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

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herons

Posted on May 30, 2008 @ 6:25 pm by massimo | Filed under: ancona, another green world, blog, news, wordpress

I have been visiting once upon a time, the little natural reserve of “Ripa Bianca”, just a few kilometres from home, on May, the 25th. It is a very  little area, sponsored by Italian WWF , bordering the river: actually an ideal spot for bird watching.
And I was trilled by watching, just befor sunset, a magnificent couple of herons flying slow and steady: a mother heron with its baby.

Illustration Friday’s topic is: baby

fail faith

Posted on April 13, 2008 @ 1:55 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, news, people, wordpress

Buddhist teaching is clear and logical: that we can neither define, describe, nor usefully discuss the nature of that which is beyond the perception of our consciousness. According to the teaching the ideas of eternal self or eternity in nature may be described indirectly by analogy and symbols. Otherwise it must ever remain in its truest sense unknown and unexpressed, as being to us in our present state unknowable.The concept of maya play a major role in Buddhism. Maya is the belief that everything, which one sees in this world is illusion, a product of the individual’s own failed interpretation and self-delusion.Buddhism has always set itself against illusions: the illusion of permanence and the illusion that it is possible to live in the world and avoid the suffering. What if one follows this disillusionment to the end, allowing it to concern his beliefs on Buddhism itself?

Illustration Friday’s topic is: fail

turmoil in Tibet

Posted on March 15, 2008 @ 7:13 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, china, news, wordpress

In 1959 China annexed theocratic and remote Tibet.
The Dalai Lama,winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, fled to India amid the 1959 rebellion and he is routinely vilified by the Chinese Government.
In recent decades, China has methodically begun exploiting the region’s timber and mineral wealth; Beijing continues to rule the small …

horizons

Posted on December 24, 2007 @ 4:27 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog, news, wordpress

One horizon is enough for all of us…

Happy new year folks!

Illustration friday’s topic is: horizon

aynaku’s 2008 calendar

Posted on November 25, 2007 @ 6:07 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, news, ukiyo-e, wordpress

AYNAKU’s 2008 calendar is now available on line at AYNAKU shop.
The calendar’s twelve plates are drawn after the traditional Japanese Ukyio-e wood block prints.
The joyful atmosphere, of Ukyio-e, or “the floating word”, is brought to you by means of contemporary digital technique.
Each illustration goes with a traditional Haiku, (a short, …

emergency

Posted on August 11, 2007 @ 11:17 am by massimo | Filed under: blog, news, people, wordpress

“That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war - war…”

So Bob Marley, some years ago… And war is still our greatest emergency. War is deep in our nature and …

halloween

Posted on October 26, 2006 @ 1:50 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, news, people, wordpress

I have posted this pic a few days ago on ARTFULWISDOM (please check the link on my blogroll) run by very talented and creative Ann Ellis and also joined IF’s Halloween contest with one more illo…
Although …

robofish

Posted on April 22, 2006 @ 6:01 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, fun, japan, news, travel, wordpress

My only trip to Japan dates back to 1994; I spent a month in Tokio and had to leave the country because of the high cost of life. Nevertheless my short stay …

old posts revisited

Posted on March 22, 2006 @ 4:40 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, news, wordpress

 

I’m upgrading some Aynaku illustrations in these days. Sometimes this blog turns out to be a never ending story, perhaps a work in progress…Anyway here are the links:
hammerhead in love