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Превед!

by Kevin K.

preved.jpg

In one of the weirder web phenomenons we've stumbled upon in a while, a painting called "Bear Surprise" by NYC's renowned musician/actor/artist John Lurie has picked up a rabid cult following in Russia. The high-traffic blog Preved! features a vast array of Photoshopped versions of the painting and the image of the bear has even made its way onto everything from posters to t-shirts (here, here and here). If anyone out there speaks (or is) Russian and can give us more insight into how in the hell this all started, please leave us an explanation in comments.

(More art by Lurie can be found here.)

Comments

Привет всем, млин тут комп не давно сломался и остался я без компа и инета аж на целых 5 дней! Епт такой тошняк был пока не починил, ведь есть все таки зависимость от компьютора как ни крути. Помню раньше не было и не надо )). А еще игры это вообще жесть затягивает. Не давно видел объявление на ряду с лечением табакокурения, алкогализма, в третей строчки было лечение от ИГРОМАНИИ. Во как! Докатились!
Зависимость или свобода конечно все зависит от нас.

БАЯН афтара фтопку

I just wanna to say... Preved!!!
(Алина, какгдила!)

Best I can tell about "ПРЕВЕД МЕДВЕД" is this. It is often used in conjunction with "Единая Россия", which is the political movement 'United Russia'.

If you go to very many Russian WEB you will notice a growing number of references to CCCP instead of Россия.

I think the term represents to growing sentiment for reconstituting the Soviet Union. With Albania being the rallying point. Remember that the 'West' backed islamics in Bosnia and the Russians backed the Christians.

Понимаю, что боян. Но все-таки:


Ноу-хау. Надо т.н. «падонкафский езыг» использовать на благо Отечества.
К примеру, с его помощью можно шифровать военные переговоры.
Выгода очевидна: наши будут читать приказы вида «ключ настард!» просто влет, не пользуясь никакими ключами, а вражеские компьютеры сгорят на второй секунде, пытаясь расшифровать, к примеру, такой диалог:

- Ключъ настард протяшко адин!
- Прятяшко первый нах!
- Аземуд тризта! (в этот момент половина компьютеров Пиндагона начинает дымиться)
- Баигалаффко гатов! (все полиглоты Омерики роются в словарях)
- Афтар, жги!
- Пашол!
- Ну че там?
- Писят сикунд палет намана. (пиндосы ищут на часах цифру «писят»)
- Где летим?
- Над Хобаровзгом! (Google Maps закрываются на профилактику)
- Скороздь?
- Пицот!
- Зачот.
- Где ща?
- Пралитайэм акийан (все географы Соединенных Штатов Пиндостана рвут карты и волосы на жопе)
- Чо как?
- Нидалед.
- Низачот.
- Ну, ниасилели.
- Фсем превед.

Несмотря на «нидалед», вера в собственные возможности «Пиндагона» подорвана бесповоротно.
Джордж Буш просит у Сената два квадриллиона долларов на новые компьютеры и щоты.
Америка в трансе. Русские победили.

Hey, this is a great episode. Really great music and the talk is funny and helped me get through a really boring hour in the airport. Keep up the great work and try to have some more shows with Jasper, they are really rockin and very funny.
http://metairie_louisiana_breast_augmentation.xcoz1.com/

FREEwilliamsbug has a new Lurie posting
Click Here

у америкосов всегда было туго с юмором.они просто ебанатики

Fuckin americans you should know that all your fukin mothers were fucked by me. I've torn hundreds thousands asses of your fuking mothers. And when i tore the last ass i said "Preved suki ebanie"

ха цуки, пишу из пацтал зачотный сайт! всем превед!

Perhaps I can give a conscise explanation of the phenomenon.

The spelling of "preved" as was reiterated above is deliberately mangled. Such spelling is used by the russian counterculture to emphasize the illiteracy of most people and condemn their attempts to communicate when they are clearly not culturally par up to the level.

Psychologically, the picture of a bear saying "preved" to two people having sex is in fact display of a third, clueless, loud, unwelcome and often stupid person as the bear. The emotional intensity of the image is comparable to that perceived by CS players watching the "shut the fuck up noob" movies and stills, multiplied by the intimacy of comprehension that only a small (but thriving and extremely vocal) subculture shares. As Russians are typically more elitist than, say, Americans or Europeans this adds a bonus depth to the perception. For everyone else, this is plain not funny...

ПАДОНКИ БУРЖУИНСКИЕ, ПЕСТУЙТЕ ФТОПКУ, УБЕЙТЕ СИБЯ ГАЛАФОЙ АП СТЕНУ, МУТАКИ

хватет ума понять?

I am Russian! I say everything 3 times!

Да этим сцуко маленьким, сочащимся Жыром от Бургеров не понять великой Русской забавы !!!
Кросавчеги, Грузякаем заплывшых целлюлитом распиздяев ибо скоро "Ипаньом па ихниму ПинтаГону", всё сцуки СРУшные, разгадуем Албанцкай Йазык...
Фсьо ФСЕМ Гнойным Мудакам Луччева Йаду с миво погриба !!!

AMERICA !!! AMERICA EBNYTAJA STRANA PIDARASOV!

Where r u ? Hey America ?
ПРЕВЕД КРОСАФЧЕГИ!

i am ibat fsu fashu stranu, vi sami ebete sebya s bolshim PREVEDOM!

and huli, my dear friends?

We gonna kill all of you yankee pigs. We are Gods on Earth - your are just a pigs. When your are sleep - we killing your.

My dear american friends from secret service!
Your unlucked joke about "Preved" is founding a great quantity adherent in our PADONOK`S world. You must ask me:"So, where is trust, brother? "
AND I answer you, that trust is not in your idiot money, and stupid head... koroche, zaibalso ya cherpat ostatki znaniy pa angliytskamu za 4-y klass.Idite na huy!
LONG LIVE "PREVED"!!!!

By all ПрЕВЕд:)

The Americans, you know the comrade Задорного.
He speaks, that all of you stupid бакланы!

America must be bomb by 100 thermonucler bombs. Then may be you IQ will get to our level.(but still probability is too low).

Всем игрокам сервера и кенту привет

(c) nJluHTyC

Ибо сцуко нах вы такие толстые гомодрильные сифилисные падонки что ваш жир заебососил ваши BRAIN по самые eggs ! и невъезжаете в наши прогрессивные темы на 100 500 ! и нииибббет
ПривеееД ! America suscks ..

by Nosferaty from Odessa

учаснегам забега пламеный ПРЕВЕЕЕЕД!!!!!

2 рулящийОДессит
ot otmo4il )
amerikan4egi nuhaite wl9py

preved, u4asnegi!

Udet kakto medeved p lesy vudut myzuk c baoboj epyzzo.A medved um : PREVED!!!!!
JAnki this is our national joke.You never understand it ? because you are stupid bushmen. Year!
SAssute xyj pidarasu ebannue ! NETROGTE NAWEGO MEDVEDA!!!

да ссал я на ихх, и едвея тоже....во..

Hello pendos.. How are you? U're fine,I guess?
Yeah, u always say that.. What can I say.. U can't get it.. Don't even try.. So.. Sosi moi hui i ni o chom ne dumai.. Bye//

Вы тупые янки нихера не поймете . Будет вам и садам хусейн и асама бен ладен и ваше ипафте сипя кабачком в анус красаффчеги.

preved krasav4egi amirikan4egi tupici im ne pon9tb )

зшявуеы фьукшлу

Preved krosavchegi ! Kagdila ?
Preved Ameriga! Sosite xuy amerikosi tuporilie!!

превед! аткрывай сава я прешёл нах!

john! ebat' tebya v sraku!
we're not in crisis, asshole! why nobody could let russian language live free and be alive? ah?!

фдесятке нах, инеебёт

russia is surely a land of extremes... when i visited Moscow and St.Petersburg a few years ago, everyone, including young people, was oh soooo proud of their "cultural heritage" like poetry of pushkin and stuff... from pushking to preved. way to go. russkies are sure in a deep identity crisis... oh well. preved.

ПРЕВЕД:)
Hi! Preved - is explained as "greeting", in slang. if as "how are you" sounded "how R U"

there were several short bud's advertising movies, it's main idea was "wazzzzzzzuuuuuuuuuuppp!!!!", 'preved' is something like that

Preved, krosavcheg!
May be you will find some explanation here:
http://angstzeit.livejournal.com/94938.html

превед,с празднекам первава апреля падонки.

Ow shit,i forgot ! Russians,americans,preveeeed!!! )) (BTW i'm russian)

When I first saw it,i found it rather stupid, but now it's ok =) I'm from Estonia and everybody here knows about Preved.) it's everywhere.

Превед!

Bugagagaga
Posted by: Medved at March 25, 2006 05:43 AM
medved burns comments to hell
The Russian very formed people, they study different foreign languages, for example Albanian. By the way, I'm not Russian - I'm Ukrainian. Well, shall we begin a hohlosrach here? ROFLMAO

PREVED INOSTRANCHEGI
(i AKADO toje)

Preveeeeeeeeeeed!

AKADO, PREVED !!!
KAGDILA?
Amerikancy slishkom tupi shtobi ponyat' vse velikolepie velikogo russkogo yazika, ugh tem bolee s ih umami.

KSTATE, A VEDMED-TO - KROSAVCHEG POLUCHILSO!!! ;-))))

HELLO, OUR LITTLE DUMB BROTHERS, AMERICANS!!!!!!
From Russia with PREVED, loosers ! :P

америкагавноебатьеёвнос

it's no use translating. the meaning of the word is much deeper that just "HI". without being here, knowing sub culture u'll never understand the real meaning of it.
i kstate medved jjot 4to tvoi pizdec. preved vsem u4astnegam i kamentataram!

смешно)))

кросавчег!

Hi.

it started with the thread on the dirty.ru (you could call this site "russian metafilter" - it's not the same, but pretty close). i don't remember the details but it is obviously that 'preved' meme was limited to dirty.ru and wasn't so popular for 4-5 months at least.

it's unclear for me who found john lurie's picture and modified it with 'preved' (slightly altered version contains 'preved' instead of 'surpriso'). but all this craze with 'preved' begun with this picture. i suppose that most of the russian internet users know nothing about John Lurie and they don't care about it. but me personally (and thousands of russian internet users) thinks that altered picture is very funny. i can't explain why - maybe it is the result of the combination of childish style of painting, adult theme and nonsense from the bear's mouth. unfortunately most of the latest pictures are dumb imitations (and the pic in this post is good example - it's not funny at all).

and the last.
although the literally translation of 'preved' is 'hi' or 'hello' (or 'hallow' since 'preved' is misspelled version of 'privet'), the best translation in this case is 'surpriso', i believe.

sorry for poor english etc.

О :)
Превед :)
мы тут

PREVED UCHASTNECHGI!!!!!RUSSIAN MEDVED - KROSAVCHEG!!!!! http://community.livejournal.com/ru_preved/

До вас никогда не дойдет фишка про медведа и можете себя этм не утруждать.. ведь вам доставляет огромное удовольствие писать "о рли" на каждой фоте.. так что всей страной можеть убицца об стену)))

PREVEEED!!
Afftar Zzot azzkiy sotona !

Do not try to explain!
Just raise your hands up and say 'PREVED!'

or

'Preved, krosavchegi!'

Do not try to explain!
Just raise your hands up and say 'PREVED!'

or

'Preved, krosavchegi!'

It's simple: "Preved !" is Albanian for "What about threesome ?". As many people in Russia are learning Albanian now, they tend to practice in blogs.

Danny. Are you tard or brain damaged mental ?
You want to live old school - throw your computer away, leave your house and go hunt squirrels in the forest.
In other words - just follow evolution the way it is or extinct.

Vlindil, shut your fucking mouth asshole!

One idiot draws the "Preved" word on an picture, that draws 3-4 year old kid, and other idiots writes now "preved" in all blogs and forums...

Hi (privet!). I'll try to explain it. It's not easy though.
The success is due to both the Lurie's picture and the 'preved' word itself. Together they make people laugh.
Right, 'preved' is distorted 'privet'=hi (rather than hallo). There is kind of fashion in Russia right now -- people invent funny distorted versions of Russian words. It began with just mocking bad grammar writing but soon transformed to more sophisticated distortions -- so the 'privet' sounds like 'prevet' but never like 'preveD'.
So there is a lot of people who fight against such 'punk-style Russian'. The picture with Preved has fallen to this ground and made kind of explosion.
PS. I love John Lurie and Lounge Lizzard music (especially Mark Ribot)

Valentin Alen (Moscow)

The painting that this comes from was the cover image for John Lurie's show at Roebling Hall Gallery- Chelsea last January. Their mailing list includes many galleries located in central Moscow. Since that was the first time that paining was shown I think that it's through those galleries that the image was passed on. Why they like it so much???? Who knows- they're Russians. Don't give them money or matches.

I once got drunk with some Russians and all their jokes were about bears, maybe that is a clue?

found this:
"Preved is the phrase wich medved (bear in english) says when he meets anybody in the forest or other place. Preved is the wrong writing of word Privet, that means in english Hello, or maybe with using of incorrect form - Gamno."

你猪笨资本主义. 你根本不知道这些宝藏.

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