Archive for January, 2008

An interview and an italian plane

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I’ve had the pleasure of exchanging a thorough and engaging email dialogue with the Peter van der Lugt editor and founder of the excellent GhibliWorld.com. The interview is going live today on their site. I am such a geek about all regarding Ghibli and Miyazaki that I could’ve gone on for hours on most of [...]

Sweding

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I can’t wait to see Michel Gondry’s upcoming Be kind rewind. The film’s website is pretty fun, get acquainted with sweding! Might be time to swede yourself.

World Wide SketchCrawl #17

Monday, January 7th, 2008

A reminder, the first global drawing marathon of the year 2008 is in less than two weeks, on saturday January 19th! Come by the SketchCrawl forums and let us know from which corner of the world you’ll be drawing from. Let’s make this a big one!

A Gipi fix

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Gipi posted some amazing pages a few days ago, get your gipi fix here. Pirates! Yeah! Oh! And while you are at it, check these drawings by Claudio Acciari. These guys just blow me away, fantastic. Forza Italia!

Italian fables

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

I’ve started reading “Fiabe Italiane” edited by Italo Calvino a few days ago and I am loving it. He divided and organized fables and tales by their region of provenance and it’s been a pleasure to read the Ligurian (the region i come from) ones to start. Calvino grew up in San Remo, he was [...]

New header images

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Rainy rainy saturday, what better day to waste a couple of hours making new header images? I added sixty new ones mostly from the Maui trip, this blog now has more than a hundred header photos rotating at its top. Want to see them all? Here’s the image directory. Want to use one of these [...]

Make your own notebook journal

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Oh I like this video at photojojo.com very much. Nice and simple way to recycle paper and have unique and handmade notebooks !
link via notebookism

Photoblogs of the year

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Care for some stunning photography? Here’s the the link you need. Enjoy.

What have you changed your mind about? Why?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

I followed an interesting link from the TedBlog and found this fascinating collection of essays answering the question “What have you changed your mind about in 2007? Why?”. I’d have to think hard about that to come up with my own answer, but in the meanwhile reading all these prominent figures answers is quite illuminating. [...]

Happy New Year!

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

2008! Wow hard to believe it uh? Well it’s here … and I wanted to wish you all a fantastic new year ahead of you! I especially wish you best of luck with all your creative endeavors. Godspeed! Gambattene! In bocca al lupo! And thank you for reading this little blog, I appreciate your participation [...]