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Friday, July 18th, 2008
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2:20 am
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I learnt to waltz standing on your feet, you were strong in times when weakness would have been forgiven.
Strenght was probably the word that better described who you were.
Your laugh.
I remember your laugh if I think of you, but it overlapses with the image of you in a hospital bed, eyes wide open and not recognizing me.
The sound of you wheezing.
You telling me you were happy you could see my wedding.
You telling me you were tired.
You mumbling words I cannot understand.
Sadness is a weird territory and I don't have a compass nor a guide.
The endless times you held my hand and squeezed it.
Ginger Ale on Christmas days and a kiss on my forehead.
You so small and fragile, trying to hide your leg with a bedsheet and looking away.
When I was little I used to play in your garden, that garden you nurtured and in which grandma taught me how to make daisy chains.
Not long ago we spoke about your quest for a black rose.
I find it appropriate, in a painful way, that today I was 300 km away, taking pictures of flowers.
But it kills me I didn't take your picture with the camera you gave me, like I promised you I would.
Goodbye grandpa.
( and some )
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| Saturday, July 12th, 2008
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12:54 am - Alice
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Out-takes from a shooting I did this week with Alice.
She was sick that day, but was amazingly focused nonetheless.
Her eyes are just piercing...
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| Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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1:35 am - yet another preggy post.
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Sorry for being AWOL most of the time, but it's a though moment.
Having to deal with slow consumption and loss and it's something I'm really crappy at dealing with.
But I'm working like a dog most of the time, which is good, and the rest of the time I have the most amazing hubby next to me, which is better.
Anyway. I have been taking a lot of pictures lately (most of which I can't say I care about), so I'd better show at least some of those.
Raffaella is one of the last people I took pictures of.
Yup. I get paid to spend the morning in a swimmingpool. Which is why I don't complain too much when I spend the night doing lame monkey-work.
She's a cool kid, a total trooper and came up with the weirdest concept and most of the stuff I shot is not going to be posted on the Internet,
( anyway some of it is behind the cut and could be NSFW. )
current mood:  tired
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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1:09 am - Parking lots
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I love shooting with Mire because she's up to anything and makes a failed experiment something worth keeping
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current mood:  sleepy
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| Sunday, June 15th, 2008
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7:04 pm - Catherina
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10:47 am - Mire
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There was a time when we didn't get to see each other unless someone else organized that.
She's the one that never sits still, that lives at double speed, when she's around reality changes and not even that slightly.
She's my surreality catalyst.
And as the time goes by she's letting the woman she's became show through.
One day I'll drag her in a studio and shoot her properly. By now she's the one that allows me to try wacky things when I'm testing new gear.
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current mood:  happy
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| Thursday, June 12th, 2008
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2:20 pm - Blogger of the world unite! And relax!
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| Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
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9:30 pm - Organized people, unite (and pleeeese do my homework)
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In the last year I've been working so much it's unbelievable, which is great, because things are so much better than I expected (except when it's time to pay taxes, of course)
But this has come with brand new problems, as well.
First of all, the amount of data.
In 2007 I've taken more pictures than from 2001 to 2006.
And since I've started shooting raw the amount of data I produce has become gargantuesque.
I'd use remote archives if internet connection wasn't this lame most of the time.
Then come the archives.
I used to have an archive for photos, in which every shooting would be religiously archived with a sequence of numbers and a name (eg 0806_11_keyword).
In each folder, a folder with nef files and a folder with jpegs.
Then I had an archive folder with other kind of gigs (catalogues, posters, brochures, sites) divided by client.
In the last year the two have intermingled like hell and sometimes I don't know where to put what.
then, mail.
switching from pop to imap saved my life when I started working from home, yet I cannot keep all the emails on the server because of how many idiots keep mailing me huge attatchments instead of uploading them somewhere and mailing just the link.
A couple of huge projects I'm working on at the moments are based on frequent exchange of informations with low-tech people who totally ignore how useful proper use of the subject field would be: we could avoid having subject lines such as re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re:re: subject A when we are actually talking about subject B
The best thing for me would be to archive emails into the project folder, but eml files are a pain in the arse to open and copying-pasting a txt file for each email is way too time consuming and dumb for my taste.
Also, working on 2 different computers (I travel a lot and my laptop has been overabused lately) makes things nasty in weeks when everything is an emergency and I don't have the time to properly backup every day.
So it often happens that the file I need is everywhere else and not immediately accessible
God, I need an assistant, a better workflow, more discipline or some miracle software to manage my stuff.
I'd start by reading GTD again, if I actually had time to read.
current mood:  busy
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12:50 am - And no captions. Because I'm lazy.
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this post is going to be so completely random.
I think it's the only way to say something about our 3 weeks in the US.
I didn't select the best pictures, most of these are shitty snapshots... but each of them reminds me of something specific I don't want to forget
At first I had 100 selected, I narrowed them down to 30 so you don't kill me, deleting them without even looking.
( kill me, Im bored )
current mood: sleepy
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| Sunday, June 8th, 2008
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2:13 am - I don't do landscape
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bigger version here.
going through honeymoon pictures and working on them has been delayed way too many times.
In the next days I'll upload a very small selection of pictures from our trip through the US and I promise I'll keep it short and bearable.
oh.
In the meanwhile I cut my hair and only had a cellphone to take pictures of it (and the resolution was set to "utter crap", which means this is not a very good picture. But you get the idea)
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| Monday, May 26th, 2008
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12:22 am - Motel Project
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« […] A person entering the space of non-place is relieved of his usual determinants. He becomes no more than what he does or experiences in the role of passenger, customer or driver. […] The passenger through non-places retrieves his identity only at customs, at the tollbooth, at the checkout counter. Meanwhile, he obeys the same code as others, receives the same messages, responds to the same entreaties. The space of non-place creates neither singular identity nor relations, only solitude, and similitude »
Marc Augè, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
( many many more )
current mood: tired
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| Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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11:39 pm - We're back!
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we're back!
We didn't get to see half the places or half the people we wanted to see on our honeymoon (USA is bigger than it looks on a map).
Still, it's been the best trip ever.
Photos will come, but i'll have to catch up with 3 weeks of work. That's what you get when you are self-employed.
In the meantime, enjoy a litle slideshow with photos taken by our guest with the photoboot we set up at the wedding.
It was fun. To whoever was there: thankyou for making it perfect.
To those who weren't: A-HA!
Photobooth Galore from bruko on Vimeo.
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| Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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4:10 pm - I now declare you to be husband and wife
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from last night at the wedding reception, where we set up a photoboot. we have more than 600 selfportraits taken by our guests, some are amazingly funny.
we'll upload photos when we come back
I'm so happy. Life starts now.
Only, in 3 hours time we need to pack our stuff and leave.
I'll see you in the US (bruce, I did receive your e-mail, we'll be planning during the flight. That's how behind schedule we are)
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| Saturday, April 19th, 2008
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8:49 am - Guess who's getting married today?
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| Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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6:22 pm - Little things that kill
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...then you receive a parcel.
Inside the parcel there are several letters, a necklace made of gummy bears, chocolate coins, a book with answers to all questions that matter written by the Pope itself (ahahah you two are mental), drawings, rose petals, postcards, and so much more. Enough to make you laugh, cry and think those people are complete nutters..
Rosanna, Antonio, Graziano, Lucia, Leo, Pulce, Polly, Silvie, Daria, Vero, Mirko, Pacina, Valentina, Tommaso, Beh, Daniel, Giuliana, Barbara, Topisiffimo, Crudelya, Margot, Luna, Michele, Miic, Nicola (and pulcino), Alessio, Entropyst, Angie: you cannot understand how much this made me happy.
THANKYOU.
( behind the cut: hair and makeup. Enough makeup to make me avoid photoshop :) )
current mood:  loved
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| Monday, April 7th, 2008
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12:39 am - chiara & andrea
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andrea is coming in 6 weeks and chiara is becoming bigger and bigger every day.
So while in ferrara we took advantage of a lazy night and took pictures (the set was super ghetto and the only light is coming from 2 bedside lamps I'm holding with one hand while using my camera with the other hand)
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current mood: sleepy
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| Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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8:31 am - quick update
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prints have been sent to mr. Printer for him to print them.
In half an hour I'm leaving for a 3 days long road trip with my pregnant best friend to celebrate our last trip together before I'm married and she's a mum.
I'll pick her up with George Clooney and we'll be ready for 36 hours of madness and fun.
Is it really 23 years since we met? Are we sure we are not 16 years old any more? we'll find out in the next few days, I guess, when she'll stop to pee every five meters and I'll complain about being tired every 3.
Ah, the joys of the old age.
See you when I'm back, I guess
current mood:  awake
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| Monday, March 24th, 2008
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11:39 pm - The backdrops guy was doing good
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saturday night in Milan, the sky was on fire. it's just a snapshot aken with my G9 from the running car, but you get the idea.
it has been a good easter, but I really don't know if I can eat any more chocolate. For real.
my wedding dress is nearly finished and it's gorgeous, the wedding rings are done and they feel weird, as I never wear gold. Everything is starting to feel real.
Since I've been away a couple of days and I've received quite a few e-mails about this, the print sale has been postponed a little.
I will send the files to mrPrinter on friday, which means you have a few more day.
Remeber that you need to send your paypal payment by friday in order to have your print, otherwise... too bad.
current mood: tired
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| Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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11:36 pm - in a super rush
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I disappeared from the face of the planet for a couple of days and I apologize: I will answer mails tomorrow night when I go back home. miic, curson, most of all: I got you mails and I do apologize for not answering right away, I'll do that tomorrow.
BTW, yes, the plant WAS oleander and therefore poisonous, but I didn't eat it, and I'm fine.
BTW2: a month from now I'll be made an honest woman.
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| Monday, March 17th, 2008
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10:51 pm - waiting for spring to come
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