Posts Tagged ‘vision’

“Without borders Film Festival” in Spoleto

-> "Without borders Film Festival" in Spoleto

Finally a unique festival “dedicated to films showing our common humanity”! This is the motto of “Without Borders Film Festival” just moved from Rome to Spoleto (Umbria/Italy) and taking place from July 1st to 3rd . For the third edition of the so defined by Jerry Levitan “festival with a soul” the theme chosen is “HOME” inclu...

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The opinion

Magazine -> #6 Orientation

The best way to predict the future? Plan for it, give it form, mould it around one’s dreams. Work at it, build it up bit-by-bit, clearly setting down the goals to be achieved, the route to be followed, the actions to be taken. Keep one’s gaze fixed on the objectives, objectives that should be outlined from the start and whose contours come into...

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When there’s nothing left to say

Magazine -> #27 The Culture of Listening

Silence creates room for the mind, and the mind can create visions. Yoko Ono described how the hypnotic effect of a flame would help to do this: “You could tell someone to look into the fire for 10 days just to create a vision in someone’s mind” she write in her first, epic work, a book of instructions for performances entitled Grapefruit (a ...

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Lone photographer

Magazine -> #20 Home Made

In his essay "How to write a dissertation", Umberto Eco recommends that students avoid playing the part of the solitary genius holed up in their room, writing. He suggests that we should always discuss things with others, so our work can be read and criticised. Over the years, this warning has been a constant thorn in my side. I always try to work...

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Innovage: the purloined article

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

Here then is yet another new word, “innovage”, born of the marriage of “innovation” and “vintage”. It’s really not all that surprising that so many new words are being thrown up every day. “The times they are a-changin’”, as the song goes, and in a really big way, be it in environmental, social, economic, or cultural terms. P...

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  • "Where I am, makes me what I am"

    Anonymous at Galleria illy London

  • “The time is always right to do the right thing”

    Martin Luther King

  • "Liberty is about our rights to question everything".

    Ai Wei Wei

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Headline & Editorial

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...
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