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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Art books, the passion of a lifetime
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Reinhard Grüner is a collector from Monaco. His passion is art books, which he collects – and sometimes exhibits – since the 1960s. His website, www.buchkunst.info is a real “online museum”, where international artist books are catalogued and photographed. Amongst the artists there are Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol. Books, but also works of art
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Photograph the silence and polar lights
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
“There are routes in the sky that guide the birds but that men cannot see. There are routes in the sea along which fish move. But men cannot see them. There are lines that join the heaven to the earth, but men do not see them. But the divine eye sees them”. This is (if
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Developing the detective story – 1
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
Detective stories have been developed and written but they weren’t always done “so well”. And the few sensible lines on the topic were written by Raymond Chandler, author of Goldfish, indeed, in his “Ten rules of detective stories”, which appeared in the early 1930s on the pages of the hard-boiled magazine, Black Mask, the mother
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