Friday, November 28, 2008

How Can I Tell If My Ap2 Are Fake

FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT 2008 CRAL CRAL 26/28 November 2008.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

How To Open A Lock Box

Call for" The Dark Screen "(2008) and Pezzin Franco Angelica Tintori

Chi abita a Milano, o ci può capitare nel fine settimana, è invitato venerdì 21 novembre alla presentazione di THE DARK SCREEN, which I wrote the preface. The event will be held at Atelier Gluck (Via Gluck, 45), 20.30. The authors will intervene and Angelica Tintori Franco Pezzini, the writer Ben Pastor Gargoyle Books publisher Paolo De Crescenzo - and, of course, to the undersigned. If you're ever nearby, come and say hello.

Here, courtesy of the publisher, my preface.



They changed the face? Historically, sales to the Social Summit of the myths of the empyrean horror, Dracula and his descendants have always distinguished themselves as particularly adept at shape-shifting creatures. But their ability to transform into wolves, bats or even in the night breeze is insignificant compared to redefine its role in maintaining social ladder always dominant. As we in Europe are also disrupted the memory of the privileges granted by the titles, the vampires have been able to change, if not the face, at least in uniform, never miss the reins of power in decades.

It is, in all probability, a fundamental question of vocation: characters such as Baron Frankenstein and Professor Griffin dedicate their lives to their scientific projects (the creation of life and invisibility), and rarely is venture outside of their laboratory. Figures like Frankenstein's creature, Creature from the Black Lagoon wolf or man (and, for that matter, even Mr. Hyde, the result of experiments of another eminent scholar like Dr. Jekyll) are in fact victims of their own feral nature or extent of their intellectual . Not to mention the zombie, the proletariat of the world horror, that only in the strength of their numbers are actually a desperate power. Instead, Dracula and his successors are the result of an environment, the feud between management and challenging campaigns, has always preferred the role of the strategy: they are, by nature, planners, instructors in the seduction and manipulation of weak minds . And when you link, without hesitation, often for no less than food than those of other monstrous creatures perhaps equally famous, but behave with the coolness of the consumed elegant chess player, typically using force only when things start to go wrong.

Before a murderess, and an almost irresistible seducer, Dracula is basically a political element and this is explained, since the title of a film on the whole misunderstood as They changed the face of Corrado Farina in this film, as well as in the following Innocent Blood, American John Landis (published more than twenty years later) it is evident that the progeny of Dracula has learned to wear double-breasted of economic and political power or the cast of the mafia bosses - a category, the latter, which, as we know, was able in turn to change the face and uniform, mixing irreversibly to the first - and has been able to carve out new space, consolidating his power and actually increases the flow dramatically.

Already in the early seventies, the protagonist of They changed the face is a powerful businessman who has almost absolute control over key sectors of industry, which has long spread its tentacles over banks and insurance , which owns newspapers and television and, while not exposing first person is the owner of certain political parties. Almost four decades later, the paradox proposed by the film was largely achieved by the reality, in our and other countries, as they develop global logics of profit and allow a relentless oppression concentration of the wires that move the lives of nations in the hands of an increasingly small number of powerful puppeteers.

Farina's film ends with the final triumph of John supervampiro Nosferatu, sealed by a quote Marcusian, while the vampire mafia Innocent Blood John Landis seem to end up defeated by the alliance between a vampira dotata di un’etica rigirosa e un poliziotto infiltrato nel clan: nel finale pirotecnico, dopo che tutta la sua banda è stata sterminata, anche il boss Sal Macelli viene fermato da una pallottola ben piazzata. Eppure il lunghissimo discorso che il capoclan pronuncia nel finale, mentre il suo corpo arde senza consumarsi, non sembra affatto un congedo: “Io sono il Potere, e tu non sei che una cacatina di mosca”, ruggisce verso il poliziotto che lo tiene sotto tiro, e l’impressione che dà non è quella di un essere in preda a un insensato delirio di onnipotenza. Il tono, invece, è quello di qualcuno che sa bene di aver perduto solo una battaglia. E che la guerra proseguirà con un esito scontato, perché the propagation of the vampire race is part of their nature, neither more nor less than their willingness to rise from the ashes each time.

If there are exceptions (but merely satirical film: for all the interesting and include Zora the vampire, 2000, in which Dracula Conte by Toni Bertorelli is a very deprived and low - seven years before 'admission of Romania into the European Union - the humiliation of having to enter Italy as an illegal non-EU), many more are confirmations of the general rule. Even when talking about vampires apparently marginalized by society as Lost Boys by Joel Schumacher, where the real leader of a group of young bloodsucker turns out to be a much respected member of the local community. The only form of power difficult to reconcile with nature seems to be vampire, for reasons easy to understand, the religious - but it can sometimes be tempted to an uneasy alliance. I think the cardinal played by Maximilian Schell in John Carpenter's Vampires (but inspiration is a novel by John Steakley) which, doubted and the long wait for an eternal life-style Christian, likes (and ill him incoglie) safety non-tangible and immediate death.

But notice the ramblings: If the vampire filmography is ocean, teeming with changes sometimes heretical (in the good The darkness approaches using a blood transfusion to restore a victim of the fatal bite his human nature!), approaches that give up the element fantastic (and we quote for all the Wampyr Romero) or on the contrary, taking the path of science fiction (the three films inspired by unfaithfully I Am Legend by Richard Matheson - originally released in Italy under the title The vampires in the same year in which went out the 'self-titled film by Riccardo Freda , and go to know whether it was the publisher of the book to steal the title of the film to distributors or vice versa), is no doubt that, pace of Le Fanu and Polidori and other more or less illustrious predecessors, the central work of the whole vampire mythology is the Dracula of Bram Stoker's novel that most cited actually read (as it happens from time to vast majority of the true classics), but also a reference point for all the mythology, despite the betrayals, both literal and substantial, committed almost all its film versions. Curiously enough, therefore, that no one had yet taken the initiative to start from there to read in an analytical groped everything from Stoker was born in over one hundred and ten years of film history (an age that, look look, overlaps quasi perfettamente a quella del libro, che fu pubblicato la prima volta pochi mesi dopo la prima, storica, manifestazione pubblica dell’invenione dei Lumiére).

Ci hanno pensato, finalmente, Franco Pezzini, Angelica Tintori e Paolo De Crescenzo con il libro che tenete nelle mani. In questo lavoro davvero monumentale, l’opera di Stoker non è solo la pietra di paragone di tutti i film che ne sono stati tratti: diventa invece il filtro attraverso cui ciascuno di quei titoli può essere analizzato in modo approfondito. Perché è evidente che ogni deviazione o modifica rispetto alla fonte originale ha avuto una sua ragione precisa nel contesto storico in cui è stata decisa - e proprio per this can be, in a careful, extremely significant. Not only that since every new adaptation of Dracula becomes, somehow, part of a single charge, the same variations tend to become a source to turn to a more complex overlay of references, inspiration and plagiarism, influence each other.

For the authors of The Dark Screen , Stoker's novel has become the guiding star in the exploration of an impressive amount of evidence: dozens and dozens of plots minutely described, dissected to collate and compare them with the original . Coming at the end, to steal a term used more frequently in geologia, un appassionante carotaggio che sonda in profondità la ormai secolare stratificazione delle versioni, rivelando costanti e variazioni di una produzione cinematografica sterminata.

Il risultato è uno strumento inestimabile e davvero unico per inseguire il mito del vampiro attraverso le sue mille trasformazioni. Se Dracula e i suoi accoliti hanno cambiato faccia e, oggi più che mai, continuano a succhiarci il sangue, The Dark Screen è il manuale fondamentale per aiutarci a riconoscerli. E, se in noi alberga ancora un po’ della grinta di combattenti valorosi come il professor Van Helsing, tentare di riorganizzare la resistenza.

Alberto Farina

Friday, November 14, 2008

Country Songs About Beach

" Animal Stories "(2008) The discovery of slowness

Non avrei never thought it would happen, but I wrote a book for children.

In fact, it all started almost ten years ago. I finished translating a book for The Beaver on the processing of "Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock , published in Italy in the wake of the output remake by Gus Van Sant (entitled, without the small provincial censuretta was touched at the time the Sir Alfred's masterpiece, "Psycho") and I had found in a couple of macabre rhyme that I had fun making, in Italian, trying to reinvent the rhymes, to maintain, rather than the literal concept, playfulness. There was a nice limerick, for example, written by an unknown author in 1957:

Un certo Ed, bizzarro giovanetto,
una ragazza non la portava a letto:
se gli pungea vaghezza
ne tagliava via mezza
e conservava il resto in un cassetto.


Ma c'erano anche filastrocche più articolate e narrative come questa:

La vigilia di Natale
tutto tace nella scuola
vuote e buie son le scale
né una mosca più ci vola.
Gli insegnanti sono appesi
per benino dal soffitto:
Eddie e Gus, da loro attesi,
si avvicinano al convitto.


A quanto pare, queste piccole traduzioni piacquero abbastanza da suggerire al Castoro che potevo essere la persona adatta a tradurre in italiano una divertente serie inglese di libri per bambini. Nacquero così sei librini tutti in rima: Storia di ragno, Storia di plancton, Storia di lumacone, Storia di gatto, Storia di cane e Storia di pipistrello . Libricini coloratissimi e paradossali, in cui la personalità di alcuni animali veniva raccontata con un umorismo spesso davvero surreale e quasi sempre (almeno per me) irresistibile.

Poi gli anni sono passati, io ho continuato a occuparmi soprattutto di cinema - per il Castoro e per altri editori - fino all'estate scorsa, quando Renata Gorgani mi ha fatto vedere un libro francese che aveva deciso di acquistare. Era una raccolta di bellissimi disegni di animali di vario genere, only that the texts were very modest - written, probably with his left hand by a French writer who, I suspect, thought he had better things to do. The proposal was to just throw down some alternative short story ... a bit 'thicker pair of lines of micragnoso bestowed from the original, but less content in a folder, and dedicated to telling how the animal that had received one of its most typical characteristics. But the times were very close so I was encouraged to draw "inspiration" from folk tales and traditional, classical or even out rights.

Two of the stories (the one on the toucan, and zebra) had already been written and should serve as a model. Because of the I had to portray the animals were leopard, the rhinoceros el ' elephant, for starters, I turned to Kipling and his "Just So Stories " that as a child I was fascinated. The first three stories are, therefore, admittedly, an adaptation of his brilliant inventions - and I was surprised to find that I needed to come back: I was still a memory vividissimo despite the book not to read it at least thirty years.


Only after adjusting in the three short stories that I remembered I realized that if I had to start looking, reading, and choose to rewrite dozens of stories of animals I would not have never be able to deliver on time. It was the first to invent from scratch, looking - as it was in my ability - to follow in the footsteps of Kipling. Not knowing if the stories were working, I tried to tell my nephew to six years. I was surprised when, telling him to break the ice history of the elephant (one of those adapted from "Just So Stories , actually) has quickly jumped up, saying," This I know! " It's not that I had boasted that it was my bag of flour, but managed to make me feel caught in the act - so I carefully avoided to tell the other not original and I shot all those who had invented just me.

It seemed very interested. Not only when, a couple of months later, I told him that the book was about to leave, he immediately jumped up and said, "Ah, those stories in which" ... and began to stone the plots that I had told him - remembering the details that I myself had already completely forgotten. Of course, it only proves that my head is more rusty than that of my nephew, but I prefer to think that the stories are liked.

The link for Ibs: http://www.ibs.it/code/9788880334682/hess-paul/storie-animali.html
A link to the website of the Beaver: http://www.castoro-on -line.it/libri/schedadellibro.aspx? IDCollana = 2 & id = 544
Anobii The link of the book: http://www.anobii.com/books/Storie_di_animali/9788880334682/01703c43d2343fa941/

Added December 9, 2008: I find that the book Psycho was recently republished with a new cover is a bit 'prettier the previous one. Here it is. In the meantime, I am pleased to be able to bully the fact that most books free, fair Roman small publishers that ended yesterday at the Palazzo dei Congressi, Stories animal is sold out!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

How To Make Popcorn Holder

XV National Championship - Rossano Calabro 7 / 14 June 2008

Team: Silvio Bonometti, Alessandro Coffetti, Leonardo Lauri, Massimo Musolino, Massimiliano Giacomin, Modestino Savoie, Stephen Zoccarato, Egidio Marchina, Massimo Fiorillo, Michele Quarantelli.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Bruising With The Chicken Pox




and film or photograph? Seeing an exhibition of Bill Viola may happen to have some doubts on the label da attribuire a questa o a quell'opera. E lasciamo stare la scappatoia di dichiarare che anche il cinema è, a tutti gli effetti, fotografia 24 volte al secondo. Fin dall'etimologia, "cinema" evoca il senso del movimento - mentre molte delle creazioni di Viola, se viste distrattamente, possono essere registrate istintivamente come immagini statiche.

Non è proprio così, naturalmente, o il dubbio non avrebbe senso. Gran parte delle sue opere sono, a tutti gli effetti, film, ripresi però con telecamere ad altissima velocità di modo che, in fase di proiezione, appaiano rallentati al punto da assomigliare a fotografie tradizionali. Se ci si ferma abbastanza a lungo ad osservarle - o anche se si distoglie lo sguardo per un moment and then return to it again - you realize that you are facing a perpetual becoming.


The feeling of displacement occurs mainly by a series of portraits of faces saddened that now date back to several years ago works like Dolorosa, or Soul The Locked Garden , all of 2000, give the impression of being spied on by the disturbing photos that appear in a frame. The effect is similar to what you would feel if we discovered that a statue, a dummy object is not anthropomorphic, but also a drastic change in position and do not see them. A little 'how animals carved in the hedges of the novel Shining by Stephen King (absent in Kubrick's film, but I am told, in the TV version Mick Garris). The instinct and habit reassured that it is stationary objects, and the discovery that this is not because you suddenly remember all be changing ends up living his continuum of becoming that is only felt by those who live one close enough. So, for example, the growth of a tree is too slow to be noticed by the naked eye, but perhaps a bullet (but also a tree seen through the window of a moving train) can touch them without being able to register it with the ' eye. These are cases in which the film rediscovers his original vocation to investigate the reality over time, special eye is able to catch what the human eye can not perceive with the methods of time-lapse, slow motion, or of any change in the recovery phase of the rate of capture of information - change that leads , since the speed of projection is a substantially non-variable data in a different display rates.


Bill Viola's paintings are like photographs, unlike traditional ones, require the viewer to a rhythm all their own vision. The images, transmitted by plasma screens, with the eyes as you browse the traditional portraits, without being driven, as would happen in a movie at natural speed, the choices of mounting, framing or exchange of stock, but the perception of their elusive nature makes hypnotic. The mention of, the initiation of a blink of an eye, the squint of the lips, the vague feel of a facial muscle stretch - all eventually attract the attention in a whole new way, so that we can discover Five minutes later, still staring at the same face, whose expression is altered in a way that barely perceptible.

And then there are jobs, so to speak, for action: that is when, or where the film runs slower recovery phase (and thus the effect of slowdown minore), vuoi perché la scena ripresa contiene un maggior movimento, la confusione con la fotografia non si dà e, semplicemente, si ha modo di apprezzare i gesti e i cambiamenti di espressione con la percezione amplificata che il rallentatore sempre produce, sia che si tratti di immagini documentarie, mirate a scomporre in un maggior numero di unità temporali, un'azione determinata, sia che si parli di una delle celeberrime sequenze super-montate di Brian De Palma come quella da Gli Intoccabili .



A parlarne così sembra una fesseria - e qualcuno potrebbe sostenerlo con ragionevoli speranze di non essere smentito. C'è anche chi ha provveduto, su YouTube, a pubblicare qualche parodia - e conosco cineasti che ritengono Viola poco al di sopra di un bluff che si limita a produrre, dandosi arie da sperimentatore e senza tentare di raccontare storie, lo stesso tipo di lavoro che qualsiasi filmmaker realizza più o meno consapevolmente quando produce immagini in movimento. Io so che da quando avevo avuto modo di visitare una sua mostra al Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles nel marzo 2003, le sue foto viventi mi sono rimaste impresse nella mente, superando la mia pregiudiziale diffidenza nei confronti della videoarte e, in generale, di gran parte dell'arte contemporanea.


For those who are or may be in Rome, the exhibition Viola is at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni Via Nazionale. In addition to portraits, to report the work on five screens Catherine's Room (2001) that weakens the slow in articulating a kind of split-screen five times at the same time offering five phases of the day a hermit writer (inspired, apparently, in Santa Caterina), called the quadruple Four Hands (2001, four pairs of hands of people of different ages, creating images that wrap almost abstract) and the beautiful Observance (2002), which shows a procession of people lined up to visit something out of range che potrebbe essere il feretro di una persona amata. Date un'occhiata aglio estratti dei filmati che si vedono sul sito della mostra e poi stanziate un paio d'ore fra qui e gennaio. Una visita la merita.