I am very happy this photo won the second Prize at Mea Culpa photo contest .
Mea Culpa is a haute couture avant garde fashion brand that I am following since its very beginning few months ago .
Tatanka Kaligawa's vision of the fantastic side , often the darkest one , of the fashion completely meets my taste and could inspire me a good imagine that I translated as possible in a photo .
lunedì 12 luglio 2010
venerdì 9 luglio 2010
I delete
I delete the traces of your presence
From my life and from my belongings
I scrape off under my skin to remove
The memory of your scent .
I delete letters , I delete presences
The joyful hope then the sadness
They don’t melt anymore
In the waiting , in our anticipation .
What you are is not what I am anymore
We have taken note , we know it .
We are idle streams of something
Which destroyed the best inside ourselves.
I focuse to believe to get over it
I wake up in the night and I rethink it
I restrain myself from screaming out loud
My deep pain my antique sorrow.
And I live again all our past days
Our passions , holding our hands so tight
The unknown destroys me
But sometimes knowing too much
.....doesn’t help.
From my life and from my belongings
I scrape off under my skin to remove
The memory of your scent .
I delete letters , I delete presences
The joyful hope then the sadness
They don’t melt anymore
In the waiting , in our anticipation .
What you are is not what I am anymore
We have taken note , we know it .
We are idle streams of something
Which destroyed the best inside ourselves.
I focuse to believe to get over it
I wake up in the night and I rethink it
I restrain myself from screaming out loud
My deep pain my antique sorrow.
And I live again all our past days
Our passions , holding our hands so tight
The unknown destroys me
But sometimes knowing too much
.....doesn’t help.
giovedì 8 luglio 2010
The Vampires and the vultures
Some people aim is only to drain energy out from you.
They like vampire and vultures feed with your life fluids and leave you exahusted and bewildered , wondering what was the reason of their behaviour . Or worse wondering what you have done !!
Is not your fault , sweet butterfly , if not the fault to trust too much , specially at beginning .
The reason about that feast of blood , is a no reason really , they are predators , and maybe you are just the right victim at the right moment for them , nothing personal.
You can find them everywhere ..yes.. butterfly , dont open your eyes in astonishment , they are even in SL fashion world !! And they are many .
Some are naive so easily identificable and easy to cope with, because their gross behaviour in taking advantage of others , is so clear and lightens on their forehead like a traffic light , allowing people who are not totally blind to step away without regrets .
Some other instead , are much more dangerous , because their technique , often passive aggressive , is a mix of strictness and sweetness , a smile and a pout , now flattering and now detached, keeping one always on tip toe and that kind of " dead kitten " behavior ( even a male can be a dead kitten !) it is recognizable only after a while , when you are in that molasses till the neck and the damage has already started to produce in your mind.
They never criticize you in open , but when talking about you they have always an extitant tone of voice a movement of eyes "... yes .. she's good ..but .." , they never speak upfront to you but the grid is full of their speech done on your back, they always show you symphaty , and now and then for at least 10 minute you feel "the centre of world" , but then for the rest of the time you are with them they don't support you at all , eben showing a slightly bother about you .
They profess you friendship and love, but they always have a stab ready to use ( pret a porter ) under their cloak !!!
They are a more civilized kind of predators , better dressed and with a better spelling , but not less dangerous that the really ugly ones .
Now I dont want terrorize you !!! Come here ..dont run ... of course the SL fashion world is a fantastic place to work and stay , it is highly rewarding if you work hard , it is full of lovely , professional , wonderful, friendly, supportive ready to help , and really worthy people !!! Full of lovely collegues , agencies , designers , DJ, staff , all people which is a pleasure to work with and for .
So let's try to open our eyes wide and become more selective , lets not run in every contest we see , apply for every model call we know about , running running without to know why , lets not be pushed by hunger to work ending in not professional hands .
Lets stop now and then and lets make a little review about those requirements of seriousness that we all know what they are , lets check if they are all in place before to accept a work , and if we accepted it and we start to smell something not right ..lets follow our istinct .. lets step away , you are the best judge about what is the best for yourself ..and they won't change ..they never change .
lets be clever ( yep I am sure , butterflies have a brain!!! so lets use it )
DING !!!
Wake up butterfly !!
Butterfly defend yourself !
Defend your private life , your job and your dignity ..dont allow them to pull you down at their level and cause you damages that after.... when you want make the change of level.. in a high level career , where really high standards are required , are hard to fix .
Because some little black spots , some initial acquired flaw both on your style and on your curriculum are really persistent , they stay on you very very long , even when you seem to have won them , if you dont use the best detergent , rubbing hard with a harsh , intensive professional extra dose of training !!!
.. butterfly step away with a smile, never polemize in any case , but closing accurately all the doors at your back .
And to remember you, all that i talked about with a smile, I will write below what once said George Bernard Shaw
" I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig .. you get dirty and besides the pig like it !! "
have a great day :)
They like vampire and vultures feed with your life fluids and leave you exahusted and bewildered , wondering what was the reason of their behaviour . Or worse wondering what you have done !!
Is not your fault , sweet butterfly , if not the fault to trust too much , specially at beginning .
The reason about that feast of blood , is a no reason really , they are predators , and maybe you are just the right victim at the right moment for them , nothing personal.
You can find them everywhere ..yes.. butterfly , dont open your eyes in astonishment , they are even in SL fashion world !! And they are many .
Some are naive so easily identificable and easy to cope with, because their gross behaviour in taking advantage of others , is so clear and lightens on their forehead like a traffic light , allowing people who are not totally blind to step away without regrets .
Some other instead , are much more dangerous , because their technique , often passive aggressive , is a mix of strictness and sweetness , a smile and a pout , now flattering and now detached, keeping one always on tip toe and that kind of " dead kitten " behavior ( even a male can be a dead kitten !) it is recognizable only after a while , when you are in that molasses till the neck and the damage has already started to produce in your mind.
They never criticize you in open , but when talking about you they have always an extitant tone of voice a movement of eyes "... yes .. she's good ..but .." , they never speak upfront to you but the grid is full of their speech done on your back, they always show you symphaty , and now and then for at least 10 minute you feel "the centre of world" , but then for the rest of the time you are with them they don't support you at all , eben showing a slightly bother about you .
They profess you friendship and love, but they always have a stab ready to use ( pret a porter ) under their cloak !!!
They are a more civilized kind of predators , better dressed and with a better spelling , but not less dangerous that the really ugly ones .
Now I dont want terrorize you !!! Come here ..dont run ... of course the SL fashion world is a fantastic place to work and stay , it is highly rewarding if you work hard , it is full of lovely , professional , wonderful, friendly, supportive ready to help , and really worthy people !!! Full of lovely collegues , agencies , designers , DJ, staff , all people which is a pleasure to work with and for .
So let's try to open our eyes wide and become more selective , lets not run in every contest we see , apply for every model call we know about , running running without to know why , lets not be pushed by hunger to work ending in not professional hands .
Lets stop now and then and lets make a little review about those requirements of seriousness that we all know what they are , lets check if they are all in place before to accept a work , and if we accepted it and we start to smell something not right ..lets follow our istinct .. lets step away , you are the best judge about what is the best for yourself ..and they won't change ..they never change .
lets be clever ( yep I am sure , butterflies have a brain!!! so lets use it )
DING !!!
Wake up butterfly !!
Butterfly defend yourself !
Defend your private life , your job and your dignity ..dont allow them to pull you down at their level and cause you damages that after.... when you want make the change of level.. in a high level career , where really high standards are required , are hard to fix .
Because some little black spots , some initial acquired flaw both on your style and on your curriculum are really persistent , they stay on you very very long , even when you seem to have won them , if you dont use the best detergent , rubbing hard with a harsh , intensive professional extra dose of training !!!
.. butterfly step away with a smile, never polemize in any case , but closing accurately all the doors at your back .
And to remember you, all that i talked about with a smile, I will write below what once said George Bernard Shaw
" I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig .. you get dirty and besides the pig like it !! "
have a great day :)
martedì 6 luglio 2010
Now that you are here
The Art of War for Models aka
Sun Tzu applied to the Butterflies.
_dedicated _
My dear butterflies collegues , my lovely sister models that so graciousely rock back and forth the runways of all this virtual world that often we call international homeland , this is for you , some rambling , some advice , some trick some simple talk , I hope you enjoy
Thought # 0 _ I start ….. I start … … Why the hell do I start ?
Lately I have been asked some questions, by a curious friend out of the modelling environment , which gave me the occasion , in order to meditate it and give not stereotype answers to a true cherished friend , to think quite long about this shining and glittering SL fashion world, that usually is after all the best choice , satisfying , rewarding and flattering towards us battalion of lovely butterflies, but sometimes can become merciless, damaging and heartbreaking in the unaware selfishness of its ineluctable mechanism , not less and not with less intensity than the failure of a fully lived love story .
Usually , in the few posts I made here, I used to not talk too much about modelling related things, preferring to enclose in this space and accordingly explore , other sides of my creativity, like my pictures or the occasional “poetries” or “ little pieces “ I like to write , but now I feel I have to start saying something about this world which is the world I chose to belong in SL , and so I will do.
Because my nature is to follow my instinct , and to keep faith to my beliefs and to the things I think that are right . Without the intention to make offence to anyone but without fear to make mistakes speaking upfront , because without any fear to admit my mistakes , if any.
So I think I will start to write now and then about some modelling related subjects calling them simply thoughts and numbering them , taking the occasion of the little rambling by something which happens to me or to people close to me .
Always joking with the title of the most well known manual of military strategy and always keeping safe my sane level of self irony and the capability to laugh about myself .
I won’t lay any claim to teach anything to anyone but I will have the illusion maybe to offer some starting point about making some consideration to the few who want read me and follow the twisted and warped thread of my thoughts .
I will try to approach the issues I will consider, in a general way , trying to find out from them a meaning which makes sense , without enter too specifically into single matters, avoiding to make names , trying to not lower the level of the talk .
As I will refer to pure facts not to people or other living (or dying) entities fashion related , if someone will feel recognizable by it , well it will mean their action identified them and what I wrote was not so new , so I hope they wont complain with me only by describing or referring to things otherwise already well known .
I don’t promise to be rational , I don’t promise to be sane ( I have never been and I won’t start now), I don’t promise to be fair ( I am human and I have my preferences ) , don’t promise to be useful to everyone ( we are not all the same ..thank God !) but I promise to be honest and true , sometimes extremely serious and sometimes irresistibly fun , and to give you , hidden in all the “fluff “ I will write some useful occasional tip if you will have the patience to read me
More soon :)
.
Sun Tzu applied to the Butterflies.
_dedicated _
My dear butterflies collegues , my lovely sister models that so graciousely rock back and forth the runways of all this virtual world that often we call international homeland , this is for you , some rambling , some advice , some trick some simple talk , I hope you enjoy
Thought # 0 _ I start ….. I start … … Why the hell do I start ?
Lately I have been asked some questions, by a curious friend out of the modelling environment , which gave me the occasion , in order to meditate it and give not stereotype answers to a true cherished friend , to think quite long about this shining and glittering SL fashion world, that usually is after all the best choice , satisfying , rewarding and flattering towards us battalion of lovely butterflies, but sometimes can become merciless, damaging and heartbreaking in the unaware selfishness of its ineluctable mechanism , not less and not with less intensity than the failure of a fully lived love story .
Usually , in the few posts I made here, I used to not talk too much about modelling related things, preferring to enclose in this space and accordingly explore , other sides of my creativity, like my pictures or the occasional “poetries” or “ little pieces “ I like to write , but now I feel I have to start saying something about this world which is the world I chose to belong in SL , and so I will do.
Because my nature is to follow my instinct , and to keep faith to my beliefs and to the things I think that are right . Without the intention to make offence to anyone but without fear to make mistakes speaking upfront , because without any fear to admit my mistakes , if any.
So I think I will start to write now and then about some modelling related subjects calling them simply thoughts and numbering them , taking the occasion of the little rambling by something which happens to me or to people close to me .
Always joking with the title of the most well known manual of military strategy and always keeping safe my sane level of self irony and the capability to laugh about myself .
I won’t lay any claim to teach anything to anyone but I will have the illusion maybe to offer some starting point about making some consideration to the few who want read me and follow the twisted and warped thread of my thoughts .
I will try to approach the issues I will consider, in a general way , trying to find out from them a meaning which makes sense , without enter too specifically into single matters, avoiding to make names , trying to not lower the level of the talk .
As I will refer to pure facts not to people or other living (or dying) entities fashion related , if someone will feel recognizable by it , well it will mean their action identified them and what I wrote was not so new , so I hope they wont complain with me only by describing or referring to things otherwise already well known .
I don’t promise to be rational , I don’t promise to be sane ( I have never been and I won’t start now), I don’t promise to be fair ( I am human and I have my preferences ) , don’t promise to be useful to everyone ( we are not all the same ..thank God !) but I promise to be honest and true , sometimes extremely serious and sometimes irresistibly fun , and to give you , hidden in all the “fluff “ I will write some useful occasional tip if you will have the patience to read me
More soon :)
.
lunedì 5 luglio 2010
1_ fireworks show _ 4th july
4th of july , indipendence day in US
my birthday in Italy :P
usually a time for good intentions , clever purposes or simply a day like another we let flow on our shoulders ..a bit older ..a bit wiser a bit disilluded ..... maybe :P
au revoir :)
my birthday in Italy :P
usually a time for good intentions , clever purposes or simply a day like another we let flow on our shoulders ..a bit older ..a bit wiser a bit disilluded ..... maybe :P
au revoir :)
venerdì 2 luglio 2010
front cover
Trapped in the front cover
Of outer passions
I believe in unfaithful deceits
With the trust of an irremovable pureness
I keep my mind intact
Even in the play ,
In that subtle boundary
Between the true and the false
The true lie and the simply unsaid
The fiction and the reality
Which someone still call life .
I am the image
The mirror of my desires
The journey that I haven’t done.
The missing piece of the puzzle
O maybe the last verse of an unwritten poetry.
The first note of a mute symphony
of unexpressed music.
Of outer passions
I believe in unfaithful deceits
With the trust of an irremovable pureness
I keep my mind intact
Even in the play ,
In that subtle boundary
Between the true and the false
The true lie and the simply unsaid
The fiction and the reality
Which someone still call life .
I am the image
The mirror of my desires
The journey that I haven’t done.
The missing piece of the puzzle
O maybe the last verse of an unwritten poetry.
The first note of a mute symphony
of unexpressed music.
lunedì 21 giugno 2010
surreal arialee
Sometimes one just wants wake up and see a different light surrounding the reality .Like a shine , a little shiver a journey into the surreal part of the life .
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