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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
Kabakov’s Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)
-> Kabakov's Blue Carpet at MACRO, Rome (via Galleria Continua)We suggest this exhibition: ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV | The Blue Carpet MACRO | Museo d’arte contemporanea Roma Via Reggio Emilia 54 | Roma | Italy preview: Friday, January 22, 2010 – h. 7 pm Open from January 23 – April 5, 2010 www.macro.roma.museum Illywords and Galleria Continua worked together in the past -- I met up with Da...
continue..Rough Guide to the future
Magazine -> #25 InnovageThere are travel guides for almost any corner of the planet. None of these can tell us though what the world will be like tomorrow, or at least not until next year. That’s when Rough Guide to the Future by the British science writer Jon Turney will be available in bookstores. What drove you to write such a book? There’s not much fiction aro...
continue..Pure beauty
Magazine -> #25 InnovageBefore being a label, Pucci is first and foremost the name of a family, and what a family! We’re talking about history – almost a thousand years of it – and about a cutting-edge business enterprise based in the family’s historical mansion. Emilio Pucci’s inspired and visionary drawings are simply spellbinding, as acknowledged worldwide. N...
continue..Creative battles
Magazine -> #0 Experimentation and innovationIn Coppola's Apocalypse Now, when searching the jungle for the maverick commander Kurts, the man sent to hunt him down describes a brilliant mission Kurtz had led, "He just thought it up and did it. They were going to get him framed to the floorboards for that one until the press got hold it and promoted him to Colonel." The spirit of creative b...
continue..Week-end in family
Magazine -> #20 Home MadeIn front a cup of coffee. For a company, the past is never just the past. It is an opportunity for growth, driving it to explore new directions. Ducati, one of the most famous motorbike manufacturers in the world, has opened a museum at its premises in Borgo Panigale (BO), to utilise its own “home made” resources. Motorbikes, engines, photog...
continue..Towards eternity
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFirst of all, is there a difference between the concept of excitement and surprise? Put simply, a surprise is something that happens just once and is unlikely to happen again. Excitement, on the other hand, is something more complex, it might crop up again, and in theory it could last a lifetime. Surprise also has a powerful physical aspect – it...
continue..The mobility of the emotions
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIn front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...
continue..Mittel&europa
Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectPredrag Matvejevic' 's [http://www.giardini.sm/matvejevic] personal history, his critical spirit, his intellectual career, and his commitment to defending civil rights and liberties have qualified him as one of the most intense and courageous speakers that may currently be listened to, and his words as genuine food for thought. It's a voice that ta...
continue..Thank goodness for complexity!
Magazine -> #7 ChaosFrancesco Di Lauro talks with Ernesto Illy Order is good, disorder bad. But is that really how things stand? Ernesto Illy, president of illycaffè, a firm universally acknowledged has having sired 4 of the 7 most important inventions in the sector over the last 100 years, reconsiders the issue and puts forth an alternative point of view on t...
continue..A lot to learn
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyAfter graduating in architecture from Turin Polytechnic, in 1947 Ettore Sottsass jr. (Innsbruck, 1917) began working in Milan, where he opened his first design studio. Son of an architect and an architect himself, from the start he backed up his formal education and training with practical experiences in the visual arts field, trying out his ar...
continue..Taking time to look
Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitWhat do you think of self-portraiture in the self-timer mode in photography? Well, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear a picture’s been shot that way is “vanity”; anyone having recourse to such a technique is out to show himself at his appealing best. Mind you, that’s understandable because we all implicitly reject the image we ...
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