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boat people

Posted on December 28, 2008 @ 11:48 am by massimo | Filed under: africa,another green world,beach,news,people,travel,wordpress

Someone told me on the Vietnamese boat people who had landed on Pulao Kapas’ beach many years before.  I came across the boat’s wreck a few days later. The boat’s left over, nearly completely buried by the sand, really struck me. I stopped and stayed by that unplanned and clandestine monument a long while and   felt distinctly the very tragedy that was behind it…
Since a few years Italy is first in Europe for illegal immigration by sea. Some 25.000 desperate people somehow reached our shores in 2008. During the last three days, from dec 24 up to dec 26, about 1500 African  migrants have landed in Lampedusa Island, nearby Sicily.
Due to jingle bells and the like, Italians mostly have not paid much attention to this significant occurrence, while the ghosts of Christmas ideals rerun on Prime Minister Berlusconi’s Channel Five…

Illustration Friday’s topic is: clandestine

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!!!

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 …

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. …

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 …

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