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Artemy Lebedev
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Artemy Lebedev writes Артемий Лебедев, a personal blog at tema.ru about culture. Since 2008, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “Veni, Vidi”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Artemy Lebedev's travel photo reports from places such as North Korea, Somaliland, Pitcairn and Transnistria. They are mostly cited as examples of interesting travel photography and notes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /eng/travel/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-24
- Veni, Vidi2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-05
What Hacker News says?
If you're interested in abandoned buildings and other artistic captures of the darker side of society, check out Artemy Lebedev - a Russian traveller who's been to pretty much everywhere in the world. https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/
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on “Abandoned Motorola Headquarters (2020)”Submitted Antarctica and the South Pole (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPre-computer, pre-plastic industrial interfaces generally look beautiful. You can see actual graphic design that went in. See for example http://www.tema.ru/travel/dubna.2009/ near the bottom of page.
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on “Riding the New Silk Road”Submitted USA. Part I. The American Interface as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ Artemy Lebedev, a known Russian web designer, visited North Korea and posted his notes with pictures (in Russian, should not be an obstacle these days). There are three more sections with the selector below.
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on “Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)”Submitted Veni, Vidi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere is a set of articles from 2006 written by the founder of one of the leading design studios in Russia - artlebedev.ru. The read is very interesting, but unfortunately only available in Russian. Part 1 (general): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ Part 2 (military) : http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/ Part 3 (culture): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/ Part 4 (Roads & transport): http://www.tem…
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on “Sophie In North Korea”another rare photoset has been posted in a older hn-thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2152223 ) the original link doesnt work anymore, but i found the same photo's on a russian site http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/
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on “Sophie In North Korea”Phone charging kiosks http://www.tema.ru/travel/uganda/4F2C3936.jpg
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on “Nokia 215”https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/transnistria/
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on “An entrepreneur has built a one-metre-long stretch of motorway in Romania”A few links from Russian fotoblog: http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-1/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-2/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/syria-3/
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on “What was Syria like before the war”If you are interested in relatively fresh photos of everyday Somali, you could look at reports of famous Russian traveller and designer Artemiy Lebedev: http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-1/ http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-2/ http://tema.ru/travel/somaliland-3/ http://tema.ru/travel/somalia/ English versions of this reports are available, switcher is in top right corner.
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on “World’s most photographed places”http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ http://tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/ ... 5 parts
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on “Rare pictures of North Korea”Artemy's photos of Pitcairn are great! http://tema.ru/eng/travel/pitcairn/
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on “The Hardest Places in the World to Visit”If you liked the article, you'll probably enjoy travel notes by Artemy Lebedev who is just two countries behind: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/countries/ One country he had hard time getting into is Turkmenistan: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/turkmenistan-2/ The visas are declined and the search form on the airline site is actually a jpg. The North Korea travel notes are a good read as well: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/north-…
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on “The Hardest Places in the World to Visit”There's a site run by some well-travelled Russian photo-blogger that I once ended up on thanks to a link someone posted on HN. Good stuff. Takes a while to get used to the author's obsession with traffic signs and trash cans, but it's good. Here's part one of his trip to this region: http://tema.ru/eng/travel/yakutetnoexp-1/ The site's hard to navigate. You may have to hit "english" at the top right (assuming you do…
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on “What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth”Obligatory Artemiy Lebedev's photo report on NK (unfortunately, comments in Russian only): http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-1/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-2/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-3/ http://www.tema.ru/travel/north-korea-4/
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on “North Korea’s First Computer Game: Pyongyang Racer”FWIW, here's the Russian designer who travelled to 180+ countries and took tons of photos during the process: http://www.tema.ru/travel/ I've read he also has a bet with another Russian guy to the tune of $100k on who will visit all the countries first.
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on “For One Man, It Really Is the End of the World”Dog breeds: https://www.tema.ru/crea-gif/dogs.html
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on “The first mass-produced DRAM of the Soviet Union”Or use the most universal way: get multiple passports. Just lie to police that you dropped your old passport in some rural Russian toilet. This is a way Russian traveller and designer Artemiy Lebedev ( http://tema.ru/travel/ ) uses.
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on “Calgary man becomes world's most travelled”That guy comes off as an asshole: https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/
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on “Govbins: A gallery of UK government bin designs”Here you go https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/ He also has a youtube (in russian) where he publishes the newer content.
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on “Govbins: A gallery of UK government bin designs”In Russia, when they were replacing public dial pay phones with pushbutton ones in '90s, they chose "Speedometer" type (I-C) for some of them. (Today most of them are replaced with proper ones, though.) Another variation from Russia (III-A): http://www.tema.ru/travel/komsomolsk/IMG_8694.jpg I-B is an interesting configuration - for churches :)
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on “17 different button configurations that were considered for the first pushbutton phones”
