Showing posts with label Tartu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tartu. Show all posts
Monday, June 30, 2014
Rubber, Anybody?
Friday, June 13, 2014
Vacuum Microphone
A girl's got to sing when a girl's got to sing.
Photo by Vahur in the backyard of Tartu Write's House, 12 June 2014
Nail File
In South Estonia, people like it big. For example, we build huge nail files that foreigners mistake for houses.
Photo by Vahur 12 June 2014, in the back of the Writers' House in Tartu
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Punk Power
Punk and beer, it's like surf music and joints or transce and eeez. Punk legend, a hero of many generations - Villu Tamme! Photo by Vahur 3 May 2014, biker's thing just behing the 16 kannu pub in Tartu Tammelinn.
Dallas Style
Den Pobedy!
9 May 2014, Tartu
Monday, April 21, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Double-decker Woodshed 2
Another double-decker woodshed in Tartu (Jaama street). Photo by Vahur Afanasjev, 14 April 2014.
Another post on the some topic.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Lodi
Lodi is a type of sailing barge used a lot on the Mother River (Emajõgi), Lake Peipsi (all the way to Pskov and Novgorod in Russia) and other Estonian waters. Lodi (plural: lodjad) has been documented in Hanseatic Tartu town and Emajõgi since 14th century.
See some old footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-tzBV-oD8
Soviet occupation put a full stop to many fields of economic and human activity, so last lodi was seen in 1950ies... Until around 2004-2005 a group of activists built a brand new lodi. Nowadays it's used for tourism and nature sighting, not for transportation of goods, but still the ancient ship building tradition is kept alive. Currently the Lodjakoda activists are building a larger two-mast lodi in Tartu.
Photo by Vahur Afanasjev 30 March 2014
Trivia:
There used to be a huge beautiful bathing house (the wooden structure was heavily damaged in WWII and the later rebuild was destroyed in 1970ies) on the river by the the Lodjakoda site.
Even though we love CCR, their song "Lodi" talks about a city in the United States of America.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Fishing 2
Just another fishing day by the Mother River (Emajõgi). Quick snaps on my way to Tartu bus station, 1 April 2014. Vahur Afanasjev
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Fishing
Fishing is rapidly getting hip! Forget about planking, selfies and digital shit and grab a fishing rod!
Photos by Vahur Afanasjev, 30 March 2014 in Tartu by the river Emajõgi. Oh and btw there's a pile of snow across the river - will take a month to melt it.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Double-decker Woodshed
Dunno how was in London, Paris or New York of olde dayz but in Estonian towns most of the people lived pretty much side by side, especially in the center. Interesting contrast to really lofty living conditions in the countriside (our population density is approxiately the same as in USA or Canada). So, if you moved to town/city (rising trend as of 19th century), the odds are high you end up living in a 4 to 10 flat wooden (chinkless method log with painted siding) condo or a cabin in the back yard - and used a double-decker woodshed to store your firewood.
As people are opting out of the romantic but tiresome chore of heating and cooking with burning fire, many of the sheds have perished. But some are still there, used by the inhabitants and admired by the hipseters.
Photo: Vahur Afanasjev, 30 March 2014 Tartu, a back yard in Ujula street.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Independence Day
Cheers for the Estonian Independence Day! (Starring: spicy sprats on rye bread, filled eggs with egg-spratpiss (salty brine) filling, pickles with chillies (pickled by my mother), Moe vodka (from ecologically clean Estonian grain only), fresh tap water (the purest in Estonia) and, as a decoration, some snowdrops (galanthus) I picked in from of my country house earlier today).
Photo and food by Vahur Afanasjev, 24 February, Tartu.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Fear Factor
As all European, and, especially, Eastern European countries, Estonia is full of Le-Corbusier-insiper concrete buildings. Most people hate those... and problably these have the most inhabitant, by percentage. I, personally, rather like the buildings for the straightforward look, logical room planning, economical and environmentally practical central heating. If placed correctly (the distance between two buildings has correspont to be their double height) and surrounded with a touch of nature (grass, tress, bushes, flower beds, playgrounds), they're ok.
But what I hate, is that in 1990ies people took extreme liberties in fucking up the face of these houses, closing the terraces, balconies and loggias any way came to their mind. Oh, well, there's some vernacular coolness about it, too, but in general - it's ugly. What impressed me on this 9-storey house in Tartu Annelinn (Ann's town), is the last floor grated terraces. I guess there was some reason in those metal bars at some point, but the current level of criminality is so low that I hardly imagine somebody breaking in from there and carrying all the stolen stuff (TV set?) away over the roof... On the other hand, in the mid 1990ies, there was a wave of stealing bikes from 2-3 storey balconies. So maybe I'm just snobbish and the bars have to be there.
By Vahur Afanasjev, Tartu, 2010
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Insulting BB
Somebody's been writing insults to Bridgitte Bardot in Tartu Annelinn/Ülejõe area. A supporter of fur coats? An owner of a meat restaurant? Spotted by Vahur Afanasjev, April 2012.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sunday, June 20, 2010
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