Opening for a hip-hop and rave band Die Antwoord the project will be released in a week Little Big. This is the first concert of the group, which decided to make a “Russian answer to Die Antwoord” with balalaikas and vodka. Many blame Little Big for being unnatural and unresourceful, but in the meantime, their first video “Everyday I"m drinking” received almost two million views on YouTube. “Sobaka.ru” contacted its creators.
Alina Pyazok, video director, video producer. She shot videos for Triagrutrike, Stigmata, Animal Jazz, Alai Oli, Amatory, Gufu, Smokey Mo:
Did you focus on someone?
We were just doing our own trash show. A look at what's going on. We are new patriots with good video production, wild music and we are not going to remain silent. Listeners in comparisons are varied - they compare with Die Antwoord, Prodigy, Bonoparte, Andy Warhol and Bowie.
Little Big grew on its own, from the conversations of my musician friends. As a video director, I love working with musicians and finding the right visual expression for songs. Ilya Prusikin and Sergei Gokk wanted to take the nervous electronic music, Anna Kast always wanted to rap. Olympia Ivleva, Evil Clown, makeup artists, props, all the heroes of the first video- These are your own people, friends, friends of friends. The video was filmed for 6 days, there were 11 locations, 18 scenes. Everything worked out very easily because everyone wanted to be involved in common cause, show what worries us.
Sergey Gokk from the group Jane Air, our sound producer, joined the team. We are now writing all the music together, six tracks are already ready, there will be at least three more videos. We are going to release the first release by September.
How did the second video “Push the button” come about?
We made a video about the Korean nuclear threat, we wanted to respond as quickly as possible, so the song and video came together in 36 hours.
“Everyday I"m drinking" caused a mixed reaction in Russia. They say you are denigrating your homeland.
This is satire, and, as you know, people react to it differently. If you want to change a country, you have to show it this way. Nothing has any other effect on people.
How can you make a profit from such a project?
Such madness is really good for the soul. It takes a lot of madness to ask your friends to sit in an ice hole as if they were in a jacuzzi, bob their heads to the music and think about Russia.
We are tired of everything that is happening in Russia. We love our country, but that doesn't mean we don't care about poverty, the fact that no one cares about everything, or terrible alcoholism. Somehow we decided to create the Little Big team. This is our artistic message, our vision of the situation in the country, our nerve. Jingoism easily turns into hushing up problems. We want people to see them, no matter what they think of us. I want to tell the truth, because if we remain silent, maybe no one will know anything.
Ilya Prusikin, frontman of Little Big, musician (Ilyich, Tenkorr, Constructorr, Like a virgin, St. Bastards), video producer (“The Guffy Gaff Show”, “Police Days”, “In the Order of Things”):
Is it appropriate to say that Little Big is one of your new shows?
No, this is an independent art collective. But I'm not going to give up video projects. I’m doing everything that’s interesting: right now I’m busy with rehearsals and recordings with Little Big, but I have plans to film a new series.
You weren't planning a performance later, were you?
Yes, but we were invited to open for Die Antwoord, and we decided that it was very good company for the first public speaking teams. So we have put everything on hold and are busy preparing for the concert. On July 2, there will be four of us on stage - me, Olympia Ivleva, Anna Kast and Sergei Makarov (Gokk).
This project was not for the sake of views and not for the sake of ratings - this is really what concerns us. We wanted the video to take off so that people would watch and discuss it. Some thought it was a joke, others thought it was a manifestation of Russophobia, for others it was a viral video. Moreover, our viewers are not only in Russia, they are in France, America, Germany, Spain, Brazil and Argentina.
Are there any offers already?
They write a lot about the team abroad; they wanted to film it in France documentary, although we're too busy with new material right now. By by and large, all the movement will begin in the fall.
Probably, foreigners think that you are like in the video.
Amazing. Let them think so. Half the country is like this. Me and Gokk, we traveled all over the country with concerts of our groups, we saw real Russia and we want to reach her.
I've been making music since childhood, although Little Big- this is not only a musical group. We are doing a satirical art collaboration, working simultaneously with music, visuals and a show to convey our message as much as possible. Every song reflects social phenomenon, connected with Russia and the world. In the first video, we wanted to show the stereotypes associated with our country, the Russian Woodland, and how they see us from the outside. After all, stereotypes arise because they- a form of truth about the world.
Participant name: Ilya Prusikin
Age (birthday): 08.04.1985
City: St. Petersburg, Moscow
Family: married to Irina Smelaya, has a son
Height and weight: 1.65 m
Channel direction: humorous sketches and vlogs
Channel created: 10.01.2013
Number of subscribers: more than 770 thousand subscribers
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Oddly enough, for Ilya Prusikin, his personal channel on YouTube video hosting became a fleeting springboard that led to great fame. Although it has quite a lot of fans, it cannot be compared with other, later projects of the young man. But first things first.
Ilya was born in northern capital Russia in 1985. As a child, the boy was always distinguished by his originality and desire to surprise others. As a child, he succeeded in this, but over time he honed his skills to the limit.
The young man’s first project was the show “The Great Rap Battle”, in which various famous characters(starring Ilya Prusikin and Igor Eit) competed with each other. There was almost no such format on YouTube hosting and the project quickly took off.
Prusikin's next step was to participate in the filming of a real television series. It was called “Police Everyday Life.” So far it's The only job blogger in cinema.
But the real extravaganza in the blogger’s career was creation of the rave group “Little Big” in 2013. This team took its first step, of course, on the YouTube video hosting service and this was the release of a video called “Every Day I’m Drinking” on April 1.
By July the group had become so popular that they were able to perform in a real hall in front of real people. Ilya became not only the ideological inspirer of the group, but also its frontman.
On this moment“Little Big” is incredibly popular not only in Russia, but also in Europe. In 2015, they even received prizes at the Berlin Music Video Awards 2016 festival. Their song “Big Dick” took first place in the “Most Trashy” category, and their song “Give Me Your Money” took third place in the “Best Performer” category.
The guys jokingly or seriously call their style “satirical art collaboration.” For the team, not only words and music are important, but also the visuals and shows that accompany it all.
By the way, when the first videos of the group first appeared online, Russians thought that the guys were against politics home country and in general adherents of everything Western. Ilya claims that this is fundamentally wrong. The group loves Russia very much and has nothing against it, and the video is a satire that apparently not everyone understood.
Ilya Prusikin speaks simply about his work - it is an inspiration for people. The young man himself does everything not for earnings, but for the soul!
Ilya also has a joint project with friends “KlikKlak”, where it now appears most often. There are several out there popular shows: Trash Lotto, Give me some bream, Dorisuika, Mice and many others. In the guys' videos you can often see other popular video bloggers. Also on the channel: Yuri Muzychenko, Irina Smelaya, Andrey Smirnov (old).
Ilya has a lot of tattoos on his body, each one means something to him; some of them he got not in Russia, but during a tour of Europe.
Little is known about the blogger’s personal life, but fans know that Ilya is officially married. His wife's name is , she is also a video blogger. But on roller skates before the wedding, the guys hid their relationship. Now they live together and in Ira’s videos you can see their apartment.
In July 2017, Ira announced that she was pregnant. At the end of autumn 2017, Ira gave birth to a boy.
Photo of Ilyich
Ilya has an unusual appearance, and he often demonstrates this in his videos. He runs Instagram, where he posts personal photos and footage from filming. The guys don’t show photos from the wedding, but their friends posted a couple of shots online.
Greetings to guests and regular readers of the site website. So, YouTuber and musician Ilya Prusikin, better known as Ilyich, was first released on April 8, 1985. Since childhood I was a creative child.
His parents, seeing their son's desire for art, sent him to music school. educational institution in piano class.
After receiving secondary education, Ilya studied to become a psychologist-teacher.
Already from adolescence, Prusikin was a member of various music groups. One of the first was Tenkorr, which gained some fame in Russia. The group played in the rock genre and even released several records.
Our hero also had experience working with the groups Like A Virgin, St. Bastards and Construktorr, who played in various directions - from grunge, glam rock to new rave and hardcore.
While working as a musician, Ilya’s groups sooner or later had to release video works for their songs. Usually, most The guys made the clips themselves, which is where the desire for video making came from. Perhaps the first famous work Ilyich on the YouTube video hosting site became the “Guffy Guff Show”, made together with Vladimir Besedin. The project had a social and humorous overtone and was stylized as a children's program.
The Guffy Guff Show: Season 1 / Episode 1 (2011)
Later, inspired by the foreign series of videos "Epic Rap Battles", our hero launches the Russian analogue of the "Great Rap Battle" on the resource "Thank you, Eva!"
Prusikin was also one of the creators of the web series “Police Everyday Life,” in which top Russian video makers at that time starred, including Denis Kukoyaka, Sam Nickel and others.
Cop Weekdays: 1 episode, season 1 (2012)
In 2013, he began collaborating with " Successful Group", creating with him the association "KlikKlakBand", where the guys rap on behalf of schoolchildren who want to seem cool.
In the same year, he created the rave group "Little Big". The peculiarity of the group is to show in a satirical manner how foreigners see the Russian people. " Little Big"gained fame far beyond Russia, thanks to the scandalous video clips for his songs, gaining millions of views on the YouTube video hosting site.
LITTLE BIG - Everyday I"m drinking (2013)
Ilyich is a real old-timer in the Russian YouTube segment. He has a huge number of completed projects behind him, let’s hope that this is not the limit for the talented St. Petersburger.
TrendSpace met with three small people and found out what difficulties they face in ordinary life.
Olympia Ivleva
Occupation: front-woman musical rave Little bands Big
Age: 25 years
Height: 130 cm
I have never focused either myself or other people's attention on my height, and in most cases I have always found mutual language with the people who surrounded me. I first encountered this only when children appeared in my life, known for their cruelty and misunderstanding in the younger ones. adolescence At school.
Naturally, I had difficulties at school, but they were so rare that until some time I did not understand why children were trying to show such an increased interest in me. After some time, I myself conveyed to everyone who was burning with curiosity to find out why I was so “non-standard”, and all the questions disappeared. I just spoke to them calmly, without being aggressive, things like: “Look at yourself and look at me. How are you and I different? Everything is true, nothing, we can see, hear, speak and think, as well as feel and love. So why do you think I'm inferior to you? Maybe physiologically - yes, but does that change anything? I have always had many friends, as well as an extremely positive attitude towards the world.
Perhaps only with high bar stools and height limiters on the rides.
In regular stores, but I have a significant bonus - an expanded selection: I can buy clothes in the adult and children's departments. This significantly expands the boundaries of choice. In general, I believe that if you want to look cool, you just need to put in some effort and have a sense of style, and everything will be great.
The vast majority, if you count average height 170–180 cm. Again the concept of medium, low and tall very relative for me in particular. There are no limits or laws of growth. Therefore, it is difficult to say which of my friends is a person of average height.
No way.
It seems to me that no one thinks about this, except people with short stature. Well, again, I always get out of the situation very simply: I ask the people around me for help. Men, by the way, really appreciate it when they understand that they can help someone with something.
I would like to see changes in people. I want them to be kinder and more smiling. This is the most important thing.
Sergey Lekhkobyt
Occupation type: actor
Age: 21 years old
Height: 138 cm
How did you feel the first time you realized you were different from most people?
Honestly, I don't remember when I felt that I was different from other people. Probably in school years. I remember when we went to the doctors, then I already realized that I had a problem with my growth. I was even given the third disability group.
Did you encounter insults and bullying towards you as a child?
Yes, I have. Especially at school, various offensive words were said to me. It was very disappointing. And then I couldn’t hit or shut someone’s mouth. It was unpleasant. I often told my mother and cried because I was being offended. Now no one offends me. Just let them try!
What difficulties do you face in everyday life?
I wouldn't say that I really feel any difficulties. My legs and arms are fine, just like an ordinary person. I can do everything. Every person has difficulties, no matter what they are. For example, one of the difficulties is getting something in the supermarket. There are very high shelves, and you either have to jump up or ask someone to do it. Also, at various ticket offices, for example, at railway stations, it is difficult to reach the window, and mostly people sit there fat woman, and it’s even difficult for her to lift one place.
Where do you buy clothes and shoes?
I buy clothes in regular stores. For example, T-shirts, shirts, sweaters - I have everything. The pants are also easy to find, but then you still need to bring them in to be cut off. Shoes are also easy. My feet are size 39, so, thank God, there are no difficulties in this regard.
I would not say that my life is somehow different from the life of another person. I decided that I was a man like all men. I live like everyone else and don’t look at what I have short stature. On the contrary, it is my uniqueness that everyone pays attention to. I walk, relax and do everything like everyone else.
At the moment I am a young and single guy, without a soulmate yet. I emphasize that for now there is no soul mate, she will appear very soon. And I don’t see any reason to rush into this. I'm still very young, only 21.
Do you have friends of average height?
I have few true friends, but they exist different heights- both small and large. Mostly I have comrades. I communicate more with girls than with guys. They are all taller than me, comfortable and comfortable with them.
Do you feel isolated from society?
In no case. I'm the same person as everyone else. I am open, uncomplicated, I set an example that I am cheerful and sociable, I went towards my goal and was not afraid of anything. There is only one life, and you need to take from it what you can.
Do you think there are conditions for short people in the city?
If we talk about conditions in cities, then they are nowhere to be found, since there are only about a couple of tens of thousands of little people in the world. Why should they think about little ones? We ourselves adapt to their conditions that they create for us.
What changes would you like to see in social and urban life to make your life more comfortable?
I like everything. I feel comfortable, I’m not afraid of anything, I’ll climb where no one can climb a common person. I never even paid much attention to it.
Anna Nikishina
Occupation type: unemployed
Age: 33 years
Height: 113 cm
How did you feel the first time you realized you were different from most people?
I do not remember. Probably, from childhood I understood that I was different from other people.
Did you encounter insults and bullying towards you as a child?
Yes, I did, but I dealt with it. My dad explained to me from childhood that I was the same person, just short in stature.
What difficulties do you face in everyday life?
In ordinary life, these are trips to shops and supermarkets. The food is high up there. Now is the 21st century, so almost everything has already been done for disabled people. It used to be difficult on buses, but now there is no problem with it. They now have low steps.
Where do you buy clothes and shoes?
I buy clothes in children's stores. It’s very difficult with shoes; I’m size 25. I also find it only in children's stores.
How does your life differ from the life of a person of average height?
It is very difficult for us to get a job. Because of their height, they don’t take them anywhere. Well, it’s good at home, because we arrange everything for ourselves.
Do you have a loved one?
Yes. He accepts me for who I am.
Do you feel isolated from society?
No, I don't feel it. I can visit anything you want. There were problems with carousels before, but now I'm not interested. There were height restrictions. There are also problems with licenses; we are not given the right to drive.
Do you think there are conditions for short people in the city?
No, they have not been created. Shops, some banks, metro, where the cash registers are high. This is very inconvenient for us.
The creator of cult Internet projects, Ilya Prusikin, fell in love with the public because the 32-year-old intellectual keeps up with the times, not afraid to raise acute social issues in his work, which are discussed in modern society It’s not customary to say.
The future scandalous video blogger was born on April 8, 1985 on the border of Russia and China - in Transbaikalia. Later "Ilyich" ( creative pseudonym) will move to St. Petersburg with his parents. Contrary to popular belief, it is cultural capital will become a city of great opportunities for an ambitious guy.
In addition to the fact that Ilya loved to shock the public since childhood, the network figure grew up as a mischievous, active child: he played baseball as an outfielder, was fond of football and went to an aircraft modeling club.
On top of everything else, the parents, seeing that their son was not a strong creative potential, they sent their son to music school, to piano class. From the biography of the Internet star it is known that in addition to secondary and musical under his belt, Ilya also has higher education. The man graduated from the psychological and pedagogical faculty of St. Petersburg state institute culture.
In 2011, the promising young man began collaborating with the subsidiary label company “Thank you, Eva!” Later, Prusikin’s projects will bring great popularity to the channel. Thus, stylized as the children's program “The Guffy Guff Show” (2012) and “The Great Rap Battle” (2012), in which, through recitative the mighty of the world who entered into confrontation with each other will turn out to be the highest rated on the video grouping platform. In fact, both programs exposed the social ills of society and ridiculed the well-known vices of humanity.
A little later, in 2012, the young man will become a producer and part-time actor of an analogue of the series “Real Boys” - the Internet sitcom “Police Weekdays”. The film produced by “bloggers” stars the most prominent representatives“YouTube”: a pioneer in the field of streaming, members of the rap group “Khleb”, “general of the pajama army” Sam Nickel and many others. Despite such an abundance of youth idols in square meter, the series did not find a response in the hearts of young viewers, and after 3 episodes the unpromising project was closed.
A year later, with a friend on the YouTube video hosting site, the man creates the “Klikklak” association. According to the creators, the audience of Klikklak is boys and girls with active life position and a good sense of humor. The channel’s page publishes such shows as “Give me some bream”, “Children’s trash games”, “As you say”, “Shocking karaoke” and “Experiment Destroyers”.
Music
In 2006, “Ilyich” became a member of the little-known emo-rock group “Tenkor”. The Russian public liked the guys’ creativity so much that the enterprising young men released several records (EP “It’ll be Late”, LP “Moe last letter", EP "ROCK, baby!", "SEX POLICE). Also, the “YouTube hero” had experience working with the groups “Like A Virgin”, “St. Bastards" and "Construktorr".
Despite such abundance musical groups, worldwide fame“Ilyich” was brought by the rave team “Little Big”.
April 1, 2013 Prusikin with friends as April Fool's joke posted the video “Every Day I’m Drinking” online and instantly divided the country into two camps. The first believed that the group was denigrating a great power, exposing all the worst that is in Russia, the second saw the group’s work as satire in pure form.
The band members themselves publicly declared: “Little Big” is musical reflection society. In their songs the guys openly ridicule national stereotypes behavior and life of the Russian person.
According to the stories of “Ilyich”, the scandalous group might not have existed at all if in July 2013 the guys had not been invited to warm up for the famous South African group “Die Antwoord”. At that time, Little Big's repertoire consisted of one song. Hardworking young people wrote six songs within a month and shot videos, which sold like hot cakes.
On May 21, 2016, the videos for the song “Give Me Your Money” and “Big Dick” became winners of the Berlin Music Video Awards 2016. “Big Dick” took first place in the Most Trashy category, and “Give Me Your Money” took 3rd place in the category Best Performer.
The “viral” project has taken root not only in Russia, but also abroad. Thus, in France and Holland, an art group with balalaikas and vodka gained enormous popularity.
The satirical collaboration of the rave group “Little Big” has won the hearts of listeners around the world.
Personal life
Until 2016, nothing was known for certain about “Ilyich’s” personal life.
Fans assumed that the short man (Ilya’s height is 165 cm) was dating the famous vlogger Ira Smelaya. The reason for the speculation was that the girl appeared more than once in videos both on the Klikklak channel and on Prusikin’s personal channel.
Moreover, the frontman of the group “Little Big” is the ideological inspirer music project"TATARKA", in which Ira is a key character. Contrary to popular belief, the cloud rapper did not appear out of nowhere. The audience knew her before from the DIY programs “Fashion Trashon”, “M/F” and vlogs called “Tatar Everyday Life”. By the way, the Smelaya channel on the popular video hosting has 577 thousand subscribers. People started talking about the charismatic brunette on a national scale at the end of 2016, after the “viral” clip “Altyn” appeared online.
The rumors circulating around famous media personalities were confirmed on July 6, 2016, when the wedding ceremony took place star couple. Only close friends and relatives were invited to the wedding. But the young people did not forget about their loyal fans. Ilya posted a one-minute video on his YouTube channel where he and his wife were captured at the time of painting.
