November 29th, 2009
With all that Jazz and history in my mind I sometimes forget about the things that really keep going and doing art. Thanks god I have sketchbooks ( and have to scan them in for this blog) to remind me that my path goes in a completely different direction.
Actually there’s a lot I could say about this topic, but the time hasn’t come yet.
This shadow lady just keept haunting my mind for weeks until I decided to get rid of her by drawing her on this piece of paper.
The frequent reader of this blog might recognize that this is a sketch for one of the first illustrations I made for the A Hundred Words Stories project.
A retired general.
November 26th, 2009
Io ho ucciso Pier Paolo Pasolini di Scoiattolazzo
Non che ne vada fiero, ma qualcuno doveva pur farlo.
Il suo intellettualismo ostentato, la sua lotta di classe, la mente usata come arma, sono cose che tuttora mi restano insopportabili.
In fondo non era che un emarginato, un estremista, meritevole solo di essere tra i primi.
E cosa può restare di un borghese che rifugge la borghesia?
Parole su parole:
“Tutto e’ amorfo..senza vento…quante cose ricordiamo in vita? La morte non e’ che un grande montaggio cinematografico dove restano solo le cose importanti, i momenti che tutti hanno bisogno di ricordare…”
Pier Paolo Pasolini doveva morire…
ed io l’ho ucciso…
Notes
Who killed Pier Paolo Pasolini? They say that it was Pino Pelosi, but the story isn’t really working. There’s still a lot of discussion going on about the possible scenario and the real killer still remains a vague shadow…
November 25th, 2009
Apparently Syndrome09 went quite well, because I’m already working on a 2.0 version called SyndromeX. The game got a complete redesign treatment (and this time I could work on it all on my own). Right now I’m focusing on the intro screen and the avatars, but there’s also some other improvements in the works!
November 24th, 2009
I decided to move the posting day for my A Hundred Word Stories project from Wednesday to Thursday. See you the day after tomorrow with some new stories!
November 21st, 2009
November 20th, 2009
Sometimes the forgotten past comes into your life like an unexpected visitor and sometimes you re-discover parts of yourself through it…
A couple of weeks ago me and Elisabeth went with my mother up the mountains, to the village where she was born, to visit our relatives. At one point we took a walk through the woods and I discovered this really weird “pietà” sculpture (a Madonna holding a dying Christ, which you can’t really see in the picture above). What I like about it is, that the face is completely white and the eyes look more like empty holes giving it a pretty unsettling effect. The figure looks more like a ghost or a vampire, than the grieving mother we are used to see.
According to my mother this sculpture was made by a granduncle of mine called Joseph Ploner, better known in the village as “Weber Våter”, who got into wood sculpture when he was 80. Somehow it makes me think that a certain interest for the macabre and the unsettling might have its root in the family… at least on a latent, unconscious level. Now that I think of it, many of the old iron crosses in the village’s cemetery where made by my grandfather (should take pictures of those too, there were just too many people in the cemetery last time).
The unexpected visitor might have opened a door I had forgotten.
November 18th, 2009
He awoke in the middle of the night with the feeling that someone had just sat on the empty couch in his head. How he had missed the tickle of those springs collapsing then bouncing under the pressure of a soft behind. He lay back slowly down upon his pillow, closed his eyes, and waited for the sweet warmth that soon would gather there. Gently, he began to hum when he felt a pair of legs come up to fill the remaining space, two feet nestling in at the opposite corner, and a rosy cheek, asleep upon the arm rest.
Notes
Here we go again with some more 100 word stories. Starting from next week I will be publishing these on thurday, makes it a bit easier for me to handle. Bolzano Comics 2009 went smooth and was great fun! I’ll be soon posting a complete report!
November 13th, 2009
Presentation: Thomas Ott, Edizioni Black Velvet
Hosted by Alberto Corradi, comic artist and illustrator. Editor of all the Italian editions of Thomas Ott’s works published by Black Velvet.
14th November, 11:00 – Bookshop Ubik – via Grappoli 7
www.bolzanocomics.it
November 13th, 2009
Presentation: Burumballa (Edizioni Tunuè)
Burumballa is an anthologic project dedicated to experimentation with sequential art. The presentation will be hosted by Lorenzo Sartori and Matteo Broggi.
13th November, 17:30 – Bookshop Ubik – via Grappoli 7
www.bolzanocomics.it
November 10th, 2009
