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Stefano Mirtis

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2012

timeline archive:

a personal collectionof curiosities

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Berlin, Germany

Supercraf

From their website:

We know that it's hard to find great supplies for

handmade projects and to come up with fresh

ideas for new stuff all the time. Well, considerthese problems to be solved! supercraft sources

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a fun how-to that guides you through each

project. We want to make it easy for everyone tocreate beautiful DIY projects.

Keep reading at:http://www.supercraftlab.com/

Thanks to Silvia Piombo for the link.

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MART

La Magnifica Ossessione

At MART, in Rovereto, a very nice project opening

on the 26th of October and running for a whole

year.

Also, I know that a completely new website iscoming soon

More at: http://english.mart.trento.

it/context_mostre.jsp

Thanks toFlavia Fossa Marguttiand Legrenzi

Susanna

Image above: Liliana Moro, Underdog.

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Hall of Science

Ethnobotanica Station

Myriel Milicevic writes:

04:40 (7 hours ago)

Amy Franceschini and I have been working awaythe past weeks here in New York to install the

Ethnobotanical Station at Hall of Sciences and it

would be so lovely seeing everyone who's near -

please come to the opening on the 25th!

see info below at: http://regeneration.nysci.org

The E.B. Station has become a growing research

project in itself and more stories, observations

and workshops will be documented soon here:

http://futurefarmers.com/ebotanical

best to you all,

myriel

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Torino's Guide

It was some 15 years go.

It was Andrea Bocco, Matteo Pastore and myself.

We then added Alessandro Rivoir (aka Mukka) for

the illustration.

The result was a small (but beautiful) guide bookon Torino

Thanks to Cristiano Pistisfor keeping a copy of it,

and sharing the pdf file

Ciao Fulvio, here the link where to download it (it

is in Italian).

http://www.facebook.

com/groups/GranTouristas/428355340562336/

Enjoy...

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Having to go to Sicily, to take the night train is

really best.

First reasone, because I like the train, second

reason because the train will reach the tip of theItalian boot at 5.45.

Then it will enter the special ferry-boat for trains,

reaching Messina at 7.35. All of this, on a day

when the sun gets up at 7.33.

This means to be between Scylla and Charybdis

exactly when the sun goes up. On a train on a

boat

Can't wait to be there.

Being between Scylla and Charybdis' is an idiom

deriving from Greek mythology. Several other

idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma",

Messina

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Messina

In a Train, on a Ferry...

"between the devil and the deep blue sea", and

"between a rock and a hard place" express the

same meaning of "having to choose between two

evils".

More at: http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis

Here is when Ulysses sails between these two

tricky monsters: http://www.sparknotes.

com/lit/ulysses/section9.rhtml

Image above: Scylla et Charybdis (or the Strait of

Messina), 1663.

From anatlas in the Dutch Maritime Museum

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The train is the boat's belly, and then you are free

to go up to the open decks and explore the boat

Very nice, indeed...

Stazione Villa San Giovanni

Voyage to Sicily

Mmmmmhhhhhhh.....

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Now, the boat made her short trip and we are

entering Messina seaport...

Messina

Voyage to Sicily

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-Messina Stazione Marittima-

Once the train got off the boat, it remains split.

One part goes to Palermo and the other part goes

to Siracusa.

In the meanwhile, the sun is ready to come up...

One Sea and One Sky

Layers of clouds, a ray of light, hues.

And a black boat with a lone fisherman.

Sicily never disappoints you...

Messina

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Caserta

Il pezzo di pane e la jonta /

A Loaf of Bread and a Little

Piece (of Bread)...

...in addition to round off the weight.

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I received a very nice mail from Beniamino

Servino.

It seems that we have two new books with hismost recent works

Heexplains the whole thing writing (it is

impossible to translate in English):

Quando le bilance non erano digitali e lago

oscillava per un po prima di segnare il peso [e il

salumiere toglieva il pane prima che l'ago fosse

definitivamente fermo indovinandone -non ho mai

capito come- il peso], capitava spesso che il

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pezzo [di pane] non fosse precisamente un chilo

[ma 920 g, 890 g, 935 g, ] e il salumiere non

aveva tempo e voglia ma soprattutto non sapeva

come calcolare dal prezzo al chilo quello relativo

al peso reale del pezzo [cera da fare operazioni

troppo complicate per chi a stento aveva fatto le

elementari].

Allora al pezzo di pane si aggiungeva [tagliandolo

da un altro pezzo alluopo utilizzato] un pezzetto

[tagliato velocemente e a occhio] per arrotondare

il peso.

Da cui la jonta [laggiunta]. Il pezzo di pane e la

jonta era un modo vernacolare a indicare due

cose accostate con evidenti differenze

dimensionali [con una sfumatura di

complementariet].