July

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Woodcarvings 3

Evrim Kilic (Turkey) "Wind of the mountain"


In a different angle: "Carving and casinò", ...


... "Sentry of the mountain", ...



... "Awakening",

compositions particularly appreciated in the previous posts


At the end of the path, a little rest at the refreshing fountain ...

... and a lovely landscape to admire

Sky Watch 3/7/2009

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office"
Robert Frost

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Fantasy on the Teatro Regio

Main Entrance

The Teatro Regio is Turin's opera house. Designed by the architects Marcello Zavellani-Rossi and Carlo Mollino between 1967 and 1973, it's one of Europe's most important modern opera houses.

Woodcarvings 2

Ugo Antinori (Italy) "To build the future"


Felice Rosa Maria (Italy) "Carving and casinò"


Gleb Tkachenko (Russia) "The mountain tomorrow"


Alberto Capellino (Italy) "Sentry of the mountain"

Some more woodcarvings along the mountain path at Les Arnauds (1333m, Piedmont, Italy).

Sky Watch 19/6/2009

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again"
Henri Cartier Bresson

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Communicating thoughts

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Woodcarvings

Risto Immonen (Finland) "Lights in the mountains"


Gadadhar Ohja (France) "My future planet"


Thierry Lauwers (Belgium) "Awakening"

There are several woodcarvings by various artists along a green path near the mountain village of Les Arnauds (1333m, Piedmont, Italy). Some more in next posts.

Sky Watch 5/6/2009

On the hill the village of Rubiana (700m, Piedmont, Italy), which is situated in a pleasant environment and has a lush vegetation, with woods of chestnut trees, oaks, beeches, larches, pines, meadows and pasture lands.

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Against war

Marlene Dietrich sings "Where have all the flowers gone?"

"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a folk song of the 1960s written by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson. It is a protest song against war. The interesting and touching text describes a sort of cycle which begins from the flowers and returns to the flowers. Marlene Dietrich's interpretation is really great.

Perspectives 4

Sky Watch 22/5/2009

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous"
Aristotle

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Sundial 4

Sundial of a house in the village of Bardonecchia (1312m, Val di Susa, Piedmont)

Sky Watch 15/5/2009

Rocher Charnier (3067m, Val di Susa, Piedmont, Italy)

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No Tav 2

On the mountain

In the cloudy sky

Near the monastery Sacra di San Michele (10th century)

I often travel the Val di Susa (Susa Valley) and I can't help noticing more and more NO TAV signs.
The readers who are not interested in the NO TAV question will perhaps look upon these photographs as curious images.

NO TAV is a movement of the population of the valley against the construction of a railway line of high-speed train (TAV) Turin - Lyon, in the construction of the so-called Corridor 5 that should connect across eastern Europe (beginning from Kiev), with the major cities of western Europe (including Turin, Marseille, Barcelona to Lisbon).

My previous post about NO TAV: here

Memento of Turin Olympics

The 2006 Turin Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956. The Nations paricipating were 80, the athletes 2,508 (1,548 men, 960 women). The motto was: Passion lives here. The Olympic Games were officialy opened by the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

Dreams

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream"
Vincent Van Gogh

"Il sogno è l'infinita ombra del Vero"
Giovanni Pascoli

"Listen to the colour of your dreams"
The Beatles

PalaRuffini

The Palasport Ruffini, more commonly called PalaRuffini, is located in the Ruffini Park, in Turin. It was designed by the architect Annibale Vitellozzi in 1961 for the centenary of the unification of Italy. Its seating capacity is 4,500. The PalaRuffini is an important point of reference for the sports movement in the city.

Perspectives 3

The blue roofs

Spring in Yellow

"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter".

Paul Klee (1879-1940)