Monday, October 26, 2009

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Vorrei essere un Perseo



(...) Quanto alla testa mozzata, Perseo non l'abbandona ma la porta con sé, nascosta in un sacco; quando i nemici stanno per sopraffarlo, basta che egli
la mostri sollevandola per la chioma di serpenti, e quella spoglia sanguinosa diventa un'arma invincibile nella mano dell'eroe: un'arma che egli usa solo in extreme cases and only against those who deserve the punishment of becoming a statue of himself (...). Perseus is able to master that face tremendous keeping it hidden, as he had won the first looking in the mirror. It 's always a refusal to look directly is the strength of Perseus, but not in a denial of reality in the world of monsters in which he is fated to live, a reality that he brings with him,
accepts it as his burden.

On the relationship between Perseus and Medusa something we can learn more by reading Ovid in "Metamorphosis." Perseus has won another battle
slaughtered by sword a sea monster, freed Andromeda.
And now it is going to what each di noi farebbe dopo un lavoraccio del genere: va a lavarsi le mani. In questi casi il suo problema è dove posare
la testa di Medusa. E qui Ovidio ha dei versi che mi paiono straordinari
per spiegare quanta delicatezza d'animo sia necessaria per essere un Perseo, vincitore di mostri:
«Perché la ruvida sabbia non sciupi la testa anguicrinita, egli rende soffice il terreno con uno strato di foglie, vi stende sopra dei ramoscelli nati sott'acqua e vi depone la testa di Medusa a testa in giù».
Italo Calvino, Lezioni americane (Leggerezza) , Mondadori 1993

Quanta delicatezza d'animo è necessaria per essere a Perseus, monsters ...

Friday, October 23, 2009

Subtitle Gakkou No Kaidan

etrAnoN

A mini guide to the eye of the day Yourban for NonArte .





The hand that draws on the screen is Francis Frosi .

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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The Presidency of the Republic for the 2009 Award

With great pleasure we announce that today, the prize has received for the fifth consecutive year, an important recognition of the President of Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. We are particularly honored to tangible support for this initiative that from year to year, is affirmed and enhanced by also increasing voter participation.
In pictures: 1) The letter accompanying the medal that the Head of State wished to allocate, as his prize of representation, the 6th edition of "Premio Medieval Italy." 2) Front medal 3) Back of the coin.
(click to enlarge)

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

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NonArte

An invitation:
sabato17 and Sunday, October 18

two days on the Italian underground comic
pm 16
Yourban MusicLab
via 51 Squadron, Thiene (VI )



Cultural Association Yourban MusicLab , in collaboration with the
International School of Padua Comics, is proud to present NonArte ,
a new event in the comic landscape of Vicenza.

NonArte Why?
Why now for professionals and enthusiasts
the comic is identified as the "ninth art.
Because, at the same time, the definition of art associated with the comic is not universally recognized and accepted by the encoding of Fine Arts
The merger of the two concepts has thus led to the creation of this one word and the first edition of the event. In this
"duegiorni" will be presented original works of prominent authors of the scene underground comic Italian and there will be two meetings held respectively by the International School of Comics of Padua
entitled "The signs that tell" and Alessio Spataro known satirical cartoonist.
will also be present, in collaboration with the City of Parma, some of the tables that are part of the exhibition "Graphic Poems" giant episodic stories.
The International School of Comics of Padua will be leading the evening of Saturday, October 17, with a live performance inside the 'Party Aut , appuntamento fisso con musica e arte dello Yourban.

Gli artistiti che prenderanno parte all'esposizione:
Officina Infernale
Maurizio Ercole
Massimo Perissinotto
Claudio Calia
Stefano Zattera
Alberto Talami e Alessandro Lise
Alessio Spataro
Scuola Internazionale di Comics di Padova
e io :)

Qui il programma superdettagliato.

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Per ora vi lascio con questo disegno dal festival di Internazionale a Ferrara, dove sono stata two weeks ago. Not a good design, but the atmosphere was almost dark ...


The conference, however, was beautiful, enlightening, and I wanted to fix something that time: Sunday, October 4, The network in Africa: the development comes from the web with, from left
(badly designed!) Olivier Nyirubugara, Rwandan journalist, Ory Okolloh, Kenyan blogger, Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer, Richard Moon, editor of Wired Italy.