La mia ultima mostra – My last exibition

Che dire?

Usando un eufemismo, potrei dire che la mostra che ho fatto questo weekend non era l’evento più importante a Milano!

La delusione è tanta, anche se è meglio essere ritornati con i piedi per terra: un pò di sano realismo non guasta.

Il fatto è che pensavo di portare qualcosa di interessante, grazie a “Sine Fide”.

Mi sono però scontrato con la mia inesperienza, un tema così “importante” necessitava di una presentazione più completa, in poche parole di:

1) una introduzione alla mostra, in modo da presentare il progetto e guidare lo spettatore nella visione delle foto

2) una didascalia per ogni foto

3) presenza di un audiovisivo a supporto, magari con parlato, interviste, musica

Infatti le uniche soddisfazioni le ho avute quando ho potuto parlare con le persone intervenute, spiegando loro cosa volevo dire con questo progetto e presentando foto per foto: solo così ho visto che il progetto era apprezzato e capito.

E pensare che i “maestri” dicono che le foto non devono avere didascalie (scritte o orali) …

A breve vi offrirò l’occasione di (ri)vedere la mostra, in un slide show con descrizioni foto per foto e presentazione generale. Sappiatemi dire. A presto.

short stories – Lucca Comics and Games 2008 (cosplay, anime, manga)

Ecco un nuovo slideshow (basta un click sull’immagine qua a fianco)!

Non ho aggiornato il blog per un pò: ero preso dall’organizzazione delle mie mostre, prima a Torino e poi a Milano!

Quasi quasi sono diventato famoso… a parte gli scherzi, mi sono davvero divertito ad organizzare le mie prime uscite in pubblico.

Con questo post colgo l’occasione di augurarvi Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!!!

Here I am again!

Click the image on the left: a new slide show will start.

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Lucca is known throughout the world as a city of Art, History and Culture.

Since 1966, however, Lucca has also been the undisputed City of Comics, and year after year has hosted an event dedicated to strip cartoons that is acknowledged to be the most important  and exciting of its kind in Italy.

Every year, at the beginning of november, Lucca becomes one of the world’s capitals of comics, thanks to the enthusiasm and skill of international experts, publishers, authors, critics and fans.

Ok, let’s stop this introduction and let my pictures show some “tastes” from the exhibition.

First I’d like to show pictures about strange people called “cosplayers”, alias “costume players”. This habit comes from a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, and video games. However “cosplay” has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume [from Wikipedia].

I saw a lot of them wandering in the historical center of Lucca, with strange costumes: I wasn’t able to identify any cosplayers I shoot.

So, I need help from you: tell me who they are! Click on the image below to start a short slide show about them (in IMHO these pictures are fair, not a masterpiece anyway).

slide show – Lucca, something different (Italy) – part III

Here’s the third part of my “different point of view” about Lucca, where I live (the first part is here, the second part is here )

This time I made a small slide show about pollution and rubbish, even in a nice town full of art and monuments.

This winter in Lucca the air quality was very bad, with a high level of PM₁₀

Do you know what does PM₁₀ mean?

PM₁₀ is a mixture of materials that can include smoke, soot, dust, salts, acids, and metals. Particulate matter also forms when gases emitted from motor vehicles and industry undergoes chemical reactions in the atmosphere.

How air pollution affects the human body?
When you breathe in suspended particulate matter in it can attack and inflame your tissues all the way down the respiratory tract. Because these particles are so small, they can go deep inside your lungs and damage the smallest airways called bronchioles.
As the particles approach the cells lining the lungs, they are attacked by macrophages, part of the lungs’ defense system. In turn, the macrophages trigger the release of inflammatory cells from the bone marrow. In some instances, toxic particles can destroy macrophages. Some particles make it all the way into the cells lining the lung, causing further inflammation that can hinder breathing.
Particles may also enter the bloodstream. Together with inflammatory mediators, they cause serious effects on the nervous system, as well as the heart and lungs.
Air pollution has the greatest effect on children, the elderly and those with respiratory and heart problems. Here is what air pollution can do to our health:

• Increase and aggravate asthma
• Create disease in the airways of children
• Increase respiratory illness in children
• Damage the lungs
• Increase deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular disease
• Increase hospital admissions for lung and heart disease
• Cause chest pain and nausea
• Cause shortness of breath and (faster) laboured breathing
• Permanently change lung structure

Please click on the image below to start a small slide show with audio.