As You Like It, Match Pixels to Words (Part 2)
18 Friday Sep 2015
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Coming and Going
18 Friday Sep 2015
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Last year, it was the “art stalker.” Everywhere we went, either at an exhibit or not, he would suddenly turn up.
This year, it looks like it will be the film crew. At every religious shrine, so far, they make their pilgrimage before us.
<Insert Media here, and along the way, when the little ball stops churning.>
Don Matteo, we learn, is the name of the TV show. (It started out, apparently, being filmed in Gubbio. 2013 brought the filming to stay in Spoleto.)
For the scene this morning, Rebecca ponders the identity of the man in the wheelchair. (Together with the character of the figure beside the crew.)
I myself, naturally, have another figure (and question) in mind. (Even without the Wi-Fi to assist, the difference in our moving pictures ought to be easy to see.)
<Media Library icon still just churning & churning; words alone will have to do. For now, anyway.)
On the Way to Casa Menotti (again)
15 Tuesday Sep 2015
After forgetting on Sunday to check the schedule of Musica a Casa Menotti, we head back there this morning to learn what else might be going on.
Imagine our surprise when we stumble upon what we believe to be the set of an Italian TV show, whose name likewise escapes me at the moment. Our takes:
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- … Camera and “Action”
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- Action Uknown
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- Unknown Action Drags
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- Take Two
Saturday Night Lights, an Artisan
13 Sunday Sep 2015
Time may tell us more. But it’s been getting dark earlier here than we had expected. Even after a fortnight of education, we still went out too late last evening for a final walk (and test of the camera in the fading light).
Only you never know what you’ll stumble upon in the dark, or how it will turn out in print (or on a blog). But we were as surprised as we were delighted to come across the artisan in his workshop long after quitting time.
Foligno, a different kind of town
10 Thursday Sep 2015
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Flat and new.
No straining up hills. Just be mindful of the bikes.
No distractions from clothes shopping. Just be wary of pockets picked.
Along the shady way from the train station, two photo ops:
As weary shoppers find a short-cut home, it’s time to study historic tracks.
And to learn, once again, that the station sound system barely works.
Time to pay for the change of binario, if not for kind folks everywhere.
Day Tripping (for clothes)
10 Thursday Sep 2015
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Coming out of the station, Day 1, a fence (with large piles of rubble beyond it) stood between us and the most imposing sculpture from the 1962 Sculptures in the City exhibition, Alexander Calder’s Teodelapio, a monumental stabile in iron (one of the largest such erections yet in modern sculpture), meant to act as a triumphant entrance to the hill town.
Day 9, taking our first leave to Foligno, I finally expected to get my photograph, the companion study to one of my earliest blogs this trip. I do not think that it was laziness, strictly, to take a week to settle in. The lesson to be drawn from today’s approach to the train station:
Take ‘em when you’ve got ‘em, boys, take ‘em when you’ve got ‘em.
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- The Cat and the Lombard King
Slow Travel or _______ Art?
10 Thursday Sep 2015
Or else, the shopping trip we took yesterday “sorta put me in the mind of Kant” (as a speed-reading professor used to put the philosophic adventure into words).
As You Like It, Link Pixels With Words
08 Tuesday Sep 2015
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Ground Under Repair
03 Thursday Sep 2015
In all the time I readied my new camera for Calder’s Teodelapio, I never imagined this. (Ground under repair belongs on the links.)
Did Calder ever anticipate this mess either, do you imagine? Surely a sculptor with his technological mastery must have known.
That someday it would come to this. Asphalt stinks when it’s poured. And it crumbles under the pounding of cars, the fissures of ice.
How much of the artistic genius in a monumental sculpture comes from the industrial materials and the technological mechanics of it?
Damned if I know. Walter Benjamin wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Or so I’ve been told.
The issue I asked myself, coming out of the station when we arrived, was much simpler: Is the construction scene funny or sad?
Neither, I suppose, is the pragmatic answer. Both, the measure of a mood swing. Only what have they done with my photo op?
According to the rules of golf, I would get a free drop. But where do I place myself and remain while moving no closer to the hole?
Surely, that now is the focal point of the shot? Not the steadfast monument to art, long standing and still to be. But the makeshift work.
“Ground under repair” says it all. And so, while I shall be heading off soon to test my eye, I leave an assignment if you like to play.
Get your bearings with this collection of last year’s shots. When you are ready, compose your photo of the ground beneath his feat.
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- Coming
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- Going
Aperto Per Voi
02 Wednesday Sep 2015
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I’ll say! In Italian, or in translation (“Open for you”). Truer words were never spoken.
Wiki Loves Monuments. (As do I.) La Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo is one of my favorites.
So today, when Rebecca and I snapped this photograph, we couldn’t have been more excited.
We have a date: between Friday and Sunday, at the appointed hours, finally to see it from inside!
Meanwhile, I have homework: either to find the English version or to translate this webpage on my own.