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a surprising man…

Posted on August 22, 2008 @ 10:52 am by massimo | Filed under: animals, another green world, blog, fun, people, philippines, travel, ukiyo-e, wordpress

I like to edit again an old post written on November the 22, 2006…this fellow had a totally anti-routine life…it’s worth taking a look at his “biography” whic my friend Gino edited recently…
enjoy

Among the strange people I met, Max Maxwell is certainly the most unfathomable. I firstly met Max in Boracay Island, in 1990. Max comes from Bombay and belongs to the Parsee upper-class.
At that time he was a fit, middle aged man who enjoyed beach-tennis, wind surfing and excellent Italian food. He basically travelled between Boracay, Koh Lanta, Laddak and Hong Kong, making his earn out of fashionable batik-shirts, rattan-bags, Tibetan amulets and first rate (yet fake) Ray-Ban sunglasses. Max had an enormous ego, he was desperately scornful and selfish and, for some reason, he always surprised me. He had seen the World, that was the fact! When some harmless tourist, tried to approach him by asking silly questions such us “Have you been…?”, Max’s provocative answer simply was: “thanks for not talking to me!”. And that was all. As I said Max loved food and he was in the selected circle of acquaintances of my friend Gino.
Gino ran the cosiest restaurant in Boracay according to Max’s parameters and one day at Gino’s, for some unpredictable reason, Max allowed himself to talk to me! Max abhorred “stupid talks” but, after a good beer (he used to sip beer always by the same special glass that he-himself carried in a bag), Gino and I had the chance of glancing over his wonderful life…Finally Max decided to present Gino his photocopied biography. The document (his masterpiece) stated the man “born in Bombay during a devastating cyclone” and amazingly went on with Max ”making friends with Miles Davis, art-directing Vogue Magazine, etc…”I still have that rattan-bag he sold me and –still- I wear those fake pair of Ray-Ban and Gino and I still dispute about his reliability, his clever scorn and puzzling behaviour.
On December 8, 2006 I received a stunning report from Gino…

BREAKING NEWS:
MAX MAXWELL DIES IN GOA AFTER COMMITTING SUICIDE. HE LEFT A NOTE IN WICH HE SAYS :
“DON’T BE SORRY FOR ME. I’M THE ONE TO DECIDE MY TIME WAS OVER”

Illustration Friday ’s topic is: routine

canned food!

Posted on July 26, 2008 @ 6:06 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, news, sailing, wordpress

I’m going to be off-line till mid august. I’ll be sailing on board the Natahel, heading east to beautiful Kornati Islands. and further south to Korcula…I guess I’m going to have plenty of canned food and this is a pity…actually, I can’t stand it, since I love eating fresh fish, fruit and vegetables…hopefully this is not only what I’ll end up to do while on vacation!
Off course I’ll glad to catch up with you all as soon as I get back…
Have fun!

Illustration Friday’s topic is:canned

threadless T-shirts

Posted on July 22, 2008 @ 12:04 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, news, wordpress

My Threadless submission is in the running and my design will be voted on by other Threadless users for 7 days…
I’m editing this post to help spread the word about and promote my own submissions.
Please click the two banners provided for viewing and scoring.
Thank you Threadless and everybody!!!

sunken treasure

Posted on June 23, 2008 @ 10:53 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, diving, fun, wordpress

Practically every diver has fantasized about discovering sunken treasure. Although there is more treasure still lost in the ocean than has been recovered, the average diver is unlikely to accidentally find it. The chances of stumbling upon underwater riches are minuscule, and the coast of intentionally seeking it out is …

homage

Posted on March 29, 2008 @ 7:16 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, books, fun, people, wordpress

 Venetian Hugo Pratt is my favourite comic book creator .Due to his rather mixed family ancestry and his nomadic life, Pratt had learned snippets of things like kabbalism and lots of history. Many of his stories are placed in real historical eras and deal with real events.
As a student I had …

gardens

Posted on March 8, 2008 @ 5:00 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, travel, ukiyo-e, wordpress

Modern Singapore is a city of concrete, glass, freeways and shopping centres.This city state is one of the Asia’s four “dragons”- the Asian economic boom coutries. The fact that so many western expats live and work in Singapore, lies exactly in its thriving economy, altough the place itself is really nothing special and …

multiple

Posted on February 23, 2008 @ 11:27 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, philippines, travel, wordpress

In the Philippines, the western wind is called Habagat and the rainy season comes with it. The rains in Boracay were usually a bit oppressive to me, as the dullness went on for weeks, driving my mood to absolute lethargy; moreover I was running out of money quickly. All of us …

the Papalagi

Posted on January 5, 2008 @ 4:49 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, books, fun, people, wordpress

In 1920 a South Sea Chief’s comments on Western Society, The Papalagi, which means, the White Men, were translated into German by Erich Scheurmann.
These speeches by Tuiavii of Tiavea were not delivered as yet, but the essence had been written down in the native language, out of which the first German translation was …

wedding breakfast

Posted on September 16, 2007 @ 11:46 am by massimo | Filed under: fun, people, travel, wordpress

In Dondaduwa, a Sri Lanka south-west located coastal little town, I was invited to a local wedding breakfast. I felt honoured by this unexpected ask and was really curious. Just past the sunset, a little crowd of friends and relatives gathered an open space behind the …

captain

Posted on August 19, 2007 @ 9:13 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, indonesia, travel, wordpress

The Mentaway Archipelago located  in the Indian Ocean, at about 100 miles off Sumatra’s west coast, used to be  far off beaten tourists’ routes…
A small cargo ship,  a tramp steamer almost, shuttled among those islands, carrying stuff of all sort and a few passengers. Coming …

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