City as playground

Really inspirational ideas from  Florian Rivière.  Hack the city is not only new urbanist movement, but it is perception of a city as a playground.
The great willingness to change the environment, to make it more comfortable for living.

And those ideas can be suitable to any country, even to  Russia, I think. I made a tick.  

Drawing Teddy Bear

It is a kind of fun to draw, to make sketches. And I am doing it all the time. Every sketch has a story, a plot, a part of my soul. Some of them are freaky, some of them are romantic, some of them just reflect my life. 
Unfortunately I forget to tell the story of every drawing. Promise to improve myself. Here is small animation video of a Teddy Bear sketch. 
Enjoy!

Color palette for a good mood

Recently I was at my friend's flower shop. And as you know in flower shops they have a lot of lovely small things!
I created a color palette of those pearls and beads I liked the most. 
Yesterday I discovered one very cool website of Sherwin-Williams internal/external paitings and coatings (http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/). There is also an additional interactive web application which allows you to upload favorite pics and create color palettes (http://letschipit.com/). Later of course you can find the closest store and order your own color palette for you wall paiting.
So I chipped my color palettes and got very nice color schemes. Enjoy!
After all of course it is possible to turn color palettes to CMYK or RGB or whatever you want!

Hand-made chairs

I have a passion to decorate chairs since a lot of time. I decorated chairs in almost every place I lived during last 5-6 years. It is very particular. Chair is unique and interesting form, it is cozy, it is symbol of the  house. 
Here are some photos of chairs in my house, in the place I live in Milano, Italy, and there are chairs made with my friend and colleague (Stepan Belyakov) during our TV-working period. Together with Stepan we decorated 3 chairs, with curtain and old jeans. They have their style and they have our own style (girlish bright chair and boy's chair with superman character).

Hand-made shoulders

Although it passed a lot of time since we finished our work on TV with Stepan Belyakov  here in Russia. But still those creature we made are with us. And it would be cruel (: no to share them with you.
So here are 3 ideas how to make shoulder from a chair and cardboard.
1. You have old broken chair / you find it
2. Cut off a chair of a seat
3. Color it
4. Put a hook inside


1. Attach foam to the broken stool bar
2. Sew 2 covers from any lovable material
3. Pull the covers on the barr
4. Create a hook from the wire
5. Decorate


1. Take cardboard
2. Draw the silhouette
3. Сut it with a knife

New Year and Traditions

What is this tradition to celebrate New Year according to the New Style and according to the Old style? In Russia New Year is being celebrated on 31st of December. And Christmas is on 6th of January (25th of December in other countries). According to the Old Style New Year celebrated on 13th of January (and Christmas, probable on 25th of December as well). So today is the first day of New Year 2012! So again! I would like to congratulate you and to send you some of my New Year's greeting from Russia, where it is raining!

Tweet - the new currency

Technologies created new currency. Paying with a tweet. It is convenient, it is simple. It works. I still can not understand if it is smart innovative idea or smart innovative idea which creates a trend. In the era of information, copyleft and torrents tweet has become more than a short message of 140 symbols. 

Pay with a Tweet - An overview from Leif on Vimeo.

You can pay for new book, interesting artwork, new font.

At Paywithatweet.com you can learn more. And you can sell something "for a tweet".

Actually, all our Twitter accounts have their value (which you have probably checked already at Tweetvalue.com ), and it means that we bring our value to those things we are tweeting everyday.

A clever young men came up with an idea of the Stock Exchange of Twitter accounts,which now exists in Russian cyberspace. There you can buy shares of a particular person / company / account, as well as to sell, earning this money. Check it --> Twistosk.

Which will be the next innovative step in social media-money relationship?