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From the archive: By your powers combined… (2006)
Somewhere in the politically correct cartoon world of 1990’s America, five college kids stand in a circle, their faces tight with worry. Their thumbs are nervously twisting rings adorned with what could be an opal or a piece of green plastic; they eye each other off. They all thought this planet saving game was over last week and had retired to their culture-centric ghettos thinking they could rest easy for a few years. But no, oil had been dumped somewhere,…
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From the archive: Hopscotch (2006)
The rain pelts down as Johnson peers over the slippery dip, the distorted plastic bending under the pressure of his troops sliding one by one into the woodchip gravel below. They pull their undeveloped limbs together like missiles and toboggan down the turns; left, left, left, right, left. The good ones hit the ground running. The weakest don’t make it, their little feet skid until they lay face up, drenched and forgotten at the other end of the battlefield. Every…
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From the archive: Tactility (2006)
Come on, just this once… think of it as an adventure.She absentmindedly pulls wandering strands of hair behind her ears. Her head tilts quizzically. He looks up at her sideways; his cheek nestled in freshly cut grass.“I don’t know, Jess. Seems a little risky.” Jessica reads his lips.He frowns, pulls his right hand to his face and drums the tips of his bony fingers across his forehead, left to right. A sign to which she frowns in return.Boring. She laughs…
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From the archive: Good One (2006)
As the sun fades behind the edges of Central Station’s clock tower, the men and women, workers and romantics alike, dissipate, leaving us sitting on the grass, slightly shivering.At the bottom of the hill stands an Aboriginal man, unsteady on his feet, and as we descend he tries to find his voice. He croaks and steadies himself before looking me dead in the eye, his lip curled slightly upwards.“Brother…”I come a little closer.“‘ey Brother, can you spare…” He struggles with…
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Maschere Transumane
Handmade Papier-mâché masks, water-coloured and sealed with a transparent opaque finish.
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Review: XP-Pen Artist 12 (Pen Tablet Screen)
A perfect graphics tablet for travel and portable working.
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Maschera: Beato B.
Maschera fatta a mano in Toscana, su commissione.
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Mask – Handmade in Tuscany, on commission.
Carta pesta, acquarelli, plastica e elastico.
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Photography: Lorenza
Modella: Lorenza Metozzi
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Location: CasermArcheologica
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Photography: In the studio with Keith and the Girl
I had the great privilege of meeting Keith Malley and Chemda of Keith and the Girl last time I was in New York. So, to celebrate their thirteen years of podcasting (and the 12 and a half years I’ve listened to them five times a week), here are some photos in the studio during the recording of two episodes.
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Workflow addition: XP-Pen “Artist 22E” Pen Tablet
I waited a long time after receiving my Artist 22E before writing this review, because after using, and loving, my Artist 10S, I wanted to really put the 22E through its paces.
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Elena (Febbraio 2017)
Elena
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Febbraio 2017
Private Collection
Prova Tecnica
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Workflow addition: XP-Pen “Artist 10S” Pen Tablet
Some thoughts after a month of incorporating the XP-Pen Artist 10S Pen Display/Graphics Tablet into my workflow.
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‘Ofelia’ nel programma di Premio Pieve 2016!
Sono orgoglioso – a nome mio e della curatrice Mariantonietta Anania – di annunciare che il nostro progetto Ofelia voleva soltanto nuotare da settembre farà parte del prestigioso Premio Pieve Saverio Tutino 2016 dell’Archivio Diaristico Nazionale.
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