FERTILIZER BANALIZER

The 1930’s are back.  Music, design, food, fashion and lifestyle are discovering the golden decade which, between two wars, was able to produce the very best in everything. Since we are approaching a new Depression, let’s get ready for a crisis-driven creativity. The best books have been wrtitten during the war, as well as the most outstanding ideas came out when human talent was not distracted by that thing that was once described as the ‘fertilizer-banalizer’: MONEY.

WHAT HAPPENS TO VEGETARIANS

I will never eat grass (okay, if you insist, I’ll try to smoke it). Too much evolution took me ’till where I am today. I am omnivorous. I can’t ignore the wisdom of my ancestors. If I eat meat, there must be a reason. I’m sorry for the cow. Really. I even talk to the horny mammal before eating her. I mean, I’m not ‘eating her’. I just eat a small part. My sin, as you see, is a little one. But my crime is nothing compared to what Vegans do. Talking about which, I would like to remind them (the Vegans, not the cows) that it takes much more unscruplousness to kill a tomato than a cow. The cow can run for her life. She can scream or mooooow, trying to dissuade you. She can even look in your eyes! What about the red little friend? How can you Vegans slice his delicate skin off in such cold blood and then throw the dismembered little guy in a mixed salad where you probably, with the same determination, have already killed onions, potatoes, lettuce, beans, peas and innocent capers? I will never kill a tomato.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHED 3

You can still navigate on paper. The web is a surface where you skid like a pebble. Paper lets you go in depth, choosing your own pace and ruminate what you read. And if you live outdoor, paper can be handy too.

UTOPYA

Utoya, a heart-shaped island 50 kms from Oslo, has been theatre for a massacre where 92 young people have been killed by a madman dressed as a cop. Paradise turned into hell in a matter of seconds. For Norwegians, the end of an utopia.

There are no words to describe such horror and, most of all, the pain and sense of void caused by the criminal act of Anders Behring Breivik. The sculptures of Gustav Vigeland (you can see them in Oslo, at the Sculpture Park) seem prophetic of this act of violence. His work expresses, as well, the incredulity of a nation, the sorrow of the families and the consolation coming from love.

(this post is dedicated to Norway and to the dignity of its peoples)

PUMPS REVOLUTION