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Book: The Map as Art

15 Jul

In The Map as Art, (Princeton Architectural Press) Katharine Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists—such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz—and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art.

The book is a collection of visionary topographies and imaginary geographies charted by artists including Vik Muniz (there is a work of his at the Palazzo Forti, Verona) who re-creates the globe from pieces of junk amongst others.

I haven’t read it, but it looks like a book I would like to buy and keep. I’m going to look into this through Amazon.

check out a review on http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/the-map-as-art.php

and the national post

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Book: My wonderful World of Fashion: A book for drawing, creating and dreaming

13 Jul

 

 

Nina Chakrabarti is an illustrator based in London who created her own interactive colouring book for fashionists of all ages with Lawrence King Publishing, with sophisticated drawings that are a pity to colour.

http://www.laurenceking.com/product/My+Wonderful+World+of+Fashion%3A+A+Book+for+Drawing,+Creating+and+Dreaming.htm

Dedicated to the growing  trend setters this book is the most fashionable of books to colour in circulation. YOu can have fun reinventing jackets, purses, hats, but its also a how-to manual with the ABC’s of the walkways of fashion. You even have a section called “How to do it yourself”, if you want to become a fashion designer and if you want to transform a dress into a t-shirt or make a great jacket.

drawings courtesy of  http://www.waitmag.com/books-magazines/my-wonderful-world-of-fashion-a-book-for-drawing-creating-and-dreaming.html

Check out the artists site: www.ninachakrabarti.com/

Pensieri della Vita e pace

13 Jul

CHINUA ACHEBE, Nigerian writer, professor at Brown

Seguite quello che vi afferra da dentro e che vi viene meglio, qualunque cosa sia. Nessunopuò insegnarti chi sei e di che cosa hai bisogno.

NICK NOLTE, actor

Stringi stringi, salta fuori che l’autentico miracolo della vita è la vita stessa. Abbiamo la technologia, la capacità di costruire macchine e strade, ma non abbiamo gli strumenti per capire cosa c’è dentro un essere umano. Certo, esistone le religioni: ma sono così imbevute di traditizione da avere trasferito tutto all’esterno, in rituali e ceremonie. E’ vero, l’Oriente si preoccupa di scoprire ci sei dentro, dal punto di vista spirituale. Ma la parola “spirituale” non si dovrebbe nemmeno usare. Il punto è scoprire chi sei davvero. Accettarlo. E accorgersi che il paradiso è qui e ora. Se metti in conto questo, poi arriva anche la pace.
Ma la pace è un lavoro privato e non un negoziato, dove alle fine c’è sempre qualcuno che ci perde. La pace è qualcosa che trovi per te, punto. Guardarsi dentro, ascoltarsi, essere consapevoli. E’ anche frustante, perchè tu sei l’osservatore e insieme l’osservato. E non resta che venire a patti con questo. Ecco che cosè la coscienza: arrendersi e accettarsi. Magari fallirai in modo orrendo, ma abbracciare l’incertezza è un processo creativo che dà l’energia per andare avanti. E anche l’unico modo per veder e sentire gli altri. E provare compassione.

NELSON MANDELA

Una buona testa e un cuore buono sono sempre una combinazione formidabile. Sono poche le disgrazie di qeusto  mondo che non puoi trasformare in un trionfo personale. Se hai una volontà di ferro e la capacità  necessria. Ciò che distingue una persona da un’altra non è quello che le è stato dato ma cosa ne fa. E la più grande arma di sviluppo che oguno possiede è la pace.

FRANK GEHRY, architect from Toronto

E’ importante capire l’impressione che si fa agli altri: dopodischè si possono presentare le proprie idee, e aprire i giochi in grande stile. E cose stanno così: se sei sciocco la gente lo sa, ma se non sai che lo sa, perdi inuitmente il tuo tempo. Sintonizzarsi, essere ricettivi è basilare. Gli studenti di architttura dovrebbero preoccuparsi di questo, e poi di essere se stessi sennza sentirsi gravati dal passato. Lo dico ache agli artisti: “La vostra opera migliore è l’espressione di voi stessi”.

we feel fine

22 May

I feel that we are full of wonderous awe at who we are and the opening of the world around us

I feel overwhelmed with all the creative things I want to do

Every emotion, every feeling of every body is documented in this site that calculates the feelings on the social web. It takes them into one big melting pot and divides them up into colours and sex, location, weather, age and a world emotion is brewing on the internet.

we feel fine

It finds out what we say when we use anatomy to describe how we are: heart, head, stomach, chest, legs, arms, fingers, toes.

How destiny has entered our lives according to palm reading: life, heart, head, sex, money, fortune, health, spirit, trips, marriage, destiny, fame.

Every time you click on the website, you get hundreds of small coloured dots that explode with emotional words and pictures with words and colours and people and emotions and colours and pictures.

You MUST check it out.

www.wefeelfine.org

Casa Natura B&B in Verona

8 May

Casa Natura Bed and Breakfast in Verona

 This is a place to stay on your visit to Verona! I hope to also do my Art Retreat here. Un progetto in due is a beautiful B&B that uses the philosphy of nature, conscious biological gardens and enviornmentally safe house, as its motto. The rooms are fantastic

Crocus Rose room

 A natural and comfortable place to stay, with personal pleasures offered and a serious project involved. This is the place for you!

love yourself

2 May

love

 To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now.

And now is all we have and love is who we are….

Learn to say NO!

2 May

so many things

  • Now you have to make mistakes to find out who you AREN’T.
  • You take the action and your insight follows.
  • You don’t thinkyour way into becoming yourself, you DO IT!
  • Every single day, try to figure out something you no longer agree to do, you can say NO!
  • Then you can realize what you really WANT TO DO!

William Blake’s Motto

2 May

 

PEGASO William-Blake

 We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

 

What you have

2 May

In stead of focusing on what I don’t have, I can focus on what I have

Lots of stuff

Being Happy

2 May

Jennifer and Mummy in Merano at the historical Forst Beer garden

 When it comes to matters of the heart, people get better with age. As you grow and become truly happy with who you are, you can then be happy with those around you.

Rachel Roy, fashion designer, O magazine, Feb. 2010

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