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Piana di castelluccio (Gran Piano) is a wonderful plateau (1270 m.) in the Appennine mountains of central Italy; it’s located in Sibillini National Park (Umbria and Marche). In this awesome place there is also the mountain Vettore (2476 m, highest peak of Sibillini) and Castelluccio di Norcia, a small village that lies at 1450 meters, …
Loneliness: Edward Hopper and street photography – Many people feel lonely even in a chaotic city, in the streets and bar among other people. It is really possible to feel alone even when we are surrounded by other people? Often people are lone with their problems and thoughts, sometimes sitting in a bar, sometimes walking …
Many people don’t know that Stanley Kubrick was a great street photographer before becoming a famous movie director. He directed masterpieces as 2001 A space odissey, Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A clockwork orange, Barry Lindon, Eyes wide shut and so on… Kubrick is absolutely one of my favourite director. I love his way of filming, …
First series of street photography images taken by me with smartphone in Rome. In such way smartphone is the better camera to do street photography: it isn’t invasive and is always with you in every place (work, church, street, home, gym)! Thanks to modern technology quality is good enough for street photography, moreover in this …
Quick reflections about red in photography, painting and cinema. Red, the color of love and passion, but also the color of violence and blood. Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another …
I want more life, father… Wonderful quote from Blade Runner, the cult sci-fi movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1982 with Harrison Ford as Deckard, the main character of the story. Opening quote is taken from movie scene where android Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) ask his creator for “more life”… Blade Runner is based …
The Mule review- The last movie directed and interpreted by Clint Eastwood. Directed by: Clint Eastwood Genre: thriller, action, road movie Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Michael Pena, Alison Eastwood, Laurence Fishburn Running time: 116 minutes Official synopsis (Warner Bros): Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and …
Surrealism is an artistic movement born in Europe in the early 1920s as an evolution of dadaism. Here is Breton’s surrealist manifesto published in 1924: “Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought. …