photography
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José Ortiz-Echagüe was born in Guadalajara in 1886, into a military family. At the tender of age of 12, he received his first camera and took to photography. His brother, a talented artist,...
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