'La prima cosa bella’ is a melting and poetic family portrait set in Tuscany and was chosen to represent Italy in the next Oscar race for the Best Foreign Film that will be held in Los Angeles in February 2011. Challenging goal for the film director Paolo Virzì which tells the story of the disillusioned Bruno and his relationship with his mother Anna, a beautiful and energic woman. Bruno, the eldest, is a professor of literature unhappy, insecure and problematic, with no relations with his mother and sister Valeria that is a neurotic employee fled into the arms of a talkative husband. Bruno reconciles with the two women only after learning that his mother is seriously ill and this will be an opportunity for him and his sister to digest a mother really bulky, but also capable of outbursts of unusual love. The childhood memories are the real filter of this story of Bruno and Valeria, both adults and suffering. And around the charismatic Anna the story turns around and takes form. Touching.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
People meet in architecture
These are images taken at the 12th Venice Architectural Biennale. This edition is called ‘People meet in architecture’ and is curated for the first time by a woman, the architect Kazuyo Sejima. The choice of the 53 national participants in the exhibition and collateral events is related to how architecture can clarify new values and propose a new lifestyle for the present due to the many radical changes that are taking place in our life. The Biennale will be open until November 21st 2010 and is worth a visit. http://www.labiennale.org/
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Little Red Riding Hood by Maripol
Remember Maripol? She was the beautiful French art director, stylist and photographer that scouted in 1983 an aspiring dancer and singer named Madonna Louise Ciccone. After working as art director for Fiorucci in New York and designer Reissue, she started working in photography and she loved working and playing with Polaroid camera. After her first book Maripolarama released in 2005, last month she published this new book from Damiani: a collecction fo the polaroids, art and designs.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Thailand: a journey through Kanchanaburi, Lopburi, Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, Ko Samui and Bangkok



Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Notting Hill Carnival 2010
London’s Notting Hill Carnival returned for its forty-sixth year in 2010.
Check out the parade route, costumes and masks, the great soundsystems (they were massive speakers stacks everywhere) and Caribbean food stalls with jerk chicken, rice and peas and rum punch as well as the odd taste of other exotic cuisines. This is a gallery of what we have seen at Europe’s biggest, brightest and best street party on Monday 31st of August!
Friday, August 27, 2010
L.E.D.
Monday, August 16, 2010
A weekend in Oslo
Enjoy the gallery of an extraordinary sunny weekend in Oslo!
Monday, July 12, 2010
Electro-Venice
Friday, July 2, 2010
Urbanautica

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Frida Kahlo in Berlin

Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Åsa Tällgård photography

Thursday, June 10, 2010
A sea of shoes

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Alexa Chung

Sunday, May 23, 2010
INDUSTRIE MAGAZINE

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
SPRINGTEN
Friday, May 14, 2010
THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
MULTITASKING

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
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

Thursday, April 22, 2010
COACHELLA FESTIVAL. WHAT WE MISSED!


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
Monday, April 19, 2010
Had enough of beds, tables and chairs?

"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/)
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

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
SEATTLE
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The Indie Rock coloring book

Monday, February 22, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
THE TALESWAPPER

Tuesday, December 1, 2009
BLOSSOM

Vernissage Sabato 5 Dicembre 2009 ore 17.30 - Asolo (Tv). http://www.silviamartignago.it/
Saturday, November 21, 2009
THE SWINGIN' LONDON NIGHT PARTY


Wednesday, November 4, 2009
PROVE TECNICHE DI MEGALOMANIA

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
ICELAND AIRWAVES FESTIVAL 2009

Saturday, October 10, 2009
HOFBROCCHIHAUS SEIT 2008


Thursday, October 8, 2009
ILBETTA INTERVISTA VIRAGO ENTERTAINMENT



Il blog de IlBetta On Air (fresco di festeggiamenti di un anno di vita) comincia così… e mantiene le promesse! Leggete l’intervista in 3 parti fatta alla Virago Entertainment! http://ilbetta.blogspot.com/
Thursday, October 1, 2009
REED YOUNG


Wednesday, September 30, 2009
IL FENOMENO EBONY BONES


E leggete questo ed altro su http://www.soundandvision.it/
Saturday, September 19, 2009
ARTVERONA
Thursday, September 17, 2009
LOCAL COOL HUNTING

http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/09/anniel_sport.php
Saturday, September 12, 2009
BUON COMPLEANNO MTV!
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