Two Italian myths in the USA: “DK Project”
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Recently passing by a kiosk my eye fell on a comic book that after a quick browse made me take a step back in time. It was the mid-70s when a friend lent me some comic books to read, my first serial comic: I usually read L’Intrepido, Il Monello, Lanciostory, Skorpio, where the stories were
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From cult movie to contemporary fashion: The Great Gatsby
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann, who inaugurated the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, this year has been one of the most anticipated movies by film buffs from around the world. Many reasons have created fibrillation for this cult movie. The director has in fact get used its audience to momentous film as
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Leonardo3: interactivity makes the past alive
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Much has been said about Leonardo da Vinci, even more has been fantasized (there’s even those who attributes to him the authorship of the Holy Shroud) and yet so much remains to be discovered, as evidenced by the temporary exhibition Leonardo3 – The World of Leonardo, held in Milan in the central and elegants Sale
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Atelier: Nicoletta Belletti
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Cheerful is beautiful, cheerful is happy, cheerful is art. And the joy of Nicoletta Belletti is contagious: she is carried by a clear laughter, bright colors, paintings that come out from the surface and invade the surrounding space with energy. In the beginning there were only flowers, but not soft bouquets framed in small paintings
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Design in 400 words: Alessandro Guerriero
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Alessandro Guerriero is the most versatile person in which I came across. His thought is a tireless tourist of the planet of creativity. Guerriero is Design. He is one of the founders of TAM TAM School, which hereinafter tells us, a project of “non-school” design. “TAM TAM School deals with visual activities and is not,
Four feline books
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Books and cats: I do not speak of books about cats but of books with cats, among whom I have chosen four titles. Cats in an identity crisis. Three stories, two cats and ninety cartouches (Salani) is a collaboration of Serena Vitale – teacher of Russian language and literature, publishing consultant, literary critic, translator, writer
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The perfume becomes a museum, in Venice
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Perhaps not everyone knows that Italy is among the founders of the perfume tradition in the world; in particular, Venice played a major role in this field during the Renaissance. To rediscover and enhance this important aspect of Made in Italy, Mavive (formerly Vidal) together with the Foundation of the Civic Museums of Venice is
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The Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Weegee: murder is my business
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Weegee’s work was the crime: we are not talking about a killer but of an American freelance photojournalist active in the mid-30s. Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), aka Weegee, became famous in the “golden period” of Murder Inc., the Jewish gang which provided paid hitmen to Syndacate, the New York association of mafia boss (for the most
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Mauro Martini Raccasi, the many facets of writing
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
Born in Parma, Mauro Martini Raccasi was the first in Italy to graduate in economics with a thesis about journalism at IFOR institute of Bocconi University in Milan. He made his debut in fiction with a historical saga, the tetralogy “Il Romanzo dei Celti” (The novel of the Celts), moving on to other genres, such
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