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#29 What's your colour?
He worked as an engineer, in a bank, as management consultant... then something came to change the colour of his life. Today the books of the Hop-Cik-Yaya series, starring a very special detective, written by Mehmet Murat Somer are translated by Penguin in the USA, Edition Masque in France, Klett-Cotta Tropen in Germany, Rocco in Brazil, Sellerio i...
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Aug 31, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: lilia ambrosi, mehmet murat somer, novels, writers, writing | Leave A Comment »
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4am: a creative hour?
4am. The middle of the night. Or of the morning, depending how you look at it. The darkest hour, the hour most people are likely to be asleep (unless they are insomiacs or architects, in which case they are up working).
4am is the theme assigned for the 2009 “Scritture giovani”, a young writers’ prize supported by illy and a project of...
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Mar 25, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: 4am, creativity, scritture giovani, writing | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
The Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy. Founded in 1706 to promote the arts and handicrafts in Emilia Romagna, in 1711 it was moved to the fifteenth-century convent of Sant’Ignazio, in the heart of the university district (Bologna has the world’s oldest recorded university) and was later exten...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: academy, agecies, applied arts, art, art galleries, artistic design, bologna, businesses, carlo branzaglia, communication, conventions, decoration, emilia romagna, exhibitions, graphics | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City was founded in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, with 35 students and three instructors. Today, SVA is one of the leading visual arts colleges in the U.S., with a student body of over 3,000 undergraduates, 400 graduate students and 2,200 continuing education students from almost every stat...
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Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: advertising, animation, arts, cartooning, cartoonists, college, computer art, criticism, education, film, fine arts, graphic design, illustration, illustrators, interior design | Leave A Comment »
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#2 Creating Opportunities
Four young writers talking about writing's timetables and scoreboards.
WHEN DO YOU WRITE, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? DO YOU CUT OUT A FIXED PERIOD OR DOES WRITING END UP MERGING WITH YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES?
Davide Longo - I'm a teacher and during the school year I write very little, a couple of novels at the most, something for the radio, I help out ...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: character, end, european, ideas, mind, notebook, novel, scritture giovani, sensations, stories, story, suggestions, title, writers, writing | Leave A Comment »
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#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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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: the other rooms, yoko ono, 1952, 1964, 2003, artist, biennale, birds, bodies, east, emotion, emptiness, feel, forever, grapefruit | Leave A Comment »
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#14 Refresh
Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 in a family of Mexican extraction. She's currently one of the most complex literary voices of the United States.
Legend and history, poetry and prose, the radio and music, English and Spanish are interwoven in her writings like the threads that go to make up the warp and weft of a caramel coloured rebo...
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Dec 01, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: airline, american culture, bronzo, caramel, chicago, chicano, christmas, clothing, community, contamination, cuisine, designers, fashion, feminist, food | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
Where did your artistic career begin?
I have loved creating things since I was a child. Initially, I loved poetry – I used to love writing. Through writing, I discovered art. I wrote about art for quite a while and at the same time I began to paint, and noticed that painting didn’t completely satisfy me. It was as if my hand couldn’t reprodu...
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Nov 25, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: adam kalkin, architecture, art, artist, biennale, building, design, discovery, europe, mistake, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, push button house | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
“What the hell is it?”. American historian and writer Paul Collins’ literary travels, published in Italy by Adelphi, usually start from this question, which struck him when he came across some oddity found in an old book. A cultured, meticulous curiosity rooted in the need to understand what has been buried in and by history. To mark a passio...
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Nov 22, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aberration, abilities, autism, autistic people, beta testing, book, characters, company, curiosity, exploration, family, feelings, genetic and societal forces, history, humanity | Leave A Comment »
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#22 Kaizen
To improve one’s work by getting rid of what is unneeded through constant and repetitive exercise. This seems to be the key to a calligrapher’s success, but very often deciding what to leave is anything but easy. What has your experience as a student of calligraphy and as an artist and respectively as a writer been in this respect?
Linda: As a...
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Nov 16, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, artist, brush, calligrapher, calligraphy, culture, exercise, expression, improvement, japanese, linda, mind, moment, novel, painting | Leave A Comment »
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#24 Self Portrait
Describing Luis Sepúlveda is no easy matter. Here’s a man who in his lifetime has been a novelist, poet, playwright, both for the stage and radio; a man who was one of Salvador Allende’s personal bodyguards; a man who has been a guerrilla fighter in many conflicts in different South American countries; a man who has travelled the world as UNES...
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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: activists, chile, cigars, cliches, conflicts, cuba, der spiegel, dreamer, environment, fair, feel, forests, galileo, greenpeace, guerrilla | Leave A Comment »
