martedì 29 maggio 2007

S.O.S. - Freedom of speach...

This morning, looking throught internet, and trying to find my own point of view about an explotion of bullshits I found surfing on it... my attention was catched by this poltical event: the decision of the political leader of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, to close the TV channel Rctv, because it was considered "too against the government".
I'm not giving my point of view about the ethic of the channel... I've never seen any program broadcasted by Rctv, so I can't have an objective point of view. But I can condamn this choice because the freedom of speach should be the first right of evrybody. But unfortunately it's not! It's not respected at all! Everyone has the right to access as much information as possible. I know, it's not easy broadcasting a real objective information, without expressing a point of view...but it's a right and a duty of the audience to take their own decision about the morality of the information received. People have to decide wich information they want to consider "right" and wich to consider"wrong", and in order to do this they have to choice between different items, different voices, fifferent opinions. It's the same difference existing between a posh supermarket and a discount supermarket: in the first case you walk through loads of shelves, takinf time in order to decide what you really want to eat for dinner... perhaps you want something ealthy and good... but you can also deide to have a fuckin' junky burger just because you need to vent the frustration of a work day against the food...
Instead, if you go in a discount store, you know which brand of coffee, or biscuits, or whatever you'll find there...but you don't exitate... you just go there because you have no time to look thorugh...you need something quickly, not necessariy very good-tasting, but easy to find and to bring home...you have time to think about. (Sorry...I guess only now that this can sound like abullshit! But please, try to understand me... it's 2 in the night, and yesterday I only slept 3 hours because I was in Livorno to see a tribute concert to Jeff Buckley. I think I'm justified for today! :-P )
Stopping a voice is the easiest, but the worst, choice that every single person or every Governmet (even worst!)can take.

If you don't know much about it (and if you can read italian, of course...) have a look at this link: http://www.repubblica.it/2007/05/sezioni/esteri/caracas-televisione/caracas-televisione/caracas-televisione.html

domenica 13 maggio 2007

BREVIARIO DEL BUON VIVERE...

Capitano i momenti in cui ognuno ha bisogno di far ordine nella propria testa...
Ecco...oggi era uno di quelli:

A volte le persone attorno a te cercano di darti dei consigli…”tutte stronzate” – ovviamente- nella tua testa. Basta però un pomeriggio di insuccessi totali, per maturare determinate conclusioni, che, guarda caso, scopri essere esattamente le stesse che avevi rifiutato solo perché dette da altri.
Io non imparerò mai: lo so… sono troppo testarda… sono tremenda.
Ma se qualcuno, passando dal mio blog, trovasse queste mie riflessioni veritiere (o enormi idiozie…accetto critiche!) è pregato di farmi un fischio, grazie.

·IMPARA A FARE UNA COSA PER VOLTA
·IMPARA A NON PIANIFICARE OGNI SINGOLA AZIONE
·IMPARA A NON VIVERE COSTANTEMENTE CON UN OROLOGIO ED UN’AGENDINA ALLA MANO
·IMPARA A NON DIRE: "ORA ME LO SEGNO E APPENA HO TEMPO LO FARO’" (C’E’ SEMPRE TEMPO
PER FARE QUALCOSA CHE SI EERA PENSATO DI FARE)
·IMPARA A NON ANDARE IN PANICO SE QUALCOSA CHE ERA IN PROGRAMMA E’ SALTATO
·IMPARA A SORRIDERE PIU’ SPESSO
·IMPARA AD ACCETTARE LE CRITICHE DAGLI ALTRI
·IMPARA A GODERTI IL SILENZIO ED IL DOLCE FAR NIENTE, UNA VOLTA OGNI TANTO
·IMPARA A NON SENTIRTI COSTANTEMENTE IN OBBLIGO NEI CONFRONTI DEGLI ALTRI
·IMPARA AD ASCOLTARE I SEGNALI CHE IL TUO CORPO TI INVIA
·IMPARA A NON CRITICARTI CONTINUAMENTE
·IMPARA AD IMPARARE DAGLI ALTRI
·IMPARA A NON GODERE DEL TUO STRESS ACCUMULATO
·IMPARA A DIRE DI NO
·IMPARA AD AMMETTERE E A COMUNICARE CIO’ CHE VERAMENTE TI PIACE
·IMPARA CHE 20 ANNI LI AVRAI UNA VOLTA SOLA

Well...I'll try to translate this huge mass of bullshits I wrote above! :P
It's just some thoughts I did this afternoon, trying to realizing what was wrong in me and in my attitude towards life. Sometimes we don't accept the suggestions made by others just because it's someone else who theorized that...but, if you stop and think just a bit, u'll realize that those suggestions were not so wrong...

That's a kind of "instructions book" I planned, thinking about my life in the last month. It's nothing special, but I guess that also somebody else could find something right wrote here (or something wrong, of course!) and I'd have pleasure to ask your point of view about that...
(I hope the translation won't be too invented...!)

·LEARN TO DO THINGS STEP BY STEP
·LEARN NOT TO PLAN EVERY SINGLE ACTION
·LEARN NOT TO LIVE CONSTANTLY WITH YOUR WATCH AND YOUR WEEKLY-PLANNER IN YOU HAND
·LEARN NOT TO SAY: "NOW I'LL WROTE DOWN THIS, AND I'LL DO IT ASAP" (THERE'S ALWAYS
TIME TO DO SOMTHING YOU WANTED TO DO )
·LEARN NOT TO GET IN PANIC IF SOMETHING YOU PLANNED IS GONE
·LEARN TO SMILE MORE OFTENI
·LEARN TO ACCEPT THE CRISTICS FROM THE OTHERS
·LEARN TO ENJOY THE SILENCE AND THE "SWEETNES" IN DOING NOTHING
·LEARN NOT TO FEEL CONSTANTLY OBBLIGED TOWARDS THE OTHERS
·LEARN TO CHECK THE SIGNS THAT YOUR BODY SENDS YOU
·LEARN TO BE SO CRITIC WITH YOURSELF
·LEARN TO LEARN FROM THE OTHERS
·LEARN NOT TO ENJOY YOUR ACCUMULATED STRESS
·LEARN TO SAY NO
·LEARN TO ADMIT AND TO COMMUNICATE WHAT YOU REALLY LIKE
·LEARN THAT YOU'LL BE 20 JUST ONCE

mercoledì 9 maggio 2007

DIGIARTE 2007


Hello everybody,
I'd like to inform you about a very interesting event who's going to be set in Florence : The 4th edition of "Digiarte" - festival dedicated to art, technology and in particular this year, to photography.
"Digiarte" has always proposed very interesting topics, but this year the conferences and the expositions will deal with the "portrait and the photography in the videoart".
That's the link (in italian) where you'll be able to check the programme:
http://www.digiarte.info/index.htm

The special event will be the show about Second Life, where Digiarte 2007 is hosted by the virtaul island intosca.it on Second Life itself.
Her you can see the programme:
http://www.digiarte.info/press_2.htm

More updatings are coming soon...

giovedì 3 maggio 2007

We love complaining!!


Hi guys, I'm so sorry I didn't post anything since weeks...
The point is that I'm back in Italy now (yes...sad, but true!), and my life radically changed...no more erasmus parties, but a lot of deadlines to follow, formalities to respect, etc, etc... C'est la vie!

I'd like to make a comment about a fact that's catching media's attention since a couple of days. It happened during the big concert in Rome for the 1st of May... when the guy who was encharged to conduce the concert had the not so brilliant idea to make a joke about our lovely-Pope... Well,,I've to admit that the comment he made wasn't so brilliant... but the thing who astonished me is the publicity that now he's having due to that fact! From this point of view I can only make my compliments to Andrea Rivera for his smartness.
The most riciculous part of the whole story is the great great attention that the italian media are addressing to the event and to the guy itself.
The point is that basically we love to complain about everything... AND WE ARE ALWAYS MORE RIDICOLOUS! That's nice.........