Archive for June, 2012

Accessories that solve: the headscarf

Jun 20, 2012 No Comments by

The headscarf is a stylish and versatile accessory, particularly in vogue in the 1960s, but still very up-to-date and presented in a thousand different ways by designers for spring-summer 2012. We all remember it being used by Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly, who wore it on their heads, knotted under the chin, as was the [...]

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The sound how you haven’t ever seen

Jun 20, 2012 No Comments by

Those who enter the Casa del Suono (“House of Sound”), a cutting-edge project created through collaboration between Casa della Musica and the University of Parma, embark on an adventure into the technological dimension of sound. Housed in the artfully renovated former Church of Santa Elisabetta (mid-17th century), it provides a reflection on how we listen [...]

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Sculptures in limestone and metal

Jun 20, 2012 No Comments by

Alabama Sculptor DeeDee Morrison’s studio is nestled in a limestone quarry. An active one. “It’s an old Republic Steel Plant that closed down, but it’s got wonderful buildings,” she says. “Now it’s an operable quarry for road-grade material”. For an artist, that can lead to some interesting moments. “When they blast, some of the stone [...]

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Massimo Vitali, commonplaces

Jun 19, 2012 Comments Off

For about 20 years Massimo Vitali’s photographic research develops, unlike that of Peter Bialobrzeski (see previous post), far from the cities from the tumultuous urban development, to concentrate more on those sites which could be defined “for free time”; places, however, characterized by the equally “high resident density,” in some respects identical to that of [...]

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Save the date

Jun 19, 2012 No Comments

The “Parma Poetry Festival” returns for the eighth year from 20 to 23 June. Promoted by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Parma, the festival has become established as one of Italy’s most important poetry events. Prominent authors include Philippe Jaccottet, Carol Ann Duffy and many other highly esteemed Italian and foreign poets; [...]

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The ill-treated: Pink Floyd, Obscured By Clouds

Jun 19, 2012 No Comments

PINK FLOYD, Obscured By Clouds – Music From The Film La vallée, Harvest 1972 Here we are once more with Pink Floyd, in their second recording for the director Barbet Schroeder. More was followed by the soundtrack for Zabriskie Point by Antonioni, which only featured three Pink Floyd tracks, including the remix of Careful with [...]

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One Pixel a day…

Jun 18, 2012 No Comments

It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is [...]

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Bye bye, Venus

Jun 06, 2012 No Comments

Seven telescopes pointed on our star has allowed us to admire one of the most fascinating and rare that nature offers, the transit of Venus across the Sun. So rare an event that has occurred in the nineteenth century and never occurred in the twentieth, which will repeat again in 2117. We’ll not see it [...]

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The man who carved the books

Jun 06, 2012 No Comments

Guy Laramee is a Canadian artist who has been active for thirty years and has tried various creative paths: scenic writing, directing, contemporary music, design and construction of musical instruments, video, set design, sculpture, installations, painting and literature. He has received more than thirty fellowships and was awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts [...]

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Flying with historical wings

Jun 06, 2012 No Comments

What is a tourist flight? On a travel site we see that it’s an “actual flight organized as per special rules and procedure solely for tourist purposes”. In other words, for those who love airplanes but do not content themselves with just a plain airline flight, with an investment of EUR 500 or more they [...]

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