If I Forget...

If I forget to post some photos from my last few nights in Ann Arbor, then I will at least post my mailing address for the next 6 weeks on this Blog.

Please send comments, complaints and suggestions to:

Kostya Bakhurin
c/o NELP
P.O. Box 998
Raymond, Maine 04071
USA

I will NOT have the following:
Internet
Ipod
Email
Watch
Cell-Phone

So I will be MIA, so to speak.
Wish me luck, and good luck to YOU guys on Finals and May's and June's

Kostya

Balloons

Just some neat things i saw. and my roommate to end it for good, giving the west virginia state bird.

This was already last month

Hello. I don' t know if my meager audience knows that I am involved here at Michigan with student government, at least in my dorm, which sort of has its own college within itself: The Residential College. So we RC Student Government kids set up this event in our library, which is usually strictly for quiet study. But we took that down. We destroyed that.

It was great.





My friend and neighbor Bill played with his band, Alligator Tree:











Then we had this great Jazz Band come in. Sitar, Sax and drums. Was nice. With Pizza and soda and...



Break dancing. Andy's housemate has this break dance troupe and they were really fun to watch. Right in our own library!









So Sometime before that The Books came to play at our Art Museum. We of course tickets were free and ran out very quickly. But the monday before that, Rob Linn, the good man that he is, gave me a ticket he had picked up and so I would be going to see this band I never really listened to. Which is unfortunate. They play some very nice music, and had a very nice video accompanyment. Needless to say, it made me extraordinarily happy. And my good friend Gabby sat next to me. No one there was arrogant or mean or anything. it was just a great environment and ended too soon. If my body did not confine me, I would have burst into blossom.















Next month, if any of you do not know, I will be in Maine for 6 weeks with school. I won't have internet access and extremely limited phone access. So please be ready to not hear from me for a while. Unless you want to write me a letter or send a postcard. That address will be posted on here as well as many other places as soon as I learn what it is.



Thank you.

Mix and Match

Some shadowblocks for your amusement. These can be found in Washington DC, but I would like to wager that I am the only one who knows exactly where. And its facinating to me that I could get my body from this dorm room over to Washington DC and stand right infront of this structure. It would be so precise.

You may or may not know that I went to Ottawa 2 weeks ago with my parents. It was exceedingly exciting to see people I haven't seen for years.









They are my brothers Alex, Max and Ed. And it is always just as nice to see them. Alex and I were inseperable again.





Haha.







I am starting to appreciate animals being around a lot more. (Thank you.) And it makes me happy to see them. Although those dogs look sad up there, this is just a cool ol' cat.





And these are the houses of Parliament in Canada. I like imagining them squatting down through the cold winter and looking so damp and grim.







Another sculpture in DC.





And this is the new Biology Building in Ann Arbor and my goal is to secure a lab assistant job here.





Stay tuned for The Books and some Breakdancing photos.

Oh God, Oh God

Over break my dad and I flew to Washington DC for 24 hours exactly so that I could take another step toward US citizenship. It was exciting to make an escape like that, and I was really looking forward to something different and exciting at the end of the week. I really loved going there. It is a good city and whoever does live in DC, has something very special there. I have made quite a quantity of friends here in Ann Arbor that actually live in DC, like Gabby and Mariel



but for some reason, I didn't see any of them.
So instead I went to the Smithsonian and Capitol Hill and looked at the things I haven't seen before. Like the Library of Congress,


The Supreme Court



The Capitol



and the National Archives, where the Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta were displayed.
Then, I was lucky to meet up with my friend Alex Wiltchko, who actually lives in Texas but was in DC at the same time as I was. Funny.


We went to some museums and saw some nice things.





This is a welcome image from my childhood:



The trip was fun and very welcome, but sure enough, we scrambled out of bed at 6 am and flew home to Cincinnati, and then I drove up to Ann Arbor and many things had somehow changed in just one week.



Oh, and here is a shot from around the corner of my dorm.



I have a good amount of photos to show you recently, so look out for those. Including the Books concert I saw on campus the other night.

Kostya

Super Super cars now

more abstract

the bmw headlight was really good, but i made it even more bold. i love these two, they are particularly my favorites.

Autoshow series

So I scanned some of these photos I took at the Detroit Auto Show in January. It was a really neat thing. I also took advantage of the wide angle lens on my camera and was able to take the entire span of the cars. I like this one because of the dark shadow in the headlight bay. Its scary almost.





Here is the same photo altered a little.

The last of this series

Its interesting that half of these weren't even taken by me, and yet the photos of Ben and I look so delicate and fine. Like we are still moving. It makes me happy. I can't be blamed for missing Morgantown. I just can't.



The next photos should be some of the Detroit Auto show and maybe some really old ones.

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