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weekly glee # 20 2009.

so... christmas time starts! have you all decorated your homes yet? already bought some presents? enjoyed your very first mulled wine and ate warm sugar roasted almonds? visited a christmas market?

here's a small collection of great things i found last week.

1. desertions.


old decadence / surprise

# 'time that crosses streets' by der5pezialist - an eerie building in talinn, estonia. der5spezialist really does a good job showcasing the gone glory of historical architectures.
# 'the benett school for girls' by dark_fetus - a finishing school for young woman. looks like a set for 'the adams family' movies! i like the wood works on the building. it must be heart-attacking to wander 'round there in the midst of the night. what a real gem of ghost house this is!
# 'wasteland' by g_r_a_z_a - little ghosts and strange creatures found in an abandoned house! oh, well, i'd wish they be real, but unfortunately they're not. still, amazing work! visit g_r_a_z_a's livejournal to see more ghostlies and entities.
# 'eshera military sanatorium' by ilya-gorokhov - this place must've been beautiful when the militarians still were on these grounds. a paradise for healing up wounds.

2. photogenius.


armoured / picknick

# snejana onopka by mariano vivanco for numéro korea #17 - very glamour-gothic photoshoot. snejana onopka has a really aristocratic face, which really is a good match with the clothes.
# denise grünstein photography - this woman has a hand for fantastical themes and photographing them. there's a lot of magic going on in her pictures, hope and melancholy complement each other very well.

national geographic's international photography contest 2009



there are always so many good photographs in the national geographic magazines. these are some really great ones from this year's contest. you can still vote for the best ones on the viewer's choice competition, if you want to :D

3. design & architecture.



# 'my life in 80 m2' by poliform - well, 80 m2 is not very small ( at least it's not for me, since i'm living in a 50 m2 flat. ), but this appartement would be blast to live in. ( i'd still change this and that about the interior designs, but the room capacities themselves are great! )

4. video time!


the new york lottery has made an advertisement in which bunnies are having fun on a fair ( looks like christmas market to me :D ). this is really so cute! even though it's for the lottery.


alexander petrov's rusalka

this animation is one of the beautifullest ones i've recently seen. apparently it is painted on glass? i found it via esnobista, who's doing a 'masters of russian animation' project on youtube.com.



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