<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334</id><updated>2026-09-01T11:15:57.362+02:00</updated><category term="collescipoli"/><category term="culturaltourism"/><category term="eccomi_jazzitfest"/><category term="festival"/><category term="goodmusic"/><category term="italia"/><category term="italy"/><category term="jazz"/><category term="jazzit"/><category term="jazzitFest"/><category term="jazzmusic"/><category term="lovemusic"/><category term="music"/><category term="terni"/><category term="umbria"/><category term="disegno"/><category term="tegneserie"/><category term="24 hcd hic 18 ottobre 2008"/><category term="Jul natale xmas christmas comic fumetto fumetti vg konkurranse"/><category term="Luna"/><category term="Pianoforte"/><category term="burzum"/><category term="lykke"/><category term="lyset"/><category term="minnie pony dinosaurs ariel"/><category term="montagna"/><category term="neve"/><category term="nordeuropa"/><category term="norvegia"/><category term="novanta"/><category term="rispetto"/><category term="suono"/><category term="trilussa"/><category term="wacken 2009 napalm lacuna coil cathedral motorhead split heaven testament"/><category term="wacken 2010"/><title type='text'>Vargie in the sky</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>160</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-5683110283002979862</id><published>2026-03-28T01:21:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2026-03-28T08:23:28.297+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pistacchio</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;C`é una nota catena di supermercati, dove vivo, che ha scelto come slogan &quot;det enkleste er ofte det beste&quot;, una frase che celebra la semplicità. A volte non serve seguire traiettorie complesse per arrivare dove ci si era prefissati, non servono armonie complesse, controtempi impossibili per creare una melodia capace di comunicare direttamente alla parte più nascosta di noi stessi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiV0kruevaSXnk3dO3TlhsUFqKAXwpf8ygnPuh-B5uLIROvUPFYbG5C5O96FPwUk0Ebx92-D5P-dmBbDuz7Uc15gpa_o-JcFLMXp8egBys-Ml9TSFuk50g987IG2XBSQosbPsWCRyAFz1eb3tkHaBXcWxJjELNTOkSE8y_ENYCoYE0bWTWY1VmipgIJk/s2038/IMG_0586.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2038&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1170&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiV0kruevaSXnk3dO3TlhsUFqKAXwpf8ygnPuh-B5uLIROvUPFYbG5C5O96FPwUk0Ebx92-D5P-dmBbDuz7Uc15gpa_o-JcFLMXp8egBys-Ml9TSFuk50g987IG2XBSQosbPsWCRyAFz1eb3tkHaBXcWxJjELNTOkSE8y_ENYCoYE0bWTWY1VmipgIJk/w368-h640/IMG_0586.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;368&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;La mia vita é sempre stata scandita dalla musica. La musica mi ha fatto superare tutti i momenti più difficili, accogliendomi come una cara amica, facendomi trovare un luogo confortevole e sicuro, un etereo safe place dove sparire per poi dopo un po&#39; tornare, guarita, ad affacciarmi sulla quotidianità.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;E no, io non suono. Anche se avrei potuto farlo, dato che ero una bambina prodigio, già all&#39;asilo lo dicevano tutti. Chissà cosa si aspettavano da me. Senza una guida, senza un mentore, senza un adulto che fosse in grado di indicarmi la strada da seguire, quanto lontano avrei potuto mai arrivare? Non imparai mai a suonare uno strumento, nessuno me lo insegnò, ed io avevo altre cose a cui dedicare la mia attenzione. In realtà ne avevo già a sufficienza col cercare di galleggiare. La me stessa di allora era molto ingombrante, psicologicamente.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Per fortuna, la musica. La musica riusciva a calmarmi, e se stavo male alzavo solo il volume un altro po&#39;, e tutto quel rumore nella mia testa scompariva. Sceglievo generi sempre più assordanti, per zittire il resto. Chiudevo gli occhi e scomparivo in quelle melodie che sempre più spesso avevano iniziato a rasentare una vera e propria cacofonia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Col passare del tempo, però ho imparato ad apprezzare anche il silenzio, e posso affermare con cognizione di causa che oggi sono innumerevoli i generi musicali che mi piace ascoltare, a volte anche distrattamente mentre mi dedico ad altre attività. Questo fino a poche settimane fa, quando sul mio cammino ho trovato il &lt;i&gt;pistacchio&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Il &lt;i&gt;pistacchio&lt;/i&gt; ha aperto una porta su luoghi che avevo dimenticato. Lui che neanche sa che esisto, eppure mi parla sottovoce delle mia paure, delle mie fragilità. É come se sapesse tutto, di me. Ed io ho paura. Paura che svanisca. Quando lo guardo vedo tutto il suo dolore, le incrinature, ed ho paura che vada in frantumi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vorrei dirglielo, che tutto questo dolore poi alla fine imparerà a conviverci, perchè non è che poi va via, ma non credo mi ascolterebbe. Anche perchè lo so benissimo com&#39;è, naufragare nella tristezza, nella solitudine. In quello smarrimento che ti ferisce e ti sorprende allo stesso tempo. Lo so benissimo che anche quando ti squarcia l’anima ne inizi a dipendere, e scavi sempre di piú, fino a toccare il fondo. E quindi lo so che lui no, non ne vuole uscire, non ora. Lo so che vuole sprofondare, annegare, sciogliersi nell&#39;agonia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ed a quel punto c’è solo una cosa che gli rimane: la musica, ed io non posso far altro che pregare che gli basti.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/5683110283002979862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/5683110283002979862' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/5683110283002979862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/5683110283002979862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2026/03/pistacchio.html' title='Pistacchio'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeiV0kruevaSXnk3dO3TlhsUFqKAXwpf8ygnPuh-B5uLIROvUPFYbG5C5O96FPwUk0Ebx92-D5P-dmBbDuz7Uc15gpa_o-JcFLMXp8egBys-Ml9TSFuk50g987IG2XBSQosbPsWCRyAFz1eb3tkHaBXcWxJjELNTOkSE8y_ENYCoYE0bWTWY1VmipgIJk/s72-w368-h640-c/IMG_0586.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-4840428579829683354</id><published>2025-02-03T07:53:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2025-02-03T07:53:09.768+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kultur og underholdning: kan vi skille disse to begrepene en gang for alle?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Å skille mellom kultur og underholdning er grunnleggende til å forstå hvor viktig det er å støtte det som danner, for å sikre en fornuftig utvikling til det moderne samfunnet.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdoY0yEDnu8dreEFnnAnjEsGxHiWHNCk5r80xLpRkfgP-YaXYiHjPDjryKIG4aP-MeH2BXHU_ie2GEo0yTavgF894s0aRnbKI6aMrKqf48vhNmG8tRuM7_akWRTfVFzisHXlgjM2JgLPxU9WufPUDDoYmpgz0fOtBAX4ehAiS4E-lw5tTG9ZqFBuIFbeI/s1531/IMG_8259.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1531&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1151&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdoY0yEDnu8dreEFnnAnjEsGxHiWHNCk5r80xLpRkfgP-YaXYiHjPDjryKIG4aP-MeH2BXHU_ie2GEo0yTavgF894s0aRnbKI6aMrKqf48vhNmG8tRuM7_akWRTfVFzisHXlgjM2JgLPxU9WufPUDDoYmpgz0fOtBAX4ehAiS4E-lw5tTG9ZqFBuIFbeI/w301-h400/IMG_8259.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;301&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Anna Maria Gentili ~ Lillehammer Blues&lt;br /&gt;Akryl på lerret&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden fikk vi beskjed av den amerikanske regissøren David Lynch var død, mannen som gjorde surrealisme levende igjen, og som lærte oss at en film kan være tolket på uendelig mange ulike måter, med historier, scener og karakterer som forble i våre tanker lang tid etter at filmen var over. Sorgen etter tapet av et så enormt menneske fikk meg til å reflektere over det faktumet at mange i dag stiller seg ukritiske foran alt de får servert fra ulike kilder, kommunikasjonsmedia, både sosiale og tradisjonelle (som for eksempel tv eller filmer), og at dette skjer fordi de såkalte kulturelle produkter kun reproduserer det alle er enige om, uten å utfordre det de fleste har blitt enige om (eller rettere sagt: det de fleste har blitt overbevist om å bli enige om). Dette fører til undervurdering av makta til kulturen, og derfor er det kultur det første som lider av økonomiske kutt, da trange tider kommer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Et kritisk blikk på hva som skjer rundt oss, både i hverdagen og i et større, mer kosmopolitisk perspektiv, er dessverre ikke en evne vi mennesker er født med, siden våre instinkter er rettet til å overleve i harde miljø, jakte, holde varmen i kroppen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Men hvordan kan vi trene vår hjerne til å tenke kritisk, til å ikke ta alt for gitt, til å sette det vi blir fortalt under et utforskende lys?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rollen av scenekunsten&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I mange tusen år har filosofien spilt rollen som veileder for fornuften, og allerede i den antikke Hellas, da menneskenes primitive behov var dekket, kunne filosofistudentene diskutere om større, dypere spørsmål, om livet, sorgen, lykke og døden.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Teaterforestillingene var den gang ikke en arena der stykkene ble fremførte med den eneste målet av å underholde publikummet, men alle tragediene og komediene bar en lang dypere mening og ikke så sjeldent også livslærdom. Historiene ble presenterte for tilskuere, som kunne kjenne seg igjen, føle på sin hud både spenninga eller smerten, og gå ut av teateret med tanker og utfordrende spørsmål, som satt i gang prosessen for en kritisk utvikling av sinnet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disse tankene fikk befolkningen til å sette spørsmål på det de trodde på, og på den virkeligheten de hadde akseptert som reel, og det er ikke uten grunn at idehistorien nådde ekstreme høyder i disse gylne årene.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rollen til kulturen i et kontemporært perspektiv&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kulturen har i utgangspunktet fortsatt i dag rollen som provoserende og utfordrende styrke, selv om det som ofte skjer er at det underholdende aspektet tar mer og mer plass, frem til å erstatte den moralske delen helt. Når det offentlige er med på å støtte dem de kaller for kulturelle arrangementer og produksjoner, og som i utgangspunktet er eksklusivt underholdningsprodukter, gjør de befolkning, og nasjonen sjøl, en alvorlig og farlig bjørnetjeneste, og i tillegg til det er det lett for mange å merke dem som unødvendig bruk av felles penger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sterke kommunikatorer som eier forståelse av sosiale medier, kan lett manipulere et folk som ikke behersker den kritiske tenkningen, og vi ser resultater av dette i land som har satt underholdning foran undervisning og danning. Er vi i Norge i ferd med å befinne oss i den samme situasjonen? Er folk blitt redde til å reflektere over utfordringer og hinder som livet setter foran oss? Det virker som om mange velger å lukke øynene for verdens problemer, og prøver bare å drømme seg bort ved å fokusere oppmerksomheten på medioker underholdningsproduksjoner, mens de samtidig mister gradvis evnen til den kritiske tenkingen. Det er et stort behov for kulturelle produkter som fremmer refleksjonen og utfordrer folket til å tvile på sine egne oppfatninger.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Det offentlige burde støtte, ikke minst økonomisk, denne delen av kulturlivet, selv om inntektene sannsynligvis er betydelig lavere enn de som følger mainstream underholdningen: en stor konsert, en revy eller et juleshow kan i utgangspunktet tjene inn nok penger til å finansiere seg selv, i form av billetts- og drikkesalg, mens en Kulturell forestilling (med stor K) som faktisk kan ha positive ettervirkninger på folkets tankeevne kan ofte bli fullført kun med offentlig hjelp. De kulturelle instansene som deler ut pengestøtte burde være i stand til å skille mellom kultur som danner og kultur som underholder, og støtte hovedsakelig den første.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arven etter Lynch er konsentrert i akkurat dette: det er greit med underholdning, men hovedrollen til kulturen er å tvinge menneskene til å tolke og tenke selv, til å bygge egen visjon, egne perspektiver om virkeligheten.&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/4840428579829683354/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/4840428579829683354' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/4840428579829683354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/4840428579829683354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2025/02/kultur-og-underholdning-kan-vi-skille.html' title='Kultur og underholdning: kan vi skille disse to begrepene en gang for alle?'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdoY0yEDnu8dreEFnnAnjEsGxHiWHNCk5r80xLpRkfgP-YaXYiHjPDjryKIG4aP-MeH2BXHU_ie2GEo0yTavgF894s0aRnbKI6aMrKqf48vhNmG8tRuM7_akWRTfVFzisHXlgjM2JgLPxU9WufPUDDoYmpgz0fOtBAX4ehAiS4E-lw5tTG9ZqFBuIFbeI/s72-w301-h400-c/IMG_8259.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-5589018658001023268</id><published>2024-06-10T01:04:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2024-06-10T01:09:27.130+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Oscar 2025 (my previsions) ~ part one: Furiosa, a Mad Max Saga</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Tonight we saw Furiosa ~ a Mad Max Saga.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, I’m a Hokuto no Ken child, and I just loved Mad Max, so I was a little afraid they would ruin it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjDWAuo88lgcWFh4M-sLZUdvJNRvxtozbfFFS42du0sdLOrCw-V2MpjroR36F4W09_bsXKyw5fr_Peyuo4sBW9HPgC7JXHdnQGQ7rxFZdBfAP7EdKXOZZbGLH1KZ8JOAl-k0epgrk9YorSmZxjXfu2Ch-2bkMkD4WvjQB7LGSxD411rXHKTx9A4Yxuss/s1200/IMG_0746.webp&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1200&quot; data-original-width=&quot;960&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjDWAuo88lgcWFh4M-sLZUdvJNRvxtozbfFFS42du0sdLOrCw-V2MpjroR36F4W09_bsXKyw5fr_Peyuo4sBW9HPgC7JXHdnQGQ7rxFZdBfAP7EdKXOZZbGLH1KZ8JOAl-k0epgrk9YorSmZxjXfu2Ch-2bkMkD4WvjQB7LGSxD411rXHKTx9A4Yxuss/s320/IMG_0746.webp&quot; width=&quot;256&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, they didn’t!&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The world is so perfectly buildt, the environment, the mood, the characters..everything fit in, and wasteland has never been so true to itself!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🏜️&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anya Taylor Joy does an excellent job, in this role, as well as Chris Hensworth (I was a little doubtful about the last one, actually).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🏜️&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Am I smelling Oscar 2025 nominations here? Absolutely! Make up and costumes, of course, sound was amazing and the filming, along with the photography. I’m not sure about the performances, very good but maybe not so «strong» to reach the nominations level.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;🏜️&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Looking forward to see if I guessed right!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/5589018658001023268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/5589018658001023268' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/5589018658001023268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/5589018658001023268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2024/06/oscar-talk-2025-part-one-furiosa-mad.html' title='Oscar 2025 (my previsions) ~ part one: Furiosa, a Mad Max Saga'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgjDWAuo88lgcWFh4M-sLZUdvJNRvxtozbfFFS42du0sdLOrCw-V2MpjroR36F4W09_bsXKyw5fr_Peyuo4sBW9HPgC7JXHdnQGQ7rxFZdBfAP7EdKXOZZbGLH1KZ8JOAl-k0epgrk9YorSmZxjXfu2Ch-2bkMkD4WvjQB7LGSxD411rXHKTx9A4Yxuss/s72-c/IMG_0746.webp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-7456892428166791778</id><published>2023-03-17T11:59:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2023-03-17T12:04:02.401+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Happy st. Patrick’s day, everyone!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioX2rfD9h7DMNZFAQPM_KikAn_vAt88hS3AfDub8jRkethbSV9ujCw5xUC7X8PXqrzXMjxXEzuh35G_JAoMg2mLuIF72qJ6XpbC4x_Vn-UedEDp4enhdyRN2qTqbfLTOvwDwy1DPFXK1pC0-h-xtvRephKXckASJs9H5fxKS9BD22nHIAcaLLvRvZ8&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2PzZ29KET1BkxoeWS1S_3H3wXiIZuQUtPekKClADlJoqgoh9_PeaEVEyB6NV4Dtezk3qmJjFdoZP2izDe_tvfqbh_g2LpY1vKxRbVWtyRt8v0EJ0KDpTlbD7XELr-KuCEeTlXM53CrD37mURULQGswWDQnFegfvDBVC5hhFflmk9tTwIoey3215C/s3391/333670136_747636763398486_3283617082320873462_n-1.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2270&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3391&quot; height=&quot;451&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2PzZ29KET1BkxoeWS1S_3H3wXiIZuQUtPekKClADlJoqgoh9_PeaEVEyB6NV4Dtezk3qmJjFdoZP2izDe_tvfqbh_g2LpY1vKxRbVWtyRt8v0EJ0KDpTlbD7XELr-KuCEeTlXM53CrD37mURULQGswWDQnFegfvDBVC5hhFflmk9tTwIoey3215C/w675-h451/333670136_747636763398486_3283617082320873462_n-1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;675&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To celebrate this day I’m posting a throwback to my trip to Dublin, few years ago, with this photo shot inside the Guinness factory. As always I’m trying to investigate the origins of this day: we can easily find out that all we know about St. Patrick was written by the man himself, except the date of this death, obviously.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;The Celts were celebrating spring equinox, as many other cultures around the worlds, in those days, so, by using the common practice of syncretism, there’s a huge probability that the date was later fixed by christians in a day preceding the spring equinox. Actually, even if people were unofficial celebrating St. Patrick in those days, the day was not fixed until the 17th century.&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;Btw, did you know that Guinness beer is now a totally vegan beer? It may sound strange to point that out, but if you watch at the ingredients list of many (MANY) other beers, you’ll find isinglass, a fish derivate hugely used to clarify the beer. Just check at carnivore.com, to find a list of all the vegan and non vegan beers, and your mind will be blown away.&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;But now: let’s enjoy st. Patrick day with friends and a glass of something good!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Slàinte!&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/7456892428166791778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/7456892428166791778' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7456892428166791778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7456892428166791778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2023/03/st.html' title=''/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO2PzZ29KET1BkxoeWS1S_3H3wXiIZuQUtPekKClADlJoqgoh9_PeaEVEyB6NV4Dtezk3qmJjFdoZP2izDe_tvfqbh_g2LpY1vKxRbVWtyRt8v0EJ0KDpTlbD7XELr-KuCEeTlXM53CrD37mURULQGswWDQnFegfvDBVC5hhFflmk9tTwIoey3215C/s72-w675-h451-c/333670136_747636763398486_3283617082320873462_n-1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-7406144731017836594</id><published>2023-03-13T02:05:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2023-03-13T02:10:05.671+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Guilty Pleasure: Oscar Night 2023</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;As every year I wait in excitement for the Oscar night (even if often the movies I would like to see there are not nominated), but I still think it&#39;s fun to see who&#39;s winning, to try to understand the world we live in. The winners of the Oscar night are often the most &quot;feelgood&quot; and &quot;politically correct&quot; movies, so even if some of these may be good, they often aren&#39;t. The ongoing war in ucraine is of course influencing the nominees and the winners, and as always actuality is mirrored in moviemaking. the realism in movies is still going strong, as it should be. Just try not to just follow one stream of thought, try to think freely in any situation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I&#39;ve been guessing the nominations, and tried hard to watch as many movies as possible, even though here in Norway many movies&#39;ll come after their eventual victory.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;So here it come my personal opinions on the nominated I got to watch. It may be a winner here, or maybe not. Enjoy the night, the red carpet, and try and watch some good movies, not only the &quot;blockbusters&quot;, with huge productions and little meaning. Here we go!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a name=&#39;more&#39;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The Fabelmans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGYB9FYaXGc79UJkGdZw1BGQCQxLLlKGElN3Vh430XOPRqD1WUdWuM9MGdns9qR8sbZAAdzfamy_ZHaRr25jRdOOvCYlu_5xslQnuWqmQEE8APScbQkeNl5WSwmQx_vmCQMfDoONl-yks2tbsadPJFfIQZxieBTKzLLeJi39vA4Sa3nfy9HSU2FpMo&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1333&quot; data-original-width=&quot;750&quot; height=&quot;437&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGYB9FYaXGc79UJkGdZw1BGQCQxLLlKGElN3Vh430XOPRqD1WUdWuM9MGdns9qR8sbZAAdzfamy_ZHaRr25jRdOOvCYlu_5xslQnuWqmQEE8APScbQkeNl5WSwmQx_vmCQMfDoONl-yks2tbsadPJFfIQZxieBTKzLLeJi39vA4Sa3nfy9HSU2FpMo=w246-h437&quot; width=&quot;246&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;auto&quot; style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &amp;quot;.SFNSText-Regular&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;The Fabelmans tas a typical Spielberg movie, with all feelings you would expect. I Think the Way he porteraits his mother is special, maybe at the edge of an unsolved Oedipus complex, and even if he desperately tries to save her, by painting her mental illness with pastel pencils, we all know too good how much more nuanced is that world. How much darker  and uglier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;auto&quot; style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &amp;quot;.SFNSText-Regular&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;auto&quot; style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &amp;quot;.SFNSText-Regular&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;In this movie I found no nemesis, no evil, everyone is saved. Ok, that&#39;s Spielberg way to do that, right? Some religion, some cowardliness. I don&#39;t agree with that view, not everybody can be saved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;auto&quot; style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &amp;quot;.SFNSText-Regular&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;auto&quot; style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &amp;quot;.SFNSText-Regular&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;Since the politically correct wave is still going strong, and people&#39;s eyes just tolerate these pastel pencils, I guess this one is going to take one or two oscars. Strong colors are scary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Banshees of Inisherin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSVivbSeAwYnl0GvkGu9exV7RrUi2AkVaiO1TwA0zmZCKPD0XeIVEatmzZNCrgB0dLY6tKwJommuk9aUKhxXElE0kCaloXzO4r5HjISeg-ByBU4j6j57oqaMm7hb2WwQCCaPnwZYT_7fQMh32H8Kw_KxvOosQ6G0o-4gEFhgrwKQ0_5nVl19dMQnCm&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;504&quot; data-original-width=&quot;336&quot; height=&quot;353&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSVivbSeAwYnl0GvkGu9exV7RrUi2AkVaiO1TwA0zmZCKPD0XeIVEatmzZNCrgB0dLY6tKwJommuk9aUKhxXElE0kCaloXzO4r5HjISeg-ByBU4j6j57oqaMm7hb2WwQCCaPnwZYT_7fQMh32H8Kw_KxvOosQ6G0o-4gEFhgrwKQ0_5nVl19dMQnCm=w235-h353&quot; width=&quot;235&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSVivbSeAwYnl0GvkGu9exV7RrUi2AkVaiO1TwA0zmZCKPD0XeIVEatmzZNCrgB0dLY6tKwJommuk9aUKhxXElE0kCaloXzO4r5HjISeg-ByBU4j6j57oqaMm7hb2WwQCCaPnwZYT_7fQMh32H8Kw_KxvOosQ6G0o-4gEFhgrwKQ0_5nVl19dMQnCm&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The Banshees of Inisherin is a strange movie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Even if I&#39;ve been living with and together with musicians all my life, I still find it hard to understand the musician here. He&#39;s arrogant, sick with a light kind of delusion of grandeur and at the end a little boor. He makes extreme stupid decisions, exaggeratedly over the line of what could be necessary. To me, it looks like he&#39;s trying to make his friend feel guilty for his own failures, for his incapability to create good music, so he tries to punish him, by punish himself (what a contorted way to do things, omg).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;On the other side of the water, civil war is going on, and that&#39;s without any doubt a metaphor of this strange friendship which&#39;s going into pieces: meaningless and unnecessary.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The filming of the beautiful landscape is breathtaking, the characters are deeply described, even if sometimes I felt they were a little two-dimensional, as if they weren&#39;t capable to fully develop their cognitive abilities. We may not forget tho that we&#39;re talking about people who&#39;re living in a rural small society, living in a small island far from everything, in the early 1900&#39;s Ireland, so maybe the portraits are truthful.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I truly liked this movie, even if I&#39;m not sure it&#39;s going to win an Oscar. if people see it as a metaphor of war, given the Ukrainian situation, it may actually have a chance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a&quot; style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(228, 230, 235); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &amp;quot;.SFNSText-Regular&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div dir=&quot;auto&quot; style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Triangle of Sadness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYj2HsVC0FJ8MeCDcMQr_yCbB1fR4RRcqxVyHRSKt7KccKNn2SmUSsMN3RZWOlSe196Kg5-PZGSMOYovPKRW-Ni8lO38T7MTjSYVbEsGiW6HoXVp_RfPdb--MD67nF0yfqo7ukDtcuNIuUIBk_lHhT64mNM9oxJiYdWwKiJwYyq9WypsaZc8bpkiF&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;640&quot; data-original-width=&quot;445&quot; height=&quot;316&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYj2HsVC0FJ8MeCDcMQr_yCbB1fR4RRcqxVyHRSKt7KccKNn2SmUSsMN3RZWOlSe196Kg5-PZGSMOYovPKRW-Ni8lO38T7MTjSYVbEsGiW6HoXVp_RfPdb--MD67nF0yfqo7ukDtcuNIuUIBk_lHhT64mNM9oxJiYdWwKiJwYyq9WypsaZc8bpkiF=w220-h316&quot; width=&quot;220&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYj2HsVC0FJ8MeCDcMQr_yCbB1fR4RRcqxVyHRSKt7KccKNn2SmUSsMN3RZWOlSe196Kg5-PZGSMOYovPKRW-Ni8lO38T7MTjSYVbEsGiW6HoXVp_RfPdb--MD67nF0yfqo7ukDtcuNIuUIBk_lHhT64mNM9oxJiYdWwKiJwYyq9WypsaZc8bpkiF&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Triangle of sadness is another strange movie, with I first believed would be a modern revisitation of Lord of the Flies, but in reality focused on other aspects of humanity. The movie is divided in three chapters, and it felt like the two first were a sort of mix between preparation and introduction to the third one. There&#39;re some hilarious scenes in this film, but I feel it could have been so much more outrageous, had it dared a little more! I had all the time a feeling of something crazy was going to happen, and it never did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The main theme here is obviously a critic of the superficial rich part of humanity, people who wouldn&#39;t§t survive one day without technology and facilities the modern world supplies, people who&#39;s more interested in finding the instagrammable spot. I must say that this critic has started to sound old, in my ears, and there&#39;s no originality in it anymore, like everybody had already pointed it out. The funny scenes made me forgive that, but yet: I was so hoping for the tarantinian turn which neve came. Even if I got the feeling that the director was criticizing and making fun of the rich people, I felt he was forgiving them as well. Some of them drown, but the ones that survive live well on the island, they&#39;re not being punished for all the dumb things they both say and do. In the last scene we then understand that the cathartic process we were promised never happened, og no one of the characters has a chance to become a better human being.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYj2HsVC0FJ8MeCDcMQr_yCbB1fR4RRcqxVyHRSKt7KccKNn2SmUSsMN3RZWOlSe196Kg5-PZGSMOYovPKRW-Ni8lO38T7MTjSYVbEsGiW6HoXVp_RfPdb--MD67nF0yfqo7ukDtcuNIuUIBk_lHhT64mNM9oxJiYdWwKiJwYyq9WypsaZc8bpkiF&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmYj2HsVC0FJ8MeCDcMQr_yCbB1fR4RRcqxVyHRSKt7KccKNn2SmUSsMN3RZWOlSe196Kg5-PZGSMOYovPKRW-Ni8lO38T7MTjSYVbEsGiW6HoXVp_RfPdb--MD67nF0yfqo7ukDtcuNIuUIBk_lHhT64mNM9oxJiYdWwKiJwYyq9WypsaZc8bpkiF&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;All Quiet on the Western Front&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWsh3XymxWErOooy6S-JN2RFloySs-n4BMQ90eQarh2eiYKo1c__kBk8MG7sjRif2U8S9eqci9n5TeGIw1m2LS33IYhS3oOaBN9eMPU23ejsJ2x6YKQlbfOsztd7df1OfoAumWEulqYaYvXG1uFBnue0Z8-0vSMa5Shb1_A6eKV3xlbAP9yMO9Edua&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;251&quot; data-original-width=&quot;201&quot; height=&quot;255&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWsh3XymxWErOooy6S-JN2RFloySs-n4BMQ90eQarh2eiYKo1c__kBk8MG7sjRif2U8S9eqci9n5TeGIw1m2LS33IYhS3oOaBN9eMPU23ejsJ2x6YKQlbfOsztd7df1OfoAumWEulqYaYvXG1uFBnue0Z8-0vSMa5Shb1_A6eKV3xlbAP9yMO9Edua=w204-h255&quot; width=&quot;204&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Even if this movie is in German, it was very easy to follow the conversations, so no dubbing needed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;It was very strong, following the development of the mood throughout the whole movie, from party-like to desperation, fear, then up again to happiness and down again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;What this movie is screaming (just as the book did) is the total lack of meaning of the war, where young people sacrifice their lives to a goal they don&#39;t understand, while people who decide discuss and play with their lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Absolutely a good movie, it&#39;ll probably take a statue home tonight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;To Leslie&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKjqsNxgmQENR9RK_s9io6GFd2lY78o3rh_GFjrtYFd9rlM1Ng7sQxmLPknibimeqZwu0CbmJekVJHuvzCBj4trJDKgCKrwUs5Wxsfjp0JneqFg2ImVmNc1ocnGuU93ULzHrC5soaYnAwt9wbQtfIs9aufVUWRpIJMUaRixCvrRZXjN2KQGhRDljDB&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;660&quot; data-original-width=&quot;440&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKjqsNxgmQENR9RK_s9io6GFd2lY78o3rh_GFjrtYFd9rlM1Ng7sQxmLPknibimeqZwu0CbmJekVJHuvzCBj4trJDKgCKrwUs5Wxsfjp0JneqFg2ImVmNc1ocnGuU93ULzHrC5soaYnAwt9wbQtfIs9aufVUWRpIJMUaRixCvrRZXjN2KQGhRDljDB&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKjqsNxgmQENR9RK_s9io6GFd2lY78o3rh_GFjrtYFd9rlM1Ng7sQxmLPknibimeqZwu0CbmJekVJHuvzCBj4trJDKgCKrwUs5Wxsfjp0JneqFg2ImVmNc1ocnGuU93ULzHrC5soaYnAwt9wbQtfIs9aufVUWRpIJMUaRixCvrRZXjN2KQGhRDljDB&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;To Leslie is a surprisingly good independent low-budget movie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The story is simple, inspired to the real life of a woman who lets her drinking issues destroy her life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;There&#39;s no doubt that Riseborough deserves the nomination, and possibly the statue for best actress in a leading role, she really has the amazing ability to show us all the sides of this multifaceted person, whit all her ups and downs. Watching this movie one gets happy, irritated, frustrated and sad, and this gives depth to the character and to her role.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;There were absolutely need for this endorsement from other actors, and that&#39;s a sign to Hollywood, cause they&#39;re still not aware that they no longer have the monopoly on the good quality movies, and that a good idea with the right people can now concretize in a well done movie, since mostly everyone has now access to relatively good technology. Sound mixing could have been done better, tho.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhKjqsNxgmQENR9RK_s9io6GFd2lY78o3rh_GFjrtYFd9rlM1Ng7sQxmLPknibimeqZwu0CbmJekVJHuvzCBj4trJDKgCKrwUs5Wxsfjp0JneqFg2ImVmNc1ocnGuU93ULzHrC5soaYnAwt9wbQtfIs9aufVUWRpIJMUaRixCvrRZXjN2KQGhRDljDB&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Everything, Everywhere, All At Once&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinVZQylmGbsYJGvfUWn-wn6JcNsKj1hxxGHo_2nOAiaAnvDJ8jO_LBr34hOSGDT_rtwtqljkMcbMmpMyCjyqiwcDYkyMnfuja9l53WIVQ9JUoXs7YnaG1-aLJ6chlh-DFO7ldgtixT7UYzn0zMFsDXFnG5pEBGyfoQwvGvXTyf2xHr3EOdOJ_z3Xeu&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinVZQylmGbsYJGvfUWn-wn6JcNsKj1hxxGHo_2nOAiaAnvDJ8jO_LBr34hOSGDT_rtwtqljkMcbMmpMyCjyqiwcDYkyMnfuja9l53WIVQ9JUoXs7YnaG1-aLJ6chlh-DFO7ldgtixT7UYzn0zMFsDXFnG5pEBGyfoQwvGvXTyf2xHr3EOdOJ_z3Xeu&quot; width=&quot;168&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinVZQylmGbsYJGvfUWn-wn6JcNsKj1hxxGHo_2nOAiaAnvDJ8jO_LBr34hOSGDT_rtwtqljkMcbMmpMyCjyqiwcDYkyMnfuja9l53WIVQ9JUoXs7YnaG1-aLJ6chlh-DFO7ldgtixT7UYzn0zMFsDXFnG5pEBGyfoQwvGvXTyf2xHr3EOdOJ_z3Xeu&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;This was a though cookie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Everything, Everywhere, All At Once takes the idea that there&#39;s many different universes at the same time (the multiverse) to a whole new level, by making travel between them easy, all of them at once.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The movie can feel a little chaotic at the beginning, but one gets quickly used to this special roller coaster, and then it&#39;s easy to follow the story which is developing. The story of a family which&#39;s struggling with misunderstandings, distance between each other, unrevealed feelings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;Just like it happened in Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (amazing movie from 2004) even in different realities soulmates will in the end find each other, somehow. The special effects are working very good, and this makes the movie a must watch, even if I&#39;m not sure it has enough feelings to win the best Picture award. Maybe some other award, the Daniels made a wonderful job with both directing, producing and with the screenplay, while Michelle Yeoh is incredible in playing all the different versions of her role.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;A metafore of our modern everyday, where we play different roles in different arenas, both in real life and online, and our fear of the context crash, which can both give us superpowers and make us vulnerable, is real. Good work!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Le Pupille&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYsVElTOUuMJbsIXQFQmlDzAXqsDwNevuKuXI8WwuZ6AIlvQoiMiwMtjfL9Gm02Xto_hpHQvnMLERHzG_YECc0ms5qR8a08bLQZGVN1B-RNic-KrR8zugsab7Au4ISQ3r4dfjRB-NKdC9SsOSyq0OnJIUCzsT5kaVOnhpNKor0UOfbjmAPE2G4VlfP&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1200&quot; data-original-width=&quot;848&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYsVElTOUuMJbsIXQFQmlDzAXqsDwNevuKuXI8WwuZ6AIlvQoiMiwMtjfL9Gm02Xto_hpHQvnMLERHzG_YECc0ms5qR8a08bLQZGVN1B-RNic-KrR8zugsab7Au4ISQ3r4dfjRB-NKdC9SsOSyq0OnJIUCzsT5kaVOnhpNKor0UOfbjmAPE2G4VlfP&quot; width=&quot;170&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;Nice short, old-fashioned, like only the Italians can do. The girls are cute, the desires are so real and the surrealistic tone its the whole representation in a wonderful way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiYsVElTOUuMJbsIXQFQmlDzAXqsDwNevuKuXI8WwuZ6AIlvQoiMiwMtjfL9Gm02Xto_hpHQvnMLERHzG_YECc0ms5qR8a08bLQZGVN1B-RNic-KrR8zugsab7Au4ISQ3r4dfjRB-NKdC9SsOSyq0OnJIUCzsT5kaVOnhpNKor0UOfbjmAPE2G4VlfP&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Nattrykken&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgt4Vx7a5jhLSXKwj0NDyozZ8pgXCbc5zqxioYFoDLQ7PXzz0cdP_OJpolocZs-e0m_cU9wtgSHDSS287CoOZYxb9hwYF6aRZ_4yqnfOy6MJbVqOpQ7g_uulxsO7GytCbpJYqhVRU7PgpvmmwD1sotpC10uAipwm94srTCwm5wAsQfmzSHlbxOLBfdZ&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1481&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1000&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgt4Vx7a5jhLSXKwj0NDyozZ8pgXCbc5zqxioYFoDLQ7PXzz0cdP_OJpolocZs-e0m_cU9wtgSHDSS287CoOZYxb9hwYF6aRZ_4yqnfOy6MJbVqOpQ7g_uulxsO7GytCbpJYqhVRU7PgpvmmwD1sotpC10uAipwm94srTCwm5wAsQfmzSHlbxOLBfdZ&quot; width=&quot;162&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;This short movie made me angry in just a few seconds. There&#39;s so much hate, discrimination and loneliness that you wish you were there to say or do something. I like the end, tho.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Elvis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9l3oD_mmPYTSk8oAErMhfnhlmIt8HxeYM8xtmRcr9oa4g3B3-OS5K2HaWFS19Cu8UwWD9x2KJG0l2NRq9FoEZBHKCUscIZgZ5j_g6y1ViN2Put2uFlYKR-nnfIugWKNLQCKWRD-3aqAaJkOIEfdyOJP34k_kchP31uq2ORSEbfcyg_F48pA5IRZ5-&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;525&quot; data-original-width=&quot;420&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9l3oD_mmPYTSk8oAErMhfnhlmIt8HxeYM8xtmRcr9oa4g3B3-OS5K2HaWFS19Cu8UwWD9x2KJG0l2NRq9FoEZBHKCUscIZgZ5j_g6y1ViN2Put2uFlYKR-nnfIugWKNLQCKWRD-3aqAaJkOIEfdyOJP34k_kchP31uq2ORSEbfcyg_F48pA5IRZ5-&quot; width=&quot;192&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;I truly enjoyed this movie. Butler was amazing in this role, and I truly suffered through the whole evolution of the events. It&#39;s sad Elvis was used and burned quickly just to make others rich, and that the fans devoured him without thinking he was a human being.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Glass Onion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK6VlVPJXytuRlZ6ruN4RJ5eD0I1-qUq6HenNhmFHi_b9rcwc6ziYnL2uMX2ijfeVcT0rymh6dtupshi8hlQP-Nq-JefA5Wpebc6ymVId6aq2PgAovRClFP3kHIguRnW27ChfKrX3LRk6-uL0R5YLIA4kAVFc1QvIq4TyMbVZI1a1XYeAWC9EJK8XZ&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2222&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1482&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK6VlVPJXytuRlZ6ruN4RJ5eD0I1-qUq6HenNhmFHi_b9rcwc6ziYnL2uMX2ijfeVcT0rymh6dtupshi8hlQP-Nq-JefA5Wpebc6ymVId6aq2PgAovRClFP3kHIguRnW27ChfKrX3LRk6-uL0R5YLIA4kAVFc1QvIq4TyMbVZI1a1XYeAWC9EJK8XZ&quot; width=&quot;160&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;A typical entertainment film, fun, full of suspense, with a Agatha Christie touch (á la10 little Indians) but an unexpected twist. I love James Bond playing the detective role, it&#39;s quite ironic.The nomination is deserved, but I don&#39;t believe it&#39;s a winner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;!--more--&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Guillermo del Toro&#39;s Pinocchio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxTp2e2P2EMco4TdqPfKOIojYA5sISPq5ysXtpX0szB8kq7zqmwi_DbLMt2aSPXBtSKg0hy70L1PSzMwQgku_Vd-NFlt3VSJoXgYRIgk0OpHGIsENU7tibRLlCCSJNxTK0Vpl7vaj6_Wk6BOVX_7kRZ3ieXkipjjgogDvo2Ym5DYdFSyjYAItBN5mg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1333&quot; data-original-width=&quot;750&quot; height=&quot;438&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxTp2e2P2EMco4TdqPfKOIojYA5sISPq5ysXtpX0szB8kq7zqmwi_DbLMt2aSPXBtSKg0hy70L1PSzMwQgku_Vd-NFlt3VSJoXgYRIgk0OpHGIsENU7tibRLlCCSJNxTK0Vpl7vaj6_Wk6BOVX_7kRZ3ieXkipjjgogDvo2Ym5DYdFSyjYAItBN5mg=w246-h438&quot; width=&quot;246&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;We never get enough anti-nazi rhetoric, but if you decide to mix it with a holy book like Pinocchio, you&#39;re walking on a dangerous field. The movie wins the prize, of course, but next time change the name of the marionette.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/7406144731017836594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/7406144731017836594' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7406144731017836594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7406144731017836594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2023/03/guilty-pleasure-oscar-night-2023.html' title='Guilty Pleasure: Oscar Night 2023'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGYB9FYaXGc79UJkGdZw1BGQCQxLLlKGElN3Vh430XOPRqD1WUdWuM9MGdns9qR8sbZAAdzfamy_ZHaRr25jRdOOvCYlu_5xslQnuWqmQEE8APScbQkeNl5WSwmQx_vmCQMfDoONl-yks2tbsadPJFfIQZxieBTKzLLeJi39vA4Sa3nfy9HSU2FpMo=s72-w246-h437-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-5730051264006266201</id><published>2023-02-13T09:27:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2023-02-13T09:27:40.767+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Sanremo 2023 - considerazioni intorno ad un festival che è un&#39;istantanea di un paese, nel bene e nel male.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;Per me che vivo lontano dall’Italia da ormai 16 anni, Sanremo é diventato un’importante opportunità di mettermi à jour con l’attualità del mio paese, non solo per la musica ma soprattutto per tutto quello che orbita intorno a questo festival.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPGx9FftoE3T9PO19Mrq3qEiVtXiziptdps3xBuUS6yU5g0j99XFd957I0_0JPK8IUw5XT-MoznYlBY-AkxNMdt5Lsqm-JdHYtQwNuFCDKQETMmVHcSxcqATl3YZcDivtHlsIAsHhqOgqYsYX22bSV9KB5Smxbf65K7jLuyD1fzU39sBBQCs4NO3N/s1200/Festival_di_Sanremo_2023_logo.png&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;675&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;250&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigPGx9FftoE3T9PO19Mrq3qEiVtXiziptdps3xBuUS6yU5g0j99XFd957I0_0JPK8IUw5XT-MoznYlBY-AkxNMdt5Lsqm-JdHYtQwNuFCDKQETMmVHcSxcqATl3YZcDivtHlsIAsHhqOgqYsYX22bSV9KB5Smxbf65K7jLuyD1fzU39sBBQCs4NO3N/w444-h250/Festival_di_Sanremo_2023_logo.png&quot; width=&quot;444&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;Per chi non lo sapesse (sto condividendo questo post con i miei amici norvegesi) il festival di Sanremo non è un festival della musica in genere, ma in particolare della canzone italiana. Scegliendo di utilizzare la parola “canzone” abbiamo già circoscritto il genere musicale protagonista di questi cinque giorni ricchi di eventi.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;Le polemiche e le discussioni iniziano già diversi mesi prima, quando gli artisti in gara vengono annunciati, con gran clamore, durante il telegiornale di punta della principale rete pubblica. Questo perché la politica non vede di buon occhio artisti che possano mirare il loro ruolo di agenda setter. Utilizzare i media per veicolare gli argomenti di cui si desidera trattare dietro ai banchi del Parlamento non basta più quando artisti controversi calcano il palco di Sanremo, ed esprimono le loro idee sovversive liberamente (o quasi) davanti a milioni di spettatori.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;Durante i cinque giorni di festival, uno share del 60% in media si è ritrovato davanti agli schermi (sia utilizzando tv tradizionali che altre piattaforme di streaming), ed un messaggio veicolato davanti a così tante persone assume un valore estremamente importante, nel bene e nel male.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;I temi di quest&#39;anno hanno generato discussioni nelle famiglie, nelle scuole, ai bar. Si è trattato di amore libero, prostituzione, di rabbia, depressione, relazioni in crisi che non si riesce ad affrontare e problemi familiari, tutti temi attualissimi messi in scena da attori (gli interpreti delle canzoni) che molto spesso li hanno vissuti, o li stanno vivendo in prima persona.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;Mentre parte della politica si è concentrata a difendere la cosiddetta &quot;decenza&quot;, un termine quasi obsoleto, che non saprei nemmeno più definire, dato che nel corso degli anni ha completamente cambiato il suo campo semantico (rendendolo ancora più difficile da difendere), quello che più mi colpisce è che non si dia la meritata attenzione ad un altro argomento, che è emerso violentemente da molte delle canzoni in gara.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;I giovani italiani stanno gridando il loro disagio, in un mondo ancora gestito in maniera tradizionale, nel quale loro non si riconoscono, non trovano il loro posto. In molti si sentono sbagliati, non sanno cosa fare della propria vita. La depressione aleggia come un&#39;ombra su di loro, ed anche se lo stanno denunciando a gran voce (soprattutto su TikTok e Instagram, i social più utilizzati dalla fascia sotto ai 30 anni), ho l&#39;impressione che il focus degli &quot;adulti&quot; sia su altri aspetti della loro vita.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;I giovani hanno un&#39;attenzione quasi maniacale nei confronti della loro stessa salute mentale, ne parlano di continuo, si sfogano, scrivono canzoni, producono podcast, TikTok, stories, provano a tirarsi su l&#39;uno con l&#39;altro. Vogliono sentirsi liberi, ma al tempo stesso hanno paura di essere giudicati, discriminati.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;Tornando a Sanremo, penso che siamo giunti ad un punto dove la musica, ed anche gli outfit più o meno trasgressivi, dovrebbero passare in secondo piano, una volta che il vincitore è stato annunciato, per poi concentrarsi a guardare quello che trapela dal mondo dei più giovani attraverso la lente delle loro canzoni. Includere i giovani in questo festival, che fino a qualche anno fa faceva differenza tra i due mondi, quello dei &quot;big&quot;, cantanti già affermati che lo utilizzavano come vetrina per mostrare la loro arte, e quello dei &quot;giovani&quot;, che poteva rappresentare un trampolino di lancio per artisti sconosciuti, ha segnato anche un cambiamento di ruolo che non dobbiamo lasciar passare inosservato.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;Il festival è oggi più che mai una vetrina della nostra società, per via di quello che accade sul palco ovvio, ma anche per quello che accade dietro le quinte, ed ancora di più per il dibattito che genera nelle stanze della politica e tra la gente comune. Non fermiamoci alle apparenze, alle unghie lunghe di Rosa Chemical o alla rabbia (più o meno orchestrata) di Blanco: rendiamoci conto che per molti è un modo di esprimere il loro malessere, e che questo malessere é diffuso in gran parte della popolazione, soprattutto giovanile. 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Det er ingen grunn til at sosiale medier skal være et unntak, skriver Anna Maria Gentili. (January 2023)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-nN7ZKl7po2WoYX6zxQm-8NI8P5ueGMOx_Dx-9jLEgHLNxgyQ6YpMU-UIx-aIvPbCmZHqe9I1eTRkk0L-xY1KEfKahsYcbZdFOACa60_kYFDMeMm4O_5Nh8-ZgLZLlhd0ZIWPyQPWuhEZdUaXIb8rc9ZynykeWJri_OROkziVHAvrM6AsQ3wUa5giWo/s4032/IMG_8412.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;4032&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;392&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-nN7ZKl7po2WoYX6zxQm-8NI8P5ueGMOx_Dx-9jLEgHLNxgyQ6YpMU-UIx-aIvPbCmZHqe9I1eTRkk0L-xY1KEfKahsYcbZdFOACa60_kYFDMeMm4O_5Nh8-ZgLZLlhd0ZIWPyQPWuhEZdUaXIb8rc9ZynykeWJri_OROkziVHAvrM6AsQ3wUa5giWo/w294-h392/IMG_8412.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;294&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Digitale teknologier har de siste årene fått gradvis mer og mer plass i hverdagen, fra den private sfæren til offentligheten og helt inn i skolevesenet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Har teknologiprodusenter skapt en uerstattelig monopol på å tilfredsstille våre behov?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Når vi introduserer de digitale mediene i skolen, må vi sørge for at vi i tillegg til å gi de nødvendige ferdighetene til å beherske teknologien som et verktøy, gir elevene tilstrekkelig god undervisning om disse medienes rolle og funksjon i samfunnet.

Mesteparten av kommunikasjon skjer i dag via sosiale medier, der barn og ungdom spiller alternative og ulike roller i forskjellige situasjoner, i søken etter sin egen identitet. Denne baserer seg ofte på bilder og videosnutter de eksponeres for på sosiale medier som Tiktok og Instagram.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Alle typer kommunikasjon skjer på den forutsetningen at de involverte, både produsenten og mottakeren, bruker samme type språk. Dette gjelde både ansikt til ansikt og for mediert utveksling av informasjon. Det er da nødvendig å kunne benytte seg av samme teknologi som alle andre, og de store teknologiselskapene har jobbet lenge for at de fleste har blitt avhengige av dem i hverdagen.


Mange unge blir fremmedgjort

Kroppsspråket, som er en viktig del av mellommenneskelig kommunikasjon, er ikke lenger mulig når man skriver til hverandre, og emojis er kun en delvis erstatning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;De eneste som virker oppmerksomme på dette, er de som fortsatt er skeptiske til de nye teknologiene, hovedsakelig eldre som oppfatter sosiale medier som tomme og overfladiske, og frykter at kontakt i den virkelige verden gradvis forsvinner. Men de er ikke de eneste.

Forskning viser at ikke alle ungdommer føler seg hjemme i denne delingskulturen, og at noen av dem føler at presset for å alltid måtte sammenligne seg selv med andres utseende og liv, som på sosiale medier ofte er overdrevet, er dypt unødvendig.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mange som sletter kontoene sine føler seg bedre og får mer selvtillit.

Betyr dette at dagens teknologimonopol kun er midlertidig?

Det er vanskelig å si. Det har gått for lite tid fra starten av denne digitale revolusjonen, og vi er fortsatt deltakere i et stort, globalt eksperiment, som ingen helt aner konsekvensene av.

Steve Jobs lot ikke barna sine røre en iPad eller en iPhone, og på kvelden satt han og barna rundt bordet og hadde samtaler om bøker og samfunnsaktuelle hendelser.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ettersom mange utvikler usunne forhold til teknologien hadde det vært lurt å begynne å tenke på en universell metode for å holde avhengighet i sjakk, som man gjør med tobakk, alkohol og narkotika.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Det er noen tegn til bedring.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Appen Hold er et eksempel. Den skal hjelpe deg å bruke mobilen mindre ved å generere et nytt behov, nemlig å tjene opp poeng som kan brukes i ulike kiosker og butikker. Det er kanskje ikke den riktige veien å gå det heller; å bruke ny teknologi til å bekjempe eldre teknologi kan fort bli en rekursiv spiral som ikke fører til noe bedring.

Et annet eksempel er trenden #BookTok, som sprer seg på Tikok, der et voksende antall ungdommer kryper tilbake til godstolen for å lese bok i papirformat.

«We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate,» skrev filosof og forfatter Henry David Thoreau om tomheten som kan medfølge teknologiske fremskritt.

«Det er ikke noe jeg savner», sa jenta som slettet Snapchat, mens hun enkelt og elegant forteller indirekte at på samme måte som vi skaper våre egne digitale behov, kan vi bryte ut av dem, og da kan også monopolet til teknologigigantene brytes.
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&lt;br /&gt;I still cherish all the memories of those years I spent living there, walking your streets, breathing your air, driving like crazy in your crazy traffic, running to catch the bus or riding around all night on your night bus.&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;It was some incredible years, and you gave me so much, that I’m totally sure you’ve got a big part of my heart stored someplace between those old stones.&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;#traveller #travelblogger #travelphotography #traveltheworld #wanderlust #wandertheearth #bigcitylife #Romecapitaloftheworld #Rome #roma #italy #visitrome #visititaly #loverome #romanholidays #nomadiclife #likeforlikes #natgeotravel #cosmpolitan #solocosebelle #andratuttobene #traveladdicted #seekmoments #dayslikethese #igitalia #igersitaly #lp #lonelyplanet #nofilters #justbeauty </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/8739875810180205244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/8739875810180205244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/8739875810180205244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/8739875810180205244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2020/04/21st-april-rome.html' title='21st April - Rome'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGPcDyEYo-h2JQWTINwioQe7WAEAte0j4UVIiU2IbD8tt_4GLclnVaG-XxWsBwh4OdYyWiLtRHPaMJKPtUZ018vD39_dIyjMpxDNrnSG9NVc5iATRuCy0fTptOsRgml9NSvtB7eNwFDI/s72-c/Roma+2018.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-501011741720554310</id><published>2020-04-21T04:32:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2020-04-21T04:32:18.368+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Caro Vinicio.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;p1&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; color: gainsboro; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Finisco sempre per guardare i tuoi videomessaggi della buonanotte una o due ore dopo la diretta. A volte sto guardando un film, altre volte la mia testa ciondola già di traverso sul divano, e quando mi alzo dolente per andare a buttarmi qualche ora sul letto, l’unico pensiero in mezzo ai deliri del sonno è che ho un video da guardare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Finisco per vedere i tuoi videomessaggi della buonanotte quando qua in Norvegia, già albeggia, il sole sorge presto in primavera. L’atmosfera è strana quassù, il lockdown non è mai arrivato, ma d’altra parte la quarantena si pratica quotidianamente, ed anche io la faccio da 13 anni, ovvero da quando sono venuta a stare qui. Ognuno sta per conto suo, tutto l’anno, si sta bene, ogni tanto qualcuno si ammazza, li trovano appesi ai rami più in alto di betulle e abeti, perchè non vogliono essere trovati nemmeno da morti, vogliono che i corvi li divorino allo stesso modo in cui la solitudine li ha divorati da vivi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Poi la notte arrivi te (ti dò del tu, ma se non lo ritieni opportuno, cambialo pure in una forma di cortesia, mentre - adesso mi illuderò che tu - leggi questa riflessione), arrivi te, dicevo, e mi porti in balere greche spesse di fumo, con donne dalla voce roca che cantano mentre il pubblico depone garofani ai loro piedi. (Piuttosto, mi ci sono voluti due giorni di google incastrato nei ritagli di tempo per trovare qualche parola su Keti Dali, ed anche se il greco non lo parlo, alla fine l’ho trovata). Vedo i rebetes con le giacche di traverso, respiro la malinconia umidiccia di un temporale di fine estate e sento in bocca il sapore dell’ouzo insieme al dolciastro di un sigaro spento e riacceso una decina di volte ed il sale dell’aria di un posto di mare. Ed ecco, sono già le quattro e la voce di Dimitra Galan ha cantato Pai Pai tre o quattro volte di seguito, mentre scrivo, il cielo si è fatto ancora un po’ più chiaro e sento che gli occhi si fanno pesanti come il culo di Manolis dopo aver suonato qualche canzone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Penso che dovrei scusarmi, che sono egoista ed allo stesso tempo cosciente che in realtà vorrei solo che questo lockdown durasse più a lungo, per rimandare il più possibile la progressiva scomparsa di questi video-messaggi agrodolci della buonanotte, ma so che non sarà così, che presto tornerai a vivere la tua esistenza in giro per il mondo, ed io tornerò a passeggiare per i boschi di betulle ed abeti, dove ci si appende quando la solitudine prende il sopravvento, e bhe, stavolta però sarò carica dei ricordi dolci delle tue parole, che ognuno di noi crede siano rivolte a se stesso, i miei passi saranno più leggeri ed avrò imparato un po’ meglio a convivere con la mia irrequietezza, con quel bisogno di muovermi, di buttare tutto all’aria, di non saper stare ferma in nessun posto.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Buona notte, grazie di tutto, soprattutto di essere sincero con noi e con te. Cosa sarei senza?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.847); color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.847); display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;I shot this picture in one of my trips to Dublin, some years ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I want to share this very picture for some different reasons, which I’m going to explain to you now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;First of all, I see some kind of ironic philosophy here. The all dressed up skeleton reminds us in some way that work will kill you, but with his last breath he whispers not to worry. the dead one advices us not to worry, because that’s not worth it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;So, in these times when we don’t know exactly how to act, what to feel, who to believe: don’t worry. death will come and put things in perspective again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Put all your worries aside, there’s no time to waste, there’s no energy to waste in worries: just live. Don’t think about your work, just live.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The second thoughts I want to spend on this picture is that I miss travel. I’ve said it before, and I’m not quite finished yet saying it: I love traveling and I miss it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I just love that &quot;child watching outside on a train window seeing things for the first time&quot; feelings. I feel that when I travel I find my place, I like feeling little and nonsense, and the best place to feel that is somewhere where nobody knows you, and where nobody notice you. Dublin was a place like that, with sparkling life and music at every corner, in every street, people singing people reading out loud from books or poetry they just had written, the food scent all around, the dark pubs full of persons who had never met earlier and which would have never met later either, probably, but who were best friends or lovers for the time of a beer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;God! I loved Dublin! All the colors, the noise, the beer and all that life!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I actually have one other reasons I wanted to share with this picture. I was thinking about how things were then and the difference with how things are now, all that people who walked with me for a long or short period and which I lost along the way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Feelings are just as ethereal as the summer breeze. They come and go, incessantly, ineluctably. I remember holding the hand of a friend, I remember trying to figure her out, trying to dig in all that darkness, trying to light that darkness up. I remember giving it all up then, I remember being tired, sad, disillusioned. I remember misunderstandings, jealousy, rage, and the remoteness that followed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;But again: no worries. I’ve learned after all to let it go, to laugh at my pain, because even if I feel a little more hardened than before, more ironic, more cynical maybe, I truly feel good when I let it go. And even if &quot;sometimes they come back&quot;, they’re just a laugh away from balance. I feel I forgave everyone for the pain they’ve caused, But at the same time I don’t really have energy to spare for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Jeg husker fortsatt første gang jeg ble dratt med til politistasjon.&lt;br /&gt;
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 Jeg var i starten av tenåringene mine, det hadde vært innbrudd i 
naboleiligheten og jeg hadde vært så heldig av å ha delt en heistur med 
den som skulle vise seg være tyven. Vi gikk ned i kjelleren, i et rom 
uten vinduer. De visste meg bilder av diverse menn med bart og forventet
 at jeg skulle kjenne ham igjen. Jeg var litt redd, men samtidig litt 
spent og følte at min hukommelse var en viktig verktøy til å få 
rettferdighet på plass.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; På vei ut av det lille, mørke rommet falt 
øynene mine på et stort kart av min by. Politifolket hadde tatt på 
fargestifter på interessante plasser, blant annet der jeg bodde. Vi som 
bodde i de blå blokkene hadde nemlig en alternativ forståelse av 
rettferdighet.&lt;br /&gt;
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 Først og fremst: vi var fattige. Mange av 
foreldrene våre hadde vært i fengsel, noen dealet narkotika, og mange av
 oss skulle følge etter om ikke så lenge. Jeg fikk i starten ikke lov å 
leke med disse barna, men etterhvert så bestemte foreldrene mine at jeg 
hadde hatt det bra av å omgåes andre barn. Jeg som eller bare satt hjem 
og leste, skrev små noveller og tegnet.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; Jeg begynte så smått ved å 
sparke fotball, jeg var en av guttene. Vi sparket fotball blant parkerte
 biler, vi datt på asfalten og slåss om vi ble uenige. Det var mye 
slåssing, i min barndom. Ingen voksne passet på oss, så vi kunne finne 
på mye rart. En gang vi skulle sette noen stein til å markere mål, og vi
 begynte å kaste stein til hverandre. Hodet til min yngre bror måtte 
syes på sykehuset etter det. En annen gang så drev en venn av oss å 
lekte med en fotball alene på en bensinstasjon, mens faren fylte 
drivstoff. Når ballen rullet midt på veien så var han så vant til å løpe
 etter den før bilene kom at han ikke trodde det kunne gå galt. Han rakk
 ikke sykehuset en gang. Husker at samme kveld satt vi barna i hagen og 
snakket sammen med en stemme som var uvanlig lav, for oss å være. Jeg 
tror at det var da jeg begynte å tvile på at rettferdigheten fantes, 
eller at det ordet hadde en absolutt, lik verdi for alle. Jeg var 8 år.&lt;br /&gt;
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Vi var fattige, og noen av oss begynte å stjele. De stjelte fra de 
rike, så var det på en måte ok. De stjelte fra de som hadde stjelt før, 
de stjelte tyvegods, så ble minus og minus pluss. Rettferdighet var på 
plass igjen, mente vi da. Ingen av oss var onde, vi elsket hverandre, og
 vi støttet hverandre i alt vi drev på med. Jeg som var flinkest på 
skolen hjalp alle de som trengte det, og fikk en pizzabit i ny og ne som
 betaling. En gang jeg datt med mopeden min så fikset de alle delene jeg
 hadde ødelagt på noen få timer, uten å spørre om noe. De hadde alt jeg 
trengte i garasjen sin, Gud vet hvor alt dette kom fra, og jeg måtte 
bare levere mopeden og hente den senere på kvelden.&lt;br /&gt;
 Vi var mange,
 og vi var sterke sammen. På tross til alt dette følte jeg ofte at jeg 
ikke passet helt inn. Jeg leste filosofi bøker når ingen så på, kunne 
matte uten å blunke og begynte aldri å røyke eller å ruse meg. De så på 
meg som et rart dyr, men de var glad i meg for det, på deres egen måte. 
Når jeg fylte 18 og fikk stipend for å flytte til Roma og studere fysikk
 det var som om alle forventet det. Vi hilset ikke engang på hverandre, 
selv om jeg visste at jeg skulle aldri komme tilbake. Jeg hater å si 
adjø, det føler så definitivt. Det var i 1995.&lt;br /&gt;
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 Det gikk mange år 
før facebook kom, og med facebook begynte jeg å se gamle ansikt igjen. 
De fleste har giftet seg og har et normalt liv, noen har blitt narkomane
 og noen har dødd. De var ikke flinke å skrive da, de har ikke blitt noe
 særlig flinkere å skrive på sosiale medier nå heller. De deler bilder, 
og bildene snakker i stede for dem, bildene forteller historier.&lt;br /&gt;
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Så var det denne historien her jeg egentlig ville snakke om nå. 
Historien om en gutt jeg ble kjent med da jeg jobbet på pub, han var en 
god venn av en som jobbet med meg og var ofte innom for en øl eller to. 
Har var smart, litt hyperaktiv og fant alltid på mye rart og morsomt. Du
 hadde en følelse av hele byen kjente han. Mest av alt likte han å 
slåss, derfor var han en av de beste boksere i byen. Den gamle treneren 
hans var så stolt av han. Jeg møtte han sist for et par år siden, vi 
satt og spiste lunsj på en uterestaurant og han var så nysgjerrig om 
mitt liv i Norge, han spurte om alt mulig og hadde store øyne som 
strålte drømmer og forundring. Han sa at han ønsket å komme på besøk en 
dag, men igjen: alle mine gamle venner sier det når de møter meg, og det
 er veldig få som har råd eller ork til det. Det gikk ikke lenge før han
 hadde den sprudlende ideen om å prøve å melke penger ut av en gullsmed 
han kjente. Han dro ned til butikken og truet han med bank, selvsagt. 
Når politiet kom så fikk dem ikke tatt han heller, for han banket 
dritten ut av begge politibetjentene og stakk av. Men når alle kjenner 
deg så er det ikke lett å forsvinne, så ble han fengslet noen få dager 
senere. Han ble frigjort for noen måneder siden, og da var det stor 
fest, med alle vennene hans som hadde ventet lojalt utenfor murene, og 
som aldri hadde sluttet å fortelle han historier og morsomme ting på 
facebook siden hans, selv om han ikke hadde tilgang til det. Han delte 
en selfie der han smilte utenfor fengselet, han dro tilbake til 
boksegymmen og fortsatte som ingenting hadde skjedd. Gærning, ass. På 
kveld så dro han på pubben og tok seg et par øl. Alt var normal igjen. 
Helt til fredag, da hjertet hans plutselig stoppet.&lt;br /&gt;
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 Og da vil jeg
 avslutte ved å gå tilbake til rettferdigheten, siden jeg lurer fælt på 
om det går ann å dømme en person ut i fra hans ukorrekte handlinger, når
 denne personen er så mye elsket at det renner over. Jeg lurer på om det
 er lov å ha en 360 grader synspunkt om en person, når denne personen 
alltid har hatt fine ord til en og enhver, når han har på sin måte 
alltid vært generøs og modig, eller om det er det bare den ene 
handlingen som skal brukes til å definere han, Og ja, han var litt gal, 
arrogant, men igjen, hva er å foretrekke: A4 liv med barn, hus og fin 
bil eller å brenne raskt og forsvinne med et pang? Han ble 38, han løpte
 hele veien, og nå er det slutt. Jeg skal alltid huske han med de store 
barneøyne sine da jeg fortalte ham om Norge, snømåking og at bilene 
stopper ved gangfelt når du skal krysse veien.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jeg hadde aldri trodd at jeg skulle være så heldig av å få lov til å treffe en slik person. En jente så sterk at både mobbing, sykdommer og vold hun opplevde ble skygget av hennes egen styrke.&lt;br /&gt;Jeg ble så inspirert at jeg måtte bare spørre om hun ville være med på dette prosjektet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Guess what: hun sa ja.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trish ble født en dag i desember på andre siden av Atlanterhavet. Hun bodde i Canada første del av livet der hun allerede opplevde den følelsen av å bli mobbet og ekskludert. Hun valgte å satse på trening og utdanning for å komme seg gjennom sine første 21 år. Så flyttet hun til Norge. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Når jeg først møtte henne ble jeg blindet av hennes lys. Hun var så selvsikker, vakker og flink at jeg ikke kunne forestille meg den lange, vanskelige veien hun hadde gått. Etter hvert fortalte hun meg alt det hun hadde gjennomgått. Hun hadde opplevd mobbing,&lt;br /&gt;vold og hadde nå fått beskjed at hun måtte starte en vanskelig vei gjennom operasjoner og cellegift.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dette gjorde slik at jeg kunne ikke holde tilbake det behovet lenger. Behovet å fortelle andre om hennes kamp og om hvordan hun har ikke sluttet å føle seg levende. Norge skulle vise seg å ikke være et bedre sted å bo for Trish. Hun kom fra en kultur der individualisme er satt i fokus og barna blir oppfordret til å dyrke sine egenskaper.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kræsjen med Janteloven, der de som har en spesiell klesstil eller levemåte blir sett ned&amp;nbsp; på, var hardt og uforventet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dette gjenspeilet seg også på Universitet, der hun følte at den mestringsfølelse hun overlevde på&lt;br /&gt;i Canada var lammet av utdanningsystemet.&amp;nbsp; Foreldrene til Trish ble begge syke og døde i løpet av noen få år, fortalte hun meg, så hun måtte bare fortsette videre alene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oslo er en stor by, der det er lett å føle seg ensom selv med mye folk rundt. Vi dro til Ekeberg, der Munch for mange år siden&amp;nbsp; hadde følt seg slikt. Det var litt stille mellom oss, til å begynne med, stemningen var litt dystert, men til slutt fikk vi tatt&amp;nbsp; mange fine bilder, spesielt når sola kom seg&lt;br /&gt;ut av skyene.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturen har alltid spilt en stor rolle i Trish sitt liv. Helt siden hun var liten har familien hennes tatt henne med på camping og skogstur. Hun føler seg hjemme når hun er i kontakt med naturen.&lt;br /&gt;Hun praktiserer også mange forskjellige aktiviteter, som går fra snowboarding til klippehopping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hennes utdanning i miljøvitenskap (spes. i elver og innsjøer) fører til at hun driver også med fridykking og snorkeling Når hun er ute i naturen finner hun sin indre ro og klarer å la være å tenke på hennes sykdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trish har nylig fått bekreftet at hun har arvet en gendefekt, den samme som har tatt bort foreldrene hennes. Hun har allerede vært gjennom en rekke operasjoner, cellegift kur og har allerede flere inngrep som venter.&lt;br /&gt;Dette har ikke stoppet henne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musikken har alltid fylt opp miljøet Trish har levd i. Mora hennes var en anerkjent pianist tilbake&lt;br /&gt;i Canada, og hun har studert både piano og saxofon som barn. Så ble hun kjent med heavy metal og begynte å spille gitar, bass og tromme. Det siste satset hun mest på og fortsatt i dag spiller hun i flere band. Hun har også flere avstands musikkprosjekter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heavy metal miljøet i Norge har tatt henne godt i mot, og hun føler hun har endelig funnet noen hun kan stole på. Jeg håper at Trish sin historie kan inspirere mange av de som føler seg svekket av livet og trøkt ned av andre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hun har inspirert meg, og jeg er veldig takknemlig for at hun kom i mitt liv. Det var en varm junidag og hun sklei så stille inn at jeg nesten ikke merket det en gang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det skulle vise seg at mitt synspunkt om livet skulle bli forandret for alltid takket være henne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“She is like a flower, growing up from&lt;br /&gt;below the pavement.&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful, fragile but determined.”</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/7724507869054336836/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/7724507869054336836' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7724507869054336836'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7724507869054336836'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2019/09/kunsten-av-vre-makels-trish-kolsvart-og.html' title='Kunsten av å være Makeløs: Trish Kolsvart og hennes vei til livet. 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Autumn comes, and takes with it wonderful colors, rainy days, darkness and drawing challenges.

I actually look forward to these days every year, so now finally I can sit here and draw in peace!

I&#39;ll try to stream as good as I can, but I moved in the middle of the norwegian woods last year, so I&#39;ve been experiencing some kind of problems... but this is nothing if compared to these beautiful woods, so I&#39;ll dolike this: I&#39;ll stream a little bit, then I&#39;ll record some videos and for the rest og the time I’ll just draw and upload pictures in the making, how does that sound?

Follow the progress &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/Vargie-Comics-139656723440241/&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;


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Her er linken til interjuet med Demokraten&lt;b&gt;: &lt;a href=&quot;http://touch.demokraten.no/nyheter/kunsten-a-ikke-passe-inn-1.2487595&quot;&gt;HER&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The Art of never Fitting in.&lt;/h1&gt;
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To be different is a gift, to think with your own head is an enrichment - this believes photographer Anna Maria Gentili.&lt;/div&gt;
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On friday afternoon the 42 years old italian photographer will open her new exhibition &quot;The Art of never fitting inn&quot; in her atelier &quot;Den Lille Gale&quot; (The Little Crazy Thing&quot;), in the Dunkejon garden. Here she&#39;ll translate with pictures she shot herself how is it to live outside of the mainstream. society.&lt;br /&gt;
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Homophiles and &quot;wrong&quot; proportions.&lt;/h2&gt;
– I think of myself like a little crazy. I&#39;ve got my opinions, hate the small-talk, I don&#39;t care about mainstream fashion and often other people think I&#39;m strange.&lt;br /&gt;
That&#39;s why I believ I&#39;m perfect for this project - says the italian who moved to Norway for twelve years ago.&lt;br /&gt;
– What do you mean by the title of the project?&lt;br /&gt;
– I&#39;ve got pictures of eleven persons, eight women and three men, and everyone of them has experienced what is like to be different. We talk about homophily, about having a body which someone calls &quot;wrong&quot; but that actually is amazing and perfect just as it is, and someone who had a difficult past. One of my model for eksemple is a journalist who&#39;s been accused to enjoy documenting sad and tragic histories. We&#39;ve got no A4 people here! &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/u/3/null&quot; name=&quot;skip-ad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
                       

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Photography and therapy&lt;/h2&gt;
Anna Maria Gentili is not a newby in the art of photography. She had exhibitions in different lands and has been active since schooldays, back in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;
-I got my first camera when I was eleven years old, and I&#39;ve develodep a strong belief for the voice of the picture. I&#39;ve never taken photojobs, it would be like I had to censore myself. I don&#39;t want photography to be a &quot;job&quot;, it would be boring and burocratic. Taking pictures is a kind of therapy for me, an exit where I come in a world where feelings and ideas can finally run free.&lt;/div&gt;
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On friday the 14th the exhibition will open its doors. From 18:00 o&#39;clock Francesca Tullio will take us to a spiritual music trip to show us the beauty of being yourself&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/5403957746064400057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/5403957746064400057' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/5403957746064400057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/5403957746064400057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-exhibition-opens-tomorrow.html' title='My exhibition opens tomorrow!'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZPallwrmKtieMPpE19-bw4eLuJxbVSV3MmGG8Z7hPKItjP1D2vh22XkVhl0AT7gQLx-y7KzQXFgG_FyMXrDNThgtTQPBj7qmaIxzJ0FzsZB-wcrxUjPJLGuxBLePWM5pyofeIdOFQ3Zo/s72-c/anna+demokraten.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-6851483461581994983</id><published>2018-08-30T14:46:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2018-08-30T14:46:36.376+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kunsten av å ikke passe inn.</title><content type='html'>It&#39;s just two weeks to the opening of my new exhibition: &lt;i&gt;Kunsten av å ikke passe inn.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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If you try to translate the phrase it would sound something like: &lt;i&gt;The art of never fitting in. &lt;/i&gt;I sure feel I&#39;ve never fit in, any place and any time.&lt;br /&gt;
I started this project because after moving to Norway I was explained that many people still live following the so called &quot;Law of Jante&quot;, maybe even unintentionally.&lt;br /&gt;
It&#39;s a law about being together against the different, even if many has interpretated it as a kind of social law. No one should believe they&#39;re better than others, and it could sound cool.&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#39;ve come to a different interpretation, though and I&#39;m pretty sure that&#39;s the real meaning behind the words of Sandemose, the writer who described the unwritten law in his novel &lt;i&gt;En flyktning krysser sitt spor.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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When I moved to Norway I didn&#39;t quite know what to expect. I had been here on vacation, and I had a feeling that people were nice and not afraid of people coming from other countries. I moved inn with a friend who eventually became my husband, and he was terrified by my attitude. He then explained me the Law of Jante, he told me that if I continued showing myself with my stupid exaggerated hats, and my gipsy jewelries I would never make new friends, because &lt;i&gt;I shouldn&#39;t believe I was something.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I then tried to be invisible, to satisfy him and the distorted image of norwegian people he had painted into my head, but I deeply inside didn&#39;t quite manage to accept I was acting like I was someone else.&lt;br /&gt;
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I used to have many friends back in Italy, but in Norway it seemed to be very difficult to get known with other people, and he pointed that &lt;i&gt;I could not just say what I ment, if I wanted to be accepted: &lt;/i&gt;I was scaring people away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It went some years before I understood that he was the one who was broken by the Law of Jante, and he was trying to break me down, to make me fit in. But I didn&#39;t want that! I have to thank my first real friend in Norway for that, Tone Susann. She never judged me, she never criticized me or my way of being. She accepted me with all my wrong, twisted sides, and she opene up my eyes. She took time to explain me things, to show me Norway and norwegian people for what they really are and I liked to listen to her point of view about things. I didn&#39;t always share the same point of view, but she made me think about things, she made me wonder. She made me in some way find back to my original me.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I had never fought to fit in in my youth, I&#39;ve actually never cared about fitting in. If people couldn&#39;t just take me as I was, they could as well go to hell. They weren&#39;t worth it.&lt;br /&gt;
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So I thought about saying it loud: I hate this Law! The Law of Jante is shit! &lt;br /&gt;
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I have been thinking about this photoproject for a very long time. My ex husband was afraid I would have gathered some enemies by expressing my opinion about this old and retrograde law, and sometimes I cought myself pondering.&lt;br /&gt;
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Was I ready to say it loud? Was I afraid I would have been attacked by people who still hung on in a nostalgic way to this old way of thinking?&lt;br /&gt;
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Was I strong enough to take the critics which eventually was coming my way?&lt;br /&gt;
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The answers to all these questions came when I finally break free from that psychological cage. I didn&#39;t need to follow that rule anymore: I was free!&lt;br /&gt;
When I published my call for models I was overwhelmed by how many wanted to tell me their stories. The Law of Jante had influenced someone in a very hard way, while someone else had just danced themselves over it. It has been some exciting months, I&#39;ve been talking to those who wanted to cohoperate with me and I&#39;ve been shooting pictures of them, which we carefully planned. We chose the locations, we chose the clothes, we chose the feeling we wanted to share with the viewer. We laughed a lot, sometimes we cried too, we felt it on our skin, and it wasn&#39;t always pretty.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now the exhibition is ready, and I want to share it with you.&lt;br /&gt;
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Opening day will be the 14th of september, at my sweet, little atelier in Fredrikstad and I&#39;m very excited.&lt;br /&gt;
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- The event on the program for the Culture Night in Fredrikstad: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fredrikstad.kommune.no/tjenester/Kulturogfritid/kulturnattFredrikstad2018/arrangementer/#viewtype:item/templatetype:1/daytype:1/params:{%22Categories%22:%220%22,%22SearchText%22:%22%22,%22DateFrom%22:%2230.08.2018%22,%22DateTo%22:%2224.08.2019%22,%22Municipalities%22:%220%22,%22Kunde%22:%22fredrikstad_kommune_kulturnatt%22,%22Id%22:%221326088%22,%22ItemDate%22:%2214.09.2018%22,%22WeekDays%22:%22%22,%22List%22:%22%22,%22Count%22:%22%22,%22Distributor%22:%22%22}/&quot;&gt;Kulturnatt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- The event on facebook: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/events/2119896658284052/&quot;&gt;Facebook &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
- My photography website: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gentiliphoto.com/&quot;&gt;Gentili Photo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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~ Midgardsblòt ~&lt;/div&gt;
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For those who don’t know: the blòt is a sacrifice, and the Midgrad is the part of the Earth where humans live.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small; text-align: start;&quot;&gt;The Midgrad Rune welcoming us in the woods.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The festival purpose is to reenact this ceremony, sprinkling the blood of the sacrifical victime all over the participants, the walls and the statues of the gods. Pretty gore, isn’t it?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;But hei, we’re talking about the vikings!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small; text-align: start;&quot;&gt;The viking area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Everything is made to resemble the old vikings artifacts, people use old, forgotten techniques to make weapons, jewelry, clothes and everiday stuff.&lt;/div&gt;
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Musicians are playing replicas of ancient music instruments, and very often they make these instruments themselves, after a long process of studying and searching.&lt;/div&gt;
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There’s also a good deal of black metal at this festival, even if the focus is absolutely not on that kind of music.&lt;/div&gt;
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We left with a feeling that we had experienced something absolutely special, and the magic of the place has in some way filled us completely, and strenghten the bond between us.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/3231449049470980540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/3231449049470980540' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/3231449049470980540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/3231449049470980540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2018/08/midgardsblot-for-those-who-dont-know.html' title='Midgardsblòt 2018'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJc5g3DeiEs5M4nD-kM9cKaBsFeG-efeeVgm4UMDU3BtpqOaz5j5GyjkdATRYxyUMqmcAKEnMjZVzKiPkGCkoo4oK0V1-jXenhFNuep75qh2RmicVnPBxr65yQJQxWmG5lv-t2xqiv3CM/s72-c/IMG_4285.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-7030713864698534503</id><published>2018-01-22T16:26:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2018-01-22T16:28:24.034+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Here we go with my new project!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaPhJEizWciwYObt-lDGMV5pr8PuISmYi2874sRiW7gKssPk4pPDHT3eQcvQnGE1aJLo3VTH9-xM_9zvZqQuJi1BApIDb73JRuGCTAXb_6xgVSj-3oGvfiCnzm617ExHaBR2XYrXaVREw/s1600/317795_197953590280579_100001978191539_438045_2045937510_n.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaPhJEizWciwYObt-lDGMV5pr8PuISmYi2874sRiW7gKssPk4pPDHT3eQcvQnGE1aJLo3VTH9-xM_9zvZqQuJi1BApIDb73JRuGCTAXb_6xgVSj-3oGvfiCnzm617ExHaBR2XYrXaVREw/s640/317795_197953590280579_100001978191539_438045_2045937510_n.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;616&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;But guess what? There&#39;s no reason to try, you don&#39;t need to!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;We are NOT alike, so why should we try to become a constrained copy of each other?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I feel this extremely strong here in Norway, I will explain you in detail soon. Now I&#39;ve gathered 11 strong and brave persons who&#39;ll be my models for the project, and I am extremely excited to see how this will go. I will update my blog once in a while to hold you up to date with the project, and just feel free to send me tips and ideas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Exhibitions will follow, both in Norway and in Italy, so you&#39;ll be able to come and see my work in real life, and not just online.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;And for God&#39;s sake: be yourself, always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/feeds/7030713864698534503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/7437621062046322334/7030713864698534503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7030713864698534503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7437621062046322334/posts/default/7030713864698534503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vargie.blogspot.com/2018/01/here-we-go-with-my-new-project.html' title='Here we go with my new project!'/><author><name>VARGIE</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14472587885451324157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2UvswuFYyoqeHIJ3KlIqGMZH7UekvAOjauBhbiuwLb8UHWR06eddW2YjL5bas0a3txbRYvT87NNc7P_Emo_JU5OdTTyHJosu6iE8JeFFhKJBU_Las1WJg3JpKHZbEAg/s220/DSC06402.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaPhJEizWciwYObt-lDGMV5pr8PuISmYi2874sRiW7gKssPk4pPDHT3eQcvQnGE1aJLo3VTH9-xM_9zvZqQuJi1BApIDb73JRuGCTAXb_6xgVSj-3oGvfiCnzm617ExHaBR2XYrXaVREw/s72-c/317795_197953590280579_100001978191539_438045_2045937510_n.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7437621062046322334.post-5161646655680935798</id><published>2017-10-31T20:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2018-01-15T13:34:46.164+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Desucon - Cosplay Convention in Oslo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
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So autumn is here and as every year it&#39;s time for some cosplay convention. I don&#39;t do cosplay myself but I believe its very inspiring. I admire people who dedicate most of their free time to sew and design their own outfit, sometime they teach themselves to do it. That&#39;s wonderful!&lt;/div&gt;
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These last years has cosplay started to bloom in Norway too. I didn&#39;t believe it could have worked here, but I didn&#39;t count the strengt of the syncretism.&lt;/div&gt;
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Yes, the syncretism between the old, good established norwegian traditions wich melts extremely too good with the art of the cosplay. Every cosplayer designs and then sews his or her costume on their own, and they often use old pieces of old fabric or rusted metal parts from old machines to fix the costumes, and here in Norway it&#39;s nowaday very popular with knitting, sewing, diy and re-design, so the ground is ready to be sawed.&lt;/div&gt;
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However what&#39;s particular in Norway is the &quot;Janteloven&quot;, a sort of an unwritten law (oh well, it&#39;s written in a book. A danish book. And it was actually ment sarcastically) which stops people from excelling, but lead them to humility instead. Norwegians are terrified by the idea of excelling in something, and if they accidentally do they know they have soon to show their weak side, to be accepted back in the community. So there&#39;s not so many who actually take cosplaying seriously. The most part of them take it as a game.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Cosplay Catwalk at Desucon is not a competition, everyone can walk it, jump, dance alone or in gorups. The Cosplay battle is just for fun too. The moves are improvised, the battle are unlikely to happen, even in the fantasy world these characters live in, but above all: there&#39;s no winner here either.&lt;/div&gt;
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Then there&#39;s the Cosplay Contest, the real one. Not many people had actually applied and, with a few exceptions, they hadn&#39;t prepare a proper show. Someone had done it though, and I truly believe they had done a good job.&lt;/div&gt;
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So Christina Erring was chosen as a winner, and she will represent Norway in London next year. She was wearing an awesome Diablo 3 Wizard costume and her performance was both funny and entertaining.&lt;/div&gt;
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So here is some more pictures. See you soon!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://desucon.no/&quot;&gt;The Convention - Desucon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://chrixdesign.blogspot.no/&quot;&gt;The Winner - Christina Erring &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Desucon, Oslo kongressenter, 21 octob&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;s2&quot;&gt;er 2017.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;Desucon, the biggest cosplay meeting in Norway, was held last weekend in the Congress Center, in the heart of the «Tigerstad», Oslo. It lasted just this one Saturday, from 13:00 to around 19:00, and in addition to the cosplay contest had some interesting meetings happening too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;When describing this little convention one must always have in mind that cosplaying is still a very new and unknown phenomenon for Norway, a country which’s profoundly anchored to its traditions and its own art forms. I must see I noticed a little wider audience than last time I visited Desucon, and people is actually starting to choose some less known characters. There were not so many Pikachus, for eksempel.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;I arrived just after the official openings (those who had bought the V.I.P. ticket could enter already at 12:00, and had some special discounts at the stands). The &lt;b&gt;Kodama Forest &lt;/b&gt;was about to start their show, guarded by a bunch of Stormtroopers, There were already plenty of people in the auditorium and I was amazed about how quiet can young people be when they are interested in something. The Kodama Forest is a little orchestra playing games and manga themes in their own way, they are from Oslo and they are often invited performing when anime are screened in theaters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;I then grabbed a program and started to move around the Congress Center to attend to the lectures happening around. Some of these meetings were happening at the same time, so I had to prioritize, and walk from the one to the other while the speakers was still talking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;I first stopped watching some of the speedfriending, a light version of speeddating between people interested in the cosplay world. They were sitting in two rows, facing one another, and had a few minutes to introduce themselves to each others. The room was full of young people and they seemed to have a great time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;I then moved on to the Balder room to listen about how participants to the cosplay contest had found their inspiration and had build up their costumes. Much of the job was handmade, often from old things found in loft and cellars, and this is probably the most exciting part of making a cosplay costume in Norway, where one can clearly see some trace of this newborn syncretism between the old norwegian tradition of sewing and «gjenbruk» (re-utilize) and the cosplay trend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;I left the cosplay contest room and rushed to the Odin room, to listen to the kimono lecture which was about to start. That was a very interesting one, for those who are curious about the art and use of this traditional outfit, and guests had the chance of trying it on at the end of the lecture. Two or three of the girls attending had a kimono on, and I could hear the soft trill og some tiny bells hanging somewhere. We learned that many collects different kinds of kimono, that there’s a code for both the materials, the colors and the shapes and of course the price. People can use a sort of everyday kimono at work, for example, but for special occasions there’s strict rules about how the kimono must be. When a girl finishes school she has to wear a special kind of kimono, the flagging arms kimono, which’s very expensive. So «a man with many daughters is a poor man», they use to say in Japan, and that’s because of the kimonos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;We also learn about the shoes, the belts and even the man kimono, which is much more simple than the other.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;While the lectures is going on there’s something happening on the stage. Characters are simulating fights against other characters. This is just for fun, it seems completely improvised to me and the audience is choosing who fought better, by clapping and yelling. And it’s amazing to see how many people is sitting in the auditorium watching this peculiar performance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;While the auditorium is so getting ready for the cosplay catwalk I walk by the drop-in cosplay zone, where people is meeting the judges of the contest to show their costume and reach the Balder room again to learn how to become a superhero. The lecture is actually interesting, Melina Edvardsen is very passionate about the issue and she has a lot of tips about how to get started with the whole concept, where to find some inspiration and what to prioritize before a catwalk or a contest. The whole is filled with funny trivia from her own experience as a cosplayer and that makes the lecture even more enjoying to attend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;I then take a look in the japan quick course before I go back to the auditorium and watch some of the catwalk. People is really having a good time, and that’s too very peculiar for the norwegian cospalyers: they never take themselves too serious, even if the amount of work behind a costume is conspicuous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;It’s now 16:00 and I decide to have some lunch break, while the program doesn’t stop so I miss bothe the «how to draw manga» and «cosplay make up» lectures, but I am back early enough to take a look at the stands and find a good place in the auditorium minutes before the cosplay contest finale is starting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;There’s not many stands actually. Some of them sell plushes and gadgets, while just a few propose handcrafted items, like horns, props and other accessories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;There’s not many contestants in the finale, so it all happens very fast. After a brief break they announce the winners of each category, and the winner of the whole contest who’s going to the next year Eurocosplay contest, in London: Christina Errings with a beautiful performance of the Diablo 3 wizard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;After announcing the winners Desucon has arranged a disco-like event for the cosplayers, so I decide to go home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class=&quot;s1&quot;&gt;As I told earlier cosplay is still growing up in Norway. Lot of people here has never heard about manga or anime, and even less has heard about cosplaying. The japanese and even corean trend has been slowly approaching for years, and it doesn’t have it easy because of the strong local traditions and uses. I actually believe that it will never reach much more popularity that it has right now, but of course: I can be wrong. It has been growing very slowly up here, and it will never become comparable to american comics. It’s still amazing how Concrew, a bunch of volunteers, has the will to organize this big meeting in Oslo. They call it «con» while this is actually a safe place for norwegian cosplay lovers to meet and make new friends. There’s not so many cosplayers in the contest, the most part of people walk the stage just for fun and to feel to be a part of this little quiet movement. As mentioned they do not take themselves too seriously, they’re still not brave enough to do it. I am very excited to see if this will change in a year or two or if this party feeling will stay unchanged.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;Then it was over! Thank you for watching, here we go with the comic:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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 it&#39;s that time of the year again, when the sky becomes dark and 
everyone has the urge to do something to take care of oneself. I am&amp;nbsp; 
going to participate to the 24 Hours Comics Day, and I am going to 
stream the whole thing - if my internet connection doesn&#39;t die - .&lt;br /&gt;
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You can follow my stream here:&lt;br /&gt;
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Than you can see the final result here:&lt;br /&gt;
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Ormai quasi dieci anni fa, per solo pochi mesi, ho abitato a Collescipoli.&lt;br /&gt;
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Di quel poco tempo ho ricordi nebbiosi di salite interminabili, parcheggi impossibili ed una vista mozzafiato sulla conca ternana. Un piccolo ristorante ricavato in una grotta, un minuscolo bar con un paio di tavolini all&#39;aperto. Le vie strette e diritte di un piccolissimo borgo medievale ancora rinchiuso nelle sue alte ed intatte mura di cinta. Una pianta di uva fragola appena fuori la mia finestra, gatti randagi e pigri, impavidi, il tempo che scorreva lento. È di quel periodo quella catena di eventi e coincidenze fortuite in virtù dei quali sono entrata di soppiatto nel mondo creato dai fratelli Vanni, sentendomi d&#39;improvviso a casa.&lt;/div&gt;
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Collescipoli è, come accennato sopra, un paese piccolo e tranquillo, dove il tempo sembra quasi essersi fermato a qualche decina di anni fa, quando la rivoluzione tecnologica ancora non era entrata nel suo periodo d&#39;oro. Le signore siedono sulle loro sedie di legno davanti alla porta di casa, qualcuna si affaccia alla finestra o al balcone per guardare con curiosità il carosello pazzo degli ospiti e degli artisti. I bambini si rincorrono per la strada, che tanto le - rarissime - automobili vanno piano. La magia delle notti d&#39;estate fa il resto. L&#39;odore del barbecue, il vociare e le risate della gente, l&#39;eco della musica che arriva da ogni vicolo o stradina, l&#39;aria finalmente fresca della sera che gentile entra sibilando dalle porte aperte nelle mura. Innegabile che le quinte di questo festival abbiano un fascino tutto loro, e che le melodie lo amplifichino enormemente fino a costruire un&#39;atmosfera irripetibile.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;La vista sulla città di Terni.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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Ogni pomeriggio, al nostro arrivo le bandiere poste ai lati all&#39;ingresso principale del paese, quello rivolto verso ovest, ci davano il benvenuto, sventolando in sincrono col vento tiepido, che a Collescipoli è cittadino onorario. Una volta oltrepassata la porta ci si trova come in una grande stanza, che le mura del paese hanno contemporaneamente la funzione di fare ombra e di tenere al sicuro gli abitanti. A partire da qui la strada che attraversa per lungo il paese è tutta in salita, una salita ripida e diritta, come se una lama lo avesse tagliato in due. Ai due lati di questa strada sono piccoli negozi, una taverna con pochi tavoli all&#39;aperto ed un gruppo di sedie di legno e paglia intrecciata sulle quali siedono, chiacchierando ad alta voce e seguendo gli ospiti con lo sguardo, un gruppetto di donne che probabilmente avrebbero avuto le loro sedie in strada anche senza la scusa del festival. Il marciapiede a Collescipoli non esiste. In realtà non ce n&#39;è affatto bisogno, sono ancora le persone ad avere la precedenza, e non le vetture. Con un buon paio di scarpe ai piedi, il programma in mano ed una bottiglietta d&#39;acqua sempre in borsa camminiamo avanti ed indietro, e soprattutto su e giù per il paese, seguendo solo il suono degli strumenti.&lt;br /&gt;
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Il palco davanti alla chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore è il primo davanti al quale facciamo una pausa, dopo aver percorso quasi per intero la salita ed esserci fermati volgendo appena lo sguardo verso destra e scorgendo così una piccola folla che con tranquillità si sta dirigendo verso la chiesa. Questo angolo di paese è senza dubbio uno dei miei preferiti, grazie alla suggestiva illuminazione ed alla selezione di band, a mio avviso un po&#39; fuori dall&#39;ordinario, ma mai troppo lontane da un sound piacevole e pienamente godibile. Diverse volte nel corso del festival ci siamo seduti davanti al baretto lì accanto, con qualcosa di fresco nel bicchiere e gli occhi puntati allo show. Una delle band che ci fermiamo ad ascoltare è un quintetto dove l&#39;uomo al microfono, con la sua&amp;nbsp;voce morbida e flessibile segue ed accompagna abilmente l&#39;andamento degli strumenti, mentre questi creano un atmosfera rilassata e calda, seppur ritmata. Ci sono anche degli alberi, nella piazzetta, che offrono un po&#39; d&#39;ombra a chi si siede sui gradini davanti al sagrato della chiesa, o sulle soglie delle abitazioni tutt&#39;intorno. A due passi dalla piazzetta, continuando sulla sinistra per un vicolo ricurvo, arriviamo in una minuscola piazza dalla forma di anfiteatro, dove accanto alla fontanella si trova un palco grande appena per far posto ai musicisti. Il trio, che sta già suonando quando arriviamo, è molto più vivace dell&#39;altra band, la batteria si fa sentire con decisione ed il basso va a costruire un tappeto ricco di personalità, mentre le mani del pianista guidano l&#39;andamento della melodia in maniera sicura. Il poco pubblico è entusiasta, e va progressivamente ingrossandosi in quanto chiunque si trovi a passare di lì, anche per sbaglio, non può fare a meno di essere travolto dai ritmi andanti e rapidi, in molti si siedono sui gradini delle abitazioni poste a semicerchio intorno al palco e vedo che anche i locali sono divertiti dalla performance, affacciati alle finestre o poggiati sulle ringhiere dei piccoli balconi. Mi accorgo adesso improvvisamente di quanto i collescipolani abbiano preso sul serio la kermesse, ed abbiano decorato ogni angolo di paese con vasi ricolmi di fiori, appesi a ganci improvvisati, poggiati sul davanzale di una finestra oppure in un grosso vaso davanti la porta di casa. È importante mostrare a quella piccola parte di mondo che si ritrova qui in questi tre giorni che Collescipoli non è solo un piccolo borgo rimasto alla metà dei &#39;60, ma un luogo magico, dove le persone sorridono e si impegnano affinché gli ospiti si sentano accolti con calore.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mentre ci avviamo verso la terza location torniamo a passare davanti alla chiesa, dove un altro concerto sta iniziando. Le atmosfere sono più cupe questa volta, la musica si snoda veloce su scale aspre e la sola luce blu che illumina la band finisce per acuire quel sentimento ansioso che si genera in me, come se stessi assistendo ad una scena concitata di un thriller. Il desiderio di Luciano Vanni (mi confiderà lui stesso in quelle poche parole che ci scambieremo un paio di giorni dopo davanti ad un caffè) quando mette insieme le band che si esibiranno, è quello di riunire in un solo luogo le atmosfere più disparate, generi anche lontani gli uni dagli altri, per dar voce alla creatività in ogni sua forma, senza badare al fatto che ogni genere, ogni melodia non necessariamente incontrerà il favore di tutti, proprio perché gli ospiti del festival sono variegati, mancando il filtro del biglietto da pagare (non l&#39;avevo detto? I concerti sono tutti gratuiti), e quindi chiunque, dal paesano che non ha mai visto altro che la sagra dello gnocchetto alla famiglia con i bambini, ed ancora all&#39;esperto di jazz possono trarre piacere da uno show anziché da un altro, e questo è imprevedibile. Quello che conta qui, non sono i gusti di ognuno, ma la qualità del prodotto che si presenta dal palco nel corso del tempo a disposizione, e che è sempre stata eccellente, almeno a giudicare dai concerti ai quali ho assistito.&lt;br /&gt;
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Verso la fine della serata entriamo nel chiostro di quello che una volta era un monastero, dove si trova &amp;nbsp;il palco principale del festival. Lo sguardo corre veloce sotto i portici illuminati di rosa, come a voler vivere quegli spazi una volta silenziosi e percorsi solo da suore nelle loro passeggiate meditative. Una band suona una quasi-cacofonia che richiama vagamente il sapore torrido e rilassato di un pomeriggio pigro d&#39;estate, edificata su uno stabile xilofono che va a tessere la struttura sulla quale scivola la melodia. Ipnotica e coinvolgente, la band ha raccolto davanti a sé un nutrito pubblico, che siede divertito, anche per terra, e non ha intenzione di andarsene nonostante si stia avvicinando la mezzanotte. Noi invece andiamo via appena terminata la musica. Stanchi per il caldo e la lunga giornata ci avviamo giù per quella che quando siamo arrivati era una salita, ma che adesso scende ripida verso la porta di ingresso del paese, che ancora pullula di gente e bambini che con voci squillanti hanno ancora voglia di rincorrersi, trovando l&#39;energia nell&#39;atmosfera di festa che si respira.&lt;br /&gt;
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Poco dopo aver superato la metà della discesa, ci accorgiamo che da una porticina aperta sulla parete di un edificio sulla destra giunge una melodia sussurrata, ovattata dalle mura spesse, e gettando lo sguardo all&#39;interno, una volta superata la sorpresa, ed una volta che l&#39;occhio si sia abituato alla penombra dell&#39;ambiente, totalmente privo di finestre, vediamo che in molti sono già seduti sulle panche disposte in file parallele, e con attenzione seguono l&#39;esecuzione impeccabile. Ci affrettiamo a trovare un posto, e ci rendiamo così conto di essere in una piccola chiesa. Le decorazioni alle pareti non lasciano adito ad alcun dubbio, e al posto dell&#39;altare c&#39;è un pianoforte a coda. Una donna lo sta suonando piano, i lunghi riccioli rossi riflettono la luce di un riflettore alle sue spalle, ed io non riesco a vederne il volto, in controluce. In fondo però non importa, è la musica che conta adesso. Dall&#39;altra parte del piccolo palco è un uomo al contrabbasso.&lt;br /&gt;
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Quando fanno una pausa, tra un brano ed il seguente, ci dice che per loro è la prima volta insieme dal vivo, ma la sintonia tra loro si sente vibrare. Rimaniamo per tutto il resto del concerto, breve ed intenso, la chiesetta è gremita, ed il pubblico se ne sta in silenzio, appeso ad ogni nota. Anche se l&#39;aria è pesante da respirare, l&#39;ambiente chiuso e ci stiamo stringendo per non disturbare chi ci siede accanto, il contrasto tra le decorazioni eccessive della chiesa e la sobrietà della musica cattura la mia mente, e mi porta in un volo leggero, interrotto soltanto dal silenzio che d&#39;improvviso esplode alla fine del concerto.&lt;br /&gt;
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Se nel corso della prima giornata ci dimentichiamo completamente di mangiare qualcosa, la seconda sera ci concediamo una cena con degustazione di vini al roof bistrot, situato sulla terrazza del monastero. La musica dell&#39;orchestra che sta suonando nel chiostro di sotto ci arriva come a fare da sottofondo al pasto, un menù costruito su misura per gli ospiti del festival, con ingredienti prelibati, tutti coltivati in modo naturale a pochi chilometri di distanza. Lo spesso davanzale della terrazza dà direttamente sul chiostro ed ognuno come in una fila invisibile aspetta il suo turno per sporgersi e guardare di sotto, verso il palco colorato di rosa ed il pubblico assorto, dalle facce rosa anch&#39;esse.&lt;br /&gt;
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Il mio sguardo però, mentre mastico in silenzio assaporando gli aromi ed i sapori, vaga di continuo verso il cielo stellato sopra di noi. Rifletto molto su quanto sia sorprendente che in così tanti abbiano deciso di dare il loro contributo volontario a questo evento dal raggio d&#39;azione così ridotto, che l&#39;intera popolazione del paese si sia tirata su le maniche per garantire agli ospiti un&#39;esperienza indimenticabile e quasi magica. Bambini fieri del loro pass si danno infatti da fare per risolvere tutti i dubbi e rispondere alle domande più disparate dei visitatori, ragazzini alla soglia dell&#39;adolescenza vanno in giro per le strade ad attirare l&#39;attenzione di un pubblico distratto verso una specie di cripta, dove una band molto speciale si sta esibendo, combinando il suono ubriaco di un didgeridoo ai suoni contemporanei della chitarra elettrica. Associazioni e privati hanno offerto gratuitamente cibo, acqua, tovagliette e posate usa e getta. In tanti si sono prodigati, senza ricevere in cambio altro che gratitudine, e questo assomiglia davvero ad una bella, piccola favola tutta italiana, quasi magica.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ma non è finita qua. Il festival ha molto altro da offrire nel corso di questi tre giorni. Come il picnic musicale, ad esempio. Metti che ti svegli una domenica mattina, il sole è già sopra l&#39;orizzonte e la temperatura sta salendo in fretta. Allora ti metti in macchina e vai a cercare un luogo fresco, come una fattoria che se ne stia un po&#39; in alto, sulle colline umbre tutte verdi tra Terni e Narni, dove non arrivi neanche il suono del traffico, e dove l&#39;occhio possa adagiarsi sul verde e riposare. Qualcuno ha già disteso delle tovaglie sull&#39;erba, all&#39;ombra di grossi alberi, ha preparato dei panini e una crostata di marmellata. C&#39;è un clown che intrattiene i bambini con giochi di prestigio, sua moglie fa degli animali annodando palloncini. All&#39;ombra del gazebo una band sta già suonando, e non ti resta altro che scegliere dove sederti, respirare profondamente e chiudere gli occhi, godendoti l&#39;attimo fino alla fine, che non c&#39;è fretta, i concerti non inizieranno che prima delle sei di pomeriggio, quindi puoi prendertela con comodo.&lt;br /&gt;
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L&#39;ultimo pomeriggio del festival ha fin da subito il profumo della malinconia che contraddistingue gli addii. Prima che i concerti abbiano inizio ci si ritrova nella chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore per una messa dedicata a due uomini molto amati. Il trombettista Marco Tamburini ed il fotografo Sergio Coppi. In molti si sono dati appuntamento nella chiesa afosa mentre il prete parla concitato del dolore di perdere qualcuno, del vuoto che rimane dentro. Quando usciamo ci fermiamo un po&#39; al solito baretto, e mentre prendiamo una birra fresca di frigorifero la signora dietro al bancone ci racconta del matrimonio che c&#39;è stato nella chiesa quella stessa mattina, bello eh, un po&#39; caotico, e poi gli sposi non avevano i bicchieri per brindare, e allora la signora glieli ha prestati, e quelli li hanno rotti e non hanno nemmeno chiesto scusa, se non sono solo andati senza neanche ringraziare, che modi. Per questo mi versa la birra in due bicchieri di plastica, che non si sa mai. Dopo aver ripreso fiato decidiamo di fare due passi per gli stands disseminati per il paese, oggettini fatti a mano, libri pubblicati da una piccola casa editrice indie, merchandising del festival, LP nuovi e usati, strumenti musicali, un uomo che ha allestito un presepe enorme nell&#39;androne del palazzo, ci invita dentro per mostrarcelo, ci offre pasticcini e ci racconta del suo orticello pensile, mostrandoci le sue piantine officinali nei bei vasi di terracotta, che adesso li ha tirati dentro per mostrarli al pubblico, per ispirare altri a fare lo stesso, ma da domani torna tutto sul balcone, che alle piantine piace il sole. Nel primo piano del chiostro troviamo i rullanti artigianali fatti a mano da Pippo Maniaci, lucidi e perfetti, appresso poi delle chitarre elettriche colorate ed una mostra d&#39;arte ispirata alla musica. Tornando in strada, e passeggiando verso la fontana del paese ci imbattiamo nello stand variopinto di Matera, che sarà capitale europea della cultura nel 2019, ci informa il vistoso portavoce: un uomo alto dai capelli lunghi e la barba di qualche giorno, cappello panama in testa, che va in giro per il paese cantando al microfono nel suo dialetto affascinante ma incomprensibile (e sì che mia madre parla napoletano con me, quindi ci si aspetterebbe che riuscissi a decifrare anche il materano), il quale non esita ad offrirci un po&#39; del loro fantastico pane, del loro aspro olio di oliva, un bicchiere di vino e delle albicocche (che su in Norvegia sono praticamente introvabili), sorridendo e facendoci promettere di venire a trovarli tra qualche anno. Incontriamo anche una giovane big band itinerante, tutti vestiti di rosso e pieni di entusiasmo, che passeggiano e performano in giro per il paese, poi un gruppo di ballerini swing che occupano il suolo pubblico con le loro danze spensierate, coinvolgendo oltretutto non pochi dei passanti e che continueranno a ballare fino a notte fonda, fino a quando le gambe non ce la faranno più, e gli occhi si chiuderanno da soli. Poi ancora il gruppo della Poesia in Azione, che con sottofondo di musiche improvvisate mettono in scena nei vicoli del paese il concerto sensoriale, sfidando i passanti a dare la loro interpretazione della poesia, creando un&#39;alchimia irreale tra parola e musica, tra concreto ed impalpabile.&lt;br /&gt;
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E poi alla fine, come ogni volta viene la malinconia. Le ore scivolano via in fretta e quando ormai ci si avvicina alla fine di questo breve ma intenso sogno ad occhi aperti, rubiamo qualche decina di minuti per sederci fuori dalle mura, sullo spesso balcone del belvedere che ha da poco visto il sole tramontare. Il vento di Collescipoli soffia tiepido, gli uomini della croce rossa sono a pochi metri da noi, siedono anche loro, il festival è scivolato via senza intoppi, anche se loro in ogni caso erano pronti. Guardiamo di sotto, verso la vallata avvolta nel primo buio, il vento ci porta le note del Collettivo Casa Cava di Matera, l&#39;uomo dalla barba non fatta ed i capelli lunghi sta cantando nel suo dialetto, sembra quasi mi auguri la buona notte, anche se in realtà io non vedo lui e neanche lui vede me. È il tempo dei saluti. Andiamo in giro stringendo mani ed abbracciando vecchie compagne di scuola incontrate per caso, respirando un&#39;ultima volta l&#39;aria fresca della sera collescipolana. Chiedendosi se davvero tutto questo sia stato realizzabile basandosi solo su volontariato e donazioni spontanee, senza il coinvolgimento di organizzazioni di stampo politico, senza promettere voti a nessuno. Senza sporcarsi le mani nel grosso pentolone della corruzione, ma solo rischiando, mentre si &amp;nbsp;insegue un sogno. Quello dei fratelli Vanni, che hanno ancora fiducia nelle persone, bontà loro.&lt;br /&gt;
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(Per la versione italiana Clicca &lt;a href=&quot;http://vargie.blogspot.no/2015/07/jazzit-fest-2015.html&quot;&gt;QUI&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
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More than ten years ago, and for just a few months, I lived here, in Collescipoli, this little village on the top af a hill, just outside my hometown, Terni. Collescipoli is a nice, small place, I believe it&#39;s inhabitate by around three hundred people, and during these days I came to understand how little I actually knew about it. &lt;br /&gt;
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For the third time this summer this village has been filled up with jazz. That&#39;s quite unbelievable, but actually not so strange if you think about this: it&#39;s the result of the fulfilling of a wonderful dream.&lt;/div&gt;
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Because, you know: people in Italy can still have a dream, and fight for it, even when everything seem so hard to achieve.&lt;/div&gt;
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So this is&amp;nbsp;the story of a pair of brothers, who have this dream and are&amp;nbsp;surrounded by a bunch of people who want to believe that dreams can actually become reality, if you fight hard enough. Collescipoli is the place where everyone believed that they could help those few people, maybe just a little, so that that dream could have become a fantastic reality for everyone. And guess what? It did!&lt;/div&gt;
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So welcome to Jazzit Fest, a three days of jazz, concerts, seminars, workshops and conferences. Everything spread around this little village, with no money coming in&amp;nbsp;from any culture fond, or the local politicians, but entirely based on crowdfonding, and sharing of other goods. People from&amp;nbsp;all around came in with food, drinks, water, rooms to lend and the most of the youngs in the village was helping around as volunteers. When I arrived there I asked for the festival office, and a little child armed by his &quot;staff pass&quot;&amp;nbsp;showed me the way through the small streets, and he thougth that was extreme fun. Old women was just sitting around, and they loved to tell stories, just like when I asked the way to the Old&amp;nbsp;Monastery, and one of them told me the way. &quot;There were plans to have a University in there, you know Young woman&quot;, she said, &quot;but they took it from us!&quot; and she lifted her little, wrinkled fist in the air.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ne ho visti tanti, di festival, e diverse volte sono passata dietro alle quinte, rivestendo i ruoli più disparati. Ricordo la mia prima volta, curai la cartella stampa, preparai delle brochure, poi mi misi al volante e feci la runner per alcuni artisti, che a ripensare a quanto ero inesperta e sconsiderata mi viene da ridere. Il mio primo festival in Norvegia, dove, dato che ancora non sapevo una parola di norvegese, mi misero alla porta a fare da security (ehm..). Poi il Månefestival, festival della Luna, col quale collaboro ormai ininterrottamente da otto anni, e per il quale ho fatto di tutto, fino a giungere al mio ruolo attuale, quello di coordinatrice degli ospiti e degli stands che animano la città vecchia alla fine del mese di luglio. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ma di uno in particolare conservo dei ricordi speciali. Erano giorni di grandi cambiamenti, per me. Avevo frequentato un corso di formazione per organizzatori di eventi, ed ero pronta alla mia partecipazione al festival jazz che avrebbe animato le vie della mia città. &amp;nbsp;Il festival era TerniinJazz, e correva l&#39;anno 2006 (una vita fa, eh?).&lt;/div&gt;
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Mi sono ritrovata innumerevoli volte a parlare di quei giorni pieni di trambusto ed energie positive, come se ancora oggi fossero una fonte inesauribile di good karma. Ricordo le location, emozionanti, ricordo le voci degli artisti, il cuore che batte forte dietro ad una melodia. Ricordo i sorrisi, ed il calore degli abbracci di tutti quelli che erano nel gruppo di lavoro, anche se i nomi sono scivolati via. &amp;nbsp; Ricordo che mentre la mia vita privata andava in frantumi, io in qualche modo mi sentivo protetta, perché sapevo che il mio posto era proprio lì, da qualche parte vicino ad un palco.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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..e quest&#39;anno faró infine ritorno al luogo in cui tutto ha avuto inizio.&lt;/div&gt;
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Il festival, nel corso degli anni, ha seguito anch&#39;esso un percorso un po&#39; zigzagante, con cambi di nome e di location, ma sento che Collescipoli, dove si tenne il corso cui accennavo poco sopra, è davvero il luogo del ritorno alle origini.&lt;/div&gt;
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(il sito del festival lo trovate cliccando qui&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jazzitfest.it/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;JazzitFest&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;
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..e davvero non vedo l&#39;ora!&lt;/div&gt;
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Il festival è a impronta zero, il che si riduce a seguire le regole seguenti:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Cabin; line-height: 22px; text-align: start;&quot;&gt;1] zero contributi pubblici&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Cabin; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;2] sostenibilità ambientale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Cabin; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;3] direzione artistica ‘open source’, a sorgente aperta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Cabin; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;4] residenze artistiche&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; font-family: Cabin; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;5] sharing economy, economia collaborativa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Una visione al passo con un mondo che si muove (per fortuna) sempre più nella direzione della sharing economy, in cui un numero crescente di persone mette in una sorta di banca di condivisione le proprie abilità, ricevendo in cambio altre prestazioni o prodotti. Sarà interessante vedere come tutto alla fine andrà a posto, come tutti gli ingranaggi ruoteranno all&#39;unisono per garantire la riuscita della macchina festivaliera.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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