Crystal Ball Gazing - Techno Travel

March 21, 2008 · Filed Under Holidays · 10 Comments 

Recently I’ve been contacted by two emerging new travel sites - Volette.com and So Much World. Both are very interesting, but quite different in their takes on travel.

Volette is perhaps more aimed at the business traveller, but not only, whereas So Much World is more like an on-line version of my favourite Lonely Planet guides. I know that both sites are still in a development phase, especially Volette.com. Indeed, the brain behind Volette.com, one Joe Tangredi, has several ideas as to the direction he wants to take his internet venture, although I don’t know what they are just yet. Read more

Far too late!

March 16, 2008 · Filed Under Me · 3 Comments 

I should be in bed, but I’ve been exchanging emails with an American web entrepreneur who is coming over to Milan shortly, and thinking about how I’m going to have a go at helping out an interesting German sculptor, one Jochen Kitzbihler, who is a friend of Gianpietro Carlesso’s, incidentally.

Very interesting times. Life sure is moving me in some fascinating directions at the moment!

Gianpietro Carlesso - Struttura

March 14, 2008 · Filed Under Art · Comment 

Here is another of Gianpietro Carlesso’s recent works, ‘Struttura’:

Gianpietro Carlesso - Struttura

Again, an interesting sculpture, and an example of the variety of which Carlesso is capable. I guess you could say this is a sort of ’skeleton’, a body devoid of its flesh, thus representing pure crude reality.

Oops! I’m starting to sound like an art critic. Oh how one evolves.

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