"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
I have a problem with the artistic current of the Macchiaioli, and my problem is that I always get them mixed up with Divisionism. And I don't like Divisionism, so I almost skipped this exhibition, and that would have been a shame because I do...
I discovered The Apothecary Diaries through the anime on Netflix: I generally don't like them but we're not getting good animation, I was desperate, and what caught my eye were the beautiful backgrounds in some of the promos. Then I switched to the manga. I...
This is the second book I read by this author, and I bought it for two reasons: I’m very fond of the world of illustrations, in every realm; I wanted to figure out whether the author’s faults in my previous read (The Making of Kubrick’s 2001: A...
The three months succeeding Simon's catastrophe I devoted night and day to my diamond lens. I had constructed a vast galvanic battery, composed of nearly two thousand pairs of plates: a higher power I dared not use, lest the diamond should be calcined. By means...
A piece that started as a reflection around machine, human redundancies and artificial intelligence, and then all of a sudden started talking about smart working instead. Happy Birthday Modern Times A few weeks ago, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times celebrated its 90th anniversary, and that sprang a conversation...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an installation with pieces by Giorgio Armani at the Pinacoteca di Brera, here in Milan, and as a matter of fact that wasn't the only show around fashion I visited, which is unlike me. While I was in...
I love books from this publisher: they mostly curate publications of Gothic fiction coming from the public domain, but they're splendidly curated, translated with love, and assembled in lovely products. They'll let you discover and rediscover gems at the very heart of our contemporary horror...
An astonishing anthology of what's being called "Arabic futurism" because, as the preface explains well, the term "science fiction" is an invention of other cultures, and it might not apply to what we're reading here.And what is it that we're reading here?Stories about the future,...
There was a light in Simon's room as I entered my house. A vague impulse urged me to visit him. As I opened the door of his sitting-room unannounced, he was bending, with his back toward me, over a Carcel lamp, apparently engaged in minutely...
Last month, I wrote a couple of things aimed at my local market, specifically on the updated norms on BIM for an Exchange Information Requirements and what should be specified inside. In one of those, I mentioned a principle in passing: that the as-built model...
