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The Travelling Artist – Why Become One?
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sarong
Posted on June 12, 2007 @ 10:05 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,art,beach,blog,fashion,fun,illustration,india,indonesia,island,kenya,mediterranean,news,philippines,thailand,wordpress
No much time to post this week: I’m rather busy with the Cuprarte Art Festival opening, next Saturday. So I have drawn myself wearing a sarong. Sarongs are large sheet of fabric, wrapped around the waist and worn as a skirt by men and women throughout much of southeast Asia, parts of Africa, and on many Pacific islands. The fabric is often brightly coloured and printed with intricate, geometric patterns. In hot climates there is nothing better than wearing a sarong and I can’t give up the habit now and here, during a really warm Italian summertime. The members of a lovely African family living in the house opposite mine, watch me benevontely from their windows, and smile a lot…
Illustration Friady’s topic is: suit
Here are three interesting links on last week’s topic: Flossy-p ; Pookha ; Asafaga .
renault 4
Posted on May 26, 2007 @ 11:17 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,blog,cheap,fashion,fun,holidays,illustration,mediterranean,news,people,travel,wordpress
In 1980 my father bought me a second hand Renault 4: I was very proud of it: its lysergic and bright green body made me very happy ! In July I decided to venture to Morocco driving my car: after all, in 1979 a Renault 4 was entered in the Paris-Dakar Rally and came 3rd while many cars didn’t even finish! All I had to do was bringing some spare parts with me and find someone who would join the trip. That was easy! On sunny early morning I left with a couple of friends. It was a long, long trip all the way trough South of France and Spain. After three days we f inally landed in Ceuta, the last Spanish possession in Africa. The day after we crossed the border and got Morocco, a great place to carry out a bit of adventurous car driving. My old, cheap, strong car was perfect for the task. She broke out and suddenly died a few years later, God only knows why…
Illustration Friday’s topic is: cars
Here are three interesting links on last week’s topic. All of them had been considering about the massive and brainwashing amounts of advertisements we deal with every day…
The odd neighbour ; Jeff Passetti ; Life’s little creatures
remember
Posted on April 28, 2007 @ 3:15 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,art,blog,fashion,fear,fun,illustration,japan,mediterranean,news,sailing,travel,ukiyo-e,wordpress
Maybe I should put forward for this week’s topic my whole blog! Actually every Aynaku’s post relates to memory so I consider that my most recent submission should make no exception, and be one of Aynaku’s most typical. My very first time on board a sailing boat is firmly fixed in my mind: I was nine years old and the calling of wind and sea was already precise. I remember my excitement when the crew set sail and the boat left. It all happened under my parent’s benevolent and worried eyes. Waving their hands from the dock, they valued the possibility of an accidental jump into the water: still I couldn’t swim that well!
The second memory related to this illo, is my great fascination for Japanese ukiyo-e , a fascination dating back to my 1993 Japan trip. Really some memories can’t wait!
Illustration Friday’s topic is: remember
punk rock
Posted on January 13, 2007 @ 9:39 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,bargain,beach,blog,cheap,fashion,fun,illustration,island,kenya,lamu,music,news,people,travel,wordpress
The island of Lamu, Kenya, was -and maybe still is- one of the most exotic places a beachcomber may expect to come across. I was there in 1981, at the end of my first, single and glorious trip to …
sailing ships…
Posted on November 18, 2006 @ 12:18 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,art,blog,fun,illustration,news,people,sailing,ukiyo-e,wordpress
My grandfather was born in 1898. In his younger days he watched more than once the sailing ships at anchor in our hometown harbour. In his spare time he enjoyed oil painting, wasn’t so bad a painter …
seadogs
Posted on October 14, 2006 @ 5:31 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,blog,fun,illustration,news,people,wordpress
October is here again. The warm early autumn sun still shines, yet behind a thin layer of fog. The fog is going to take over the coast by mid-November, getting thicker and …
navigation
Posted on June 30, 2006 @ 11:14 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,blog,croatia,fun,holidays,island,mediterranean,news,sailing,travel,wordpress
I’m going to be off-line from tomorrow until next saturday. I will be sailing the Adriatic Sea along the coast, on board the Nathel, maybe heading east to beautiful Kornati Islands. This is …
submarines
Posted on April 29, 2006 @ 11:00 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,another green world,blog,books,fashion,fear,fun,illustration,mediterranean,news,people,politics,wordpress
Maybe I could have submit half of my blog for “under the sea”! I might add something else about because I’m thinking of submarines. When I was a kid I use …
spring
Posted on April 1, 2006 @ 5:19 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona,another green world,beach,blog,fun,illustration,india,news,travel,wordpress
Spring has broken here since a few days. Spring means to me early and unrequired raisings. There’s nothing to do: as soon as the bright light of dawn filters from the outer world into my …
barefoot
Posted on March 18, 2006 @ 7:16 pm by massimo | Filed under: africa,ancona,another green world,beach,blog,fashion,fun,holidays,illustration,indonesia,island,kenya,lamu,mediterranean,people,philippines,thailand,travel,wordpress
In his essay “art in landscape” Stephen Bann writes about Wordsworth’s prowess as a walker. Bann calculates that the great Romantic poet “must have traversed a distance of 175,000 to 180,000 English miles”.
I doubt whe ther the tropical-post-freak-beachcombing-wasting …