London for ever - 32

- "This is really hell! But where have  you brought us? "Jokes Giampiero, trying to slip the crowd.

- "You're an arthropod elephant!" I cut him in the same joking tone.

Michelle nods provocatively, ironizing, as she has done for some time, on his ever massive mole. It's a bit of time I know these arrows between the two, so much that I seemed to be the symptom of an embryo crisis. But that must not be so. You do not schedule a return together if the couple  does not work anymore. Or maybe you do it? As a matter of fact it could be  just an "escamotage" to overcome the problems, to postpone them, not to see them, trying to solve them by the passage of time; a psychological alibi like to blame the environmental problems in London, the lack of children, the precariousness of work, or who knows what else.

- "Did you succeeded on let her talking  to her for a bit?" - Michelle asks me looking at Martine and settling on the wide-lined sofa.

- "She has not been silent for a moment since you left us alone!"

We sneeze for a long time. Adding our laughter to the innumerable and indistinct of the various rooms in the room. Suddenly, like magically, the auditory circuits detach themselves and suddenly silence is gone. There are only a few guitar chords, and without any notice, everyone is silent. The "clou" of the evening begins. The audience keeps a religious, collected, mystical silence. Everyone follows the concert in his own way. Who dreams, who beats the rhythm with one foot in an improvised and unlikely solfeggio; Who tapping his fingers somewhere and who shaking his head; But everyone is lost in music and in total recollection. The concert begins  with a solo music track: the rhythmic base of bass and drums blends with the "riffs" of the solo guitar, while the accompaniment blends everything up. Then the singer enters with his loud, humorous voice telling the classic blues themes, but in the form of rock, creating a good mix of music.

The singer now alternates singing with the accordion, while the other musicians show that they can also play the saxophone and the violin: I travel with the mind along endless freeways, from one side to the other of the American coast; I see the sun rise and I see it setting down; I cry for time, women and friends who will never return. Sax, violin and solo guitar speak with charm; the harmonica, laughing, daring and sublime, touches the most striking strings of the soul.

32. to be continued...

The same old story

I think that UK is living, in these times of Brexit, the same crisis which passed forty years ago, when Maggie Thatcher took the power.
Like at those times, UK is experimenting a difficult passage from an open society, capable to accept from abroad all  the best contributes which can come, to a scared misure which risks to transform the Country in a less cultural pole for art and intellectual minds.
 I've always been very fond of the English skill of hosting people from all over the world.
I've admired and been fascinated by the way England has been able to allow anybody in search of freedom and democracy to stay in the Country.
And now, with Brexit, I feel that all this will be more difficult (I hope, nevertheless, it won't be over). I realize there are two opposite souls in England: one opened and one closed.
Which one  is going to win the challenge?

Let them celebrate

Let them celebrate

the end of your world,

they want to celebrate:

the american dream is over;

they are celebrating 

money growing over nothing;

let them celebrate

discovering your rootless brushes;

they need to celebrate

the burial ceremony

of criminal capitalism;

they 'got celebrate

the funeral

of greed octopus

which scrounges their people!

Let them celebrate

the dawn of new distribution

of richness of earth!

Let them celebrate

the end of your world.

That's Art too

"Stop the Violence" is called the original Art Collection made of sixteen creations all made by bones, created by american artist Robert Francois.

"My art"- says the original artist " it's a message against war, which leaves us only skeleton's bones to count up, anyway it might end!"

"I started my collection as an answer to recession"- continues the american artist -"and my collection has been bought for 35,000 $ which makes me proud of rightly spending my art's talents.

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It began when Francois Robert bought a school locker for £30 at an auction and out tumbled a skeleton.

The wired-up figure had been used to teach pupils but the 63-year-old artist saw its potential for his creative talents.

However because it was all wired together he found there was little he could do.

So, he turned to a company that makes bones for medical schools which exchanged the skeleton for a box of 206 bones which Francois, from Arizona in the U.S., then turned into works of art.


The collection of 16 images called Stop The Violence aims to make a statement about the consequences of war

He spends hours painstakingly arranging the bones into striking shapes each 5ft or 6ft wide before photographing them.

His amazing work has now fetched more than £35,000 and won him a prestigious Lucie Award which in the past has honoured photographers like Annie Leibovitz and Elliott Erwin.

The collection of 16 images called Stop The Violence aims to make a statement about the consequences of war.

Francois said: 'Each image is a symbol of war or violence, such as a gun or a tank and I wanted to show that sadly the human skeleton is often all that remains from such acts of violence.

'This is what you are left with after war - a body count.'

Francois said he would never have started the project if it hadn't been for the pressure brought on him by the recession.

But his decision to make art out of bones has really paid off because the response for his collection had been amazing.

He said: 'I think I'm the only person who is glad the recession hit.'

Not only has Francois' collection earnt him an award but he sold the collection of 16 images to a collector in Chicago for £35,000.

'The interest in my work has snowballed, I also sold my images to an American author who is using his images in his book which goes on sale in August.

'And I sold a larger image from the collection at a fine art exhibition for £4,500.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1280149/The-spine-tingling-photos-bare-bones-award-winning-art.html#ixzz0p0oknYRO

slept for crisis

It seems that recession, in UK, is getting people to bed an hour erlier than ever in the last two years.

That's the result, in a survey of 3,000 people, conducted by Jockey Underwear.

As to say: I beat the crisis just sleeping a bit more!

Specially if men find their women sexier wearing a pyjama than any lace lingerie!

Read more by Daily Mail Reporter

"Bedtimes are getting earlier and we're spending more and more time in our pyjamas, a survey has found.
The average time for a British adult to hit the sack on a weeknight is now 10.30pm, a full hour earlier than two years ago.
And almost 60 per cent of us say we slip into our PJs as soon as we get home from work.

Experts have blamed the recession for the change in our bedtime habits
A survey of more than 3,000 men and women by Jockey Underwear reveals a revolution in bedtime habits.
Experts blame the recession, with people opting to spend more time at home to save cash.
'We're now going to bed earlier than at any time during the last two years,' said Ruth Stevens, Jockey marketing manager.
'It's clear that the UK is not only spending more time in bed - due to earlier nights and fewer nights out - but we are also putting our pyjamas on much earlier in the evening.
'Many of us now get changed into our pyjamas as soon as we get home from work.
'Our research tells us that people feel more relaxed when they put their pyjamas on.
'It's a psychological end to the working day.
'The fact that we are in a recession has clearly been a factor too. People are going out less and going to bed earlier.
'The average weekday bedtime for the UK in 2010, according to our research, is now 10.30pm - a whole hour earlier than two years ago when it was 11.30pm.'
Pyjama sales have almost doubled and 71 per cent of those surveyed said they have bought a set in the past year despite not owning any in the previous five years.
An astonishing 59 per cent of British adults now put their pyjamas on as soon as they get home from work with a further 26 per cent admitting they spend at least an hour in their pyjamas before going to bed and turning out the lights.
Even more surprising is the number of people surveyed who own pyjamas compared to two years ago.
Of those questioned, 65 per cent admit to owning a set of bedtime clothes with 71 per cent of those saying they bought pyjamas in the last 12 months, despite not owning any for the past five years.
More than three quarters of men polled say their partner borrows their pyjamas, and 81 per cent of them said they found girls in men's pyjamas sexier than ladies in lace lingerie." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266012/How-recession-left-turning-bed-hour-earlier.html#ixzz0l8h1mIZr