Archives : March-2011

…Fountain is what we attempted to see pre-tourist-mob this morning (first stop on today’s familial Roman highlights tour), at an early enough hour that we might have it to ourselves, which was almost the case by the time we finally made it there – and having just finished reading Grant Heiken, Renato Funiciello, and Donatella ..

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…(fireworks) light up Rome over Piazza del Popolo viewed from my window tonight, closing Carnevale. A chiusura dell’edizione 2011 del Carnevale Romano, dalla terrazza del Pincio, un grande spettacolo di fuochi d’artificio a cura del Gruppo IX Invicta, ispirato alle sorprendenti scenografie pirotecniche dell’architetto Giovanni Pao..

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…is something I started messing around with a few months ago (featuring a miniature landscape of tufa rocks and scavenged blocks covered with pieces of moss varieties gathered on daily walks) on the part of the roof where water stands after rains or plant-watering and in today’s morning light it is looking picturesque out my studio ..

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…are what surround me now and, graphically speaking, are what give me the most visual and conceptual pleasure these days (maybe because I am a hyper-organized planning-freak who enjoys nothing more than the feeling that I am figuring out my life by figuring out my calendar and plotting my moves on a map), with one ..

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…is the 95 year old newcomer/up-and-coming actress who plays Gianni Di Gregorio’s mother in his new film ‘Gianni e Le Donne‘ (a follow up to his 2008 low budget hit ‘My Mid-August Lunch‘, or ‘Pranzo di Ferroagosto‘ in which she also plays his mother) which we just saw this weekend at the cute Testaccio theater ..

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