<?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: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-7967576235948414877</id><updated>2011-11-11T09:42:13.136Z</updated><title type='text'>I:Sehnsucht</title><subtitle type='html'>sketches of metaphotography</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>34</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-2507363623334668990</id><published>2011-10-10T11:38:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T15:28:06.077Z</updated><title type='text'>tsunami</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oeKzDuwelY8/TpLLWS7EhOI/AAAAAAAAAKk/WWdbJcsIgqA/s1600/_DSC4156.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661811265455293666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oeKzDuwelY8/TpLLWS7EhOI/AAAAAAAAAKk/WWdbJcsIgqA/s400/_DSC4156.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;FIND MY NEW PROJECT AT THE FOLLOWING LINK:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lucavalentini.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://lucavalentini.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-2507363623334668990?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/2507363623334668990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=2507363623334668990&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2507363623334668990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2507363623334668990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2011/10/for-ro-forever.html' title='tsunami'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oeKzDuwelY8/TpLLWS7EhOI/AAAAAAAAAKk/WWdbJcsIgqA/s72-c/_DSC4156.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-5808302938690170444</id><published>2009-03-16T11:17:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-03-16T11:33:30.286Z</updated><title type='text'>beautiful blueberries (how i drifted into slowness)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/Sb42NLSDrfI/AAAAAAAAAIc/bkOG25bwVaI/s1600-h/02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/Sb42NLSDrfI/AAAAAAAAAIc/bkOG25bwVaI/s400/02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313744210338491890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The fragility of a crystal is not a weakness but a fineness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll go straight to the point, this project has ended its course. This time it’s different, I’m not quitting for any particular reason. Just, I believe any project has a beginning and an end. This non-place, which I started a year ago, has marked a specific period of my life. And now I can look back at this last year with some nostalgia, I strongly believe this has been one of the most serene, intense periods of my life. So many faces, places, sounds, colours. And I believe it is right to terminate something when it is still close to the peak of its intensity, rather than let it slowly fade away into an anticlimax. A significant change is going to occur in my life, time to move on, leave some things behind. But that’s it, life’s dynamic, we are dynamic, we cannot simply let nostalgia, fear, rule our lives. And yet these things will stay with me for good, carved in my memories.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I will need to spend my energies in other things in the short term. Perhaps I’ll have a short break from photography. This being said, photography remains a priority in my life, I have projects for the future for it, which will hopefully go beyond a computer screen. And I’m sure I’ll find a way to share such projects with those who encouraged me so far.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Last time I left with a quote of musician Barzin Hosseini. This time I found an appropriate song of him:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&gt;&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Barzin/_/Stayed+Too+Long+In+This+Place"&gt;listen &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(stayed too long in this place)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;_______________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;"  lang="IT"&gt;La fragilità del cristallo non è una debolezza ma una raffinatezza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Vado diretto al punto, questo progetto e’ giunto al termine del suo corso. Ma questa volta e’ diverso, non lascio per alcun motivo particolare. Soltanto, credo che ogni progetto abbia un inizio e una fine. Questo non-luogo, nato un anno fa, ha segnato un momento specifico della mia vita. E ora posso guardare indietro a questo ultimo anno con un po’ di nostalgia, credo fortemente che questo sia stato uno dei periodo piu’ sereni e intensi della mia vita. Cosi’ tante facce, posti, suoni, colori. E credo sia giusto cessare qualcosa quando questa sia ancora vicino all’apice della sua intensita’, piuttosto che lasciarla sfumare lentamente in un anticlimax. Un cambiamento significativo sta per accadere nella mia vita, tempo di andare avanti, e lasciare alcune cose indietro. Ma cosi’ stanno le cose, la vita e’ dinamica, noi siamo dinamici, non possiamo lasciare che la nostalgia, la paura, governino le nostre vite. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;E tuttavia, queste cose resteranno per sempre con me, scolpite nei miei ricordi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Avro’ bisogno di dedicare le mie energie ad altre cose nel breve termine. Forse’ mi allontanero’ brevemente dalla fotografia. Detto questo, la fotografia resta una priorita’ nella mia vita, ho progetti per il futuro che la riguardano, e spero esuleranno dallo schermo di un computer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;E sono sicuro di riuscire a trovare un modo di condividere questi progetti con coloro che finora mi hanno sempre incoraggiato.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;L’ultima volta lasciai con una citazione dal musicista Barzin Hosseini. Questa volta ho trovato una sua canzone appropriata alla situazione:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&gt;&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Barzin/_/Stayed+Too+Long+In+This+Place"&gt;ascolta &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(stayed too long in this place)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-5808302938690170444?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/5808302938690170444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=5808302938690170444&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/5808302938690170444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/5808302938690170444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2009/03/beautiful-blueberries-how-i-drifted.html' title='beautiful blueberries (how i drifted into slowness)'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/Sb42NLSDrfI/AAAAAAAAAIc/bkOG25bwVaI/s72-c/02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-7999431285296344078</id><published>2009-02-16T23:02:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-02-17T13:55:36.663Z</updated><title type='text'>biberon magique</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SZnw9sL616I/AAAAAAAAAIE/dNy2RalTqF0/s1600-h/07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SZnw9sL616I/AAAAAAAAAIE/dNy2RalTqF0/s400/07.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303534978829309858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;I’d promised I would talk about &lt;i style=""&gt;movement&lt;/i&gt; in one of the next entries. Also I promised &lt;a href="http://astigmatic.it/"&gt;Francesco&lt;/a&gt; I would talk about &lt;i style=""&gt;time&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;But before, I want to thank all those who have visited this space during this last year. You are from 31 different countries, spread across all the continents. Thank you. And I would appreciate ANY comment you might want to leave. You can even e-mail them at &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;luca.va (at) hotmail (dot) com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Movement. Time. Of course these are two closely related concepts. Which are also of fundamental importance in photography. A long exposure can convey their idea quite well. But it can also capture their relative and abstract nature. A single photograph, which is something &lt;i style=""&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; by its own nature, is able to embed change in space and time. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;{But before continuing, I have to reference again to Hofstadter’s &lt;b style=""&gt;Godel Escher Bach&lt;/b&gt;, a book that, as you may know, supplied me with particular inspiration. One of my favourite ideas emerging from this masterpiece is &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbolia"&gt;Tumbolia&lt;/a&gt;, of which I believed I wrote before. Obsessed by the idea of finding this non-place through photography, I ended up dreaming of it once. I was floating somewhere out in the interstellar space, and there were a series of &lt;i style=""&gt;fixed&lt;/i&gt; group of stars, like constellations. Everything else was four-dimensional, the fourth dimension being basically represented by time. Now, how can I explain such an abstraction? The best way is showing a long-exposure shot. Imagine you drag a piece of paper perpendicularly to its face, and by summing up the infinitesimal changes in its position, you end up with a 3D shape. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;{{Oh, that actually reminded me of my childhood…I can recall I was about ten years old, and already be troubled by such thoughts. Like I would spend various minutes wondering how one- or two-dimensional shapes can exist, for even the thinnest line you can draw with a pencil will be characterized by a finite thickness, so why would my maths teacher talk about &lt;i style=""&gt;lines&lt;/i&gt; at all? &lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;{But anyway, such was my dream about Tumbolia, a place where no past, no future existed, as past, present and future were all there, at the same time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Was it just a dream, or does it have anything to do with the real nature of the universe? Are movement, time just an illusion? Are they the mere result of our limited perception? Would a superior creature, able to perceive the world in four dimensions, be able to look through past and future, maybe by simply &lt;i style=""&gt;moving&lt;/i&gt; its eyes around? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Of course this is nothing new, for Zeno already put such paradoxes up front more than two millennia ago. Here, I’ll leave the answer to you.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Avevo promesso che avrei parlato di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;movimento&lt;/span&gt; in una delle prossime entry (maledetto inglese...). Avevo anche promesso a &lt;a href="http://astigmatic.it/"&gt;Francesco&lt;/a&gt; che avrei parlato di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;tempo&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Ma per iniziare, vorrei ringraziare tutti coloro che hanno visitato questo spazio durante questo ultimo anno. Siete da 31 Paesi, sparsi su tutti i continenti. Grazie. E apprezzerei molto QUALSIASI commento voi abbiate voglia di lasciare. Potete anche farlo mandandomi una e-mail a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;luca.va (at) hotmail (dot) com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:luca.va@hotmail.com"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Movimento. Tempo. Ovviamente si tratta di due concetti strettamente correlati. Che sono anche di fondamentale importanza in fotografia. Una esposizione lunga puo’ renderne l’idea piuttosto bene. Ma puo’, allo stesso tempo, coglierne la natura relativa ed astratta. Una singola fotografia, che e’ un qualcosa si &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;immobile&lt;/span&gt; per definizione, riesce a racchiudere un cambiamento nello spazio e nel tempo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;{Ma prima di continuare, devo fare riferimento nuovamente a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Godel Escher Bach&lt;/span&gt; di Hofstadter, un libro che, come sapete, mi ha fornito particolare ispirazione. Una delle mie preferite idee che emergono da questo capolavoro, e’ quella di &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbolia"&gt;Tumbolia&lt;/a&gt;, alla quale credo di aver gia’ accennato in precedenza. Ossessionato dall’idea di trovare questo non-luogo tramite la fotografia, ho finito per sognarlo una notte. Fluttuavo da qualche parte nello spazio intersiderale, e c’erano dei gruppi &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;fissi&lt;/span&gt; di stelle, come costellazioni. Tutto il resto aveva quattro dimensioni, con la quarta dimensione rappresentata dal tempo. Come posso spiegare una tale astrazione? Il miglior modo di farlo e’ forse mostrare una foto scattata con lunga esposizione. Immaginate di trascinare un foglio di carta perpendicolarmente alla sua faccia e, sommando le variazioni di posizione infinitesime, otterrete una forma tridimensionale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;{{Ah, questa cosa mi ha ricordato della mia infanzia...avro’avuto dieci anni all’incirca, e gia’&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;afflitto da tali pensieri. Del tipo che potevo spendere vari minuti a chiedrmi come potessero esistere forme ad una o due dimensioni, che’ anche la linea piu’ sottile che potessi disegnare con una matita era caratterizzata da uno spessore finito, e allora perche’ il mio insegnante di matematica parlava di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;linee&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;{Ad ogni modo, questo e’ il sogno che ho avuto di Tumbolia, un posto dove ne’ passato, ne’ presente esistevano, poiche’ passato, presente e futuro erano tutti li’, in quello stesso momento.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Si e’ trattato solo di un sogno, o e’ qualcosa che ha a che fare con la natura reale dell’universo? Puo’ essere che il movimento, il tempo, siano solo un’illusione? Il semplice risultato della nostra limitata percezione? Riuscirebbe una qualche creatura superiore, capace di percepire il mondo in quattro dimensioni, a guardare attraverso passato e futuro, magari semplicemente &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;muovendo&lt;/span&gt; lo sguardo?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Naturalmente quello che dico non e’ niente di nuovo, dato che Zenone pose l’attenzione su questi paradossi piu’ di due millenni fa. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:11;"&gt;Qui, io lascio la risposta a voi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-7999431285296344078?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/7999431285296344078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=7999431285296344078&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/7999431285296344078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/7999431285296344078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2009/02/biberon-magique.html' title='biberon magique'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SZnw9sL616I/AAAAAAAAAIE/dNy2RalTqF0/s72-c/07.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-8238082817288090699</id><published>2009-02-01T15:57:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-02-01T16:29:33.339Z</updated><title type='text'>and keep daydreaming (of the facebook fuckface)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXIixNcRiI/AAAAAAAAAHE/pcpvleW15L8/s1600-h/staralfur.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXIixNcRiI/AAAAAAAAAHE/pcpvleW15L8/s400/staralfur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297861036322080290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I’m not a portraiter. Sorry. Sometimes the friends to whom I show my photos inquire me about the lack of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;human beings&lt;/span&gt;. No, seriously, I do like interacting with people, meeting new ones, talking to strangers. But this thing of the portraits, it just seems too unbalanced to me, to watch your model from behind a viewfinder. Model, photographer, it seems enough of a hierarchy. Still, behind a viewfinder is much better than behind a computer monitor. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I’m kind of fed up of having to explain why I don’t have a facebook account, more or less to the same extent I’m tired of explaining why post-processing is an integral, inseparable part of digital photography (it sounds a bit random, just these are two things I’ve been asked a lot recently). I shall invent something, an excuse. Really. I could be speaking for hours about the misuses of facebook, but I don’t think that is necessary, nor would it be interesting to the readers. I only want to report a motivation I was given once by somebody, in order to justify the use of facebook. This person told that having to write an email (which in itself, is not the best means of communication) to a friend (whatever the meaning the word acquired in the world of virtual relationships) would take too long. And so this person would be able to write thirty facebook messages rather than a single email in half an hour. That sounds incredibly efficient! And a perfect picture of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;zeitgeist&lt;/span&gt;. All about quantity rather than quality. I don’t know whether am I allowed a self-quotation here, and talk about &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;disposable relationships&lt;/span&gt;... &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continously on ant autopilot, with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient, polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?' "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw. I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be ant, you know?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;P.S. many thanks to &lt;a href="http://vaniloquiinaccappatoio.wordpress.com/"&gt;Vincenzo&lt;/a&gt; for letting me publish his portrait. With a smile like his, it is just too easy to take portraits…even for me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;The text in italics is a quotation from &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T7qEdrZvT4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Waking Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Non sono un ritrattista. Mi dispiace. A volte, gli amici a cui mostro le mie foto, mi interrogano sull'assenza di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;esseri umani&lt;/span&gt;. No, sul serio, a me piace interagire con le persone, incontrarne di nuove, parlare ad estranei. Ma questa cosa dei ritratti, mi sembra solo troppo squilibrata, osservare il tuo modello da dietro un mirino. Modello, fotografo, e’ gia’ un qualche tipo di gerarchia. Beh, sempre meglio dietro un mirino che dietro il monitor di un computer.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Quasi non ne posso piu’ di dover spiegare perche’ non ho un account con facebook, piu’ o meno allo stesso modo di quanto sia stanco di dover spiegare perche’ il post-processing sia una parte integrale, inseparabile, della fotografia digitale (suona un po’ come un’associazione casuale, e’ solo che queste due cose mi sono state chieste spesso recentemente). Devo inventarmi qualcosa, una scusa. Davvero. Potrei stare a parlare per ore del cattivo utilizzo di facebook, ma non credo cio’ sia necessario, ne’ interessante per i lettori. Voglio solo riportare la motivazione datami una volta da una persona per giustificare l’utilizzo di facebook. Questa persona mi disse che scrivere una email (non il miglior mezzo di comunicazione di per se’) ad un amico (qualunque sia il significato assunto dalla parola nel mondo delle relazioni virtuali) richiederebbe troppo tempo. E che in mezz’ora riuscirebbe a scrivere trenta messaggi su facebook piuttosto che una sola email. Sembra una cosa incredibilmente efficiente! Ed una perfetta immagine dello &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;zeitgeist&lt;/span&gt;. La quantita’ prima della qualita’, sempre. Non so se mi e’ permessa un’auto-citazione qui, ma mi verrebbe da parlare di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;relazioni usa e getta&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="IT"&gt;Hey. Possiamo rifarlo daccapo? So che non ci conosciamo, ma io non voglio essere una formica, capisci? Voglio dire, e’ come se noi vivessimo la vita rimbalzando contro le antenne degli altri, sempre in modalita’ pilota-automatico-formica, senza che sia richiesto nulla di umano. Fermati. Vai. Cammina qui. Guida li’. Tutte azioni fatte per sopravvivere. Ogni comunicazione fatta per portare avanti questa colonia di formiche in una maniera efficiente ed educata. “Ecco il suo resto”. “Carta o plastica?”. “Credito o debito?”. “Vuole del ketchup?”. Non voglio una cannuccia, voglio attimi di reale umanita’. Voglio vederti. Voglio che tu veda me. Non voglio rinunciare a tutto cio’. Non voglio essere una formica, capisci?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;P.S. Ringrazio &lt;a href="http://vaniloquiinaccappatoio.wordpress.com/"&gt;Vincenzo&lt;/a&gt; per il permesso di pubblicare il suo ritratto. Con un sorriso come il suo e’ troppo facile fare ritratti...persino per me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Il testo in corsivo e' una citazione da &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T7qEdrZvT4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Waking Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-8238082817288090699?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/8238082817288090699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=8238082817288090699&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8238082817288090699'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8238082817288090699'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2009/02/and-keep-daydreaming-of-facebook.html' title='and keep daydreaming (of the facebook fuckface)'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXIixNcRiI/AAAAAAAAAHE/pcpvleW15L8/s72-c/staralfur.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-2946425972707735428</id><published>2009-01-18T15:18:00.009Z</published><updated>2009-01-18T18:18:08.023Z</updated><title type='text'>stampede ballad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbLwaqSI/AAAAAAAAAGs/2B6vJhBopFQ/s1600-h/watermark.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbLwaqSI/AAAAAAAAAGs/2B6vJhBopFQ/s400/watermark.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292654718451624226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbHk06EI/AAAAAAAAAG0/pR2-WTccuPA/s1600-h/DSC_0692.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbHk06EI/AAAAAAAAAG0/pR2-WTccuPA/s400/DSC_0692.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292654717329270850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbc70jcI/AAAAAAAAAG8/fw_u3QDGHgw/s1600-h/DSC_0722.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbc70jcI/AAAAAAAAAG8/fw_u3QDGHgw/s400/DSC_0722.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292654723062861250" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click pictures to see larger versions)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I eventually did it. Sold my camera to buy canvasses and brushes. Abandoned photography to start a new career as a watercolours painter.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;…OK, that was a joke. I like long exposures. I like movement. I like reflections. I like surrealism. I like my photos to look like watercolours. (No software manipulation used here. The first photo is the JPEG from the camera). I’ll give a more in-depth analysis of &lt;i style=""&gt;movement&lt;/i&gt; next time. I think that, with photography, we have the possibility of isolating elements of what we visually perceive, isolate the beauty from all the rest. In other words, to make reality look better. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I started a few years ago with landscapes and a compact film camera, using coloured papers in front of the lens and other toys to obtain effects. Then moving into still-life with the first film reflex. I eventually recycled back into a landscape photographer, or better, dreamscape photographer, as I like to define myself. I am indebted to the inspiring artwork of photographers such as &lt;a href="http://massimilianocurcio.carbonmade.com/"&gt;Massimiliano Curcio&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoimage/"&gt;Jason Theaker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;What’s the next step then? Photography, as well as life, is a continuous evolution.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Alla fine l’ho fatto. Ho venduto la mia fotocamera per comprare tele e pennelli. Ho abbandonato la fotografia per iniziare una nuova carriera come pittore di acquerelli.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;...OK, scherzavo. Mi piacciono le esposizioni lunghe. Mi piace il movimento. Mi piacciono i riflessi. Mi piace il surrealismo. Mi piace far sembrare le mie foto come acquerelli. (Nessuna manipolazione tramite software e’ stata adoperata. La prima foto e’ il JPEG dalla fotocamera). Daro’ una piu’ dettagliata analisi sul &lt;i style=""&gt;movimento&lt;/i&gt; la prossima volta. Penso che con la fotografia si abbia la possibilita’ di isolare elementi di cio’ che percepiamo visualmente, di isolare la bellezza da tutto il resto. In altre parole, di far sembrare la realta’ piu’ bella.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Iniziai un po’ di anni fa con i paesaggi e una compatta a pellicola, usando carta colorata e altri giocattoli per ottenere effetti particolari. Con la prima reflex a pellicola mi sono poi orientato verso la still-life. Infine mi sono nuovamente riciclato in un paesaggista, o meglio, come mi piace definirmi, sognaggista (da &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dreamscape&lt;/span&gt;, perdonatemi, la traduzione dall’inglese qui e’ pessima). Sono in debito con fotografi come &lt;a href="http://massimilianocurcio.carbonmade.com/"&gt;Massimiliano Curcio&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photoimage/"&gt;Jason Theaker&lt;/a&gt;, per l'ispirazione fornitami dai loro lavori.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Quale sara’ il passo successivo? La fotografia, come pure la vita, e’ evoluzione continua. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-2946425972707735428?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/2946425972707735428/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=2946425972707735428&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2946425972707735428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2946425972707735428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2009/01/stampede-ballad.html' title='stampede ballad'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SXNJbLwaqSI/AAAAAAAAAGs/2B6vJhBopFQ/s72-c/watermark.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-7808734894233700765</id><published>2009-01-14T21:43:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-01-18T15:46:36.279Z</updated><title type='text'>terra bruciata</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SW5cvSwEqSI/AAAAAAAAAGk/pIlybgkQtt8/s1600-h/scene.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SW5cvSwEqSI/AAAAAAAAAGk/pIlybgkQtt8/s400/scene.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291268579763988770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I’ve got a bit of a writer’s block. Or better, I’m exhausting all my writing energies for other purposes (job). So, I’ll try to sort out my confused thoughts and make my point. Talking about exhaustion…sometimes I think about our approach, as human beings, towards what and who surrounds us. We deplete what Nature created, we think about the beauties of Nature…as if they were there for our enjoyment. All swallowed by our greed. We relate to other people in a similar way. We take everything at a time, we exasperate and empty. Disposable relationships. I don’t know, it’s that my idea of happiness provides that other people be happy too.  &lt;br /&gt;We should return to a more genuine relationship with Nature, I think that would change the way we relate to other people too. We should probably return to paganism, feel the spirit of Nature. And fear it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div  style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ho un po’ di blocco dello scrittore. O meglio, sto esaurendo tutte le mie energie in termini di scrittura per altri scopi (lavoro). Per cui faro’ un tentativo di mettere ordine tra i miei pensieri confusi e rendere chiaro il mio punto. A proposito di esaurire...a volte penso al nostro approccio, come essere umani, nei confronti di cosa e chi ci circonda. Esauriamo cio’ che la Natura crea, pensiamo alle bellezze della Natura...come se fossero li’ affinche’ noi ne godiamo. Tutto ingoiato dalla nostra avidita’. In una maniera simile ci relazioniamo alle altre persone. Prendiamo tutto in una volta, esasperiamo e svuotiamo. Relazioni usa e getta. Non so, e’ che la mia idea di felicita’ prevede che anche le altre persone siano felici.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bisognerebbe ritornare ad un rapporto piu’ genuino con la Natura, e penso che cio’ cambierebbe anche il modo in cui ci relazioniamo agli altri. Dovremmo probabilmente ritornare al paganesimo, sentire lo spirito della Natura. E temerla.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-7808734894233700765?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/7808734894233700765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=7808734894233700765&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/7808734894233700765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/7808734894233700765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2009/01/terra-bruciata.html' title='terra bruciata'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SW5cvSwEqSI/AAAAAAAAAGk/pIlybgkQtt8/s72-c/scene.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-362221209694522367</id><published>2008-12-20T13:45:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-12-31T11:30:09.023Z</updated><title type='text'>overcast/overwhelmed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SUz3HjDHMaI/AAAAAAAAAGc/H1OS8eC03tU/s1600-h/wintertree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SUz3HjDHMaI/AAAAAAAAAGc/H1OS8eC03tU/s400/wintertree.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281868172038189474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;And what’s photography, if not an extension to our imagination? A secret path, leading to the non-place hidden behind our eyelids. In dreams, emotions are overwhelming. Those emotions stay floating in the air, they’re a photograph waiting to be taken. After all, I started this non-place after having seen a recurrent dream in a photo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;That snow, which never fell, is now floating here, in time, for my companion.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The text contains a quotation from the film&lt;/span&gt; The Science of Sleep&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;No software has been used to manipulate the photo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;E cos’e’ la fotografia, se non un’estensione della nostra immaginazione? Un sentiero segreto, che ci porta nel non-luogo nascosto dietro le nostre palpebre. Nei sogni, le emozioni sono travolgenti. Quelle emozioni restano sospese in aria, sono una fotografia che attende di essere scattata. Dopo tutto, ho dato inizio a questo non-luogo dopo aver visto un sogno ricorrente in una fotografia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Quella neve che non cadde mai e’ora sospesa qui, nel tempo, per il mio compagno di viaggio.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Il testo contiene una citazione dal film&lt;/span&gt; L’Arte del Sogno&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nessun software e’ stato utilizzato per manipolare la foto&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-362221209694522367?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/362221209694522367/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=362221209694522367&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/362221209694522367'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/362221209694522367'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/12/overcastoverwhelmed.html' title='overcast/overwhelmed'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SUz3HjDHMaI/AAAAAAAAAGc/H1OS8eC03tU/s72-c/wintertree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-5837973091760454595</id><published>2008-12-04T22:34:00.002Z</published><updated>2008-12-04T22:42:24.558Z</updated><title type='text'>at the sun spacecraft terminal (serendipity)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SThcBZua-TI/AAAAAAAAAGU/uXaG5uorj38/s1600-h/DSC_0432b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SThcBZua-TI/AAAAAAAAAGU/uXaG5uorj38/s400/DSC_0432b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276068142619752754" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;…And yet your way can hold surprises sometimes. You can use your intuition, but how are you going to be sure that was the right way? Paradoxically, events may lead the wrong way to become the right one. Or is it just that the way’s just one? Perhaps there’s just no answer and we should simply stop asking ourselves.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div  style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;…Eppure la “nostra” strada puo’ a volte riservare sorprese. Si puo’ usare l’intuito, si, ma come si puo’ essere sicuri di essere sulla strada giusta? Paradossalmente, gli eventi possono far si che la strada sbagliata diventi quella giusta. O sara’ forse che la strada e’ in fondo una sola? Forse non c’e’ risposta, e bisognerebbe semplicemente smettere di chiederlo a noi stessi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-5837973091760454595?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/5837973091760454595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=5837973091760454595&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/5837973091760454595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/5837973091760454595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/12/at-sun-spacecraft-terminal-serendipity.html' title='at the sun spacecraft terminal (serendipity)'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SThcBZua-TI/AAAAAAAAAGU/uXaG5uorj38/s72-c/DSC_0432b.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-9052982364901242258</id><published>2008-12-01T09:23:00.003Z</published><updated>2008-12-01T09:32:23.837Z</updated><title type='text'>a moment of clarity</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/STOtlzqoe1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/COqkonUzorE/s1600-h/four.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/STOtlzqoe1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/COqkonUzorE/s400/four.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5274750453616769874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;There are things happening that do not simply happen by chance. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Yes, they do, indeed. But. One has to be able to catch their symbolicity. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;There are things happening that are like messages. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;As when you’re looking at an apparently abstract photograph…until you suddenly recognize a pattern.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;There are things happening that are like a revelation. And then you begin to clearly distinguish a pattern throughout your life. And you can make your choice, to follow the pattern or to lie to yourself, and be just a shadow of yourself, against the bright light.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ci sono cose che non capitano puramente per caso.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Si, in realta’ lo fanno. Ma. Bisogna saper cogliere la loro simbolicita’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ci sono cose che capitano e sono come messaggi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Come quando guardi una foto apparentemente astratta...finche’ improvvisamente si intravvede un motivo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ci sono cose che succedono e sono come una rivelazione. E allora si inizia a scorgere chiaramente un percorso attraverso la propria esistenza. E si e’ liberi di scegliere, se seguire questo percorso, o mentire a se’ stessi, ed essere un’ombra di se’ stessi, in controluce. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-9052982364901242258?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/9052982364901242258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=9052982364901242258&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/9052982364901242258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/9052982364901242258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/12/moment-of-clarity.html' title='a moment of clarity'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/STOtlzqoe1I/AAAAAAAAAE8/COqkonUzorE/s72-c/four.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-8363199578482822560</id><published>2008-11-17T13:40:00.012Z</published><updated>2008-11-17T14:08:13.173Z</updated><title type='text'>dim echo from the silentscape</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SSF0si5G6gI/AAAAAAAAAE0/rKGYR_ml6yo/s1600-h/dreamscape1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SSF0si5G6gI/AAAAAAAAAE0/rKGYR_ml6yo/s400/dreamscape1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269621347629591042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;Sounds were what impressed me the most during my trip to &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Lapland&lt;/st1:place&gt;. The moaning of thin layers of ice cracking on the surface of lakes, a stream running through the snowy wood, the distant howling of the huskies. And then silence. Such combinations of sight and sound do leave me paralyzed. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;The impossibility of capturing sounds is certainly a limiting factor in photography. At least theoretically. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;I might as well quit photography once I felt I overcame this limit. But that’s my idea of photography, I almost totally lack interest in documentary photos. A photo should rather involve your senses, dig deep down and find a path to the pristine emotion. It should even amplify what you felt in the moment of shooting. That feeling of being paralyzed I felt in the forest. Closing your eyes and listening to the view.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;I suoni sono cio’ che piu’ mi ha colpito durante il mio viaggio in Lapponia. Il lamento di sottili lastre di ghiaccio che si frammentano sulla superficie dei laghi, un ruscello che scorre lungo un bosco innevato, l’ululato degli husky in lontananza. E poi silenzio. Una tale combinazione di suoni e scenari riesce a paralizzarmi.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;L’impossibilita’ di cogliere cio’ che udiamo e’ senz’altro un limite della fotografia. Almeno in teoria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="font-size:95%;"&gt;Potrei anche abbandonare la fotografia il giorno in cui pensassi di aver superato questo limite con uno scatto. Ma tale e’ la mia idea di fotografia, non ho quasi alcun interesse nello scattare foto documentaristiche. Una foto dovrebbe piuttosto coinvolgere i sensi, scavare fino a trovare un percorso che giunga alla pura emozione. Dovrebbe persino amplificare quel sentimento che si e’ provato al momento dello scatto. Quella sensazione di paralisi che ho avvertito nel bosco. Chiudere gli occhi e ascoltare il panorama.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-8363199578482822560?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/8363199578482822560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=8363199578482822560&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8363199578482822560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8363199578482822560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/11/dim-echo-from-silentscape.html' title='dim echo from the silentscape'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SSF0si5G6gI/AAAAAAAAAE0/rKGYR_ml6yo/s72-c/dreamscape1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-371302657811228219</id><published>2008-11-04T15:54:00.007Z</published><updated>2008-11-17T14:10:33.487Z</updated><title type='text'>amore DOC</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SRBwcMulLLI/AAAAAAAAAEs/5L5SEQX7qWo/s1600-h/bright.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SRBwcMulLLI/AAAAAAAAAEs/5L5SEQX7qWo/s400/bright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264831594151357618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:95%;" &gt;Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;. Love can be a pretty difficult theme to go over. First of all, I find it very complicated to give a definition of love. I have a mathematical mind, therefore I need clear definitions. Is it a blurry image in our mind? Like a distant memory mingled with fantasy. A romantic picture. Might love as well be a disease? I’m not talking about being 'lovesick'. I just wonder if love can be assimilated to an OCD (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Obsessive Compulsive Disorder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;). I think that would make it much closer to art than any mellow song or novel could ever make. I personally have quite a compulsive approach towards things such as alcohol, cigarettes, sex. Things which in a way or another have been associated to art. I might have an even more obsessive-compulsive attitude towards photography, be it staring at somebody else’s piece of art or going outdoor with my camera and use photography as a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Panacea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;. Then let’s love be art. And art be love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;    &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:95%;"  lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Amore&lt;/span&gt;. L’amore puo’ essere un tema piuttosto complicato da affrontare. Prima di tutto, trovo estremamente difficile darne una definizione. La mia mente matematica ha bisogno di definizioni chiare. Si tratta forse di un’immagine sfocata nella nostra mente? Come un ricordo distante frammisto a fantasia. Una foto romantica. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:95%;"&gt;E se invece l’amore fosse una malattia? Non nel senso romantico di ‘malattia d’amore’. Mi chiedo piuttosto se possa essere assimilato ad un Disturbo Ossessivo Compulsivo. Penso che forse cio’ lo avvicini all’arte piu’ di quanto una canzone o un romanzo possano fare. Personalmente, ho un approccio piuttosto compulsivo verso cose come l’alcol, le sigarette, il sesso. Tutte cose che in una maniera o l’altra sono state associate all’arte. Posso avere un approccio maggiormente ossessivo-compulsivo verso la fotografia, che si tratti di fissare l’opera di altri o andare in giro ed usare la fotografia come Panacea. Che l’amore sia arte, dunque. E arte amore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-371302657811228219?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/371302657811228219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=371302657811228219&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/371302657811228219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/371302657811228219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/11/amore-doc.html' title='amore DOC'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SRBwcMulLLI/AAAAAAAAAEs/5L5SEQX7qWo/s72-c/bright.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-5320126193007368526</id><published>2008-10-29T13:50:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-11-17T14:06:40.076Z</updated><title type='text'>for federico</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SQhqZqi5OmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Hu5RZnUO3Sg/s1600-h/fede01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SQhqZqi5OmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Hu5RZnUO3Sg/s400/fede01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262573153732344418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;I dreamt of the Traum-garten, was there at magic hour &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Steady shining stars &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Showed me the way. And all &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;The rest was moving, and past and present were &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;In that very moment – there &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Now there’s a new star&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Whose dream’ll be for good. Tell me, &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;What’s like to be there? From waking dream to waking dream&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Is it more real than here? Your soul &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Becoming thought, your body – like water turning into vapour&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;Blossoming into the sky.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Farewell sweet prince&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Ho sognato del Traum-garten, al crepuscolo vi andai&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Stelle fisse fiammeggianti &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Mi indicavano la via. E tutto il resto era &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;In movimento, e presente e passato assieme &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;In quel momento – li’&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Ora c’e’ una nuova stella, &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Il cui sogno sara’ per sempre. Dimmi&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Come ci si sente? Da sogno lucido a sogno lucido&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;E’ piu’ reale che qui? La tua anima &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Diviene pensiero, il tuo corpo – come acqua che si traforma in vapore&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;Germogliando in cielo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-size:85%;"  lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;Addio dolce principe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-5320126193007368526?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/5320126193007368526/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=5320126193007368526&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/5320126193007368526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/5320126193007368526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/10/for-federico.html' title='for federico'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SQhqZqi5OmI/AAAAAAAAAEk/Hu5RZnUO3Sg/s72-c/fede01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-4102524814975710509</id><published>2008-10-05T13:30:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T13:38:28.652+01:00</updated><title type='text'>i disappoint you. you give up (out) on me</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SOi0Da5p_jI/AAAAAAAAAEc/9cb8pJdOWaw/s1600-h/expect.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SOi0Da5p_jI/AAAAAAAAAEc/9cb8pJdOWaw/s400/expect.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253646936181440050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Eventually we made it to our distant peninsula. At the beginning we did our best to convince ourselves what we could see did match our expectations. But it became clear with time. Yes, now we can’t help feeling slightly disappointed, as what we found is not what we expected, what we let ourselves dream of. Is reality really that bad? We don’t know, what matters now is we won’t be ever able to dream about that place again and we start to regret we ever decided to go. One suddenly realizes it would have been just nice to keep on dreaming about it, but that’s how human nature is, and we eventually yield to desire, to desire that burns our soul from the inside. Weakness, so human. And yet, if we only were able to see the real beauty in a place, in somebody else, leaving any expectation aside. Seeing somebody, rather than projecting our dreams into it. That’d be much more human.&lt;br /&gt;___________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infine siamo giunti presso la nostra penisola lontana. All’inizio abbiamo fatto del nostro meglio per convincere noi stessi del fatto che cio’ che vi abbiamo trovato corrispondesse alle nostre aspettative. Ma divenne chiaro col tempo. Si, ora non possiamo fare a meno di sentirci leggermente delusi, perche’ cio’ che abbiamo di fronte non e’ quello che ci aspettavamo, non e’ cio’ di cui abbiamo lasciato noi stessi sognare. La realta’ dei fatti e’ davvero cosi’ brutta? Difficile a dirsi, cio’ che importa adesso e’ che non potremo mai piu’ sognare di quel posto, e allora iniziamo a pentirci di essere andati. All’improvviso ci si rende conto che sarebbe stato bello poter semplicemente continuare a sognare, ma in fondo e’ la natura umana, alla fine ci si arrende al desiderio, al desiderio che da dentro brucia l’anima. Una cosi’ umana debolezza. E pur tuttavia, se fossimo capaci di cogliere la reale bellezza di un posto, di un’altra persona, lasciando da parte ogni tipo di aspettativa. Vedere qualcuno, piuttosto che proiettarvici dentro i nostri sogni. Ecco, sarebbe molto piu’ umano.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-4102524814975710509?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/4102524814975710509/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=4102524814975710509&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/4102524814975710509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/4102524814975710509'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-disappoint-you-you-give-up-out-on-me.html' title='i disappoint you. you give up (out) on me'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SOi0Da5p_jI/AAAAAAAAAEc/9cb8pJdOWaw/s72-c/expect.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-4696642683371191748</id><published>2008-09-22T21:46:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T13:30:37.392+01:00</updated><title type='text'>saudade</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SNgFOjGeLeI/AAAAAAAAAEU/zYyI_AG9wUM/s1600-h/cruise.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SNgFOjGeLeI/AAAAAAAAAEU/zYyI_AG9wUM/s400/cruise.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248951113199005154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;  mso-header-margin:36.0pt;  mso-footer-margin:36.0pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Girl “Hi”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Boy “Hi”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Is it that distant peninsula you’re looking at?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. (nods)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Seems like everybody here gets fascinated by the view…it must be amazing over there”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Are you aware of anybody who ever made it there?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Not really. Everybody just gives up, apparently. It’s a long way to go”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “What about you?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “I’m a student, took a year off and…”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Oh…I mean…have you ever tried to get there?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “No”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Why not?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “I guess…I just prefer to stay here, and gaze at it, dream of it, and get a bit lost. You know…reality’s not always as good”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Yeah, I see”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Hey! How did you do that?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “I…I’m not too sure…just can’t recall right now. I guess…yeah…I must have built this paper boat while I was asleep”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “And you’re setting sail for the peninsula?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “You coming with me?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Thanks…thank you, but I think this has to be YOUR voyage”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Sure. Well, then…farewell!”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “’Morning”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Hey. Did you have a good night?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Kind of…I dreamt I travelled to the peninsula on a paper boat. That was…so real”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “And how was there?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Awful. Perhaps you’re right, it wouldn’t probably ever be the way we imagine it”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Did you give up then?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “Come”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;G. “Where?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;B. “On my paper boat. We’re going to get there”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Girl “Ciao”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Boy “Ehi”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “E’ quella penisola lontana che guardi?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. (annuisce)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Sembra che tutti restino affascinati alla sua vista...deve essere meraviglioso laggiu’”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Sai di nessuno che sia mai riuscito ad arrivarci?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “No. A quanto pare tutti rinunciano alla fine. La strada e’ lunga”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “E tu?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Sono una studentessa, ho deciso di prendere un anno di stop e...”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Intendevo dire...mai provato ad arrivarci?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “No”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Perche’?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Non saprei...e’ che preferisco restar qui, e contemplarla, sognarla, e perdermi un po’. Sai...la realta’ non sempre e’ altrettanto bella”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Gia’”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Ehi! Ma...come hai fatto?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Non...non sono sicuro, io...non ricordo in questo momento. Ma devo aver costruito questo battello di carta mentre dormivo”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “E sei in partenza per la penisola?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Vieni con me?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Grazie. Grazie, ma...ecco, credo che questo debba essere il TUO viaggio”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Certo. Beh, allora...addio”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “’Giorno”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Ciao. Passato una buona nottata?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Si, piu’ o meno. Ho sognato di aver viaggiato verso la penisola su di un battello di carta. Sembrava...cosi’ reale”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “E come era laggiu’?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Orribile. Forse hai ragione tu...in fondo...forse non sarebbe mai cosi’ come la immaginiamo”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Vuol dire che ci hai rinunciato?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Vieni”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;G. “Dove?”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;B. “Sul mio battelo di carta. Andiamo lì’”&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-4696642683371191748?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/4696642683371191748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=4696642683371191748&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/4696642683371191748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/4696642683371191748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/09/saudade.html' title='saudade'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SNgFOjGeLeI/AAAAAAAAAEU/zYyI_AG9wUM/s72-c/cruise.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-6490287843328935206</id><published>2008-09-01T13:21:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-01T13:45:19.843+01:00</updated><title type='text'>demise:dismay</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SLvev3WKP9I/AAAAAAAAAEM/NbHNB6WmJWo/s1600-h/fountain3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SLvev3WKP9I/AAAAAAAAAEM/NbHNB6WmJWo/s400/fountain3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241027505267818450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:punctuationkerning/&gt;   &lt;w:validateagainstschemas/&gt;   &lt;w:saveifxmlinvalid&gt;false&lt;/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid&gt;   &lt;w:ignoremixedcontent&gt;false&lt;/w:IgnoreMixedContent&gt;   &lt;w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext&gt;false&lt;/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;    &lt;w:dontgrowautofit/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"&gt;  &lt;/w:LatentStyles&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal  {mso-style-parent:"";  margin:0cm;  margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:12.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1  {size:612.0pt 792.0pt;  margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt;  mso-header-margin:35.4pt;  mso-footer-margin:35.4pt;  mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1  {page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:"Table Normal";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:"";  mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0cm;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:"Times New Roman";  mso-ansi-language:#0400;  mso-fareast-language:#0400;  mso-bidi-language:#0400;} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;This photo is dedicated to the fucker who stole my camera: we will meet again one day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Does an ethical code exist in photography? Is there a threshold in photo manipulation beyond which it can be said we’ve gone too far? After all, the first attempts of photo manipulation date back to the early days of photography. Well before the digital revolution. Probably, some techniques may appear more “ethical” than others. Take this photo for instance, it is likely that nobody would ever blame me for having desaturated the original (unless he saw the colours version and reckoned it was more appealing) and thus altered, in a way, the reality. But here’s where the argument becomes circular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;What’s the intent of a photograph? Is it about what we see or what we feel? I believe both levels are important. The explicit message of the photo is what is immediately perceived, the expression on a face in a well executed portrait, an exotic landscape. But then there’s an implicit message, which is the sentiment the photographer tries to convey, the highly subjective response triggered in that very moment in the photographer’s emotional circuit. Communicating such feelings is for sure the hardest task not only when we take a photo, but also when we reinterpret that particular moment in front of a computer, trying to re-exhume our innermost feelings, and translate them into the final ‘output’. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;So, what about this b&amp;amp;w? Perhaps the colours were not as relevant for the soul as they might have been for the eye. Maybe some photos are capable to bypass the first sensorial response, and penetrate the soul straight, screaming and shaking it from the inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Manipulated pixels yet pristine sentiment. Here lies the ethics maybe. To let the manipulation be a personal process, with the aim of reaching the deep core of a feeling, slowly and silently, rather than a trick conceived to seduce the eye and gain immediate attention. Eyes are deceptive, truth lies in our eyelids.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Thanks to my dearest friend Pamela, whose comments on this photo contributed to gain inspiration for this text.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Questa foto e’ dedicata al fottuto bastardo che mi ha rubato la fotocamera: ci incontreremo nuovamente un giorno.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Esiste un codice etico in fotografia? Esiste una soglia, nella manipolazione delle fotografie, al di la’ della quale possiamo asserire di esserci spinti oltre? Dopo tutto, le prime tecniche di manipolazione fotografica risalgono alle origini della fotografia stessa. Ben prima dell’avvento della rivoluzione digitale. Probabilmente alcune tecniche possono apparire piu’ “etiche” di altre. Prendete ad esempio questo scatto, e’ probabile che nessuno si lamenti per il fatto che io abbia desaturato l’originale (a meno che non abbia visto l’originale a colori e lo abbia trovato piu’ interessante) e in qualche modo alterato la realta’. Ma e’ qui che l’argomento rischia di diventare circolare. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Qual e’ il vero intento di una foto? Riguarda cio’ che vediamo o cio’ che sentiamo? Io credo che entrambi i livelli siano importanti. Il messaggio esplicito rinchiuso in una foto e’ rivelato da cio’ che viene immediatamente percepito, l’espressione dipinta sul viso in un ritratto ben riuscito, il fascino di un paesaggio esotico. Ma poi vi e’ un messaggio implicito, che riguarda il sentimento che il fotografo cerca di trasmettere, la risposta altamente soggettiva innescata in quel preciso istante nel circuito emotivo del fotografo. Comunicare un tale sentimento e’ uno dei compiti piu’ difficili, non solo nel momento in cui si scatta, ma anche quando reinterpretiamo quel particolare momento di fronte ad un computer, cercando di riesumare la nostra interiorita’, e tradurla nel prodotto finale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Cosa dire, dunque, di questo bianco e nero? Forse i colori non erano rilevanti per l’animo alla stesso modo in cui potrebbero esserlo stati per l’occhio. Forse alcune foto possiedono la capacita’ di aggirare la prima risposta sensoriale, insinuandosi immediatamente in fondo all’anima, urlando, e scuotendola da dentro.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Pixel manipolati, inalterati sentimenti. E’ forse tutta qui l’etica. Lasciare che la manipolazione di una foto sia un processo personale, con lo scopo di raggiungere il nucleo di un sentimento, lentamente e silenziosamente, piuttosto che esser concepita per sedurre l’occhio, e attrarre attenzione a tutti i costi. Gli occhi sono ingannevoli, la verita’ risiede nelle palpebre. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ringrazio la mia cara amica Pamela, i cui commenti a riguardo di questa foto hanno contribuito a trovare l'ispirazione per questo testo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-6490287843328935206?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/6490287843328935206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=6490287843328935206&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/6490287843328935206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/6490287843328935206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/09/demisedismay.html' title='demise:dismay'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SLvev3WKP9I/AAAAAAAAAEM/NbHNB6WmJWo/s72-c/fountain3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-2712091375522990643</id><published>2008-07-28T20:51:00.011+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-01T13:36:47.098+01:00</updated><title type='text'>part monster</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SI4jv08rlJI/AAAAAAAAAEE/kOx01Slyd0Y/s1600-h/partmonster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SI4jv08rlJI/AAAAAAAAAEE/kOx01Slyd0Y/s400/partmonster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228155521997706386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to see a larger version)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;In an &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/egotism.html"&gt;older post&lt;/a&gt; I tried to wonder how it would be like to look at ourselves from the eyes of somebody else. Now I realised there’s no need of any out-of-body journey to accomplish that. Sometimes we look into the mirror, but we don’t get any answer, we fail to recognize how we look like. But then you look at yourself reflected in somebody else’s eyes, and suddenly understand the way you look.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;In un &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/egotism.html"&gt;vecchio post&lt;/a&gt; avevo provato a chiedermi come sarebbe guardare a noi stessi con gli occhi di un osservatore esterno. Ora mi sono reso conto che per far cio’ non vi e’ bisogno di un viaggio extra-corporeo. A volte guardiamo nello specchio, ma senza ottenere risposta alcuna, non riusciamo a riconoscere com’e’ che sembriamo. Ma poi uno guarda l’immagine di se stesso riflessa negli occhi di qualcun’altro, ed allora si ha un’improvvisa rivelazione di come si appare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piano Magic&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Part Monster&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdn.last.fm/videoplayer/33/VideoPlayer.swf" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="lfmEmbed_50_2961063_1522818792" width="340" height="289"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://cdn.last.fm/videoplayer/33/VideoPlayer.swf"&gt; &lt;param name="flashvars" value="title=part-monster&amp;amp;uniqueName=2961063&amp;amp;albumArt=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F11LKmKHN4BL.jpg&amp;amp;duration=190&amp;amp;image=http%3A%2F%2Fuserserve-ak.last.fm%2Fserve%2Fimage%3A320%2F2961063.jpg&amp;amp;FSSupport=true&amp;amp;album=Part-Monster&amp;amp;track=true&amp;amp;creator=Piano+Magic"&gt; &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt; &lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all"&gt; &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt; &lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt; &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="000000"&gt; &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt; &lt;param name="menu" value="false"&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;I produce too much of something, not enough of something else&lt;br /&gt;But the doctors cannot help me with the puzzle of my health&lt;br /&gt;And I’m tired of easy music&lt;br /&gt;And I’m tired of pretty girls&lt;br /&gt;And I’m tired of being tired&lt;br /&gt;And I’m tired of being hurt&lt;br /&gt;I am the soldier at the back who is burdened by his books&lt;br /&gt;Though I stare into the mirror, it does not tell me how I look&lt;br /&gt;So I’m shaving in the darkness and I’m turning in my sleep&lt;br /&gt;And I’m turning like a monster with a dead man in his teeth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-2712091375522990643?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/2712091375522990643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=2712091375522990643&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2712091375522990643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2712091375522990643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/07/part-monster.html' title='part monster'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SI4jv08rlJI/AAAAAAAAAEE/kOx01Slyd0Y/s72-c/partmonster.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-9103806560150996249</id><published>2008-07-26T23:39:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-01T13:36:17.984+01:00</updated><title type='text'>alles glühen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SIun3yfBYPI/AAAAAAAAAD8/_J_Jga04TYY/s1600-h/alles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SIun3yfBYPI/AAAAAAAAAD8/_J_Jga04TYY/s400/alles.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227456369380122866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A slumber did my spirit seal;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I had no human fears:&lt;br /&gt;She seemed a thing that could not feel&lt;br /&gt;The touch of earthly years.&lt;br /&gt;No motion has she now, no force;&lt;br /&gt;She neither hears nor sees;&lt;br /&gt;Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With rocks, and stones, and trees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;      (W. Wordsworth)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;As the universe switched on I landed. Long voyage to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbolia"&gt;Tumbolia&lt;/a&gt;. I was greeted by characters of my dreams, and of my hypnagogic allucitations, and all the secret places where I wandered alone on Sunday afternoons and I could never find, they were there. Everything glowed and everything was real. And I felt no fear, for I was their little universe. All of us is a universe, inhabited by dreams, they dwell when we’re asleep, then they suddenly dissolve, yet still they’re part of it.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Nel momento in cui l’universo si accendeva io approdavo. Lungo viaggio verso &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbolia"&gt;Tumbolia&lt;/a&gt;. Fui salutato da personaggi dei miei sogni, e delle mie allucinazioni ipnagogiche, e tutti i posti segreti in cui vagabondavo in solitudine nelle domeniche pomeriggio, essi erano li’. Tutto risplendeva, e tutto era reale. E non avevo paura, perche’ io ero il loro piccolo universo. C’e’ un universo in ognuno di noi, abitato dai nostri sogni, essi vi risiedono mentre dormiamo, poi si dissolvono all’improvviso, e pur tuttavia continuano a farne parte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-9103806560150996249?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/9103806560150996249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=9103806560150996249&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/9103806560150996249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/9103806560150996249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/07/alles-glhen.html' title='alles glühen'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SIun3yfBYPI/AAAAAAAAAD8/_J_Jga04TYY/s72-c/alles.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-11532523231372975</id><published>2008-07-22T13:34:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-09-01T13:37:57.353+01:00</updated><title type='text'>imperfection</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SIXUKWMXFHI/AAAAAAAAAD0/diKxVDkmNmE/s1600-h/love.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SIXUKWMXFHI/AAAAAAAAAD0/diKxVDkmNmE/s400/love.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225816216854533234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This tiny creature represents the symbol of strength and resilience to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;This photo is dedicated to all of you who have been told, at least once, to be weak and irresolute, those who have been told to have been too shy, those who have been advised to change their own behaviour. Advice, yeah… just fuck off. A walnut, you crush a walnut, you won’t ever be able to put the pieces together again. But honey, try to crush honey, sweet and resilient, and strong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;This text contains explicit reference to Fred Vargas’s &lt;i style=""&gt;Dans les bois éternels&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Questa minuta creatura rappresenta per me il simbolo della forza e della resilienza.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Questa foto e’ dedicata a tutti coloro cui e’ stato detto, almeno una volta, di essere deboli ed irrisoluti, coloro cui e’ stato detto di essere stati troppo timidi, coloro cui e’ stato consigliato di cambiare il loro modo di essere. Consigli, certo... andate a fare in culo. Una noce, una noce la schiacci, non ne metterai mai piu’ insieme i pezzi. Ma il miele, provate a fare a pezzi il miele, dolce e resistente, e forte.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Questo brano contiene un riferimento esplicito a &lt;i style=""&gt;Dans les bois éternels&lt;/i&gt; di Fred Vargas&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-11532523231372975?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/11532523231372975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=11532523231372975&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/11532523231372975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/11532523231372975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/07/click-picture-to-enlarge-this-tiny.html' title='imperfection'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SIXUKWMXFHI/AAAAAAAAAD0/diKxVDkmNmE/s72-c/love.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-6155769963170504167</id><published>2008-07-13T12:14:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-13T12:27:07.724+01:00</updated><title type='text'>glósóli</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHnkFYeCOAI/AAAAAAAAADc/a3_Xds41QEE/s1600-h/castelluccio3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHnkFYeCOAI/AAAAAAAAADc/a3_Xds41QEE/s400/castelluccio3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222456024031705090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHnkFnDADfI/AAAAAAAAADk/E56kMr8sxHU/s1600-h/castelluccio6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHnkFnDADfI/AAAAAAAAADk/E56kMr8sxHU/s400/castelluccio6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222456027944848882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click pictures to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is pleasure in the pathless woods;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;There is rapture on the lonely shore;&lt;br /&gt;There is society, where none intrudes;&lt;br /&gt;By the deep sea, and music in its roar;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love not man the less, but Nature more...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;This is Lord Byron's quote that opens the film &lt;b style=""&gt;Into the Wild&lt;/b&gt;. There’d be much to talk about that film, so if you haven’t done it yet, go rent it…&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;One late afternoon I was on a bus back from a hiking day. As I looked outside the window I saw something astonishing. The mountains, gently heated by the setting sun, were literally glowing, looking almost orange. As I enjoyed the fantastic view I started to wonder &lt;i style=""&gt;what if this is all going to finish one day?&lt;/i&gt; Are progress, building speculation, man’s avidity gradually going to wipe all this out and replace it with concrete blocks? Each time I get back to my hometown I see the city ruthlessly advancing, swallowing countryside, beaches, skies. I remember when I was a child, going out and playing in the fields. Those fields do not exist anymore. What if our children will never know those things? I can figure the feeling of nature, smells, sounds, replaced by some artificial electrical stimulation.&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;I kept on staring at the glowing mountains&lt;br /&gt;Slightly reassured by the thought&lt;br /&gt;That one day Nature will take everything back&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Photos taken in &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pian Grande di Castelluccio&lt;/span&gt;, Italy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ"&gt;Glósóli&lt;/a&gt;, Sigur Ros&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quella che potete leggere e’ la citazione di Lord Byron che apre il film &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Into the Wild&lt;/span&gt;. Ci sarebbe molto da parlare a proposito del film, per cui se non lo avete gia’ visto cercate di procurarvelo...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Un tardo pomeriggio ero su un autobus di ritorno da un giornata di trekking. Guardando fuori dal finestrino vidi qualcosa di sorprendente. Le montagne, gentilmente scaldate dal sole calante, stavano letteralmente risplendendo di un colorito quasi arancione. Mentre mi godevo la vista cominciai a pensare &lt;i style=""&gt;e se un giorno tutto cio’ finisse? &lt;/i&gt;Se un giorno progresso, speculazione edilizia, avidita’ umana cancellassero tutto questo, rimpiazzandolo con blocchi di cemento? Ogni volta che torno nel mio paese natale vedo che la citta’ avanza incurante, inghiottendo campagne, spiagge, cieli. Ricordo che da bambino potevo uscire di casa e giocare nei campi. Quei campi non esistono piu’. E se i nostri figli non sapranno mai di quelle cose? Immagino dello spirito della natura, i suoi odori, suoni, rimpiazzati da qualche stimolo elettrico artificiale.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;        &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Continuai a guardare le montagne splendenti&lt;br /&gt;Leggermente riassicurato dal pensiero&lt;br /&gt;Che un giorno la Natura riprendera’ tutto indietro&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Foto scattate a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pian Grande di Castelluccio&lt;/span&gt;, Italia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doc1eqstMQQ"&gt;Glósóli&lt;/a&gt;, Sigur Ros &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-6155769963170504167?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/6155769963170504167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=6155769963170504167&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/6155769963170504167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/6155769963170504167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/07/glsli.html' title='glósóli'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHnkFYeCOAI/AAAAAAAAADc/a3_Xds41QEE/s72-c/castelluccio3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-9023329378168743845</id><published>2008-07-07T23:44:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T23:56:22.927+01:00</updated><title type='text'>a voyage</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHKdtzSMUbI/AAAAAAAAADU/yx01x3ajMzI/s1600-h/castelluccio5small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHKdtzSMUbI/AAAAAAAAADU/yx01x3ajMzI/s400/castelluccio5small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220408328262013362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;A few photos ago I promised I would spend a few words about &lt;i style=""&gt;photography and the representation of reality&lt;/i&gt;. I sense this deep sea is going to take me way too far. As we engage in this voyage, we soon come across some conceptual dangerous waters. Watercolours to set free, ephemeral inner worlds, a camera for a painter’s brush, palettes made up of light. I’m not sure whether photography is more about reality rather than imagination. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;…Or is reality itself more about imagination?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;A photo is the result of the interaction between light and a sensor (or a photographic emulsion) at the same way as reality stems from the interplay between perception and emotional response. Both photography and reality are largely subjective. And ephemeral. Eternity won’t be enclosed into a portrait or a landscape, if our feeling for that face or that place has changed in time. If the spider bite has made its course. Reality as well is ever changing, as we perceive it and assimilate it and re-project our interpretation outwards. In an infinite loop. Reality is limited, reality is a subset of our imagination and our world of dreams. There are faces, places our eyes are not able to see, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. They exist in dreams. And once we wake up, this invisible ark of photography can still rescue them.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Qualche foto fa avevo promesso di spendere qualche parola a proposito di &lt;i style=""&gt;fotografia e rappresentazione della realta’&lt;/i&gt;. Posso gia’ avvertire come questo mare profondo mi portera’ troppo lontano. Avventurandoci in questa traversta, ci imbattiamo presto in acque pericolose concettuali. Acquerelli da liberare, effimeri mondi interiori, una fotocamera come un pennello, tavolozze di luce. Non sono sicuro se la fotografia riguardi la realta’ piu’ di quanto riguardi l’immaginazione.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;...O forse la realta’ stessa riguarda di piu’ l’immaginazione?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Una foto e’ il risultato dell’interazione tra la luce ed un sensore (o un’emulsione fotografica) un po’ come la realta’ deriva dalla reciprocita’ tra percezione e risposta emotiva. Sia la fotografia che la realta’ sono ampiamente soggettive. Ed effimere. L’eternita’ non puo’ essere racchiusa in un ritratto o in un paesaggio, se cio’ che per noi e’ rappresentato in quel volto o in quel luogo e’ cambiato nel tempo. Se la puntura del ragno ha compiuto il proprio corso. La realta’ stessa cambia continuamente nel tempo, mentre noi la percepiamo, assimilandola, riproiettando verso l’esterno la nostra interpretazione. Un circolo infinito. La realta’ e’ limitata, &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;la realta’ e’ un sottoinsieme della nostra immaginazione e del nostro mondo dei sogni. Ci sono volti, posti, che gli occhi non riescono a vedere, e tuttavia cio’ non vuol dire che essi non esistano. Esistono nei sogni. E una volta svegli, quest’arca invisibile che e’ la fotografia puo’ ancora metterli in salvo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-9023329378168743845?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/9023329378168743845/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=9023329378168743845&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/9023329378168743845'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/9023329378168743845'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/07/voyage.html' title='a voyage'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SHKdtzSMUbI/AAAAAAAAADU/yx01x3ajMzI/s72-c/castelluccio5small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-912802596627020590</id><published>2008-06-29T15:37:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-29T15:52:32.090+01:00</updated><title type='text'>up into the silky way she'll float</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SGeesu5AqyI/AAAAAAAAADM/simrwO_qeSM/s1600-h/skye.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SGeesu5AqyI/AAAAAAAAADM/simrwO_qeSM/s400/skye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217313184670591778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Silkworms&lt;/span&gt; take three days to spin their &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;cocoons&lt;/span&gt;, which are made of a single thread as long as up to two or three kilometers. That’s an amazing work, can you imagine the patience, the love it takes…with the hope, one day, of becoming a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;butterfly&lt;/span&gt;. Coming out of the cocoon and flying, free, into the sky. Only three days, that’s how long a butterfly can live. But they rather live three days like that, free, beautiful and anonymous than an eternity as a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;silky&lt;/span&gt; cloth, draping a king’s shoulder. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Giving up the construction of its own cocoon, though it costs living like a larva for two weeks, is an unforgivable mistake. Because only by flying as a butterfly life can be lived for real, high into the deep core of it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;I &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;bachi da seta&lt;/span&gt; impiegano tre giorni ad avvolgere il loro &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;bozzolo&lt;/span&gt;, fatto di un singolo filo, lungo fino a due o tre kilometri. Un lavoro incredibile, immaginate quanta pazienza, quanto amore richieda...con la speranza di diventare, un giorno, una &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;farfalla&lt;/span&gt;. Venir fuori dal bozzolo, volare libera nel cielo. Solo tre giorni, e’ quanto una farfalla puo’ vivere. Ma le farfalle preferiscono vivere tre giorni in quella maniera, libere, belle ed anonime, piuttosto che un’eternita’ come un tessuto di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;seta&lt;/span&gt;, ad ammantare le spalle di un re.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Rinunciare alla costruzione del proprio bozzolo, benche’ costi dover vivere due settimane allo stato di una larva, sarebbe un errore imperdonabile. Perche’ soltanto volando come una farfalla la vita puo’ essere vissuta appieno, in alto, fino al suo profondo cuore.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-912802596627020590?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/912802596627020590/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=912802596627020590&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/912802596627020590'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/912802596627020590'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/06/up-into-silky-way-shell-float.html' title='up into the silky way she&apos;ll float'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SGeesu5AqyI/AAAAAAAAADM/simrwO_qeSM/s72-c/skye.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-2329909770750372698</id><published>2008-06-24T23:41:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T00:00:17.779+01:00</updated><title type='text'>wishful: wistful</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SGF4gesCskI/AAAAAAAAADA/lYIsEIRmXa8/s1600-h/cliff.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SGF4gesCskI/AAAAAAAAADA/lYIsEIRmXa8/s400/cliff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215582342860681794" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,&lt;br /&gt;Though winning near the goal—yet, do not grieve;&lt;br /&gt;She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,&lt;br /&gt;For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;J. Keats&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; - Ode on a Grecian urn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Finding a place to reach. A distant shore. Letting your life be the distance in between. Faraway peninsula. Getting closer and closer. Day after day. Obsessively. What we long for is not being there, but getting there. Never as charming. Dreaming of that place. Dreaming of the idea of that place. Obsessively. Getting there. Waking up from your dreams. Cold morning wispering: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I’m sorry, I’m busy&lt;/span&gt;. And short-circuiting your affective system.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I’ll leave you with an excerpt form Fred Vargas’s &lt;i style=""&gt;Dans les bois eternel&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;‘And sometimes it still itches. It itches on the part of my arm that isn’t there, sixty-nine years later. In the same place, always the same place...It was the spider’s bite. When I lost my arm, I hadn’t finished scratching. So it goes on itching…Because the spider’s bite hadn’t finished its life — do you understand what I’m saying? It wants its dues, it’s taking its revenge…Feelings. If a fellow goes on loving a girl, or the other way round, when it’s all over…But why does he go on loving the girl, or the other way round? What explains it?...It’s quite simple. It’s because the feeling hasn’t run its course. It’s beyond our control, that kind of thing. You have to wait for it to finish, go on scratching till the end...makes you itch non-stop.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;E tu, amante audace, non potrai mai baciare&lt;br /&gt;Lei che ti è così vicino; ma non lamentarti&lt;br /&gt;Se la gioia ti sfugge: lei non potrà mai fuggire,&lt;br /&gt;E tu l'amerai per sempre, per sempre così bella.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(J.Keats - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ode su un'urna greca&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Trovare un luogo da raggiungere. Spiaggia in lontananza. Lasciare che la vita sia la distanza che e’ nel mezzo. Penisola distante. Avvicinarvisi sempre piu’. Giorno dopo giorno. Ossessivamente. Cio’ che si desidera non e’ essere li’, ma arrivarvi. Mai altrettanto affascinante. Sognare di quel posto. Sognare dell’idea di quel posto. Ossessivamente. Arrivare li’. Svegliarsi dai propri sogni. Freddo mattino che sussurra: &lt;i style=""&gt;I’m sorry, I’m busy&lt;/i&gt;. E manda in corto circuito il sistema affettivo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Chiudo con un estratto dal romanzo di Fred Vargas &lt;i style=""&gt;Dans les bois eternel&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;“Alle volte da ancora prurito. Prude ancora, dopo sessantanove anni, in quella parte del mio braccio che non c’e’ piu’. Sempre nello stesso posto...E’ stata la puntura del ragno. Quando persi il braccio, non avevo finito di grattarlo. E cosi’ continua a dare prurito...Perche’ la puntura del ragno non ha compiuto il suo corso, capisci? Chiede il conto, prende la sua rivincita...I sentimenti. Se un tizio ama una ragazza, o il contrario, poi quando tutto e’ finito...Perche’ continua ad amare la ragazza, o il contrario? Come si spiega?...Semplice. E’ perche’ il sentimento non ha compiuto il proprio corso. E’ al di la’ del nostro controllo, questo genere di cose. Devi aspettare che finisca, continuare a grattare...fa sentire un prurito interminabile.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-2329909770750372698?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/2329909770750372698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=2329909770750372698&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2329909770750372698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2329909770750372698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/06/wishful-wistful.html' title='wishful: wistful'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SGF4gesCskI/AAAAAAAAADA/lYIsEIRmXa8/s72-c/cliff.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-3466645764500206888</id><published>2008-05-30T18:32:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T00:15:01.838+01:00</updated><title type='text'>6 degrees of separation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SECIfjQzLmI/AAAAAAAAAC4/wJmG0XVNbss/s1600-h/6degrees.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SECIfjQzLmI/AAAAAAAAAC4/wJmG0XVNbss/s400/6degrees.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206311244863319650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I want to refer back to the &lt;i style=""&gt;shrinking worlds&lt;/i&gt; of the previous photo. The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_world_experiment"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;small world&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a concept whose possible applications span several fields, from sociology to physical sciences. I’ll skip on the latter, as I’ve been dealing with them enough for work, but this space is reserved to my own leisure, so let’s go straight to the applications to everyday life. In fact this idea was introduced in the field of social sciences, and in particular, for the study of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;social networks&lt;/span&gt;. It has to be noted that the term “social network” long predates those phenomena such as that Facebook shite. Anyways, a network is composed by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;nodes&lt;/span&gt; (people) and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;connections&lt;/span&gt; (say friendship). The first prerequisite of a small-world network is a small &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;average path length&lt;/span&gt;, meaning that the distance between any two nodes has to be short enough. In other words, imagine you once saw a boy or a girl you found particularly attractive but you didn’t have the chance to talk to. If you were lucky enough to be living in a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;small world&lt;/span&gt;, then it’d happen for instance that his/her flatmate’s brother is a classmate of your cousin…which makes things easy enough for you to retrieve his/her mobile number (there are four &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation"&gt;degrees of separation&lt;/a&gt; between the two of you). Also, a small-world network is a democratic one as it has no leaders. A group which is held together by the strong personality of a single person would collapse whenever this &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hub&lt;/span&gt; is removed (e.g. the leader retires, passes away, etc…). &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;On the contrary, all the members of a small-world network have strong relationships between each other such that the overall feeling of community won’t be affected by the departure of a single node. That’s the second characteristic of small worlds: they’re &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;clustered&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;That was the theory.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Now, what about the real world?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I believe in reality, as usual, things are not as simple. Human relationships are such a matter of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;chance&lt;/span&gt;. Think about the boy/girl you accidentally came across that we were saying before. Would you have ever met him/her if you left home five minutes later? Perhaps that would have never been another chance. Roads do cross so accidentally, but if we think about how far can the starting points of each of them be, in space and time, how many circumstances prepared this accidental collision. Try to force these roads to collide again and you won’t probably ever succeed. Like throwing a plastic cup and seeing it landing in equilibrium on the border of the trash bin…try to do that again intentionally, you can try thousands of times, you won’t likely be able to do that again.&lt;br /&gt;Yet, in a shrinking world as the one we live in is indeed becoming, chances grow and average path lengths decrease. The drama is connections between nodes have become so precarious…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Vorrei fare un riferimento ai &lt;i style=""&gt;mondi che si restringono&lt;/i&gt; di cui alla precedente foto. Il concetto di &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoria_del_mondo_piccolo"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;piccolo mondo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ha tutta una serie di possibili applicazioni, che vanno dalla sociologia alle scienze fisiche. Evito di parlare di queste ultime, dato che me ne sono gia’ occupato abbastanza per lavoro, e poiche’ questo e’ uno spazio dedicato al mio tempo libero, passo direttamente a parlare di come il concetto possa essere applicato alla vita di ogni giorno. In effetti, questa idea fu introdotta proprio nell’ambito delle scienze sociali, ed in particolare nel campo dello studio delle &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;reti sociali&lt;/span&gt;. Si tenga in considerazione che il termine “rete sociale” (social network) e’ stato coniato molto prima dell’avvento di fenomeni quali quella stronzata di Facebook. Ad ogni modo, una rete e’ composta da una serie di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;nodi&lt;/span&gt; (le persone) e di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;connessioni&lt;/span&gt; (ad esempio l’amicizia tra di esse). Il primo requistito affinche’ una rete possa essere definita piccolo mondo e’ che questa sia caratterizzata da una piccola &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;distanza di percorrenza media&lt;/span&gt;, cioe’ la distanza tra due nodi qualsiasi deve essere sufficientemente breve. In altre parole, immaginate che per caso voi abbiate notato un ragazzo o una ragazza piuttosto attraente, ma che non abbiate avuto modo di rivolgere la parola a questa persona. Se siete abbastanza fortunati da vivere in un &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;piccolo mondo&lt;/span&gt;, allora potrebbe avvenire che il fratello della sua coinquilina sia il compagno di corso di vostra cugina...coincidenza che renderebbe abbastanza facile per voi riuscire a risalire al numero di cellulare di questa persona (in pratica esistono quattro &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei_gradi_di_separazione_%28sociologia%29"&gt;gradi di separazione&lt;/a&gt; fra voi). Inoltre, un piccolo mondo e’ democratico poiche’ non vi sono leader. Un gruppo tenuto insieme dalla forte personalita’ di un singolo potrebbe verosimilmente collassare su se stesso una volta che questo &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;hub&lt;/span&gt; venisse rimosso (per esempio il leader abbandona il gruppo, o muore). Al contrario, tutti i membri di un &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;piccolo mondo&lt;/span&gt; hanno relazioni significative con ogni altro membro, cosi’ che la dipartita di un membro non scalfira’ il generale senso di appartenenza. Il che ci porta al secondo requisito di una rete di tipo &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;piccolo mondo&lt;/span&gt;: l’alto livello di &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;aggregazione&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Questo e’ quanto per la teoria.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ma come vanno le cose nella realta’ dei fatti?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Credo che nella realta’, come al solito, le cose siano un po’ diverse. Infatti, nelle relazioni umane esiste una forte &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;componente casuale&lt;/span&gt;, difficile da formalizzare. Pensate alla persona nella quale vi siete imbattuti per caso di cui si parlava prima. L’avreste mai incontrata se foste usciti di casa cinque minuti piu’ tardi? Forse non ci sarebbe mai stata un’altra occasione. Le strade si incrociano in maniera talmente accidentale, ma proviamo a pensare da quanto lontano, in termini di spazio e tempo, queste siano partite, quante circostanze abbiano preparato il terreno per questa casuale collisione. Provate a forzare una nuova collisione tra queste strade, probabilmente non ci riuscireste mai. Un po’ come lanciare un bicchiere di carta e vederlo atterrare in perfetto equilibrio sul bordo del cestino, provate a farlo di nuovo intenzionalmente, potete provare migliaia di volte, ma non credo riuscireste a farlo di nuovo. Eppure, in un mondo che si restringe come quello in cui viviamo attualmente, le possibilita’ crescono, le distanze di percorrenza media diminuiscono. Il dramma, in tutto cio’, e’ che le connessioni tra i nodi sono diventate cosi’ precarie...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-3466645764500206888?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/3466645764500206888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=3466645764500206888&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/3466645764500206888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/3466645764500206888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/05/6-degrees-of-separation.html' title='6 degrees of separation'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SECIfjQzLmI/AAAAAAAAAC4/wJmG0XVNbss/s72-c/6degrees.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-8990744971077879104</id><published>2008-05-22T20:02:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T23:28:57.847+01:00</updated><title type='text'>the blue sky catastrophe (shrinking worlds, growing impatience)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SDXDqzQzLkI/AAAAAAAAACo/f7gpw1IBhCE/s1600-h/smallworldnew2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SDXDqzQzLkI/AAAAAAAAACo/f7gpw1IBhCE/s400/smallworldnew2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203280084579069506" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;click &lt;a href="http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5563/smallworldnew2gc8.gif"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt; to watch the animation&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;I was getting bored the other day, so I decided to take a tour on my spatio-temporal device which I built from a second hand washing machine. I jumped in and it took me to this cool place (cold in fact, as you can see it has been snowing all the time) where I've been &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;hanging&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt; around the whole afternoon. There was such an amazing view from there.&lt;br /&gt;Moral of the story: always use fabric conditioner!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;OK, that was a joke. By the way, I’ve delayed the publication, but as we’re not on Flickr, we pay attention to quality rather than quantity here.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I was a bit undecided about the subject for the text to be added to this photo. I was initially tempted to talk about &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-similarity"&gt;self-similarity&lt;/a&gt;, but I think I’ll leave it to another time. Yet, I still want to try and explore reality at a finer and finer scale. I’m not sure whether a limit exists to the resolution of matter. Of course scientists proposed the concept of quark, but we are free, or at least our imagination is free to keep on zooming in, practically ad infinitum. In fact, this really sounds like &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#The_Paradoxes_of_motion"&gt;Zeno’s paradox&lt;/a&gt;. As by doing so we managed to embed infinity into a closed and therefore finite shape (e.g. my body hanging from a peg). This really makes me feel dizzy…a self-contained infinity…&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let’s our imagination stray unconstrained beyond quarks and everything, what are we going to see next? Perhaps we might see what abstract things are made of. I’d love to be able to do that. What is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;nostalgia&lt;/span&gt; made of, for instance? As we continue our voyage into these dark waters, we reach a point where space ceases to exist, and time ceases to exist. That’s how we make a moment be for good. A hug, scent of hair, folds on a bed linen. Nostalgia’s gone. There’s only &lt;i style=""&gt;here and now&lt;/i&gt;, hic et nunc. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Leggete l’incipit (in corsivo) in inglese, perche’ contiene parti intraducibili e allora ho rinunciato a tradurlo. E’ una cosa scherzosa ad ogni modo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Come vedete, ho un po’ ritardato la pubblicazione, ma dato che non siamo su Flickr, qui si da precedenza alla qualita’ piuttosto che alla quantita’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ero indeciso sull’argomento del testo da abbinare a questa foto. Ero inizialmente tentato di parlare di &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-similarity"&gt;auto-similarita’&lt;/a&gt;, ma credo che ne discutero’ un’altra volta. Voglio comunque provare ad esplorare la realta’ ad una scala sempre piu’ minuta. In effetti non sono sicuro se un limite alla risoluzione della materia esista. Certo, gli scienziati hanno proposto il concetto di quark, pur tuttavia noi si e’ liberi, o almeno la nostra immaginazione lo e’, di continuare a &lt;i style=""&gt;zoomare&lt;/i&gt; all’infinito. In effetti la cosa ricorda molto il &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradossi_di_Zenone#Paradossi_contro_il_movimento"&gt;paradosso di Zenone&lt;/a&gt;. Poiche' cosi facendo avremo catturato l’infinito, circoscrivendolo in una forma chiusa, e di conseguenza finita (ad esempio il mio corpo che pende dalla molletta). Ammetto che la cosa mi da un po’ di capogiro...un infinito auto-contenuto...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ma lasciamo che la nostra immaginazione vada alla deriva senza vincoli, al di la’ dei quarks e tutto il resto...che cosa vedremmo? Forse riusciremmo a visualizzare cio’ di cui le cose astratte son costituite. Vorrei davvero poterlo fare. Ad esempio, di cosa e’ fatta la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;nostalgia&lt;/span&gt;? Continuando il nostro viaggio in queste acque oscure, si arriverebbe ad un punto in cui lo spazio cesserebbe di esistere, e il tempo cesserebbe di esistere. E’ cosi’ che potremmo rendere un momento eterno. Un abbraccio, profumo di capelli, pieghe sulle lenzuola. La nostalgia e’ andata via. Esiste solo un &lt;i style=""&gt;ora e adesso&lt;/i&gt;, hic et nunc.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-8990744971077879104?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/8990744971077879104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=8990744971077879104&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8990744971077879104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8990744971077879104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/05/blue-sky-catastrophe-shrinking-worlds.html' title='the blue sky catastrophe (shrinking worlds, growing impatience)'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SDXDqzQzLkI/AAAAAAAAACo/f7gpw1IBhCE/s72-c/smallworldnew2.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-8833707585472575454</id><published>2008-05-13T23:08:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-13T23:55:55.412+01:00</updated><title type='text'>afterglow|aftermath</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SCoZ6VHrjTI/AAAAAAAAACg/LPXMKD4JTcQ/s1600-h/afterglow.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SCoZ6VHrjTI/AAAAAAAAACg/LPXMKD4JTcQ/s400/afterglow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199997209645124914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Those who aim straight towards the heavens. Those who try to catch the Sun. Icarus. It is a delicate balance, the closer you get to the Sun, the more you risk to get your wings burnt. You get closer to your dreams, then, suddenly a dream is over, and there's nothing left other than &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.it/music/Grace+Cathedral+Park/_/Settling+For+the+Broken+in+the+Things+Never+Forgetten"&gt;broken pieces to settle for&lt;/a&gt;, and claim. One fine day you realize you've grown too tired to face another fall. Wings become memories, clouds become faces, the Sun goes down, but nobody will chase it down tonight.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Coloro che mirano dritti al cielo. Coloro che cercano di cogliere il Sole. Icaro. E’ un delicato equilibrio, piu’ ci si avvicina al Sole, piu’ si rischia di bruciare le proprie ali. Ci si avvicina ai propri sogni, poi, improvvisamente un sogno e’ finito e non restano che &lt;a href="http://www.lastfm.it/music/Grace+Cathedral+Park/_/Settling+For+the+Broken+in+the+Things+Never+Forgetten"&gt;cocci di cui accontentarsi&lt;/a&gt;, e da rivendicare. Un bel giorno ci si rende conto che si e’ troppo stanchi per affrontare un’altra caduta. Ali diventano ricordi, nuvole diventano volti, il Sole tramonta, ma nessuno lo inseguira’ questa sera.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-8833707585472575454?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/8833707585472575454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=8833707585472575454&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8833707585472575454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8833707585472575454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/05/afterglowaftermath.html' title='afterglow|aftermath'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SCoZ6VHrjTI/AAAAAAAAACg/LPXMKD4JTcQ/s72-c/afterglow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-2806478459058556390</id><published>2008-05-05T23:18:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-06T00:25:16.517+01:00</updated><title type='text'>sunken cathedral</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SB-H4HbphXI/AAAAAAAAACY/NWYPLh3BVok/s1600-h/galway+cathedral.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SB-H4HbphXI/AAAAAAAAACY/NWYPLh3BVok/s400/galway+cathedral.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197021893146281330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;I'd like to start from where I finished last time.&lt;br /&gt;Braiding ropes.&lt;br /&gt;Well, I'll get there in a moment. First look at this picture. I particularly like this view of &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Galway&lt;/st1:place&gt;, the bridge crossing the mighty Corrib, and getting to the cathedral. It makes me love this place in those moment I think I wish to be somewhere else. Sometimes I think how I ended up in this place. There must be an exact moment in the past that triggered the series of events that brought me here. When did it all begin? And how? There are people who believe in destiny. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_23"&gt;There is no such thing as destiny, there are only different choices&lt;/a&gt;, and a series of random events. Which intertwine. Which self-amplify. And start to weave a future, just one of the possible futures. The thought can easily become obsessive. I see invisible branches, extending to horizons which won't ever be reached. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_%28film%29"&gt;A long way to go with no punch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dirty+Three/_/Long+Way+to+Go+With+No+Punch"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Vorrei cominciare da dove ho lasciato l’ultima volta.&lt;br /&gt;Intrecciare corde.&lt;br /&gt;Ci arrivero’ in un momento. Prima, guardate questa foto. Mi piace particolarmente questo scorcio di Galway, con il ponte che attraversa il potente Corrib, e porta alla cattedrale. Mi fa amare questo posto in quei momenti in cui vorrei essere altrove. A volte penso a come io sia finito in questo posto. Deve esserci un preciso momento del passato che ha dato avvio a tutta una serie di eventi che mi hanno infine portato qui. Da dove e’ iniziato? E come? Alcune persone credono nel destino. &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_23"&gt;Non c’e’ alcun destino, vi sono solo scelte differenti&lt;/a&gt;, ed una serie di eventi casuali. Che si intersecano. Che si auto-amplificano. E cominciano ad intessere un futuro, solo uno dei possibili futuri. E’ un pensiero che puo’ facilmente diventare ossessivo. Intravvedo invisibili ramificazioni, che si estendono verso orizzonti irraggiungibili. &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_%28film%29"&gt;Una lunga strada da percorrere, senza effetto alcuno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dirty+Three/_/Long+Way+to+Go+With+No+Punch"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-2806478459058556390?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/2806478459058556390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=2806478459058556390&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2806478459058556390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/2806478459058556390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/05/sunken-cathedral.html' title='sunken cathedral'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SB-H4HbphXI/AAAAAAAAACY/NWYPLh3BVok/s72-c/galway+cathedral.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-367977987112313015</id><published>2008-05-01T22:50:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T23:40:17.134+01:00</updated><title type='text'>intermezzo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SBo75HbphWI/AAAAAAAAACQ/gipxEqvQgk4/s1600-h/%28r%29hopes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SBo75HbphWI/AAAAAAAAACQ/gipxEqvQgk4/s400/%28r%29hopes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195530972558886242" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1.5pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;"&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;Now, this is actually called "what if you stay this time?" which is a quote from one of my favourite films. But this is indeed an intermezzo. Why? Because:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;1) I wouldn't normally publish here photos posted &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaheron/2280703284/"&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) I wouldn't normally talk about myself here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But consider this to be an exception. And allow me some self-referentiality by writing that this photo appeared in &lt;a href="http://student.nuigalway.ie/%7Eropes/"&gt;Ropes&lt;/a&gt;, the arts magazine published annually by the &lt;i style=""&gt;MA in literature and publishing&lt;/i&gt; at NUI Galway.  It was an honour, as a "man of science" to share the stage with aspiring and established artists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is interesting how it was almost purely accidentally that I took this photo, as I was stuck under a sudden shower and found shelter under a balcony. I wanted to take pictures of passers-by with umbrellas, but then I noticed the reflections, and this cyclist turned up. It is interesting how random events start to invisibly braid these &lt;i&gt;ropes&lt;/i&gt;, whose ends we only become aware of after a long time...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0cm;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;A dire il vero, il titolo di questa foto e’ “what if you stay this time?” citazione da uno dei miei film preferiti. Ma si tratta in effetti di un intermezzo. Perche’? Per i seguenti motivi:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;1) Normalmente non pubblico qui foto apparse &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaheron/2280703284/"&gt;altrove&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;e&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;2) Normalmente non parlo di me stesso qui&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ma prendetela come un’eccezione. E permetemi una piccola dose di auto-referenzialita’ nello scrivere qui che questa foto e’ apparsa nella rivista d’arte &lt;a href="http://student.nuigalway.ie/%7Eropes/"&gt;Ropes&lt;/a&gt;, pubblicata annualmente come progetto del &lt;i style=""&gt;master in letteratura e pubblicazione&lt;/i&gt; presso l’Universita’ di Galway. Da “uomo di scienze” e’ stato un onore condividere la scena con artisti promettenti e affermati.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;E’ interessante notare come questa foto fu scattata quasi accidentalmente, mentre colto da un improvviso acquazzone, mi riparavo sotto un balcone. Avrei voluto fare scatti a passanti muniti di ombrello, ma poi notai i riflessi, e questa ciclista apparve. E’ interessante come eventi casuali comincino invisibilmente ad intrecciare queste &lt;i style=""&gt;corde&lt;/i&gt;, di cui notiamo i capi solo dopo che molto tempo e’ passato...&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-367977987112313015?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/367977987112313015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=367977987112313015&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/367977987112313015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/367977987112313015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/05/intermezzo.html' title='intermezzo'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SBo75HbphWI/AAAAAAAAACQ/gipxEqvQgk4/s72-c/%28r%29hopes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-1350766527990194093</id><published>2008-04-23T21:50:00.020+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T11:47:48.817+01:00</updated><title type='text'>loopool</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-hb-NYiWI/AAAAAAAAABY/dhsi1jE1P1c/s1600-h/italian.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-hb-NYiWI/AAAAAAAAABY/dhsi1jE1P1c/s400/italian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192546397309143394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Kensington Gardens, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;more photos from London (click pictures to enlarge):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neuroticpoets.com/plath/poem/vertical/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;I am vertical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-iXeNYiYI/AAAAAAAAABo/BBFtDJlUMAM/s1600-h/i.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-iXeNYiYI/AAAAAAAAABo/BBFtDJlUMAM/s200/i.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192547419511359874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-i7ONYiZI/AAAAAAAAABw/iC1H7ZX_C_s/s1600-h/waterstatue.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-i7ONYiZI/AAAAAAAAABw/iC1H7ZX_C_s/s200/waterstatue.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192548033691683218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-je-NYiaI/AAAAAAAAAB4/rnPjx3bsX70/s1600-h/westminster.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-je-NYiaI/AAAAAAAAAB4/rnPjx3bsX70/s200/westminster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192548647872006562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-kJONYicI/AAAAAAAAACI/vmmIhYWqDXU/s1600-h/camel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-kJONYicI/AAAAAAAAACI/vmmIhYWqDXU/s200/camel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192549373721479618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;I wanted to write something about travelling, but I realized I won't say it better than &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/finestre-fines-terrae.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pessoa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, whom I quote again:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Travel&lt;/i&gt;? One need only exist to travel. I go from day to day, as from station to station, in the train of my body or my destiny, leaning out over the streets and squares, over people's faces and gestures, always the same and always different, just like scenery. If I imagine, I see. What more do I do when I travel? Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel. 'Any road, this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the World. &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/eternal-golden-braid.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But the end of the world&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/eternal-golden-braid.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;, when we go around it full circle, is the same Entepfuhl from which we started out&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. The end of the world, like the beginning, is in fact our concept of the World. It is in us that the scenery is scenic. If I imagine it, I create it; if I create it, it exists; if it exists, then I see it like any other scenery. So why travel? In &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Madrid&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;, in &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;Berlin&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;, in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Persia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, in &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;China&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, amd in my particular type of sensations? Life is what we make of it. &lt;b&gt;Travel is the traveller. &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/egotism.html"&gt;What we see isn't what we see but what we are&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;".&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;______________________________________________________&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Avrei voluto scrivere qualcosa sul tema del viaggio, ma mi sono resco conto che non avrei saputo parlarne meglio di quanto abbia gia' fatto &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/finestre-fines-terrae.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pessoa&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, che cito nuovamente:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;"&lt;i&gt;Viaggiare&lt;/i&gt;? Per viaggiare basta esistere. Passo di giorno in giorno come di stazione in stazione, nel treno del mio corpo, o del mio destino, affacciato sulle strade e sulle piazze, sui gesti e sui volti, sempre uguali e sempre diversi come in fondo sono i paesaggi.&lt;br /&gt;Se immagino, vedo. Che altro faccio se viaggio? Soltanto l’estrema debolezza dell’immaginazione giustifica che ci si debba muovere per sentire.&lt;br /&gt;“Qualsiasi strada, questa stessa strada di Enterpfuhl, ti porterà alla fine del mondo”. &lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/eternal-golden-braid.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ma la fine del mondo, da quando il mondo si è consumato girandogli attorno, è lo stesso Enterpfuhl da dove si è partiti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. In realtà la fine del mondo, come il suo inizio, è il nostro concetto del mondo. E’ in noi che i paesaggi hanno paesaggio. Perciò se li immagino li creo, se li creo esistono; se esistono li vedo come vedo gli altri. A che scopo viaggiare? A Madrid, a Berlino, in Persia, in Cina, al Polo; dove sarei se non dentro me stesso e nello stesso genere delle mie sensazioni?&lt;br /&gt;La vita è ciò che facciamo di essa. &lt;b&gt;I viaggi sono i viaggiatori. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href="http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/egotism.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ciò che vediamo non è ciò vediamo, ma ciò che siamo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="IT" style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-1350766527990194093?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/1350766527990194093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=1350766527990194093&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/1350766527990194093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/1350766527990194093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/loopool.html' title='loopool'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SA-hb-NYiWI/AAAAAAAAABY/dhsi1jE1P1c/s72-c/italian.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-3376923483170120368</id><published>2008-04-20T10:13:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-05-01T11:49:04.681+01:00</updated><title type='text'>an eternal golden braid</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SAsJkp6_yOI/AAAAAAAAABQ/UNr2pJO5l-Q/s1600-h/braid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SAsJkp6_yOI/AAAAAAAAABQ/UNr2pJO5l-Q/s400/braid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5191253520807872738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;The ability to recognize &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;patterns&lt;/span&gt; is one of the distinctive characteristics of intelligence. This is one of the points emerging from the reading I recently embarked in, Pulitzer winning &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Godel Escher Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It is a book that probably needs some background to be appreciated at its best. For instance, having some knowledge of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;Principia Mathematica&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and Godel’s opus would help the reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Strange Loops&lt;/span&gt; are one of the main focuses of the book. The concept may be intuited by listening to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Bach’s piece and looking at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DrawingHands.jpg"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; Escher’s engraving. By the way, the whole work of Escher is very inspiring to my photography. A few fellow amateur photographers have managed to interestingly reproduce his paradoxical perspectives (&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/massimilianocurcio/1464095201/"&gt;Max&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/momobox/1314827352/"&gt;Silvia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gionaspi/2416806864/"&gt;Giraluna&lt;/a&gt;). To give a definition of Strange Loop might be a fairly daunting task, therefore I will rely here on the following statement:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This sentence is false&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;This is a single step loop, which can also be expressed in two steps like:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The following sentence is false&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The previous sentence is true&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I always thought the works of Escher managed to give a convincing representation of infinity, and in a sense the concept of strange loop gets near to catch the essence of it. It would be fascinating to apply it to the whole Universe. One of the possible modes of evolution of the Universe consists on its expansion to arrest at a point and shrinking to begin. Denser and denser matter, until the eventual &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch"&gt;Big Crunch&lt;/a&gt;. I’m not sure whether this implies time to start flowing backwards. But can you imagine? If it happened right now, I’d suddenly start to type words out of this page, and you would progressively forget what you’ve just read while staring at the monitor, we’ll fall asleep early this morning, and wake up yesterday night. Till the big unity is attained. And then a new beginning. It seems, however, that there is no sufficient mass in the Universe, such that it will keep on expanding for good. How do we solve the mystery of eternity then? Perhaps, a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Big Loop&lt;/span&gt; will eventually take the Universe straight from the end of time into the New Beginning, just like Escher’s drawing hands. And maybe the next Big Bang will sound like a Bach's Symphony.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Photo taken in Kensington Park, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this text I explicitly refer to Foer's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Loud_and_Incredibly_Close"&gt;Extremely loud and incredibly close&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another musical loop: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdzCnht_uxM"&gt;Under the water it glowed&lt;/a&gt; by Eluvium&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;La capacita’ di riconoscere motivi ricorrenti (non trovo una traduzione migliore per &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;pattern&lt;/span&gt;) e’ una delle caratteristiche distintive dell’intelligenza. E’ uno dei punti che emerge dalla lettura nella quale mi sono recentemente imbarcato, e cioe’ il Pulitzer &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%2C_Escher%2C_Bach:_Un%27Eterna_Ghirlanda_Brillante"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Godel Escher Bach – un Eterna Ghirlanda Brillante&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. E’ un libro che per essere apprezzato al meglio necessita di un certo background. Ad esempio, una qualche conoscenza dei &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Principia Mathematica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; e dell’opera di Godel possono essere di aiuto al lettore.&lt;br /&gt;Il concetto di &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Strange Loop&lt;/span&gt; e’ uno dei temi cardine del libro. Il significato di questo concetto lo si puo’ scorgere in &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offerta_Musicale"&gt;questa&lt;/a&gt; piece di Bach, e &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DrawingHands.jpg"&gt;questa&lt;/a&gt; litografia di Escher. Devo dire che l’intera opera di Escher e’ per me sempre stata una fonte d’ispirazione in fotografia. Alcuni miei amici fotoamatori sono riusciti a riprodurre in maniera interessante i suoi paradossi prospettici &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/massimilianocurcio/1464095201/"&gt;Max&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/momobox/1314827352/"&gt;Silvia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gionaspi/2416806864/"&gt;Giraluna&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;. Dare una definizione di ‘Strange Loop’ puo’ essere un compito assai arduo, per cui faccio qui affidamento sulla seguente espressione:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Questa frase e’ falsa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Trattasi di un loop ad un livello, che puo’ anche essere espresso in due passi:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La frase seguente e’ falsa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La frase precedente e’ vera&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ho sempre pensato che Escher fosse riuscito a dare una convincente rappresentazione dell’infinito e, in un certo senso, il concetto di strange loop riesce quasi a coglierne l’essenza. Sarebbe affascinante applicarlo all’intero Universo. Una delle possibili modalita’ di evoluzione dell’Universo consiste nell’improvviso arresto della sua espansione, e l’inizio di una progressiva contrazione. Sempre piu’ denso, fino al &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch"&gt;Big Crunch&lt;/a&gt;. Non so se questo processo implichi che&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;il tempo inizi a scorrere al contrario. Riuscite a immaginarlo? Se succedesse in questo momento, comincerei improvvisamente a digitare lettere cancellandole dal testo, e voi, fissando lo schermo comincerete a dimenticare cio’ che avete appena letto, poi ci addormenteremo questa mattina presto, svegliandoci ieri a tarda notte. Ad ogni modo, pare che l’Universo non abbia una massa sufficiente affinche’ l’espansione si arresti, cosi’ che questa continuera’ all’infinito. Infinito, come risolviamo questo mistero? Forse un &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Big Loop&lt;/span&gt; potrebbe far collegare la fine spazio-temporale dell’Universo direttamente ad un Nuovo Inizio, proprio come nelle mani che disegnano di Escher. E forse il nuovo Big Bang avra’ il suono di una sinfonia di Bach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Foto scattata a Kensington Park, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Londra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;In questo testo faccio esplicito riferimento al libro di J.S. Foer &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molto_forte%2C_incredibilmente_vicino"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (orrida traduzione)&lt;/p&gt;Un altro loop musicale: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdzCnht_uxM"&gt;Under the water it glowed&lt;/a&gt; di Eluvium&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molto_forte%2C_incredibilmente_vicino"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-3376923483170120368?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/3376923483170120368/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=3376923483170120368&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/3376923483170120368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/3376923483170120368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/eternal-golden-braid.html' title='an eternal golden braid'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SAsJkp6_yOI/AAAAAAAAABQ/UNr2pJO5l-Q/s72-c/braid.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-1290420829361891736</id><published>2008-04-13T19:50:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-20T11:10:30.429+01:00</updated><title type='text'>egotism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SAJWQUEtWwI/AAAAAAAAABI/c7yqUcEspV4/s1600-h/peter.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SAJWQUEtWwI/AAAAAAAAABI/c7yqUcEspV4/s400/peter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5188804558950587138" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Try to focus on the statue. Focus on yourself. Then focus on the flower, be the flower. Be the flower looking at yourself. I thought about that many a time. Taking a journey out of my body and into somebody else’s mind. Looking at myself with its eyes. What would I think of myself looking at myself?&lt;br /&gt;A few days ago I was chatting to a Czech fellow and he mentioned countryman philosopher &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jaroslav Zimmermann&lt;/span&gt;. Zimmermann formulated a theory which tried to overthrow the Cartesian paradigm of &lt;i style=""&gt;cogito ergo sum&lt;/i&gt;. According to this theory the existence of an individual stems from he/she being mentally conceived by external individuals. We but exist as somebody else’s mind projection. It turned out that J. Zimmermann was a fake, an imaginary philosopher invented by a group of people a century ago. This argument still seems interesting though. Shall we redefine the importance we give to ourselves accordingly? And what about other people’s judgment? A corollary of the theory might be that we should expect to suddenly disappear shouldn't we pay attention to what the others think about us. That’s maybe why one feels invisible sometimes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;photo taken in Kensington Park, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;_______________________________________________________________ &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Provate a focalizzre lo sguardo sulla statua. Concentratevi su voi stessi. Dopodiche’ passate al fiore, siate il fiore. Siate il fiore che osserva la vostra immagine. Ci ho pensato varie volte. Di fare un viaggio fuori dal mio corpo, dentro la mente di qualcun altro. E di guardare me stesso con i suoi occhi. Cosa penserei di me stesso che osserva me stesso?&lt;br /&gt;Un po’ di giorni fa parlavo con un amico ceco, il quale mi menzionava il filosofo, suo connazionale, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Jaroslav Zimmermann&lt;/span&gt;. Tale Zimmermann formulo’ una teoria con l’intento di rovesciare l'assunto cartesiano &lt;i style=""&gt;cogito ergo sum&lt;/i&gt;. Secondo questa teoria l’esistenza di un individuo deriva dal suo essere concepito mentalmente dall'esterno. Praticamente noi esisteremmo esclusivamente in quanto proiezione dell'altrui mente. E’ poi saltato fuori che J. Zimmermann fosse un falso, niente altro che una figura immaginaria inventata da un gruppo di persone un secolo fa. Tuttavia questa argomentazione resta interessante. Dovremmo forse ridimensionare l’importanza che diamo a noi stessi, di conseguenza? E l’importanza del giudizio altrui? Un corollario della teoria potrebbe essere che se questo non avesse alcuna importanza, dovremmo allora aspettarci di sparire all’improvviso. E’ forse il motivo per il quale a volte ci si sente invisibili.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Foto scattata a Kensingston Park, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Londra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-1290420829361891736?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/1290420829361891736/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=1290420829361891736&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/1290420829361891736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/1290420829361891736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/egotism.html' title='egotism'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SAJWQUEtWwI/AAAAAAAAABI/c7yqUcEspV4/s72-c/peter.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-1157841970968550326</id><published>2008-04-09T20:30:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-09T22:03:41.567+01:00</updated><title type='text'>finestre: fines terrae</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_0Zr_KrMUI/AAAAAAAAABA/jFbTzbcHah4/s1600-h/place.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_0Zr_KrMUI/AAAAAAAAABA/jFbTzbcHah4/s400/place.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187330589281956162" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;…Which in English would sound like Windows: &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dirty+Three/_/Ends+of+the+Earth"&gt;ends of the Earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;I admit I never managed to finish Pessoa’s &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Livro do Desassossego&lt;/span&gt;. It is not because I didn’t like it. I just believe you have to find the right moment to read it. I read a good part of it, though and I was fascinated by &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bernardo Soares&lt;/span&gt;’s watching the world from behind a window. Would this character look anachronistic nowadays? Well, perhaps the modern Soares would be watching life flowing from behind &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Windows&lt;/span&gt;, rather than behind a window. Sometimes I think that the technological advances in telecommunications brought some drawback. Internet, mobile phones and so on have made communications more ‘accessible’ in a sense. But did they really make it easier? Sometimes I have the feeling that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;communicating&lt;/span&gt; is getting more and more difficult. Virtual jobs, &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Port-Royal/_/Internet+Love"&gt;virtual love&lt;/a&gt;, virtual sex. A virtual life. What would the future look like? Can a ‘virtual’ life be actually more pleasant? Can it be even more real? At a certain point Bernardo says: “Dreaming of Bordeaux is not only better, but even more real than landing in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Bordeaux&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;”. I believe there is something we cannot substitute in human relationships. Something which is called &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;empathy&lt;/span&gt;. Or if you want, call it smell, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_%28novel%29"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;perfume&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;Photo taken in &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city style="font-weight: bold;" st="on"&gt;Nantes&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;France&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;____________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;…Che in inglese suonerebbe come: Windows: &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Dirty+Three/_/Ends+of+the+Earth"&gt;ends of the Earth&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Ammetto di non aver mai portato a termine la lettura del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Livro do Desassossego&lt;/span&gt; di Pessoa. Non che mi sia dispiaciuto, e’ solo che credo bisogni trovare il momento giusto per assimilarlo. Ne ho tuttavia letto una buona parte, restando affascinato da questo modo di &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bernardo Soares &lt;/span&gt;di&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;  osservare il mondo da dietro una finestra. Pensate che questo personaggio apparirebbe anacronistico oggi? Forse il moderno Soares osserverebbe il mondo da &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Windows&lt;/span&gt;, piuttosto che da una finestra. A volte penso che le moderne tecnologie di telecomunicazione con esse abbiano portato degli svantaggi. Internet, cellulari e via discorrendo, hanno in un senso reso la &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;comunicazione&lt;/span&gt; piu’ ‘accessibile’. Ma comunicare e’ davvero diventato piu’ semplice? A volte ho la sensazione che comunicare con gli altri stia diventando sempre piu’ difficile. Lavori virtuali, &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Port-Royal/_/Internet+Love"&gt;amori virtuali&lt;/a&gt;, sesso virtuale. Una vita virtuale. Come ci apparira’ il futuro? Potra’ mai una vita virtuale essere piu’ piacevole? Potra’ addirittura essere piu’ reale? Ad un certo punto Bernardo dice: “Sognare di Bordeaux e’ non solo migliore, ma anche piu’ vero che non sbarcare a Bordeaux”. Tuttavia io credo ci sia qualcosa che non puo’ essere sostituito nelle relazioni umane. E questo qualcosa si chiama &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;empatia&lt;/span&gt;. O, se preferite, chiamatelo pure odore, &lt;a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_profumo"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;profumo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foto scattata a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Nantes&lt;/span&gt;, Francia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-1157841970968550326?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/1157841970968550326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=1157841970968550326&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/1157841970968550326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/1157841970968550326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/finestre-fines-terrae.html' title='finestre: fines terrae'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_0Zr_KrMUI/AAAAAAAAABA/jFbTzbcHah4/s72-c/place.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-244851742116687336</id><published>2008-04-02T23:05:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-04-02T23:46:20.353+01:00</updated><title type='text'>l'ombre et la lumiere</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_QDn9VHChI/AAAAAAAAAA4/p4PX2LXjEVw/s1600-h/horse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_QDn9VHChI/AAAAAAAAAA4/p4PX2LXjEVw/s400/horse.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184773056023169554" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;This is a detail of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Le Sacre Coeur&lt;/span&gt; from a different angle. I’m obsessed with &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;details&lt;/span&gt;. However this is not what I want to talk about today. In fact I want to talk about the opposite of the detail in photography, which in a sense is &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;silhouette&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember a day during my first year in college. I went to visit some relatives I had never met before. It was very boring, as usual with relatives. It was very hot, also. Boring and hot. I remember I was sitting on a couch, and I remember their daughter, standing against the window in the afternoon sun. I thought she was beautiful, though I wasn’t able to see much more than her silhouette. Then I mused. That was an interesting perspective to look at the world. Only silhouettes. What if we were only able to see silhouettes? They wouldn’t have been able to notice my boredom on my silhouette. Or see me sweating because of the heat and the boredom. What about the others? Would anything change in the way we judge them? No colours of the eyes, no expression on their faces. How would we redefine beauty? How much would imagination mingle with reality?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;-listen to: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam1N13ZoIE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;L'ombre et la lumiere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Coralie Clement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-IE"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;Un dettaglio del &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sacre Coeur&lt;/span&gt; da un angolo differente. Sono ossessionato dai &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;dettagli&lt;/span&gt; in effetti. Tuttavia non e’ di cio’ che vorrei parlare in questo momento. In realta’, cio’ di cui vorrei parlare potrebbe essere considerato come l’esatto opposto del dettaglio in fotografia. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Controluce&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi viene in mente un giorno, durante il mio primo anno di universita’. Andai a far visita a dei parenti che non avevo mai incontrato prima. Fu ovviamente molto noioso, come sempre con i parenti. Era anche molto caldo. Noioso e caldo. Ricordo che ero seduto su un divano, e ricordo la loro figlia, in piedi contro la finestra. Pensai fosse molto bella, anche se cosi’, in controluce, non potevo scorgere granche’ delle sue fattezze. Poi pensai e pensai. Era un’interessante prospettiva dalla quale osservare il mondo. In controluce. Come sarebbe se potessimo scorgerlo solo cosi'? Silhouette. Sul mio viso non avrebbero potuto notare l’espressione di noia. Ne’ il sudore che veniva giu’ per il caldo e per la noia. E in che modo vedremmo gli altri? Cambierebbe qualcosa nel modo in cui li giudichiamo? Niente colore degli occhi, niente espressioni del volto. In che modo ridefiniremmo la bellezza? E quanto l’immaginazione influenzerebbe la realta’?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-ascolta: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qam1N13ZoIE"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;L'ombre et la lumiere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; di Coralie Clement&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="IT"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-244851742116687336?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/244851742116687336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=244851742116687336&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/244851742116687336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/244851742116687336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/04/lombre-et-la-lumiere.html' title='l&apos;ombre et la lumiere'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_QDn9VHChI/AAAAAAAAAA4/p4PX2LXjEVw/s72-c/horse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-8022095666671801180</id><published>2008-03-30T22:09:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T00:03:43.536+01:00</updated><title type='text'>celestial waltz</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_AB_dVHCgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/pVEfiHgv7tY/s1600-h/amelie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_AB_dVHCgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/pVEfiHgv7tY/s400/amelie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183645360819997186" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(click picture to enlarge)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK, so I was strolling around my beloved Montmartre, &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen/_/La+Valse+D%27Amelie"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; song constantly on my mind, trying to take some convincing shot. Which is a difficult task, because the pictures might inevitably end up looking postcardish. Especially if you want to frame &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Le Sacre Coeur&lt;/span&gt;. I thought that off-centring the subject to allow some space for the intersecting jet trails would maybe render the photo interesting. The flock of pigeons turned up at the right moment. I was really impressed by these long trails (well, forget for a moment any conspiracy theory) as they unravelled from one side to another of the horizon giving a strong perception of the sphericity of the Earth and the tridimensionality of the surrounding space. I believe photography has the capability of training our eyes to acquire such a three-dimensional perspective. I don’t think this is as evident as it might sound. On the other hand, photography has an obvious limitation, which is being embedded in a two-dimensional space (being it photographic paper or a display). Of course, depth of field and other techniques can do a lot to convey the idea of tridimensionality. But it’s not enough. So, what’s next? Shall we expect technology to evolve towards 3D photohraphy? Perhaps, in a few decades GPS systems might be mounted on the cameras to measure the distance between objects and create a 3D picture. Which could be then projected in a virtual reality environment. Would this distort the essence of photography? Well, maybe in the same way nobody would have expected the evolution of digital photography a few decades ago…&lt;br /&gt;Oh, by the way, I visited the &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;National Gallery&lt;/span&gt; in London (photos from the city coming soon) yesterday and what did I discover among the Dutch 17th century painters? This guy called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dirksz_van_Hoogstraten"&gt;Van Hoogstraten&lt;/a&gt; devised a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;peep show box&lt;/span&gt; (no, not that kind of peep show) which was able to give a three-dimensional view of the painting of a room. The box was exhibited in the gallery and I took the chance to look through the hole. Really impressive. It seems, then, that somebody thought about 3D visual arts some four centuries before me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allora, mi trovavo a gironzolare per le vie della mia amata Montmartre, con &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen/_/La+Valse+D%27Amelie"&gt;questa&lt;/a&gt; canzone in testa, mentre provavo a concepire qualche scatto convincente. Cosa abbastanza difficile, dato che il risultato rischia di essere inevitabilmente cartolinesco. Soprattutto se poi si vuole fotografare &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Le Sacre Coeur&lt;/span&gt;. E cosi’ ho pensato che decentrando il soggetto in modo da lasciare spazio alle scie degli aerei avrebbe potuto rendere lo scatto interessante. I piccioni, poi, svolazzarono all’interno dell’inquadratura al momento giusto. Rimasi colpito dall’intreccio di quelle scie (Beh, dimenticate per un attimo certe teorie cospirazioniste) che si districavano da una parte all’altra dell’orizzonte, restituendo un’ineressante percezione della sfericita’ della Terra e della tridimensionalita’ dello spazio circostante. Credo che la fotografia possa allenare l’occhio a cogliere tale tridimensionalita’. L’altra faccia della medaglia e’ che la fotografia ha un’ovvia limitazione nella sua intrinseca bidimensionalita’. Ovviamente, profondita’ di campo e vari accorgimenti possono essere d’aiuto nel dare l’idea di spazio tridimensionale. Ma cio’ non e’ abbastanza. Quale sara’ il prossimo passo allora? Dobbiamo forse aspettarci che la tecnologia fotografica evolva verso il 3D? Forse, tra qualche decennio, le nuove fotocamere monteranno sistemi GPS in grado di misurare la distanza tra gli oggetti inquadrati, in modo da creare un’immagine tridimensionale. La quale potrebbe poi essere proiettata in un contesto di realta’ virtuale. Pensate che cio’ sarebbe una distorsione del concetto stesso di fotografia? Ma del resto chi si sarebbe immaginato l’evoluzione della fotografia digitale in tempi non sospetti?&lt;br /&gt;Ad ogni modo, ieri ho visitato la Galleria Nazionale di Londra (aspettatevi foto della citta’ nei prossimi giorni) e in cosa mi imbatto tra i pittori olandesi del diciassettesimo secolo? Vi e’ questo tale &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dirksz_van_Hoogstraten"&gt;Van Hoogstraten&lt;/a&gt; che realizzo’ un &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;peep show box&lt;/span&gt; (no, non quel &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;peep show&lt;/span&gt;) che permetteva una visione tridimensionale del dipinto di una stanza. L’oggetto in questione era esposto presso la galleria, per cui ho avuto occasione di darvi un’occhiata. Davvero notevole. Sembra, dunque, che qualcuno abbia pensato ad un tipo di arte visiva in tre dimensioni gia’ qualche secolo prima che lo facessi io!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7967576235948414877-8022095666671801180?l=lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/feeds/8022095666671801180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7967576235948414877&amp;postID=8022095666671801180&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8022095666671801180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7967576235948414877/posts/default/8022095666671801180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lucasehnsucht.blogspot.com/2008/03/celestial-waltz.html' title='celestial waltz'/><author><name>luca:sehnsucht</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00036525641645458210</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/SYXO6JOxEeI/AAAAAAAAAHM/7s9GFsbETh0/S220/Edinburgh+small.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R_AB_dVHCgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/pVEfiHgv7tY/s72-c/amelie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7967576235948414877.post-1457076982943122765</id><published>2008-03-25T22:52:00.004Z</published><updated>2008-03-26T13:35:25.955Z</updated><title type='text'>the beginning of the world often comes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R-mCxtVHCfI/AAAAAAAAAAc/DayStAF7OdE/s1600-h/intro-small.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pep5sKG7nLY/R-mCxtVHCfI/AAAAAAAAAAc/DayStAF7OdE/s400/intro-small.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181816636759804402" border="1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Odd photo to inaugurate a photoblog with, isn't it? Well, of course this hasn't got any artistic ambition, let's take it as a sort of declaration of intent. You know, I have a recurrent dream. I have many to be honest, but I want to talk about this one. I'm in my parents' house, I'm looking at the view on the sea...then suddenly, the waves grow higher and higher, they break into the town, the foam does rise towards the sky and hits my window. It is kind of exciting. Well, at least some dreams come true. Sometimes. I spent last week in France, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Brittany&lt;/span&gt; mostly. I was almost blown away by the wind as I stepped outside Brest's train station, then, the following day...&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;here I saw my dream come true&lt;/span&gt;. Pictured on the newspaper you can see in the photo. I felt so envy I didn't shoot it, it was something it belonged to me after all...I'll try and make this connection between dreams and reality the focus of this photoblog. I’ll always add some written words (both in English and Italian) to try to describe what the photo means to me, perhaps sometimes (or most of the times) they’ll apparently have nothing to do with it. I’ll be glad if you'll leave any comments now and then, critical remarks to the pictures are especially welcomed.&lt;br /&gt;I want to thank Italian band Port Royal for giving me inspiration with &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Port-Royal/_/Anya%3A+Sehnsucht"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; song.&lt;br /&gt;The title of this post is from J. S. Foer’s &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Everything is Illuminated&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The photo marked in the newspaper is from F. Perry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll hopefully post a few photos from my trip to France during the next days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Strana foto per inaugurare un fotoblog, non e’ vero? Ovviamente in questo caso non vi e’ nessuna velleita’ artistica, ma...prendetela pure come una dichiarazione d’intenti. Ho un sogno ricorrente. Beh, a dire il vero ne ho molti, ma vorrei parlarvi di questo. Mi trovo nella casa dei miei genitori, osservo dalla finestra la vista sul mare...poi, le onde si ingigantiscono sempre piu’, fino ad irrompere in paese, la schiuma si innalza verso il cielo, va a sbattere contro il vetro della finestra. Ha un non so che di eccitante. Almeno alcuni sogni diventano realta’. A volte. La scorsa settimana sono stato in Francia, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Bretagna&lt;/span&gt; per lo piu’. Non appena fuori dalla stazione di Brest venni quasi spazzato via dal vento, poi, il giorno seguente...&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;ecco che il mio sogno si avvera&lt;/span&gt;. Ritratto sul giornale che vedete nella foto. Avrei voluto scattarla io, del resto mi apparteneva in qualche modo, no? Bene, cerchero’ di fare di questo collegamento tra sogni e realta’ il filo conduttore di questo fotoblog. Aggiungero’ sempre qualche parola (sia in inglese che in italiano) in modo da descrivere cio’ che le foto che mostrero’ di volta in volta rappresentano per me. Magari a volte (o la maggior parte delle volte) il testo sembrera’ non aver niente a che vedere con la foto. Saro’ lieto di ricevere commenti e, soprattutto, considerazioni critiche riguardo alle mie foto.&lt;br /&gt;Ringrazio i Port Royal per avermi ispirato con &lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Port-Royal/_/Anya%3A+Sehnsucht"&gt;questa&lt;/a&gt; canzone.&lt;br /&gt;Il titolo di questo post e’ preso dal libro di J. S. Foer &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Ogni Cosa e’ Illuminata&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;La foto indicata dalla freccia e’ stata scattata da F. 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