Suppressing Fire!

Cyril Figgis.

*ban
Cyril Britto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S6s0qKDya8

Vodka does NOT translate to water. Voda means water.

The added "K" is a diminutive, so it actually translates to "my sweet little water".

Also, I can't stand it when people use Cyrillic letters to look like Latin letters. And this video does this in spades. It's a giant pet peeve of mine.

Russian title is "Exhibitionist" (the English word, transliterated into Russian Cyrillic)

I remember a story about someone who did that in the West, and got in some trouble for it... but the Russian guards didn't even bat an eyelid.

Nope. It's Russian for "I don't understand how cyrillic letters work."

You wanna give me that in Cyrillic because your phonetic variation makes no sense to me.

>> ^EDD:
>> ^Maze:
It looks like OMOH to me, which in a mirror would be HOMO. Much like how "ambulance" is written backwards.

Phonetic "N" in Cyrilic looks exactly the same as Latin "H".


-passes hand over head-

WHOOSH!

>> ^Maze:

It looks like OMOH to me, which in a mirror would be HOMO. Much like how "ambulance" is written backwards.


Phonetic "N" in Cyrilic looks exactly the same as Latin "H".

Sorry to say it but I had seen this on the sift before and so went on a spider hunt and found it. However that version has hard coded Cyrillic subtitles in it and a different first couple of seconds so might be classified as not a dupe or?
Here it is:
http://videosift.com/video/Spider-a-short-film 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago...

Also not easy to find it in search as it does not have its own name in the tags and there are 11 pages of spiders on the sift.

One thing that is clearly missing in the demo is animated objects. It's all static data, only the camera is moving. Also if they want some street cred they need to submit it to the next Siggraph, like this guy.

Context via Neatorama!

The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

Context via Neatorama!

The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

http://www.videosift.com/video/DJ-Beauty-KaZa-2009 -> http://www.videosift.com/video/DJ-Girl-rocks-your-world

I'm afraid the bouncy DJ got sifted already. The sift didn't quite like the Cyrillic characters, either

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by burdturgler.

sorry *dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Cyrils-Magic-Burger-Thief