Mar
31

Hunting the Antique Torg - Crisis Aversion

2008 | Filed Under My son | 2 Comments

Gormito‘Hunting the what?’, you may be mouthing. Well, if you did not know, the Antique Torg (a strained translation from the Italian ‘l’Antico Torg’), is an agressive looking little fellow who belongs to one of the upteen Gormiti clans. He resembles the figure in the picture on your left.

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Mar
31

Why Vote Berlusconi?

2008 | Filed Under Italian politics | 2 Comments

The word on the via (street) here is that Mr Berlusconi is quite likely to win the Italian general elections, which are coming up faster than a flashy Ferrari in your wing mirrors. However, if you work for Alitalia or one of the myriad of companies that feed off the collapsing Italian airline, you’ll probably want the B man holding Italy’s reins. Berlusco is very good at giving the impression he is Mr Italy, even if he well knows that by keeping Alitalia, Allitalian, he will also be safeguarding his own power base.

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Mar
31

Let Chianti Sculpture Park re-capture that holiday mood

2008 | Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment

Chianti Sculpture ParkMy writings on Gianpietro Carlesso caused me to ‘come up in conversation’ the other day while Chris Bright was chatting fellow American and Milan based Sean Carlos, and, as a result of Sean’s recent email, I’ve been darting around the web looking at sculpture related things. There is some interesting stuff out there, and some future posts will be dedicated to them, and, in turn, I hope, help the lives of struggling artists become, well, less of a struggle. High hopes indeed, I know.

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Mar
30

MiArt 2008

2008 | Filed Under What's on in Milan | Leave a Comment

MiArt 2008 - contactThe 13th edition of Milan’s International Modern and Contemporary Art Fair kicks off shortly, as you will see if you click on the link. I’ll be at the invitation-only inauguration which is on Thursday 4th April, camera in hand. The event is to be held at the Milan Fiera’s Milan location, which can be reached via Milan’s red metro line. You just get off at the Amendola Fiera station.

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Mar
30

Do you remember Christmas?

2008 | Filed Under Digital photography | 2 Comments

A couple of long exposure  shots (20 seconds) taken inside the chique Van Gogh bar near Parco Sempione in Milan around Christmas last year. I’d forgotten about these, but I quite like them.

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Mar
30

Mood

2008 | Filed Under Digital photography | 5 Comments

An attempt to capture the mood of the sky at around sunset. I actually took this last year. See what you think. Sky

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Mar
30

Blog from Italy meets Volette.com

2008 | Filed Under This blog | Leave a Comment

I met up with Nevadan Joe Tangredi, the guy behind travel site start-up Volette.com, and his Italian cousin Giuseppe, here in sunny Milan yesterday afternoon. Giuseppe works for Endemol, the tv production company, which makes a whole host of programs for Italian TV.

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Mar
29

I met Italian Scupltor Gianpietro Carlesso!

2008 | Filed Under Art | Leave a Comment

Yes, finally, I got to meet Gianpietro Carlesso and some of his friends including Max, and the guy who is helping Gianpietro promote is eminently promotable work, Carlo.

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Mar
29

Wow! Everything Seems much Snappier.

2008 | Filed Under This blog | Leave a Comment

I’ve just gone and installed yet another piece of WordPress magic, which goes by the slightly geeky name of WP-DBManager.

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Mar
28

A Short Post

2008 | Filed Under Italian Food | Leave a Comment

HerbsThis will be short fragrant post, which some may find useful.

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Mar
28

New Friends

2008 | Filed Under Me | 2 Comments

A little before Christmas I was contacted by an American couple who were seriously considering consummating their love affair with Italy by having a serious go at setting up house and home here.

So it was that Chris Bright and his wife Jessica Spiegel came over to test the waters.

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Mar
27

Beating the Writers

2008 | Filed Under Milan | Leave a Comment

‘Writers’ is what Milan’s band of graffiti artists call themselves. I’m not all that sure as to the artistic merit of their efforts, which in the main appear to be attempting to scrawl their names just about everywhere and anywhere, including on the façade of our appartment block.

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