I've not been posting for quite a long, but what the hell am I doing lately? Where am I going?

Well.... it's just because of good news: my new project, "NO EXIT", which is being developed these days with Nadia and Lea (two young curators working in Roma) who are planning another exposition of mine...

That's whay I am working so hard all nights to write down the concept, the descriptions and all the paperworks needed to get money from the sponsors, etc etc etc

More news to come soon. Hopefully good news

De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (2005)

Why did I like this 2005 French movie so much, when I am told it is too derivative and predictable?

Yesterday night we watched this movie at my friend's house, and tonight I dreamt of it and became conscious of what I am now writing down.

Yesterday I did my first studio shooting for an art dealer friend of mine. The only requirement was not to be too creative in order to show off the artwork discreetly.

When I first saw those pieces I thought: "Oh my, this is really boring $hit...". So results are boring, but my client today called me back only to tell: "hey davide, you made those works better in pictures than in reality!". Yep, thanks a lot for your kind words, but I cannot figure out how those swindlers can sell such crap works for at least 5 thousands bucks each!!!!!

Most of these works are paintings from famous sculptors or sculptures from famous painters Good luck my dear friend...

[Shot in Bologna with Mino on November 12, 2006]

Jackson Pollock was an American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement (see wiki). But, if you want to enjoy the emotion of creating your own Pollock painting, then dive into http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ and do it yourself!

Time is not only a constraint, it represents the reason to a change. Thus, attempting to understand the nature of Time has always been a prime occupation for philosophers and scientists. But from a photographer perspective, time is both a lapse and a loop: have look at http://www.theircircularlife.it/ and choose your pace for your life ;-O

[Seen with Ella on November 12, 2006]

Yesterday it was the second cultural happening at the house of a very close friend of mine: we use to meet there to watch a movie and discuss it almost every week.

On our first evening, I had the chance to have an absent look at 1933 "She done him wrong" with Mae West... absolutely too far away from my vision, my way of thinking, my way of seeing reality, making imageries or way of shooting movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024548/

Yesterday we saw Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" and... wow, what a great, inspiring and important movie. I had watched that movie almost 20 years ago, when I was a stupid young teenager, but now, in my middle age lifetime walk, I enjoy all of it: the story, the melancoly and sadness, the good looking women and the over-the-top useless parties of perdition...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053779/

Fellini has become utterly famous, most of all, for his outstanding ability to render stories and facts that barely exist on screen, always in between reality and dreams, lights and shadows, just as the Rome of movie starlets and the Pope. Everything is abstracted like in a dream. Every story is the good one for making a movie.

[Seen on Nov. 8th with Adirana, Alessia, Andrea, Francesca, Nino, Paolino, ...]