Wednesday, April 28, 2010

MULTITASKING

Dopo aver discusso l'articolo con vari amici 'multitasking' ci permettiamo di dissentire... women are more than multitasking. And some men too.
MILANO – La tendenza un po’schizofrenica del multitasking non è nella natura dell’uomo e il massimo che il cervello può arrivare a sostenere sono due mansioni alla volta: lo sostiene uno studio condotto da Etienne Koechlin della Ecole Normale Supérieure di Parigi . GESTIONE SIMULTANEA DEI COMPITI - Allattare il bimbo mentre si scrive un articolo, nel frattempo rispondere al telefono e mettersi d’accordo con un’amica per un caffè e, contemporaneamente, mandare un’e-mail. Il tutto mentre si ascolta uno splendido pezzo musicale appena scaricato. È l’era del multitasking, che secondo gli esperti porta alla concentratio interrupta (ovvero la disattenzione intermittente suscitata dal perenne bombardamento mediatico). Si fa una cosa e, grazie (o per colpa di) alle nuove tecnologie si possono portare avanti altri tre/quattro compiti. Ma la domanda è: fa bene? E se anche facesse bene, sarebbe naturale per l’essere umano? TROPPE COSE INSIEME - La risposta arriva dai ricercatori francesi, che hanno osservato e studiato un campione di 32 volontari, affidando loro prima un compito e successivamente due compiti differenti ma simili. I volontari sono stati osservati nel corso dell’esperimento con la risonanza magnetica e i ricercatori hanno notato che, mentre nello svolgimento di un’unica mansione venivano coinvolte più zone neurali di entrambi gli emisferi cerebrali, nello svolgimento di più funzioni il cervello si divideva a metà, deputando a ciascun emisfero un incarico. In particolare il lobo frontale, che è la parte del cervello deputata alle funzioni esecutive,
LIMITI NATURALI - «Il tipo di esperimento eseguito, su un campione di individui destri e nessun mancino e con due compiti da portare a termine che erano simili tra loro», dicono i ricercatori sulla rivista «Science», «non consente di dire se la divisione dei compiti tra i due emisferi sia casuale o dipenda dal tipo di operazione e dalla dominanza di un emisfero su un altro. Ma i risultati dello studio suggeriscono che il lobo frontale, che ha funzioni esecutive, è limitato a svolgere al massimo due compiti nello stesso momento. «Ecco perché la gente prende spesso decisioni irrazionali quando fa più di due cose insieme», spiega Koechlin: «Possiamo cucinare e stare al telefono, ma non possiamo per natura provare a leggere anche il giornale». Lo studio suggerisce anche che non esagerare nel multitasking è una buona regola non solo per le cose da fare, ma anche per quelle da pensare. Come il nostro cervello non è fatto (se non a un caro prezzo e con dubbi risultati) per fare troppe cose in una volta, così non è predisposto nemmeno per pensare a troppe cose: anche le scelte devono essere prese su due opzioni alla volta.
http://www.corriere.it/salute/10_aprile_16/cervello-non-multitasking_eabbf244-494d-11df-af35-00144f02aabe.shtml

RIO

Summer is coming soon. Yep! Where to fly to a long, cool getaway? Beautiful and at the same brutal, sophisticated and populist, tropical and urban, Rio de Janeiro is the place to discover. Because it is a buzz of energetic contradictions. Rio's coolest months are June and July, when the temperature can finally drop to a pleasant 18 degrees, far away from the hottest January and February. The turquoise waters, which lap all around the coastline, are a living storyboard of design and fashion inspiration. Catch the surfers at Arpoador, sunbathe at Barra Beach or Barra da Tijuca, explore the steep inclines of Santa Teresa or head to a samba school, such as Mangueira, to catch the pre-carnival practices. Wish to be already there…

Thursday, April 22, 2010

COACHELLA FESTIVAL. WHAT WE MISSED!


I love festivals. This time i would have really liked to go to the Coachella’s one. That is more than a festival. It a melting pot for music, art, installation. Part of Coachella’s appeal is also linked to its location, in Indio, California, approximately 50 miles from the spectacular Mojave Desert. Even if is still quite young it has gained so much popularity over the years that i bet that all festivals goers will be there next season. Music is the first order of business at the Coachella but fashion has literally invaded the indie music festival: there were enough models, designers, musicians, movie stars, fashionistas to organize a mini fashion week!
Hard to figure out which was the best day to attend: Friday’s favourites were Fever Ray, Grizzly Bear, LCD Soundsystem and Vampire Weekend; Saturday’s 2 Many Dj’s (omg, i love them), Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zero, Hot Chip, MGMT, The Temper Trap, The XX; hardly surviving after such gigs, Sunday would have been the turn of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Little Boots and Mayer Hawthorne. Gosh, when will all of them be again all together?!
www.coachella.com

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

ADVANCED STYLE

It is called http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/ and we enjoyed reading it. After the worldfamous The Sartorialist, now a blog that speaks about style... over 60 years old and more! Style is a mix of small details and audacious choices: the result is that you can be stylish and fashion no matter what's your age. The idea of the blog comes from Ari Seth Cohen that wants to demonstrate that even with grey hair and facial wrinkles, you can be glamorous and charming. Check out ladies and gents that she found on the street and portrayed for us!

Monday, April 19, 2010

Had enough of beds, tables and chairs?

Need to report exactly this review. It's funny, witty, and speaks about a great party that i did work on. Enjoy!
"Last night, after uselessly trying to get into Established & Sons’s infamous party (the front door was so packed I nearly had a panic attack!) I decided I had enough of designers and furniture for the day and drove off to Hangar Bicocca, where the REPLAY party was taking place. I know, I know, you’re thinking: “what’s this to do with the Salone?”. Well, my friends, the true Salone insiders knew that that was the place to go to yesterday! Especially when the names of Roisin Murphy and Hercules and the Love Affair are engraved on the invitation. And it was totally up to the expectations!
An international, hype, hot, glossy and trendy crowd attended the incredible exciting concert. In the huge industrial space of the Hangar, between secret gardens and virtual waterfalls, free drinks flooded endlessly, high heels screeched on the cement, glitter powdered amazing looking girls danced their hips off, and the steamy hunky boys were just too much to be true.
Everybody was having the time of their life. Roisin and the Hercules were just awesome and a rocking glamorous excitement took possession of our tired Salone muscles, forcing all of us to dance and get groovy. The PR of the soirée was Milano’s nights darling Marcelo Burlon, so it couldn’t have gone differently. My friends were uberhappy! Vicke Vanlian, the Lebanese talented architect and Adnan Abbasi, PR for Miami Design, couldn’t stand still, overwhelmed by the music. Salvo Nicosia, group celebrity director at Dolce & Gabbana and the Jordan architect Osama Jumean were so rayonnant, they had all the hottest people humming up to them asking for a kiss. Glen Proebstel, style director of the Australian design magazine Inside Out, was obsessed in taking crazy pictures of the party (these pictures, as a matter of fact) and Anne Marie Sargeant, the beautiful Australian creative consultant, couldn’t stop talking to one of the most good looking boys of the party. And me? Still dealing with a major hangover today… Ah, what a night!" Apriltov (source http://blog.atcasa.corriere.it/salone-2010/nggallery/post/had-enough-of-bed-tables-and-chairs/page/106/)

Sunday, April 11, 2010

TRACCIA

This is TRACCIA. And it is not just a wine. It is a story of love, passion, intuition and desire. It is a dream that comes true. It is a country, Argentina. It is a travel on the road 'Ruta 40' of two friends with a deep passion for photography and good wine. It is a bodega in Mendoza, firm city that can resist heat, heartquakes and shootings. It is a cup of mate cocido. It is an old mapuche. And it is Malbec: always and everywhere. A trace is poetry, memory, history, life. These and other memories will make your life a poem only if you can share it with friends... www.tracciawines.com