4/9/03

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Every so often I find a website with breathtaking design, and things on it so beautiful it hurts.

Yuri Gargarin
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My God, these people are geniuses. Look at their design.

Look at what they do with it.

Translation:

Playbomж, June 2003.
Forty-five photographs of Moscow bums.

1. Dreams
2. Photos
3. Info

1. Dreams
Lexa: I dreamed that I rode to Egypt.
Bandit: I wanted to be a pilot.
Kat: I wanted to sail on a battleship.
Delphin: Dreamed of being a pedicatrician.
Lovey Petya: the professional stripteaser.
King Kong and Sveta: ... we only want to get out.

2. Photos
Lovey Petya.

Valery Ivanovich.
Was a literature teacher but gave up "the corrupting influcences of materialism".

Lidya Sergeevna had problems with her apartment.

Natasha, who left her husband.

Worked as a secretary at a supermarket.

Lelik.
Lelik has been on the lam for about 15 years but is still pretty sharp, very erudite and polite.

Bandit.
Bandit, as a child, dreamed of being a pilot (we profiled him in our "dreams" section) but failed the exams at flying school. Now he works at train station loading dock three.

Kat, Bandit's friend.
Kat dreamed of being a sailor as a kid. But he only served during the war at hotpoints.

Vladimir Pavlovich.
20 years ago Vladimir Pavlovich worked in a state-run factory as an engineer.

Delphin.
Delphin started planning his career when he was still in elementary school, wanting to be a swimmer. His results were good, and so on the recommendation of a trainer he was allowed to become a member of the olympic water polo team. He was a master of the sport, within the USSR, in the olympics, one of the best in the world...after the games he was appointed a trainer, but then the bottom fell out of the finances of the sport world and he started to look for another job...then 10 years of currency fluctuations hit. He's been meditating and reading books since then, so that after his exit he has become one of the most kind and intelligent waterpolo players. Strangely, however, in childhood he dreamed of becoming a pediatrician in the children's hospital.

Felix.

Lenin.
Lenin dreamed of being an architect, and then became one!

Tyson.
He wants to become a better and kinder person.

Artist: A well-known personality who hangs around the Arbat [a famous shopping street in Moscow]. He thinks this kind of life suits him, because he doesn't need to think about money and always gets to meet up with interesting people. He himself says that only an idiot couldn't manage to fend for themselves, on the Arbat.

...
We didn't find out a lot about this guy (only that he wanted to be a machinist on a train), but we gave him two hotdogs and a coke.

Natasha.
We learned that Natasha, who left her husband, dreamed of being a speologist [geologist who specaizes in caves], studying stalagmites and stalactites!

Live out your dreams!

The End!
yr. 2000-2003.

3. Info
Talking about the project in general, how these are all photos of people without material posessions or who have had a hard life, etc.

ExpandTranslator's Notes )
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I sent out a poem to Asimov's on May 13th. I haven't heard anything back yet.

I tell myself that they might be keeping it a long time because they might be thinking of accepting it.

...Or just because the market response time seems to be a little longer than usual--the last entry under the Asimov section on the 'Submitting to the Black Hole' website states that somebody who sent something in on the 5th of May just got it back on the 8th of August. So I'm only about a month off from that...

But I wonder if maybe they didn't get it at all.

Should I query?