Strange “fellows” traveller
Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Would you like to spend a holiday in an exciting hotel? Here are some “out of the box” ideas for those who want “something new” or something to dream about. For example, in China, at Waterworld, to be built within an abandoned quarry in the Songjang region. In India, in Kerala, there is the Green
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Photograph the silence and polar lights – 2
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
The encounter with silence is not just something that everyone can endure, because it can easily put someone face to face with him/herself and with his/her inner depths so deep as to be disturbing or incomprehensible. Only great artists are able to describe in one way or another these silences and only great masters of
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Discovering Siracusa during winter
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Alive and kicking during the springtime and the autumn, Siracusa is also a great place to visit in winter, for many good reasons. First, the vegetation: especially for those arriving from the North, the winter never ceases to amaze for the lush ficus, citrus and papyrus trees. Second, the tranquillity: a few closed restaurants and
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We are what we eat or we eat what we are?
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Photography and food. Representing food in photography is a practice as old as photography itself. Ways of representing it have undergone enormous changes over the decades and are adapted to the lifestyles and fashions of the moment: we have gone from “still life” to hyper-bucolic images of the 1980s used in advertising, to those current
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Tatiana Martino: self-portrait
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
«My interest in art began at a very early age. As a small child I used to sit at a small wooden table and draw for hours. My father was an art teacher and master in sculpture and painting, so I learned about various art techniques, color, and design elements. I have practiced painting on
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Developing the detective story – 2
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
(…) All this is not good because it is complicated, while the art of crime is simple, we must never forget! What moves the “knife of the murderer” is never something sophisticated, or better, it can be in the form, but certainly never in the content (motive). The murderer is always driven by something very
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The February sky
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
This month begins the saga for the Mars and Saturn observation, respectively on March 3rd and April 20th. You can successfully observe and photograph them both in the second part of the night. You should observe and take pictures of Jupiter just after Sunset. Uranus and Neptune are virtually undetectable due to the conjunction with
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Life during the times of Genesis (of Peter Gabriel, of course) – chap. 8
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Suite in four parts Fourth part: Ecology In register No. 44 of Alan Ford called Ecologia (Ecology), in the second cartoon of table 64, an angry Bob Rock says, “But what is this rubbish of ecology? The study of eco?” The joke isn’t as trivial or stupid as it may appear to a reader of
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A young filmmaker from Parma and his dream: Dreaming Alaska
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Two friends, two destinies. Alan is an internationally known geologist: University teacher, he would rather be working “on the field” and live a thousand adventures of his childhood dreams. Thomas became a Director, just as he has always desired, but works for television: nothing to do with his legendary director, Steven Spielberg. Both of them
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