A sundog and other animals
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Never do you need rest more than on the day when you've just returned from holidays"
When the sun is mocking you...
shoot it!
We wouldn't want it to sound like a piece of advice... But if you take it as one, your summer 2020 has gone to the dogs... We've written it just as an excuse for the post we should have published 3 months ago... But shooting can be unpredictable, you know. A great shot is like a sundog. And sometimes you need to let it lay sleep for some time before it casts a rainbow in its puppy stare and you'll finally catch its tail happily wagging around. What a metaphor but it's true! Every time we would go on hunting for the sun we needed so much to make our video as bright as it was supposed to be, a perfidious cloud would swim out of nowhere and spread its shadow over our Montmartre hall...But finally a sunny beam got through and we made it. And now we're ready to share our precious recording with you ! Don't forget to turn on the French subs to sing with us! An original Russian version can be found here. Looking for an English one? Scroll down a bit to a "did you know"section.
We name that tune
in 5 notes
in 5 notes
Can you sing it with us in French?
Did you know...
where this couple
is taking a stroll to ?
is taking a stroll to ?
The characters of the cartoon "How the little lion and the turtle sang a song" are bathing in the fountain that is spouting its splashes on the Levashov boulevard in the Ramenskoye - a small town of Moscow region.
Yet, it's a pity that Oleg Ershov, the architect, hasn't placed this friendly couple closer to the water. Just imagine what a nice fountain could have been there if it had been musical!
We came up with an idea, check it out: you're walking down the street, and all of a sudden, your promenade is interrupted by a soft-spoken manner of Rostislav Platt - an actor who voiced over the intro of the tale. Shortly after that, Oleg Anofriev - one for two, as always – is rising a merry song of a lion and a turtle. And then, when you the least expect it, a water column springs out of the ground, and at the height of two meters crumbles into a palm tree-like flash of water and in a second you get soked to the skin as well as some other curious by-standers and the lion riding the turtle themselves.
By the way… We made up for the lack of the fountain in a French cover of the song with the help of another architectual element – «a pavilion». It's the invention of our translator - Anastassia Titova who found out that a pavilion is colloquially known in French as a way to name an ear… Fancy that!