Forwarded from Fumettologica
In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/
Fumettologica
Tiziano Sclavi: «Tra me e la Bonelli le cose non vanno affatto bene» - Fumettologica
In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa.
La scuola di New York è il punto di partenza per la fotografia in bianco e nero. Che deve essere pensata e ripensata, certamente. Ma nasce in bianco e nero già come intenzione.
Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done”
https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done”
https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Medium
Mastering Black and White Photography
Approaching the monochrome mindset
Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/
Macitynet.it
Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - Macitynet.it
Cos’è successo nell’anno della “S” a Cupertino: dai nuovi iPad, Mac mini e MacBook Air ai prodotti che ancora non ci sono (Mac Pro, stiamo parlando di te)
L’intervista - molto bella - fatta dalla Paris Review ad Amos Oz un bel po’ di tempo fa, da rileggere per ricordare l’autore scomparso pochi giorni fa.
Money quote: “The novelist has no political aim but is concerned with truth, not facts. As I say in one of my essays, sometimes the worst enemy of truth is fact.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1366/amos-oz-the-art-of-fiction-no-148-amos-oz
Money quote: “The novelist has no political aim but is concerned with truth, not facts. As I say in one of my essays, sometimes the worst enemy of truth is fact.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1366/amos-oz-the-art-of-fiction-no-148-amos-oz
The Paris Review
Amos Oz, The Art of Fiction No. 148
Amos Oz lives in Arad, a small new town of twenty-two thousand inhabitants, built in 1961 in the Negev Desert. To reach him, I took the bus from Jerusalem to Beersheba, then another to Arad. At the bus station everyone knew his house, and a man directed…
In un sito fatto molto bene che finalmente chiarisce in modo semplice parecchi punti riguardo le vicende e i capisaldi europei, la manovra di bilancio e le responsabilità di Bruxelles e dei singoli stati.
http://www.europeainfo.eu/le-manovre-economiche-degli-stati-membri-sono-responsabilita-di-bruxelles/
http://www.europeainfo.eu/le-manovre-economiche-degli-stati-membri-sono-responsabilita-di-bruxelles/
Europea
Le manovre economiche degli Stati membri sono responsabilità di Bruxelles?
Torniamo sull’argomento legge di bilancio. In questi giorni abbiamo pubblicato la procedura relativa al cosiddetto semestre europeo. Le manovre economiche degli Stati membri sono responsabilità di Bruxelles?Per rispondere a questa domanda pensiamo all’immagine…
Dai tempi del liceo adoro Yukio Mishima e quel che ho letto di suo. Ma è oggi, con internet, che si potrebbe accedere a così tanto così facilmente. Peccato la mia età non sia più così fertile e ricettiva.
Money quote: “Mishima was a literary prodigy. With haiku, it also helped that his Japanese-language teacher in the Middle Division of the Peers School was Kurō Iwata. Iwata didn’t just encourage his students to write. After the war, he established his reputation as an authority on Edo haikai. He published, among other things, a large compilation of commentaries on all of Bashō’s hokku.
One of Mishima’s earliest haiku dates from when he was seven years old, and it reads:
おとうとがお手手ひろげてもみじかな
Otōto ga o-tete hirogete momiji kana
My younger brother spreads his palms, maple leaves
The “younger brother” here is Chiyuki, two years old at the time. He went on to become a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Morocco and Portugal”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/26/my-younger-brother-spreads-his-palms-maple-leaves-yukio-mishimas-haiku/
Money quote: “Mishima was a literary prodigy. With haiku, it also helped that his Japanese-language teacher in the Middle Division of the Peers School was Kurō Iwata. Iwata didn’t just encourage his students to write. After the war, he established his reputation as an authority on Edo haikai. He published, among other things, a large compilation of commentaries on all of Bashō’s hokku.
One of Mishima’s earliest haiku dates from when he was seven years old, and it reads:
おとうとがお手手ひろげてもみじかな
Otōto ga o-tete hirogete momiji kana
My younger brother spreads his palms, maple leaves
The “younger brother” here is Chiyuki, two years old at the time. He went on to become a diplomat, serving as ambassador to Morocco and Portugal”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/26/my-younger-brother-spreads-his-palms-maple-leaves-yukio-mishimas-haiku/
The Paris Review
My Younger Brother Spreads His Palms, Maple Leaves: Yukio Mishima’s Haiku - The Paris Review
Many are likely to be surprised to learn that Mishima—yes, the writer who chose to die by dazzlingly public disembowelment and decapitation in 1970—wrote haiku.
Se il giorno del proprio compleanno è il giorno ideale per esplorare i propri sogni e le proprie fantasie, allora lo vorrei investire leggendo questo resconto della mente affascinante delle persone poliglotte, nel senso che parlano molte, molte lingue. Tipo una dozzina (11, al minimo) o più. Gente “linguisticamente molto funzionale”, insomma. Magari la mia è una neanche troppo nascosta (ma mai molto praticata) aspirazione.
Money quote: “Last May, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, flew to Malta for a week to learn Maltese. He had a hefty grammar book in his backpack, but he didn’t plan to open it unless he had to. “We’ll do this as I would in the Amazon,” he told me, referring to his fieldwork as a linguist. Our plan was for me to observe how he went about learning a new language, starting with “hello” and “thank you.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages
Money quote: “Last May, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, a doctoral candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, flew to Malta for a week to learn Maltese. He had a hefty grammar book in his backpack, but he didn’t plan to open it unless he had to. “We’ll do this as I would in the Amazon,” he told me, referring to his fieldwork as a linguist. Our plan was for me to observe how he went about learning a new language, starting with “hello” and “thank you.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages
The New Yorker
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages
What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?
Lavorare sui big data con il terminale e la riga di comando - il mio articolo per Macity.
https://www.macitynet.it/lavorare-sui-big-data-con-il-terminale-e-la-riga-di-comando/
https://www.macitynet.it/lavorare-sui-big-data-con-il-terminale-e-la-riga-di-comando/
Macitynet.it
Lavorare sui big data con il terminale e la riga di comando - Macitynet.it
Un libro di O’Reilly, l’editore americano di tecnologia, riporta in auge un tema chiave per la data science: usare la potenza di Unix e dei moderni computer anziché sistemi esoterici. Tutto a portata di mano con macOS
Un esempio di storiografia visiva filologicamente corretta è stato creata dal regista Peter Jackson. Migliaia di metri di pellicola in bianco e nero sulla Prima guerra mondiale, accelerata e pesantemente danneggiata, è stata recuperata, restaurata e colorata. Niente speaker o altri metodi “moderni”, solo la voce dei veterani. Funziona, oh se funziona.
Money quote: “The documentary, which will screen nationwide Dec. 17 and Dec. 27, concentrates on the experiences of British soldiers as revealed in footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Jackson and his team have digitally restored the footage, adjusted its frame rate, colorized it and converted it to 3-D. They chose not to add a host or noscript cards. Instead, veterans of the war “narrate” — that is, the filmmakers culled their commentary from hundreds of hours of BBC interviews recorded in the 1960s and ’70s.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html
Money quote: “The documentary, which will screen nationwide Dec. 17 and Dec. 27, concentrates on the experiences of British soldiers as revealed in footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Jackson and his team have digitally restored the footage, adjusted its frame rate, colorized it and converted it to 3-D. They chose not to add a host or noscript cards. Instead, veterans of the war “narrate” — that is, the filmmakers culled their commentary from hundreds of hours of BBC interviews recorded in the 1960s and ’70s.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/movies/peter-jackson-war-movie.html
NY Times
How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New With ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ (Published 2018)
The director restored archival combat film to pristine clarity for his latest project.
Le scuole di scrittura creativa? Secondo Linkiesta sono un imbroglio. Perché non c'è passione, autenticità, verità. Invece, avidità e speculazione, alle spalle di un mondo di persone che vorrebbero trovare il modo per esprimersi. Nella poesia, poi, non ne parliamo.
Anzi, parliamone, anche se non è il tema dell'articolo linkato: questa volta prendo -in modo del tutto dissonante- uno scambio inedito con il poeta residente di Mostly, I Write, cioè Roberto R. Corsi, come money quote: "«Il poeta dovrebbe essere un “uomo integrale” (espressione non di un romantico ma del massmediologo McLuhan alle prese con la frammentazione delle esperienze) in cui l’umanità si chiarisce nella sua sostanziale ambiguità ed ambivalenza e si afferma nella sua trasparenza, pur restando indecifrabile, al di là dell’ombra.
Senza questo nella poesia restano formalismo, manierismo, decorazione vacua, atletismo versale» (Biagio Cepollaro, un mio amico poeta e critico).
Glosso che il poeta è destinato a fallire perché, non essendo autosufficiente, non può essere integrale e deframmentato."
https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2017/10/27/vuoi-fare-lo-scrittore-le-scuole-di-scrittura-creativa-sono-un-imbrogl/35963/
Anzi, parliamone, anche se non è il tema dell'articolo linkato: questa volta prendo -in modo del tutto dissonante- uno scambio inedito con il poeta residente di Mostly, I Write, cioè Roberto R. Corsi, come money quote: "«Il poeta dovrebbe essere un “uomo integrale” (espressione non di un romantico ma del massmediologo McLuhan alle prese con la frammentazione delle esperienze) in cui l’umanità si chiarisce nella sua sostanziale ambiguità ed ambivalenza e si afferma nella sua trasparenza, pur restando indecifrabile, al di là dell’ombra.
Senza questo nella poesia restano formalismo, manierismo, decorazione vacua, atletismo versale» (Biagio Cepollaro, un mio amico poeta e critico).
Glosso che il poeta è destinato a fallire perché, non essendo autosufficiente, non può essere integrale e deframmentato."
https://www.linkiesta.it/it/article/2017/10/27/vuoi-fare-lo-scrittore-le-scuole-di-scrittura-creativa-sono-un-imbrogl/35963/
Linkiesta
Vuoi fare lo scrittore? Le scuole di scrittura creativa sono un imbroglio (ed è meglio che tu lo sappia)
Non solo Holden. Le scuole di scrittura sbucano ovunque, come le slot machine nella sala oscura di un bar di periferia, reclutano frustrati. E gli scrittori – notoriamente poveri in canna – fanno l...
2019: l’anno che verrà per Apple tra aspettative e speranze - Primo articolo del 2019 per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/lanno-che-verra-per-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/lanno-che-verra-per-apple/
Macitynet.it
2019: l’anno che verrà per Apple tra aspettative e speranze - Macitynet.it
Dopo un 2018 interessante, con molte novità, ma per altri versi di transizione, che cosa aspetta nei prossimi dodici mesi gli appassionati della casa della Mela morsicata?
Razzismo, supremazia dell’uomo bianco, classicità e la scoperta che le statue erano dipinte. E che le società classiche erano multietniche o quantomeno non bianche. Lo stupore dell’ignoranza.
Money quote: “Last year, a University of Iowa classics professor, Sarah Bond, published two essays, one in the online arts journal Hyperallergic and one in Forbes, arguing that it was time we all accepted that ancient sculpture was not pure white—and neither were the people of the ancient world. One false notion, she said, had reinforced the other. For classical scholars, it is a given that the Roman Empire—which, at its height, stretched from North Africa to Scotland—was ethnically diverse. In the Forbes essay, Bond notes, “Although Romans generally differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than the color of their skin, ancient sources do occasionally mention skin tone and artists tried to convey the color of their flesh.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture/
Money quote: “Last year, a University of Iowa classics professor, Sarah Bond, published two essays, one in the online arts journal Hyperallergic and one in Forbes, arguing that it was time we all accepted that ancient sculpture was not pure white—and neither were the people of the ancient world. One false notion, she said, had reinforced the other. For classical scholars, it is a given that the Roman Empire—which, at its height, stretched from North Africa to Scotland—was ethnically diverse. In the Forbes essay, Bond notes, “Although Romans generally differentiated people on their cultural and ethnic background rather than the color of their skin, ancient sources do occasionally mention skin tone and artists tried to convey the color of their flesh.””
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/the-myth-of-whiteness-in-classical-sculpture/
The New Yorker
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction.
La grande tristezza (grazie Ikea)
Money quote: “Two years ago, the company asked thousands of people about where they felt “most at home.” At the time, 20% of subjects said it wasn’t the space in which they lived. Two years later, they asked again, and found the number has risen by 15% among people who live in cities. In other words, 35% of people who live in cities don’t feel at home in their house or apartment.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90250152/a-new-ikea-report-is-an-unsettling-look-at-life-in-the-21st-century
Money quote: “Two years ago, the company asked thousands of people about where they felt “most at home.” At the time, 20% of subjects said it wasn’t the space in which they lived. Two years later, they asked again, and found the number has risen by 15% among people who live in cities. In other words, 35% of people who live in cities don’t feel at home in their house or apartment.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90250152/a-new-ikea-report-is-an-unsettling-look-at-life-in-the-21st-century
Fast Company
A new Ikea report is an unsettling look at life in the 21st century
“Almost half of Americans (45%) go to their car to have a private moment to themselves,” the company reports in a new survey of 22,000 people in 22 countries.
Ci sono anche io tra gli esperti della Stampa per top e i flop della tecnologia nel 2018
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/31/tecnologia/gadget-eventi-personaggi-i-top-e-i-flop-della-tecnologia-nel-4AqaAyDngZR33euwXUkFsK/pagina.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/31/tecnologia/gadget-eventi-personaggi-i-top-e-i-flop-della-tecnologia-nel-4AqaAyDngZR33euwXUkFsK/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Gadget, eventi, personaggi: i top e i flop della tecnologia nel 2018
Cosa vale la pena di ricordare e cosa invece preferiamo lasciarci alle spalle in quest’anno che sta per finire? Ecco le risposte degli esperti
Una donna si scusa con l’ex moglie di suo marito per il tradimento che ha distrutto la precedente famiglia e creato quella nuova. Ma potrebbe essere tranquillamente un romanzo o un film, in sintesi. O un monologo a teatro. Anzi, per un monologo sarebbe perfetto. Qualcuno si fa avanti? Lo faccio io?
Money quote: “He told me recently that you have found someone new, that you are getting married. He scoffed at this, of course, muttered something about “the poor guy.” I turned away from him before I smiled, for you. Ironically, it’s now you — the one over whom I’ve felt guilt-ridden and regretful and maybe even pitied— it’s you who’s become my hero and my hope.”
https://medium.com/s/human-parts/story-told-in-apologies-to-my-ex-husbands-ex-wife-a-cautionary-tale-for-cheaters-85491d944de3
Money quote: “He told me recently that you have found someone new, that you are getting married. He scoffed at this, of course, muttered something about “the poor guy.” I turned away from him before I smiled, for you. Ironically, it’s now you — the one over whom I’ve felt guilt-ridden and regretful and maybe even pitied— it’s you who’s become my hero and my hope.”
https://medium.com/s/human-parts/story-told-in-apologies-to-my-ex-husbands-ex-wife-a-cautionary-tale-for-cheaters-85491d944de3
Medium
An Apology to My Husband’s Ex-Wife, in 13 Parts
A cautionary tale for cheaters. “An Apology to My Husband’s Ex-Wife, in 13 Parts” is published by Maggie Haukka
Recensione Canopy Studio Neat, la cover Magic Keyboard Apple che supporta iPad e iPhone - la mia prova per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-canopy-studio-neat-la-cover-magic-keyboard-apple-che-supporta-ipad-e-iphone/
https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-canopy-studio-neat-la-cover-magic-keyboard-apple-che-supporta-ipad-e-iphone/
Macitynet.it
Recensione Canopy Studio Neat, la cover Magic Keyboard Apple che supporta iPad e iPhone - Macitynet.it
Se avete la Magic Keyboard di Apple e un iPad, perché non usarli assieme? Abbiamo messo alla prova la custodia per il trasporto che fa anche di Studio Neat. Utile ma con alcune avvertenze
Sapere la posizione esatta di un consumatore vale 21 miliardi - il mio articolo per Wired.it
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/01/03/pubblicita-mirata-posizione-cliente/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2019/01/03/pubblicita-mirata-posizione-cliente/
Wired
Sapere la posizione esatta di un consumatore vale 21 miliardi
Il mercato della pubblicità basata sulla posizione degli utenti è in crescita. Alimenta non solo il marketing. Ma ci sono dei rischi