_Black Cherries

Underlining black cherries_. The thing that most I like in my parents house is always find everything you need. And More. especially In the kitchen, above the stoves there is a kitchen cabinet plenty of treasures. For example in the right corner the space is always held for the Black cherries Fabbri jar. A beautiful white porcelain with blue glossy flowers like ornament. Beautiful pack and even more yummy the syrup plus black cherries inside. " With white chocolate ice-cream on top are the best!"...this are the words my mum uses to say. 

Ah the tradition and habits are pleasures hard to lose, I would like that jar in my Aussie kitchen cabinet too, but maybe with Sheryo and The Yok re-styling touch. By their asian tattoo and street arts background they made limited edition vases, in my opinion suitable for a new Fabbri modern range selection.

They travelled in Hanoi to learn old drawing technics and showed the vases on May 2013 at Krause Gallery, NYC.

Lovely. They missed just the the black cherry.

http://www.amarenafabbri.com/default.aspx

http://www.krausegallery.com/WP/shery-o-the-yok/

_links.

Underlining links_Recently I re-saw a nice movie with a superb Jim Carrey: Lemony Snicket a Series of Unfortunate Events. A movie based on a children book series wrote by Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket. I'm not going to tell the story, what happened and suggest to watch the movie or to read the book to your children before went to bed. I like reading, I love watching movies and in my opinion in this case, the two operas are both well done.

But the superb things are the illustration.
And I'm not speaking about the books, but in the movie.

I mean, in the end of the movie. I was surprise the credits have catch my attention more than the movie. An awesome storytelling way in stop motion animated paper silhouettes.

The artist is called Jamie Caliri, an animated director that begun from television commercial until create professional stop-motion animation software used by the most important animated studios around the world.

So, this is a nice example of media links, from the book to the movie through animated illustrations.

Animation.
Stop.
Motion.

http://www.jamiecaliri.com/lemony

_titles

Underline titles_ I was looking for a new book.

I’ve been in a nice bookshop in Paddington. Ones like a concept store where new and old books were sold after tasting a coffee or a cheesecake slice in a sleeping sofa trap.

I didn’t know what I was looking for, I spent one hour there just walking around all the different subjects, maybe looking at the same books for a few times. After a while I realised that my attention was caught just from the titles; maybe to lazy to read the introductions, but I would like that my choice was determined just from the titles. Just few words, just the typografy, just the colour, just the main message chosen by the author,

just something in the titles...

so I’ve gone out from the bookshop without a book.

A little bit disappointed I started to walk in the direction of home.

Waiting for the traffic lights, I saw a really nice old sign hanging on the building in front of me, something like an old laundry warehouse. Then, again titles and behind that a history. I started getting lost, like a Flaneur I was getting lost in small alleys that I never been to. I uncovered old pubs, hostels, bakeries, shops titles...I discovered a city that hides a lot of histories, maybe more than just a bookshop.

The difference is these "brick books" have just titles, somebody should write down the history that they enclose.

I’m still looking for the right book, but for now I’m just more interested in titles. 

Pictures taken in Surry Hills and Darlinghurst suburbs - Sydney.

_ice-creams.

Underlining_ ice-creams. If you would like to eat the best ice cream in Sydney you must go to Messina. Once you get your 4 scoops, you should turn behind to look at the opposite wall from the ice-cream counter.

All the wall is illustrated by Jeremyville; an Aussie artist with international fame. He used to work from his studio in Bondi Beach and NY city, and he has been in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, the Colette in Paris, the Giant Robot in NY ect.

Was June of last year when I left my country, and before coming in Oz I was forced by my mum to clean the basement of all my useless stuff. Was hot and a melted packaged icecream was in my hand when I discovered a ripped comic in an old cardboard box: "Coccobillevolissimevolmente" by Jacovitti.

Jacovitti worked for the most famous Italian newspapers after the forties, and worked with people like Federico Fellini and contributed to rebuilding the Italian popular culture after the Second World War.

Two different artists, born, raised and worked in different cultural environments, with a different background knowledge but a similar way to imagine their quirky characters and the crowded world in which they lived.

The ice-creams taste experiences are completely different. Our Artists less.

 Jeremyville Studios

 - Lamrock Av. and Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach

 - SoHo NYC

 www.jeremyville.com

Benito Franco Jacovitti (Rome, 19.01.1915  / 13.03.1988)

 www.jacovitti.it

_ bricks

Underlining_ bricks. My lovely grandmother always used to say to put one brick after another to build my life. When I was young the only bricks that I loved to put one after the other was Lego. I wasn't interested about my life or my future, just waiting for my new Lego box at Christmas or my birthday and spend hours on the dusty carpet of my parents living room to play. I never liked to follow the instructions, often I just followed my fantasy or my insight. Once finished, I used to destroy the masterpiece to start all over again.
I think Lego was a toy that helped my artistic skills; a toy useful to grow.

Nathan Sawaya, 39years old, NY based artist, keeps placing one brick in front of the other to express his art. He's not a kind of Peter Pan syndrome, just the Lego brick is his brush and the space his canvas.

His grandmother would be really proud.

Nathan Sawaya "The art of the Brick".  ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. November 17, 2012 - April 14, 2013

http://brickartist.com/