on the return

en route 66, western arizona

wim wenders was here, for a workshop with bauhaus students and to talk about his films with the audience. as there was nobody to pose the first question after the screening of »the state of things« in our »lichthaus« theatre in the old weimar streetcar shed, i said, »my question is not exactly about the movie, but more genereal. a couple of months ago you were on kqed in san francisco, and a friend of mine called and asked you about rilke, handke, wings of desires, and what your inspirations were.« now, my question for wenders was how he felt about the visuality of the u.s., and if he remembered his epiphany with america and photography. wenders said that it was in new york, at the age of 26 when he first came to the u.s. and didn't do anything but taking pictures with his polaroid and watching american tv. because things you had seen so many times before looked even better in your own pictures. and american tv was so different from german tv with its 2 public channels. after a while, wenders said, he found that what was so fascinating about the us is that it is so attractive at first, and disgusting at a closer look. and since it has been like this. »but you want to know even more, i guess.«

»I'm on the path to my self, the unknown«

i called on a wim

First attempt at animating smth

Der Himmel über Berlin

»although I know you« 10/11/08

Sardegna

nouvelles de Paris

Long time coming...

I have been wordless for so very long, but you are all very much in my heart... I need to share my coming journeys... looks like Ill be departing from la tierra de liberdad, shortly. Unfortunately, it doesnt quite live up to it's title...
this is just a reminder that Im here saying HI!

Zeitgeist

You guys please watch this.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/index.html

Ils sont fous, ces Romains (?)

somaesthetics

>>Somaesthetics is devoted to the critical, ameliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning.<<

Richard Shusterman: Performing Live. Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art, Ithaca 2000, p. 138.

Sadly we won...

I thought Smirne would have been a better choice.
EXPO

spring 08

on friday in our next-door "mountains"
hello to all.

Rendez-vous à Paris!

Bibia!
Juliette!
Nicolò!
Ci vediamo sabato.

summer 08

waiting for the president///onion royals///science city 08///school's out///country cool

When you truly believe in Fascism, one hand is not enough.

Italy sucks.

I would like to get rid of my Italian citizenship, people up there at the governement should be ashamed of themselves.
May I suggest an article.


This one.


This is a picture of the opposition POURING CHAMPAGNE AND EATING MORTADELLA when Prodi lost the vote of confidence in the Senate.

just be ings

near my village in the north, dec. 31st

bonne annee soma!

hope and fear the future

new visions

The Birth of Jesus Christ. Drawing from the World Chronicle of Otto von Freising (1157/85). State and University Library of Thuringia, Jena Ms. Bos. q. 6, 39r (clipping). There are only two remaining copies of this history book worldwide, a younger one is stored at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milano.

What?

Di ritorno da Lyon

Moleskine+Photoshop

pres pour l'envol

rien ne peut m'arreter

meme pas une pate en moins

a bientot alors...

go and see

>>Auf der anderen Seite<< >>De l'autre Coté<< >>Ai Confini del Paradiso<< >>The Edge of Heaven<< Four titles for one movie. The French is closest to the original. How many meanings does the title convey, how many stories the movie tell? [hint: iDentity, simple, double, multiple, changing between the places, integration]. Well, find out. For now, I can only highly recommend Fatih Akin's new movie.
picture: Summer in St. Nazaire, 2007

Un altro muro parigino

Quand je regarde mon chat, je pense que cette beauté est une vertu.

Dusseldorf: K21 ||| Paris: ENSAD

Buca delle Lettere - Milano

Apres une longue absence/After a long silence

Feelings mixed & confused for now.
too confusing to be talked about.
in the moment.

Leaving the country in days, counting
Too little to do too much. to do where?
tryin. hard.

Weird love stories aquarelling somewhere.

I had warned you
Currently not intelligible.
but still wandering at night camera wide open.

Lessons in Art History II [variation of the same]

in honor of knowledge lost, and knowledge gained

Lessons in Art History I

Un altro muro ancora... davanti alla Femis.

Altro muro parigino

Hello SOMA!

So. Here me and Bibia say hello to the camera, to the sky, and to all of those who at that very moment were not in Paris.
That day Bibia and I went and had a GREAT breakfast at LPQ (Le Pain Quotidien) where they have the greatest hazelnut spread. The tables there are in thick wood and extra-loOong, perfect to have a SOMeAl. So, the next time we hang out all together (...) let's go there.
Yesterday I saw Death of a President - italian TV gets better!- which I very much enjoyed, especially for the use of the typical language of a documentary. It really felt like a real documentary and made me realize how much can be scripted and staged on an actual one. Duh.

picture remix. see http://www.uni-jena.de/~x3wajo. (attention: some browsers mix it up even more. works best with >>camino<<)

Paris

Nico smelling his armpits
in Paris
that's big news
it deserved to travel
all around the world

vanishing?