what about the main cabinet on the right? is the woman on the colour pic (or is it a painting?) the same as the one on the b/w pic in the smaller cabinet to the right of it? there's also what might be a photo of the actor (?) with a woman (the same one? his wife?) on the top shelf. plus a ceramic figurine in a yellow dress, and, perhaps more interestingly, what looks like a crown of sorts, or is it a traditional female head dress? - or is it something else altogether?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
Zelda Zonk, where do you see that map?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I suspect I might be imagining it at this stage but it definitely looks to me like the top shelf of the cabinet on the right has a women’s headdress nearest to camera and a Boris Godunov-style prop crown partly obscured by the reflection.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
xp second glass case from right, bottom shelf. May not be a map though
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
I thought it might be that one - I associated it with the comedy/tragedy twin masks
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
can anyone make out the script on the certificates on the left? is it Latin/Roman or something else?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
xp hmmmm... maybe you're right!
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
it might just be wishful watching tho
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Again, I might be imagining it but I think the text of the framed certificate says диплом (diploma) but it is fuzzy.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
Think you're right. And in the third cabinet on the left there's a picture of what looks like a Byzantine cathedral or maybe mosque just to narrow this down...not at all.
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
oh re-reading properly and ShariVari caught that already
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
Leaning more towards Ashgabat now, though not with much to justify that.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 27 May 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
the building in the third cabinet on the left doesn't look like it has a dome to me? I get medieval castle ruin vibes but "ruins used as opera backdrops" doesn't narrow it down a lot either
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/MGgN9fp4/yx.jpg
and outside
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:39 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/85KJ8Gxq/yx.jpg
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 06:42 (three years ago) link
tram looks older/less round/bigger windows than the iconic Tatra models I've seen
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
Barnaul
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:08 (three years ago) link
ding ding ding! October square
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.3554363,83.7692881,3a,75y,150.34h,95.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suSf2UHJIBCaG8Im9fNKBGQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
well done! so who's the dude with the scarf?
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:15 (three years ago) link
no idea
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:22 (three years ago) link
I think it's Valery Zolotukhin, but haven't found the photo yet
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:29 (three years ago) link
I think it is Valery also
That was pretty quick from the exterior, maybe I should have left it a while on the interior
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 07:34 (three years ago) link
It's in the Altai State Theatre for Children:
https://goo.gl/maps/oZq4W4eGTNG9M7fW9
No idea who the guy is but the building in the picture does have onion domes!
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:39 (three years ago) link
looks like a match with other photos of Valeri I've found
I'm not so into setting these so anyone else feel free to go ahead
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link
from Russian Wikipedia:“Since 2003, he was the artistic director of the State Youth Theater of Altai.”
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 07:53 (three years ago) link
there WAS a dome! I sit corrected
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 08:01 (three years ago) link
can’t find the portrait either, but he was most definitely a scarf guy!this still (from a play, I assume) matches the series of pics on the right wall:https://img.dni.ru/binaries/v2_photo/69859.jpg
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 08:08 (three years ago) link
glad this was sorted right out of the trolley gate, the research would have ruined my working day
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 08:10 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/XYzVzYnS/za.jpg
Hopefully your work for the day is done
― cherry blossom, Friday, 28 May 2021 10:24 (three years ago) link
Fleetwood, Lancashire, UK
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:34 (three years ago) link
third google image result for 'private school on the coast beach' :P
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:35 (three years ago) link
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uo6joEm.jpg
a different coast
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 11:12 (three years ago) link
googling Caribbean cruise ports...
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link
my first inkling was something like Dakar
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 28 May 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
Moose Factory, Ontario
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 28 May 2021 13:37 (three years ago) link
Saint John's, Antigua
https://www.google.be/maps/@17.1157882,-61.8424233,3a,75y,178.41h,77.09t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNifKipnSrKyAGAfbazbAuNEe3NtSqdSx6w8fLH!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNifKipnSrKyAGAfbazbAuNEe3NtSqdSx6w8fLH%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya341.45566-ro0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:17 (three years ago) link
(mostly thanks to that enormous red roof on the left)
― StanM, Friday, 28 May 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
Well done.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Friday, 28 May 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/5yqfPvsY/tb.jpg
weekend city
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 6 June 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
First gut feeling without peering too closely: Germany, Austria or Czech Republic
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
I got nothing - other than it feels European indeed
― StanM, Sunday, 6 June 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
Gonna open the bidding with Vienna, but I'm not 100% convinced.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
does not feel like Czech Republic at all to me
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
buildings are all the same, looks like an upmarket council estate.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
... or a section of a city that had to be rebuilt quickly after being destroyed in a war?
― StanM, Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
The buildings have chimneys, which, unless they're a postmodern flourish, means they couldn't be more recent than the 50s and are more likely to be older. They look a bit like the housing estates built in Vienna in the 1920s, and the river looks like it could be the Danube Canal, but I can't see any bridges over the Danube Canal that look like that steel thing in the background.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 7 June 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
Germany and Poland clearly have too many cities on rivers. Something has to be done about this imho.
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
I want to say Warsaw, but I don't think I'm correct.
― heyy nineteen, that's john belushi (the table is the table), Monday, 7 June 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link