Uploads from Ksenia.Klykova, with geodata

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:10:48 -0700

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Our first week in Moscow is over, and there are two more left. Yesterday we (finally!) finished with the paperwork, and hopefully will only have to get our new passports before leaving. Russian bureaucracy is the hell on earth.

I have a bunch of photos I already uploaded on my facebook page, and I'll uploading more soon.

Looks much better in large (Flickr sharpener, I hate you)

Frozen in time

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:28:34 -0700

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My mom said once that, if she could, she would have one copy of me for every year of my existence because each one had something special. She is glad that me and my brother grew up, but she misses the little us.

I don't think she fully comprehends that statement: imagine, twenty me running around the house. I remember myself as a kid and believe me...no one can take that.

I have a few more old photos scanned that I may post on my Tumblr
~~I'll also upload the original photo of the "me" inside the bottle one of these days.~~ I uploaded it

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Edit: I got on Explore! With 81 visits O.o I honestly don't understand it. But it's always nice anyway :)

I'm not disposable

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Tue, 31 May 2011 07:16:41 -0700

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It's suprising how difficult is to find a nice bin to lean on when you need one. I had to cycle like 30 minutes. And of course the occasional runners who passed by looked at me like if I was crazy. Nothing new.

I think I'll be uploading some of my drawings on Tumblr. Today I posted the first: I did it when I was 14. I had it hanging in my bedroom for a long time but then I forgot about it. Expect some manga/anime too. I was a big otaku until some years ago :)

And because I haven't done in a while...the SOOC version.

As a side note, I mentioned before that I'm thinking about dying my hair. I used this photo to change the color and see how it would look. ~~I may upload it someday, probably on Tumblr too.~~ Added it in comments. What do you think?

Press L?

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Your worst enemy

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:29:32 -0700

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Sometimes I don't trust myself.

Maybe I should have used a bigger knife. This doesn't even look like one.

I'm thinking about starting a 100 facts on my tumblr/twitter (since the post are automatically posted on the last too) . I tried a 30 days project but got tired of it and failed. In this case, you don't have any rules apart from writing 100 facts. Or at least I won't have any, just because I don't want to.

Sopranosflight, who is doing one, gave me the idea.

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Stone-cold

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:18:07 -0700

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Even when the cold creeps inside, you act like if you didn't need the warmth. You try to show indifference, but you are actually freezing, bleeding inside.

I'm still not sure about this. I seemed a good idea while it was in my mind, but the result doesn't convince me. I'm not happy either with the photo I took today (will be probably re-shooting it tomorrow) but since I haven't uploaded in a while....

It took me hours in Photoshop, so pressing L to appreciate the details would be nice :) Especially because it's panoramic and it looks sooo small here.

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A place in the middle of nowhere

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:55:07 -0700

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I'm cheating a little, since this one is old. But I love it for some reason. There are two more photos from the photoshoot I may post. Also, I'm editing photos I've been taking in Russia those days, although I won't upload all of them here. I'm thinking about creating a blog just for my photography, so stay tuned! For now, I'll be uploading them on my facebook page. I'm about to reach 200 likes, which I know is nothing to some of you, but it means a big deal to me. So thanks to all of you who liked or shared <3

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:17:58 -0700

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Yeah, I know. It has been a loooong time since the last time I uploaded something. I think I never took such a long break. I won't try to make excuses for it; sure, I was busy - whoever says that media studies is easy is shamelessly lying - but I could have uploaded something. I guess I needed some time away from photography. Time to focus on my studies and myself. I never thought about becoming a film editor, but the idea has been growing on me; and after writing two term papers I discovered an (unexpected) interest in gender studies. I still don't know what I'll be doing in three or five (or even one) years, but for once I have a sense of direction, even if I don't know where will it take me.

Still, I am now realizing that I actually missed photography (is that contradictory?) so I'll try to upload something more soon (I already have some selfies in mind!), before I start uni and English lessons and (hopefully) my part-time job.

I took the photo during and excursion with Inna , last week. Although it doesn't look like it, this was taken at 6PM. The light was strangely warm and reddish, and although it was beautiful it was also slightly unsettling. We later learned that it was because of a (huge) fire near :(

Barcelona, Raval

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:21:16 -0700

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Didn't feel like uploading a self-portrait, even if I have a few from photoshoots I haven't edited yet. Someone, please come and model for me?

Still feeling very uninspired and hating Spanish summer right now.

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Crossroads

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 03:49:39 -0700

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"As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible"
~ Nemo Nobody

Sorry for disappearing this way again (it seems like I being all the descriptions the same way. Sigh), but I've been suffering a major cretivity block lately. I guess I don't need to explain anything: you are all familiar with it. When no matter how much you try to come up with something, it seems like you hit a wall every time. You have the feeling that someone squeezed your brain like a lemon, that you have nothing left. But I guess it's normal; it would be stupid to give up because it will happen again at some point, and again...I just need a change already. I have been at home for a too long time and it's asfixiating me: that's why I already want September to come.

It's going to be old news for Tumblr people, but I got into the university where I wanted. I will be studying Audiovisual Communication next year in the UPF: a mix of television, cinema, radio, multimedia and photography (I'll have a photography workshop during the first trimester!). For those who don't know, I was studying International Business Economics last year but realized that it was not what I wanted to do with my life. Realizing that you chose and you did it wrong is hard; especially when everybody expects you to choose right. But that's the point: choosing means freedom, but also responsability, consequences, and we must learn to face them.

I have chosen again. I'm looking forward to it but I'm also a little scared. Choices are scary, but there is nothing else I can do now. Only time will show if I was wrong or not.

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PS: There is a making of: check it out on YouTube here. It's about one hour of editing in three minutes.

A dream inside a dream

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:53:16 -0700

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I find the process of dreaming really fascinating. I have never liked to sleep, not even when I was little: I thought it was a huge waste of time. Why sleep when there are so many interesting things to do? Sleeping is boring. Obviously, now I understand that I can't don't sleep if I don't want to be a zombie during the day, even if I still think that it's boring.

I usually forget the dream a few minutes after waking up. I know everybody does (we all dream but we forget the 90% of them. Maybe if we remembered more of them I'd find sleeping more exciting), but I remember more dreams from when I was little than now. Like some of the nightmares that watching all the episodes of Freddy's Nightmares caused me, with all the details, fifteen years later.

When I have nightmares I can usually make them end if I want to, but sometimes I wake up inside another dream. But during the first seconds you don't know it: you don't know where you are or if you are still sleeping. It's a really strange feeling, isn't it?

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PS: And this was the 1230239042 time I embarrased myself for art's sake. I had to move the pillow and blanket to let a cyclist pass. He gave me the strangest look ever and even turned back before disappearing behind the trees.

Did I say how much I love photography?

Summer afternoons

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:12:32 -0700

Ksenia.Klykova posted a video:

Music: R-evolve and Saviour by 30 seconds to Mars (Instrumental)

Amelie OST is amazing. I really, really love it but I've been using it too much in my stopmotions. So this time I promised myself I'd choose something else. The problem is that the music I usually listen to doesn't suit very well the videos I create, so I have rack my brains to find the right song everytime.
God bless instrumental versions: they are a lifesaver.

This is Inna, the day before leaving to Finland. It was a beautiful sunset. We came back full of sand and definitively less dry than when we arrived.

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PS: The links at the beginning are of the normal version of the songs.

Castles in the sky

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:03:43 -0700

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This is Inna. She spent a week with me after finishing working as an aupair in Sevilla and before coming back home, to Finland. I think we walked across almost all Barcelona like three times. We missed a train twice: one of them was to go to Figueres (two hours away) because of a girl who couldn't find the exact import that the tickets machine was asking for. The same tickets machine gave us one ticket even if we payed for two. We were lucky enough and the station staff believed us and gave us another one.

But it has been a wonderful week. This was the last day: we went on a photoshoot at 9PM. It's also a still from a stopmotion I already finished and that I'll will share soon (if I don't change my opinion about it and decide to re-do it. I know, perfectionism sucks sometimes)

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nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:14:38 -0700

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"Every now and then, I like to sit on the top of a hill and think hard about nothing…"
- Harold's Planet

The "me" inside the bottle from yesterday's photo
I actually just sat there I watched the sun rise after taking the photos. These little things is another reason why I love photography so much.

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nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 21:58:23 -0700

Ksenia.Klykova posted a photo:

Moscow, at 6AM after coming back from a New Year party. I still have photos from Russia I haven't uploaded. Summer hasn't started officially yeat and I already want it to be over. Not only because of the heat (unbearable) but also because I am bored. I miss studying, seeing classmates everyday, ~~I wouldn't even mind taking exams.~~ Ok, maybe not the exams, but I miss the whole school/university atmosphere. Couldn't it be September already?

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+ ~~An accident~~ a selfportrait I didn't upload here.

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On the edge

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:02:39 -0700

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An outtake from Vertigo. I went to take photos this morning but it didn't work out, so I'm getting by with outtakes. Sad.

I'd have tried a few more shots but there was a man staring at me. I don't mind when people pass by and look, but I can't stand when there is someone standing there, just looking; especially when there is no one else near. I waited like 5 minutes. Nothing. I decided to take my things and go. Guess what? He decided it was time to go too. I was all "ajaodiajsodijad. Don't you have a life??". Really creepy.

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Running away from the night, running away from the light

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:16:10 -0700

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Quite different from my usual, but I actually like it. I took this many months ago, when I was still living in Barcelona. I really love that city and I can't wait to come back next September for the new school year.

The pre-enrollment for university began yesterday. I already know what I will choose as the first option, but I'm nervous anyway. I know life is about making mistakes and learning from them but I think I already made enough of them.

PS: I had zero ideas for the name, so I resorted to my lifesaver in that situations: music. The title is a verse from Hurricane, by 30 seconds to Mars.
PSS: I think Tumblr fucked up with the new design. It has been online for a few hours and the "Official petition for the old Tumblr dash" has over 30.000 notes already.

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Paper boats

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:11:32 -0700

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We all have things we need to let go.
This has a very personal meaning for me. Probably more than anything I posted here.

PS: I am thinking about creating a Facebook page. How many of you use it? It would be basically to announce new Flickr updated and maybe some outtakes.

I am asking because, for instance, very few o my friends have Twitter, no one has a Tumblr but all of them use Facebook so it's my 1st option for staying in touch with them.

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I can't decide: rectangle or square crop (in comments)?

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:55:29 -0700

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An outtake from this photo shoot. I'm not sure if this will stay. I have way too many photos taken on the beach and it's becoming repetitive. I need to find new locations.

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Childhood

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Sun, 29 May 2011 00:18:52 -0700

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I had this photo of Moscow in my photo stream for weeks. I just kept it in private for some reason. I guess because most of people won't find it as interesting as I do because my view is completely subjective. As well as my mum's view ("Where are you going to upload that photo??? It has been there for ages! I really like it" Since sometimes I log in from their computer, my mum actually enters with my account)

That is my street where I lived until I was seven. Not the most glamorous, not the most beautiful one, but because people always want what they don't have, I miss it.

PS: In case someone is interested, I'm doing a "100 facts about me" on Tumblr. You should try to do it too. It's fun :)
PPS: I have another selfie that I will upload soon.

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Overoptimism

nobody@flickr.com (Ksenia.Klykova) — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:16:14 -0700

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A slightly annoying characteristic of people who instist in seeing not a a half empty or even half full glass, but a whole damn sea.

A sequel to this photo. I took this one three times in three different days and I'm still not 100% happy with the result. Actually, the more I look at it the less I like it. I don't know if this will stay.
I wish I wasn't such a perfectionist.

I'm thinking about dying my hair dark brown. My mum says I'm crazy.
PS: I realized I don't look 20 at all here. Weird.

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