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abhishekchandel1992 · 2 years

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“Jewelry is a very personal thing... it should tell a story about the person who’s wearing it.”

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italojewelryuniquedesigns · 2 years

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“I like for jewelry to tell a story and to be able to talk about what I’m wearing. That’s more important to me than a name, brand, or label.”

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garadinervi · 8 months

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Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130, Interviewed by William Weaver & Damien Pettigrew, The «Paris Review», Issue 124, Fall 1992

Images: Annie Boige, bookbinding, [Italo Calvino, (1972), Les villes invisibles, Engravings by Gérard Trignac, Translation by Jean Thibaudeau, Les Amis du Livre Contemporain, Versailles, 1993, Edition of 200] [Boekbanden van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), Den Haag]

#graphic design #art #binding #interview #book #cover #book cover #back cover #annie boige #william weaver #damien pettigrew #paris review #italo calvino #jean thibaudeau #les amis du livre contemporain #koninklijke bibliotheek #1970s #1990s

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lucaps · 10 months

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Il visconte dimezzato

Un bel racconto che ho letto in un giorno. Di Italo Calvino avevo già letto Il Sentiero dei Nidi di Ragno. Come quel libro, anche qui abbiamo una fiaba moderna con diversi elementi tipici ma svecchiati tra cui il buono e il cattivo. La vicenda principale ruota intorno al Visconte Medardo che in guerra viene letteralmente dimezzato e in patria ritorna solo una metà, sfortunatamente quella cattiva. La storia affronta diversi temi: il potere del rango e la sua influenza negativa dove il visconte grazie al suo status ha un rango elevato nell'esercito che però, non lo protegge dalla sua inettitudine. La complessità della natura umana: bene e male vengono presentati nelle loro differenze nette ma a volte è difficile distinguerle, lo si nota quando il carpentiere non riesce a costruire gli strumenti per aiutare le persone. Inoltre viene trattato il tema dell'amore, degli artisti (il povero protagonista che rimane in patria perché si raccontava delle storie in solutidine) e della natura dell'essere umano in quanto integro:

Se mai tu diventerai la metà di te stesso, e te l’auguro, ragazzo, capirai cose al di là della comune intelligenza dei cervelli interi. Avrei perso metà di te e del mondo, ma la metà rimasta sarà mille volte più profonda e preziosa. E tu pure vorrai che tutto sia dimezzato e straziato a tua immagine, perché bellezza e sapienza e giustizia ci sono solo in ciò che è fatto a brani

Infine, tra tutte queste vicende e temi, vediamo anche quello del fascismo: il visconte che fa tutte le malefatte possibili, mandare al patibolo le persone per un nonnulla e chi più ne ha più ne metta che rimane comunque visconte ed è chiamato da tutti visconte. Nessuno si ribella, proprio come un duce.

Tutto questo racchiuso in una storia di 91 pagine e più scrivo questo mio pensiero e più penso a come ci sia riuscito.

Chiudo con questa citazione che piace molto a @tripps42

Alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.

#italo calvino #storie #roba mia #reviews #recensione #il visconte dimezzato

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omegaplus · 9 months

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Baltimora: "Tarzan Boy" (1985)

It wasn't until last Spring / Summer that I took finding 45's seriously. I blame my local retro- arcade for that. My visits there always played endless Eighties hits on the overhead and I did take notice, causing me to rifle through all the record-store's shelves for 7" records. Now "Tarzan Boy" - that I haven't heard in ages. It's one of those songs you've heard hundreds of times before but could never figure out who wrote it. That explains why no one at the arcade included this in their playlist, and I don't blame them. One of my favorite mutuals, who is the reigning champion of Eighties discographies, posted it and - boom - I finally got it. This time, she beat me to it. Even the luckiest of music sleuths like me get bested once in a while.

This was the debut single off of Baltimora's debut record Living In The Background (1985), during when Italo-disco was at its height. No dispute that this single was the Eighties with its highly-danceable rhythms, intense beats, and that unforgettable chorus. I wouldn't have recognized it if I had found it last year. Now? Let me have it.

#Baltimora #italo-disco #personal #Eighties #WTF #wow #omega #music #mixtapes #reviews #playlists

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mywifeleftme · 10 months

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103: Donna Summer // I Remember Yesterday

I Remember Yesterday Donna Summer 1977, Casablanca

Like most people, I have I Remember Yesterday because it’s the one with “I Feel Love” on it. That song, on which Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte essentially invented and perfected electronic dance music in the same stroke, remains worth the price of admission (which I believe was a dollar in 2015 money in this case). But how’s the rest?

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Pretty uneven! At least “I Feel Love” isn’t the only keeper on it, though it’s the shiniest by a fair distance. The album labours under a janky musical conceit, with each track meant to represent a decade in chronological order from the early twentieth century through to ‘The Future.’ Opener “I Remember Yesterday” attempts to combine disco with ragtime and hot jazz, and at seven minutes (including the reprise) makes me feel like I’m at a Baz Luhrman marathon and someone has chained the theatre doors from the outside. By contrast the supposedly ‘50s-themed entry “Love’s Unkind” is an irresistible stick of bubblegum, kind of a missing link between ABBA and the singles a young Prince would begin cutting over the next few years. It melts dreamily into “Back in Love Again,” a solid and uncannily accurate Supremes pastiche that briefly abandons the record’s otherwise persistent disco rhythms.

On the flip, the James Brown-inflected funk of “Black Lady” falls a bit flat, but things immediately pick up again with “Take Me,” a state-of-the-art slab of the out-and-out disco (finally!) on which Summer built her fame. It’s as squelchy, sexy, and melodramatic as any of her best up-tempo numbers and, alongside “Love’s Unkind,” qualifies as I Remember Yesterday’s semi-hidden treasure. Momentum stalls out again on the turgid ballad “Can’t We Just Sit Down (And Talk it Over),” and then “I Feel Love” hits and we’re back in business.

I Remember Yesterday is justifiably the least acclaimed of Summer’s classic run of late ‘70s LPs, but like any album by an artist working at her peak, it’s worth at least picking over for its highlights.

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#'70s music #disco #italo disco #donna summer #giorgio moroder #pete bellotte #i feel love #female singer #r&b #music review #vinyl record

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wordsthatmattered · 1 year

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5.8.2023

"Stay calm and wait. Go on reading your book."

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino is already going to be my favorite read of the month and we're barely into April. Ten fragmented stories piled onto each other, pull you along as The Reader, and you come out of it all thinking "how did I not see this coming."

It's also going on my shelf of Books That I Will Need To Read Again.

#if on a winter's night a traveler #italo calvino #book review #book picture #book #quotes #novel

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kindledspiritsbooks · 1 year

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My Month in Books: February 2023

The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin The City We Became was one of my absolute favourite reads of 2020 and I was buzzing with excitement to hear more from the five avatars of New York City and explore the other living cities of the world. Jemisin, as always, delivers a gripping and creative novel full of breathtaking world-building. However, my only critique is that the whole thing does feel…

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robosexualunderground · 1 year

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Super psyched to get this one in the mail - Nuovo Testamento's New Earth (2021)! That pink vinyl is super sweet.

As a...dark alternative...type, I am totally normal about this ~dark italo disco~ album. I listen to it when I need that sugar rush dopamine hit dance party in my brain. That is to say, I listen to it a lot. It's so sweet and any of these songs would get me out on the floor.

Good luck getting this one out of your head. It's definitely in mine! 🪩

#dark alternative is basically a euphemism for goth #the sleeve of this record was super shiny and hard to photograph #i can already tell that their new album is going to be near the top of my 2023 year in review #nuovo testamento #italo disco #synthpop #synthwave #new wave #post punk #vinyl records #skullshrooms record collection #Bandcamp

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thrupoem · 2 months

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Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - 1972

Invisible Cities is a work of utter imagination and inspiration. Kublai Kahn and Marco Polo discuss the kingdom of the Tartars, which Kublai Kahn, being the ruler, has never been able to see. As the work goes on it becomes apparent that the cities Marco Polo describes are works of imagination. As the work goes on it becomes apparent that the cities Marco Polo describes must be real. The cities are without time, sometimes ancient, sometimes possessing plumbing, sometimes airports and suburbs. I wish I had a way to describe how this book feels to read. The closest I could come is that the book serves as a bridge between the hypothetical and the real, between the imaginative and the stubbornly physical. By the end of the book the cities feel so real it is as if you could almost plan to go visit them. I wish I had more ways to describe this book. It is pure imagination, it is pure joy and play. It not only questions reality but contributes to it. One of the best books I have ever read.

#italo calvino #invisible cities #bookblr #book review

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batmonkfish80 · 10 months

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#book review #invisible cities #italo calvino

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ebookporn · 1 year

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Plan for a Journal

In an interview collected in Ferdinando Camon’s Il mestiere di scrittore: conversazioni critiche (The Writer’s Craft: Critical Conversations), Italo Calvino described a dream for “a completely different sort of journal.”

This journal would be something more like the serialized novels of Dickens and Balzac, with writers working on commission on a wide range of topics and themes. It would employ the “I” of Saint Augustine and Stendhal. And it “should be a kind of Peanuts but not a comic strip, serial novels with a lot of illustrations, an attractive layout.”

At the Review, we’re fascinated by ideas for what magazines can be—no matter how outlandish. And so we were delighted when we came across Calvino’s four-page plan for a journal, from a typescript dated 1970, translated by Ann Goldstein and published below. It’s eclectic, wildly ambitious, smart but not too self-serious, and totally unrealized. What else could you ask for?

By Italo Calvino

This journal will publish works of creative literature (fiction, poetry, theater) and essays on particular aspects and problems and tendencies exemplified by the works published in the same issue. It will follow the discourse of Italian literature as it unfolds, through the work of writers who are young or not so young, new or with something new to say.

The journal will make it clear that it’s a discourse—many discourses together, which can be articulated in a general conversation—that runs from book to book, from manuscript to manuscript, and will find the thread of this discourse even where it seems to be merely a messy tangle.

It’s the right moment to try to “get our bearings on” many matters, and understand how we can move beyond. Many things have changed in the world in these years; Italy is also changing, and it is not very skilled at either renewing or preserving itself. (To hold on to the things you want to hold on to when all the rest is moving, all you can do is find the right way to move them.)