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

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

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...

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.........

Campaign pro-lacity launched by a florentine radio

Hey there!
I'll attach here a document found on the site of a florentine radio called Controradio. They're very popular in Florence and in the whole Tuscany, since they try to make a kind of counter-alternative information, dealing with topics of social and political interest.
The document is of course in italian, but I'll try to make a kind of sum up afterwards...

I decided to write this here since this document talk about Laicity: a very hot topic in Italy...an argument that people don't like to discuss about, but that should be better if sometimes they have done it instead of complaining without doing nothing to make an effective change in our society...

Controradio lancia la campagna "UNO STRACCIO DI LAICITà". Lanciata quasi per gioco dai microfoni di Controradio, la campagna ha subito dilagato. Questa mattina abbiamo cominciato scherzando con i nostri ascoltatori: mettiamo uno straccetto colorato alle nostre borse, alle auto, agli scooter, alle finestre, uno straccetto per dichiarare pubblicamente la nostra voglia di laicità e la nostra contrarietà alle pesanti e quotidiane ingerenze del Vaticano nella vita politica italiana. E scegliete voi il colore. Gli ascoltatori hanno scelto: rosa scuro (porpora?).
Un microfono aperto lanciato quasi per gioco si è trasformato subito in un diluvio di telefonate per testimoniare la voglia di laicità. Da questa mattina a Controradio (via del Rosso Fiorentino 2b, 50142 Firenze) sono disponibili straccetti per tutti. E sono già decine gli ascoltatori che sono passati a ritirarlo. Coloriamo la città, come già è accaduto a Firenze, con le bandiere della pace e gli straccetti bianchi di Emergency. Oltre alle telefonate continue stiamo ricevendo anche proposte - da parte di edicolanti, commercianti, benzinai - di essere punto di distribuzione degli straccetti. Siamo tutti divorziati (e aspettiamo la comunione), siamo tutti conviventi, siamo tutti gay, siamo tutti credenti e tutti laici. Ma vogliamo che lo stato sia laico. Contro lo scontro di civiltà. Contro la campagna vaticana martellante, pesante e volgare, giorno dopo giorno che iddio mette in terra. A questa volontà scientifica di provocazione, laici e credenti (uniti nella lotta) rispondono in maniera pacifica, brillante, simpatica, e non violenta.

So... the campaign exposed in the document has been launched as a joke by this radio and it has been made in order to support the right of being a lay State. From the radio's microphones they suggested to the listeners to put a small piece of purple fabric where they would prefer (on the bag, on the scooter, inside the car, on the wrist...) to declare the own claim for laicity and to yell against the constant intromission of the Vatican in the italian politics.
As it was for the Social Forum when Florence was all colored by the "Peace flags", let's try to do the same now with those purple stripes and claim our wish, our need of laicity!

I'll briefly try to translate here just the last sentences of the document, since I found them very beautiful:
...We are all divorced (and we're waiting for the communion), we're all partners, we're all gays. But we want that our State as a lay State. Against the civilian fight. Against the dull, bothering and vulgar Vatican campaign. (...) At this scientific wish of provocation both lay people and believers (togehter in the fight) answer in a pacific, brilliant, funny and not violent way.

...followed by Stockholm

Well...without words. Stockholm is such a brillian amazing city! Trust me...it's first of all, very romantic...entirely made by islands; then it's very active and full of life. In every corner there's something to discover, and the different parts of the city are also very different by the others. Of course it's possible to find any kind of place according to the tastes of everyone (also to the very tourists...of course...eh eh!)
If u want to have a panoramic view of the city it's enough going on th top of some hills and being fashinated watching down.
Two days (as to say the time that I spent there) are really nothing to visit Stockholm... but if u've the chance to have a nice guide as Anders (my couchsurfer) has been with me, u'll discover the main interesting points of the city sooner! :)

And about the feelings related with the city...I don't know... i've been there too short to give my real poit of view... But my first impression has been of a very active city...not kind of slow as Copenhagen for example (that's still beautiful, not misunderstand me,please!).
And...the last but not the least, Swedish people, finally, CROSS THE STREET WITH THE RED LIGHTCROSS!! Thank you guys!! Eh eh! :D

A short trip in the middle of Scandinavia... Helsinki first...

Hey men, hey dudes...
sorry to everybody (to whom,then?! How many people could ever read my blog?! 2-3... whenever...!, I didn't upload anything for a life...
I'll try to solve my debts now...

Well,,I just came back from an amazing short (very)Scandinavian trip. I'v been in Helsinki (to meet my lovely ex-flatmate Manza, alias Fab) and then to Stockholm. I travelled 6 days in all - if I also count the wonderfull 10 hours by bus from Stockholm to Copenhagen...lovely...! -

Anyway...what can I say?! Helsinki from the poit of view of the city is not wonderful...but it's just according to personal tastes I guess... It's a post-industrial city...so the downtown is mainly new-bulided, with loads of shopping-centers and bran new buildings.
But from the naturalistic point of view it's something amazing... really I can't describ it with words...and also the pics I took are so distant from the truth... So, the only chance u have to understand is to come and see! :)
I don't wanna be too long...but we went to this island calles Suomenlina which is a UNESCO property. Basically...that's "nothing special" there...but it's exactly this which makes of Suomenlina an incredible place. The nature is absolutely wild...and the human intervation is still not so strong.
Another wonderful island is called the Squirrels island, and we went there to make a pic-nic and playing frisbee. That's anothere mazing place...where the light was so bright and white that was hard to keep on walking without th sun glasses. (And that's a kind of paradox if u think that in some points ofth island there was still the ice or the snow...)
We went there in a too cozy cafè there which used to be a house for fishermen and which is now runned by a family. That's the kind of place where the coffe, even if it's just coffe, has got a different taste... and from where u can stay there watching the iced-sea and thinking about...nothing...?!


I don't know...I really would like to write more (that's my problem...if I start writing I hardly stop soon...! Opssss!), but maybe it's better if I'll stop here and I'll keep on talking briefly about the wonderful Stockholm in the next page!