Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Homemade Margarita Mix Recipe

going south

It was an intense month, April. A month of travel, meetings, initiatives and new friends.
The last, but only in chronological order, are the inhabitants of Cupello in the province of Chieti where the archive was called last Sunday.
The occasion was a great event organized by the Culture Frank Bruno, Scripta volant , which is logically connected to the World Book Day .
The atmosphere was cozy and right noise, as befits a party . Because of this it was a feast of books and reading. In Stock
which presented the book Annacarla Valeriano (remember? Talked about that here ), creating a link between paper and video, including text and moving images: after all, so maybe the books will not be the future?
And there was talk of the future because the municipality has accepted our request to create a collection point for the film Cupello family and surroundings. But we'll talk again.

Monday, April 26, 2010

How To Make A Swingbike

April 25 for (R) There

On 25 April, for me, has always been an important date. I've always had a desire to share this moment of remembrance of our great history with others. When I was in high school (many years ago), organized in full swing, a public reading of letters death row inmates' resistance . That text was for us and for me a source of great emotion, he made us feel the greatness and the fragility of those men, those young people approaching death with equanimity, at times, with regret and anger at not being able to capture more of life, driven by the ideals and civic passion. As rightly suggests Zagrebelski Gustavo, who wrote the introduction to the latest edition of the book "Letters Sentenced to death of the Italian Resistance " (ed. Einaudi ) this book was considered a Once "one of the training books that put young people are faced with the ethical issues." But in his interviews also adds a little more, a question arises: "What made us change ? Because these words appear they come from a world so distant from our own? ".

Already thing. This year I decided to change the script. I decided to pass an April 25 different from other years. I slipped the book into a bag, I took the train and left for Naples. I learned to read the book excerpts randomly choosing a bit 'on the train and a bit' in Naples in search of initiatives for the week of culture, wanting to find some unusual aspect of the usual chaotic and Naples.

As I paused to read, I looked around, intensity and passion of those poignant words bounced a routine deafening, glanced to get some signal, and although few posters on the walls, a lot of rhetoric, I felt that the distance from the public that " way of being "now has become abysmal.

The newspapers reported that April 25 was a television, a chance for politicians to fight each other (?), Fini and Berlusconi, to be present, always, television and the media. He even has been much talk the fact that Berlusconi has participated for the first time in the celebrations of 25 April. Beautiful view. What light is this? What this tells us meravigliasi ? The cynicism has no limits now. You can change the face of opinion and what you want, you can do it shamelessly, highlighting its objectives with dazzling clarity. In fact, the resistance will not give a damn about anyone, but rather a reminder that we must get rid of as a place for the founding of our republic. The trick, if I may say so is to get hold of to clear meaning. Made an argument "as the other" (including jokes) is uprooted from its breeding ground and utilized as a tool to overshadow the other "competitor".

I'm not here to dwell on the real purpose of such spectacular. What I want to point out is that the logic of communication tends to flatten everything. For it is not necessary to deny or criticize something (this would be an act of opposition that would lead to a dialectic and perhaps a critical thinking), we must instead narcotize making any superficial thing, which is unrelated to the search for truth, authenticity. It seems that in today's world these words are inappropriate. Indeed we must be cautious not to fall into utter rhetoric or not to cross over into fanaticism and fundamentalism.

The only thing I say is that all this must be resisted. That is why, as a lay hermit, I wanted these letters as "prayers, meditations intended for my (our)" soul "civil. For one day I was free by the deafening noise of the trains and the city.

Ulrich

Some sites to visit: http://www.storiaxxisecolo.it/documenti/documenti7.html ; http://www.storiaxxisecolo.it/resistenza/resistenza.html ; http://www.italia-liberazione.it/it/cortometraggiofornari.php ;.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Stuffing For Draught Excluders

Traveling the world second stage: Ravenna

Dear friends,
continue our journey around Italy for further study of family films and issues related to them. Saturday I'll be 24 in Ravenna as guest of the day's international study entitled: "Methods of family forms of photographic representation, family photo archives" organized by the SISF (Italian Society for the Study of Fotofrafia) and the Depart of History and Methods of Conservation Cultural Heritage University of Bologna.
The event begins today and ends Saturday and will be an opportunity for reflection on family archives (photography and film), their management, conservation, documentation and organization on how to study them.
You can read the abstracts of all interventions, including my own, here. In return you
tell ...
Annacarla Valeriano

Sunday, April 18, 2010

White Cm 1 Week Before Period

Around the world: Reggio Emilia

starting again, this time to Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia, where the Observatory, the Space Gerra, Home Movies and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia have organized a beautiful and wide initiative (of which you can read here and here ) that will conclude with a panel discussion on The family movie and "our history" . This was presented as follows: April 19 hours 17

Gallery of the University Library Ex Zucchi Barracks, Viale Allegri 9
The family movie and "our history"
Roundtable by Vanni Coderre and Paul Simon (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia).
films collected by the private observatory project Reggio Emilia become the object of study, such as unpublished testimonies of the society of the last century, locally and nationally. The meeting with historians, economists and sociologists take place during the course of documentary cinematography.
Among historians invited I will be there with a speech on family films as sources for the story, which I will tell you something else in a future post.

For now I can tell you that the work they have made friends of Home Movies is as always impeccable in terms of technical and very, very interesting in all other respects. Some examples? Here it is:











few comments when I return. Andrea Sangiovanni

Monday, April 12, 2010

Vanguard Versus Edward Jones Costs

Put one night a. .. Loreto Aprutino

What we do in Loreto Aprutino?
A notice of collection of amateur movies and family!
The initiative was made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Cultural Association of Loreto and its president, Fausto Roncone, active for over thirty years in the territory of Loreto in the promotion of cultural and sensitive to issues of preservation and enhancement of local historical memory.
Friday, April 9, was held at the town of Loreto, the IMAX presentation of our partnership: as a frame an evening dedicated to the memory of two local cineamatori, Carmine and John Giovanetti Blasetti. In a crowded cinema looks surprised and curious, we relived, through the evocative footage of the two cinemas, a piece of the history of Loreto Aprutino: old professions have disappeared, but even a walk in the center of the country on the day of the market, some films have reconstructed memories locked in a drawer for years.
Now comes the fun part: In the coming months we will begin to transfer movies and amateur family that the families of Loreto will share with us to help give back to the community of Loreto other pieces of its history and its memory.
All those who are in possession of older films are invited to participate: the end of the gathering was set for July 31.
you there!