“Brownfield”: it’s time to make presentations
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Brownfield is not simply a book on industrial archaeology for its own sake: it is an image-based project intended to preserve the historical and social memory of a workplace and the people who work in it. The same historical memory that today is all too often discarded, as it is considered unhelpful to the development
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One Pixel a day
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
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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Short story: “The baby carriage” (part two)
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Tea or coffee? She asked. I do not know, I replied. She went into the kitchen but returned immediately to ask me to follow her. I sat down at the table. I watched her pull out a pan from a cupboard, fill it with water and place it on the stove. The high-pitched noise of
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Furoncoli, telling through images
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Franco Furoncoli, 1945, has always lived in Parma. His passion for photography is evident in the ’60s, when he produced his first picture with his dad’s Retinett. We will tell you about him, using his own words. «In ’68, while attending the Faculty of Geology, I set up a darkroom in the basement for the
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Desire for Ucronia? The Steampunk solves Vol. 2
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
For the # STEAMPUNK, great narratives of gender that often moves in historical settings typical of the first Industrial Revolution, the Victorian-era London is one of the favourite settings: the time is well suited to characterize the ideals of the movement, everything is innovation and experimentation. The main artistic revolutions are dated back to the
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The ill-treated: Contrappunti, Le Orme
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
At the time of Peter Gabriel’s Genesis, one of the most popular Italian rock bands were Le Orme. After a couple of albums, more or less ‘beat’ and with a very ’60s sound (Ad Gloriam and Aurora), Le Orme found their way to British pop and returned with the first real album of Italian progressive
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Hutopolis, the urban utopia in China
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
In un paese come la Cina le trasformazioni sociali, economiche e urbane si attuano attraverso un continuo processo di cambiamento. Nello stesso modo in cui le città medievali europee sono state trasformate e ampliate durante la rivoluzione industriale, molte città in Cina devono essere modificate per soddisfare le esigenze di una nuova popolazione con standard
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“The Concourse” of Johannes and Philipp
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Two brothers, born in a small Bavarian town in 1984 and 1986. Philipp is the youngest. Grown among thousands of comics, they soon began to draw, invent stories, develop fantasy worlds, spending days thinking about characters and adventures. As long as the serious side of life has knocked on their door: the school was over,
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The Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
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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