Non chiederci la parola » Exhibit photo report

That was a great evening, folks!
Thanks to all the attendants for their incredible support, thanks to the gallery for the marvellous chance they gave us, thanks to Francesca Tognaccini & Marco Mantovani for their beautiful pictures and, finally, thanks to Luca Spagnoli & Matteo Benci for the great gig they performed.
Our fabulous exhibit lasts till Fri 17th, feel free to go there and take a look at the photographs!

New Exhibit » Non chiederci la parola

non chiederci la parola

english-flag On the 11th of June (this saturday) I will be exhibiting my photographs together with photographers Francesca Tognaccini and Marco Mantovani at Civico69, an art cafè situated in Via Ghibellina 69R, Florence. The event will inaugurate our collective exhibit, scheduled to last till the 17th of June, which carries the title Non chiederci la parola (Don’t ask us the word – as Eugenio Montale’s famous poetry). The exhibit is based on the intertwining between images and words. During the night musicians Matteo Benci (vocals) and Luca Spagnoli (guitar) will play an acoustic gig. We’ll start at 6 pm and we’ll be offering a small buffet. You can come and enjoy the evening with us and if you like you can purchase our photographs. Free entry.

italian-flag1 Il giorno 11 Giugno 2011 (questo sabato) esporrò le mie foto insieme ai fotografi Francesca Tognaccini e Marco Mantovani alla galleria Civico69, in Via Ghibellina 69R a Firenze. L’evento inaugura la nostra mostra collettiva, che durerà fino al 17 Giugno, intitolata Non chiederci la parola (come la famosa poesia montaliana). La mostra gioca sull’intreccio fra immagini e parole. Durante la serata i musicisti Matteo Benci (voce) e Luca Spagnoli (chitarra) si esibiranno in un concerto acustico. Cominceremo alle 18 e ci sarà anche un piccolo buffet. Siete invitati tutti a condividere la serata con noi; potrete anche acquistare le nostre foto. L’entrata è gratuita.

pl 11 czerwca 2011 (w sobotę) będę wystawiać moje zdjęcia z fotografami Francesca Tognaccini i Marco Mantovani na galerii Civico69, na ulicy Ghibellina 69R we Florencji. Wydarzenie to będzie inauguracją naszej zbiorowej wystawy, zaplanowany na okres do 17 czerwca, która nosi tytuł Non chiederci la parola (Nie zapytaj nam słowa – jak poezjia Eugenia Montalego). Wystawa dotyczy związków między obrazami i słowami. W nocy muzycy Matteo Benci (piosenkarz) i Luca Spagnoli (gitarzysta) zagrają koncert akustyczny. Zaczniemy o osiemnastej i będzie mały bufet. Mogą Państwo przyjść i spędzać wieczór z nami, a jeśli chcą kupić nasze fotki. Wstęp wolny.

info: www.civico69.com // info@civico69.com

Vernissage – Giù le mani dall’acqua!

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In vista del prossimo referendum, Nagalleria organizza un vernissage con fotografie – realizzate da me – e altre installazioni artistiche per promuovere il SÌ all’acqua pubblica.
Per chi fosse interessato, l’evento si svolgerà presso Nagalleria sabato 4 giugno dalle ore 20 in poi. Le foto rimarranno esposte fino al 9 giugno.
Nagalleria è in Via Romana 9/R, a Firenze.

» Visita il sito di Nagalleria «
» Leggi le informazioni sul referendum «

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Animali, terapia dell’anima – 1st prize

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I won the first prize at a national photo contest titled ‘Animali, terapia dell’anima’ (Animals, therapy for the soul) organized by I Gatti di Osiride O.N.L.U.S. (an association of volunteers engaged in the rescue and protection of abandoned animals) with the township of Fano (PU, Italy) and Santa Maria del Suffragio school of photography.
The picture above is the one I entered the contest with. The theme of the contest was the animal world with a special attention towards the relationship between men and animals, with the aim of underlining the importance of a correct relation to animals and the benefits the contact with them brings to humans.

Read the account of the contest and see the other winning pictures » here «

The exhibit of the pictures is taking place at Caffè del Pasticciere in Fano and will last till the 15th of June 2011. A further selection of the pictures will be shown at Guerrieri di Piagge in Piagge (PU, Italy) for the initiative ‘Cantive Aperte’ taking place on the 28th and 29th of May.

Contest: Naturaᶰ

english-flag Please support me! I entered a photo contest called ‘Naturaᶰ’ with this photograph.
Please register on this website and vote for me! My photo is titled ‘Un ponte fra terra e acqua’ and my nickname is ferdydurke. Five stars are appreciated.

italian-flag1 Ho bisogno del vostro aiuto! Mi sono iscritta a un concorso fotografico intitolato “Naturaᶰ” con la fotografia qua sopra.
Per favore, registratevi su questo sito e votatemi! La mia foto è intitolata “Un ponte fra terra e acqua” e il mio nickname è ferdydurke. Sono gradite 5 stelline.

pl Proszę Państwo mnie pomagają! Wstąpiłam do konkursu fotograficznego o nazwie „Naturaᶰ ” z tego zdjęcia.
Proszę, zarejestrować się na tej stronie internetowej i głosować na mnie! Moje zdjęcie jest zatytułowane „Un ponte fra e terra acqua” i mój nick, to „ferdydurke”. Pięć gwiazdek są mile widziane.

:) Thank you / Grazie / Dziękuję bardzo!

Weariness.

italian-flag1 Non credo di avere le parole adatte ad esprimere ciò che provo in questo momento. In me c’è innanzitutto delusione per non essere stata fra chi si è preso manganelli in faccia per difendere qualcosa a cui anche io tengo, un valore da salvaguardare perché possa esistere un futuro degno. Mi sono sentita inutile e pavida, ancora di più dopo aver letto le parole “Gli studenti veri sono a casa a studiare”. Io ero a studiare, in effetti. Non metto in dubbio che metà della gente che era per le strade oggi appartenesse a “quelli dei centri sociali, i fuori corso che non studiano”. Non metto nemmeno in dubbio che ci sia chi strumentalizza la faccenda per accaparrarsi un voto in più, o chi ha solo voglia di far casino, o chi non sa nemmeno di cosa ragiona. Io rispondo solo di me stessa e di quello in cui credo io. E quello in cui credo è che questo Paese non abbia un futuro. A nessuno, qui, gliene frega un emerito cazzo del prossimo. Ognuno bada al proprio orticello e alza lo sguardo solo per vedere se piove. Ma finché ci sono le nuvole non si preoccupa di cosa fare per riparare gli ortaggi dell’orticello. E quando poi piove, lascia tutto lì. Scrollata di spalle, “Eh, ormai”. In Italia vanno bene solo due atteggiamenti: quello di chi succhia il sangue al prossimo suo finché ce n’è, e quello di chi gli porge le vene e si gira a guardare da un’altra parte. Se siete così, per voi ci sarà sempre un futuro. Ci saranno gruppi di illuminati demagogi a guidare le vostre scelte, ci saranno facili ideologie pronte a catturarvi, ci saranno l’ignoranza e l’arroganza a proteggervi dalla verità. Ma se questo non vi sta bene, se per esempio vorreste che in futuro vostro figlio frequentasse l’università sapendo che i suoi e i vostri sacrifici verranno ripagati, e questo è un esempio molto generico rispetto a tanti altri che potrei fare, bene allora l’Italia non ha niente da offrirvi. Andatevene, regalate energie fisiche e mentali, regalate la vostra intelligenza a qualcuno che la possa apprezzare e la sappia incanalare al meglio. Non illudetevi che qui si possa cambiare qualcosa: se protestate, andranno avanti come i muli anche se tirate estintori contro le finestre delle loro case. Nessuna rivoluzione culturale, sociale o politica attecchirà mai in questo Paese. Forse, cosparsa la penisola di napalm, forse dico, giungeremmo a una soluzione. Ma non sono così certa che non riuscirebbero a trovare un escamotage anche dal napalm.

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(foto: la Repubblica)

Quel che mi ha fatto ribollire più il sangue, oggi, è stato vedere la foto di questa demente che sorride con il pugnetto alzato, questa defecata demente stramaledettissima troia che sta lì solo per averla data a qualcheduno, e che ci sta ovviamente senza che gliene possa sbattere una beneamata minchia dell’Istruzione (o di qualsiasi altra cosa), e per la quale tutto è come un giochino carino, che non mette in ballo il futuro di milioni di giovani, la RISORSA di ogni civiltà. 307 SI’, 252 NO. “S’è vinto noi, gnè gnè gnè!”
Quando anche Bossi dà (parzialmente) ragione a chi manifesta allora qualcosa di marcio, ma VERAMENTE marcio dev’esserci per forza, no?
Orsù, piegamoci dunque tutti quanti, per l’ennesima volta, a pi greco mezzi, e diciamo anche grazie al padrone.

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english-flag I won’t translate all this into english, but anyway I will sum up: Min. Gelmini is trying -and this far succeeding in- destroying Italian University and I’m MAD.

Have a look here and google “Gelmini university bill” or something like this if you’re interested in further infos (I hope you’re not, I do hope you still have a decent school system in your countries and that you are able to STUDY IN FUCKING PEACE).

Newly added pictures

…Nope, I’m not dead, only I have been lurking out there for a while :)

I’ve just added a bunch of pictures on the live gigs section of my portfolio. A few are from CircleIICircle + Jon Oliva’s Pain concert held at Z7 in Pratteln (CH) on October the 13th. When I find some time to postproduce the other ones from that venue, I will immediately post them here :) The other photos are from the Savatage-tribute-band-called-Poets&Madmen concert which took place at Exenzia Club in Prato (IT) a week ago. These guys are awesome and need your support, so please check out their myspace and/or facebook page.

Hope ya enjoy the photos :)

Exhibit/Mostra

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english-flag   On the 1st October 2010 I will be exhibiting my photographs together with Marco Mantovani‘s at Civico69, an art cafè situated in Via Ghibellina 69R, Florence. The event is meant to be the presentation of pianist Lorenzo Pinto‘s début cd Frammenti di Silenzio and he will be playing his songs off it. We’ll start at 7.30 pm and we’ll be offering a small buffet. You can come and enjoy the evening with us and if you like you can purchase our photographs (and, obviously, Lorenzo Pinto’s cd). Free entry.

italian-flag1   Il giorno 1 Ottobre 2010 esporrò le mie foto insieme a Marco Mantovani alla galleria Civico69, in Via Ghibellina 69R a Firenze. L’evento è pensato come presentazione dell’album di esordio di Lorenzo Pinto, Frammenti di Silenzio, i cui brani verranno performati dal pianista durante la serata. Cominceremo alle 19:30 e ci sarà anche un piccolo buffet. Siete invitati tutti a condividere la serata con noi; potrete anche acquistare le nostre foto (e, ovviamente, il cd di Lorenzo Pinto). L’entrata è gratuita.

Lorenzo Pinto – http://www.myspace.com/lorenzopinto
Marco Mantovani - http://www.caleidoscopio.co.uk/
Civico69 – http://www.civico69.com/info@civico69.com

About Portnoy leaving Dream Theater

When I first heard about it I was shocked. By ‘shocked’ I mean more something like ‘not understanding’ – it was like hearing that kind of thing you once stated you’ll never hear in your life, because you’re firmly convinced that such thing can never happen. Such as ‘water stopped boiling at 100°C: now it boils at -40°C.”. Then I read the press, his interview and the announcement on Dream Theater’s site and I got a lump in my throat. Of course regarded the five Dream Theater members as five specifical men with their own peculiar personality (such as Myung being a Silent Man), but to me they were just One. And if you take away a part of the One, the One is no more One but, you know, One minus something, 4/5. Portnoy was the leader and soul of the band (from both a metaphorical and a musical point of view). Without him, it simply makes no sense.
Dream Theater are the first metal band I’ve listened to in my life. More properly, their music was the first music I got to love. My brother bought Images & Words by accident – he wanted to buy some other band’s cd but was mistaken with the name and thus came home with I&W. I vaguely remember those times, cause I was like 5 or something like that, but I remember listening to Surrounded and appreciating it. Later, when I was around 10 I started listening to Images&Words and LOVING it (I always skipped Under A Glass Moon, but one day I just started to enjoy it, and that’s all). Then came the time of Falling Into Infinity. I used to listen to it on MC. Several hours a day. I loved to stroll by my town with my headphones on – and I laughed like an idiot every time the battery was low and LaBrie’s voice sounded monstrously distorted. Then came Scenes From a Memory. I translated all the lyrics into my language, I took ‘Victoria Page’ as a pen name, I spent hours and days on my bed listening to SFAM, and my books, blog, bags, were full of dreamtheaterness. I attended my first Dream Theater concert when I was not even 14. It was held right in my town. I was standing in the first row, right in front of John Myung. It was Petrucci’s birthday and someone was holding a flag on which they had written ‘Happy birthday, John’. It was SDOIT tour, and I remember LaBrie coming on the stage when About To Crash started. They played Surrounded and I kept weeping.
I attended six more Dream Theater concerts. In the meanwhile, my enthusiasm towards them kind of severely diminished when Octavarium came out. Up to that moment, I had Loved every single song they wrote. Now, how to deal with Octavarium? I love the title track, and there’s a few songs (Panick Attack – Never Enough – Sacrificed Sons) I enjoy listening to but The Answer Lies Within is the most DULL and USELESS thing I’ve ever heard, I Walk Beside You sounds like a song by U2 and The Root of All Evil is nice but, well, it’s totally Velvet Revolver. The fact is that the cd never really impressed me and, truth to be told, I even had to check the tracklist to write this post. And that would’ve never happened before. I overall preferred Systematic Chaos, though initially when listening to Constant Motion and The Dark Eternal Night I had the impression I was listening to Metallica (in the bad sense of it). But then I heard them played live and they kicked ass. The fact is, once again I wasn’t very convinced. The strike came with Black Clouds & Silver Linings. I won’t spend my time trying to say something appropriate about it. You just cannot say anything. Except: Oh my fucking God, how did this happen, where did rythm hide, this is pure nonsense, please save my ears from the first two tracks, please STOP, I said STOP for God’s sake! ((my actual reaction was far WORSE)).
But, on a lighter side, there were concerts. I mean, Concerts. The gigs never lasted less than 2 hours and were astonishingly great. The last concert I attended was in June 2009 – Dream Theater were headliners at Gods of Metal (a metal festival held annually in Italy). It was the BC&SL tour, but they played just two songs from that album, then made a huge Something and everyone there was clapping and jumping. There were thousands of people and I guess surely no more than the 60% was there for DT, but even those brutal metallers who are disguted by anything which is not growled, hissed and vomited, were clapping, even the Slipknot fans! I was at the top of the tiers and was seeing this huge tide of people and all their heads were looking towards the DT stage. So holy crap, what a terrific experience! They made the earth tremble! They made me weep as when I was 14, listening to Surrounded in my own city at my first concert in the front row! GEEZ..
Let me tell you once again: to me Mike Portnoy is the soul of Dream Theater, the solid basis without which the whole system would collapse. I truly hope that DT will find again their commitment and inspiration and that they will write another Scenes From A Memory (that is to say, a masterpiece). But actually, I just don’t believe it. And anyway, no more Portnoy equals to no more Dream Theater. It’s like when Savatage fans tell you Savatage ain’t the same stuff without Jon Oliva, or when Megadeth fans tell you Megadeth ain’t the same stuff without Marty Friedman. To me, Dream Theater ain’t the same stuff without Mike Portnoy. You don’t have to agree, and you don’t have to tell me I look like an adolescent, being sad about it. But I guess *this* is what music is all about: PASSION. Dream Theater’s words and music have been such an inspiration to me, I’ve loved them from the very innermost depths of me. Once two dearest friends of mine even made a birthday cake onto which they had placed a Dream Theater logo made of icing and chocolate. So DT were literally my food. I was so saddened by the decline I saw in their latest LPs, and now I won’t ever see again MP’s octopus-like drums being covered by a black cloth before DT shows and I won’t ever see anymore MP at the end of the gig wearing his awful bathrobe and, again, truth be told, I won’t probably ever see another DT show in my life.  The Dream Theater collapsed. Fuck off.

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[photo: Oct 25, 2007  Bologna, Italy - Land Rover Arena]

Site renew’d

After almost two years I’m back in town with a new version of Dry Veins! I deleted some bullshit and all I left is, well, photography.
I deeply enjoy this new layout and I simply *love* WordPress – I guess sluggishness won’t anymore represent a solid excuse not to update this site, cause it’s too simple to do that, lol.
Hadn’t it been for my brother, my site would probably still be on hiatus. Dear geek brother, thank you very much. (But don’t think you’re safe now!)

Navigation is dummies-friendly so I guess I don’t need to explain what to do – just do that.
I will appreciate every comment/question/suggestion about the site and my photographs, so feel free to write me.
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A word to the wise.

Forse un mattino andando in un'aria di vetro,
arida, rivolgendomi, vedrò compiersi il miracolo:
il nulla alle mie spalle, il vuoto dietro
di me, con un terrore di ubriaco.

Poi come s'uno schermo, s'accamperanno di gitto
alberi case colli per l'inganno consueto.
Ma sarà troppo tardi; ed io me n'andrò zitto
tra gli uomini che non si voltano, col mio segreto

(Eugenio Montale)