|Puke|#1|

02feb10

|Libera nos a malo|
The best way to defeat the garbage produce by the media society, is to face it.
Instead of stakes, irony and intelligence will save us.

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Tags: advertising, corona, media, pubblicità, spot, video

|Time Machine|#2|

23gen10

|We are all fifteen|
…and we should stop drinking…

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|Music|#2|

16gen10

|Music’s worth|
So many wonderful songs, so few people who deserve them…

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|Time Machine|#1|

07gen10

|How to stop the Time|

Since Darwin’s theory humanity has entered a new era of considering time.
Endless, progress, continuity, time has become a straight line.
And since some years ago, it was considered a line going towards prosperity, richness, wellness.
Every idelogy of XX century has created its myth of a better future.

This has completely delated the time conception of ancient greek and catholic religion.
In the first one, time was a circle, where everything would come back to its start.
While for catholics, time was a condition showing the limitations and transitory nature of men, against the endless and perfect state of God.
But in both case, time could not be stopped, and humanity would have always had a path to follow, a point to reach.

But some men were able to stop time, at least for a while.
From 2001 to 2009 the time of the fastest creature of human mind, digital technology, has been stopped by the biggest international company: Microsoft.
From 2001 to 2009, Microsoft has obliged millions of users not to change the operating system of their personal computer, simply because the new versions were a mess.
Windows XP was our time machine.

Microsoft was able in some way to stop for 8 years the evolution of digital technologies.
What did we lose? How many innovations have been aborted?
Probably we will never know it.
But for a while, humanity saw the power and the disasters of the possibility to stop the time.

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|Another End|

31dic09

|Forward Thinking|

Even if someone has already started saying that 2010 is not the first year of the new decade, I want to think about what is going to wait for us.
But of course it is easier to list what it is going to end.

2010 – The End of:
- automotive market
- bank system
- economic strategies
- public infrastructure
- media
- GDP
at least as we knew them….

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|Photologos|#1|

20dic09

|Out of focus|

I’ve been thinking about those things you said

I’ve been thinking about those things we did

I’ve been thinking about those things you do

I’ve been thinking about those things you made me do too

I was hypnotized
By your fairy eyes
Like a tiger in the dark
You were hungry from the start

We don’t need details.
We need feelings and emotions.
We need you to feel it.
We need to feel.
We need.
Out of focus, because what matters, it’s what you can’t see.
Out of focus, because we are not scared to say “I don’t know”.
Out of focus, because, actually, there is always something you don’t need to know.
When everything looks similar, too straight, too plane, too “something”, close your eyes a little, squeeze your pupils, tighten up reality.
And start breathing.
And start touching.
And start hearing.
Probably you see something you don’t like.
It doesn’t matter, this remains out of focus.

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|Igor Man|1922-2009|

20dic09

|Giornalismo|
Igor Man è il primo giornalista di cui ricordo aver imparato il nome.
Leggevo i suoi editoriali su La Stampa e su Specchio dei Tempi, correva il 1997, avevo undici anni.
Non so come, ma ho immediatamente subito il fascino delle sue parole.
La sua foto in bianco e nero con la sigaretta in mano, i ricordi della sua Sicilia, e le guerre, le interviste.
Anche quando parlava d’altro, tutto questo si percepiva fortemente.
E come ho già detto, era fascino.
Non era la prosa di Montanelli, icastica e concisa, limpida e diretta.
Era una scrittura morbida, avvolgente, quasi come le sere d’Agosto a Palermo.
Ma non solo. I suoi articoli hanno avuto la fortuna di essere stati sempre letti da me in situazioni particolari, in un luogo molto importante per me e per la mia famiglia, un luogo completamente privato e personale, per questo li associo ancora a pomeriggi noiosi e tiepidi, quando il sole tramonta lentamente, come gli risultasse veramente impossibile dire addio a quelle valli, a quelle montagne, a quei fiumi e a quelle città per appena dodici ore.
Questo è per me Igor Man.
Qualcosa di lontano e sconosciuto, qualcosa di intimo e completamente personale.

Goodbye, Igor.

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|Goodbye 009|

19dic09

|Up and Down|

We’ve done!
Ten years, the first ten years of XXI century.
Yes, we hoped for something better, ten years of hedonism and irrational passions, of fear and discontent, ten years in which we went on complaining and being scared, and then we prefered not to care and think:
“After all… tomorrow is another day”

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Tags: 2009, hit, linkedin, loser, trends, winner

|A Place for Everything|

16dic09

“That the openness to science and an extensive range of educational opportunities are very important for economic growth has now become one of the accepted basic economic truths.
On top of this there is also empirical evidence that cultural and ethnic diversity and the associated tolerance required positively impact economic growth.
This tolerance attracts creative types and active people, and this ensures diversity and economic dynamism.”

The city has always been the place of exchange, of culture development and evolution.
The city lives thanks to the strong community of linked people that composes it.
We should remember what is the soul of the city, when we think about it just in number of parking places, criminality, immigrants, noise and pigeons.
We have to create beautiful cities, if we want beautiful citizens, if we want a beautiful future.

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Tags: city, diversity, earth, economy, growth, knowledge, prosperity, wealth

|The Words of others|#3|

15dic09

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) dixit

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