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PRIVATE [26 Oct 2009|06:28pm] by Valentina Tenani and Mario Pitto for Muse, number 5 The fact of living in glass houses and offices results in a sort of voluntary exhibtionism. Reality shows, public confessions, interviews once prerogative of the more daring, are now ordinary routine and have come to represent the real truth. This is how private life, the deeper more intimate one, the one that should be protected from strangers and be revealed only to those we wish to welcome to our deepest soul, risks becoming of public domain, almost like a soccer field, only in this it is the ego of the individuals that is kicked around. Only in decency, considered as the natural result and the true definition of privacy, can defend our identity and secrecy  from the risk of a mediocre homologation of society. Decency not considered as being ashamed of nudity (one can be naked without letting through the least intimate detail), but seen as an instrument with which to decide when and how much to show to others, and by the same time protecting the more intimate sphere. hagebutten friends + comments are always welcome :) 2 comments|post comment

POTTERY [11 Feb 2008|02:56pm] i made this in my pottery class. post comment

VIENNA [05 Feb 2008|06:37pm]   best cafe in vienna. ( more ) 9 comments|post comment

QUEEN OF THE CASTLE [30 Jan 2008|07:24pm] post comment

TODAY [30 Jan 2008|10:50am] post comment

A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER [28 Jan 2008|03:08pm] post comment

EVERTHING IS JUST PEACHY [27 Jan 2008|05:56pm] "If peaches had arms surely they would hold one another in their peach sleep. And if peaches had feet it is sure they would nudge one another with their soft peachy feet. And if peaches could they would sleep with their dimpled head on the other's each to each. Like you and me. And sleep and sleep." - Sandra Cisneros My Wicked Wicked Ways "It is said that the only proper place to eat a mango is in the bathtub." - John De Mers Dictionary of Famous Quotations "It was inevitable, the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera "Renoir used to say to young artists longing to paint - like him - the pinkish-brown tones of an opulent breast: "First paint apples and peaches in a fruit bowl."" - James De Coquet Jane Grigson's Fruit Book post comment

ROSE HIPS AGAINST SKY [26 Jan 2008|09:05pm] took a walk today. came by here. the sky was so extremly beautiful. the sun was just starting to set when i took this. rose hips are the most beautiful fruit to photograph, no? post comment

ROOM WITH A VIEW [21 Jan 2008|03:15pm] this is what i see when i look out my window. depressing, isn't it? would anyone like to share what they see when they look out their window? post comment

YOUR OWN MUSIC [20 Jan 2008|11:35pm] Friedrich Nietzsche "And those that were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." download: mama cass elliot - make your own kind of music post comment

STAIRWAY [20 Jan 2008|11:16pm] stairway in school. vienna, austria. 2006. post comment

[19 Jan 2008|11:32pm] A Celebration of Gardens George Robert Gissing "Doesn't the scent do one good?" went on his sister. "When I come into the garden on a morning like this I have a feeling - oh! I can't describe it to you - perhaps you wouldn't understand -" "It's as if nature wre calling out to me, like a friend, to come and enjoy what she has done. I feel grateful for the things that earth offers me." post comment

LISTEN LIKE SPRING [19 Jan 2008|12:28am] Drop of Jupiter Train she acts like summer and walks like rain since the return from her stay on the moon she listens like spring and she talks like june tell me did you sail across the sun did you make it to the milky way tracing her way through the constellation tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day post comment

A REAL MOUTHFUL [17 Jan 2008|08:52pm] www.themeaningoftingo.com first few pages: tingo: to borrow things from a friend's house one by one until there's nothing left (Easter Island) sekaseka: to laugh without reason (in Bemba, language of Zambia) nakhur: a camel that won't give milk until her nostrils have been tickled (Persian) aredjarekput: to exchange wives for a few days only (Persian) tsuji-giri: to try out a new sword on a passer-by (Japanese samurai) glossalgos: conversation - talking till one's tonge aches (Ancient Greek) medved: bear - honey-eater (Russian) puniu: the skull of a man which resembles a coconut (Hawaiian) pana po'o: to scratch your head in order to help you remember something you've forgotten (Hawaiian) false friends: fart: talking nonsense (Turkish) kill: good friend (Arabic) post comment

TEA + BOOKS [17 Jan 2008|07:12pm] i had a good afternoon today. not day, had to go to school afterall, but afternoon none the least. i didn't do anything special, but tea and books can really sort of make my day. went to 1 modern art bookshop, was sort of sad to find that the lady who owns the shop couldn't order the books i wanted, but oh well it was statsfying enough to browse through all the lovely books. plus the lady recognised me from all the times i had been there before and we talked for a second. she now knows my name, thought that was sort of nice. found this book, it was 50 euro though so i didn't end up buying it even though i most certainly would have liked to. continued on my way to a tea shop, bought chamomile tea and "the herbalist's lover". went to the health food shop and bought a box containg 20 different kinds of tea from my favourite tea brand, sonnentor (sungate). all their ingredients are from farms in austria (so almost no food-miles) and they are all certified organic. and the teas really do taste incredibly delicious. then went to 2 small independent bookstores and 1 big franchise bookstore. bought 'fruit - the cultivated gardener' and 'the meaning of tingo'. i will have to make a list of my favourite words from tingo, it's really hilarious. i've only read the foreword so far, but i already really like the word sekaseka meaning 'to laugh without reason' in the Zambian language of Bemba. and i will have to post pictures and poems from 'fruit' soon, it's so luscious. on the way home i saw this pregnant women and she looked so lovely. she wore this black coat and black opaque tights with a skirt i'm guessing, but you couldn't see it. and with that she wore these beige fabric sneakers and a black beret. together with her belly she looked so gorgeous. the beige fabric sneakers just really rounded the otherwise rather girly outfit off so well. sort of sad that this day went by so fast, but looking forward to many more like these. i'd really like to have this, but it's really expensive here in austria. the books i wanted to buy in the art bookshop. you should all take a look: julie morstad - milk teeth abbey hendrickson - the birdfeeder amy cutler - paintings and drawings clare richardson - beyond the forest post comment

SONGS [15 Jan 2008|01:37pm] beirut - elephant gun st. vincent - now, now kate nash - birds mariha - it hurts post comment

DAY-TO-DAY [15 Jan 2008|12:52pm] more people should know about this book. i put some pictures of it behind the cut. ( wind broken daffodil ) post comment

HUNTING LODGE [15 Jan 2008|12:03pm] this used to be the austrian empresses hunting lodge. it's a museum now. post comment

TREE IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS [15 Jan 2008|11:08am] post comment

WIEN [14 Jan 2008|04:38pm] danube. vienna, austria. august '07. i do see the beauty in this place (and there's plenty actually), but then again there's beauty everywhere and sometimes one just has to look closer. i can't possibly have seen all the magical places here and i know there is so much more to discover, but still, sometimes all i want is to get out of here. just for a while at least. post comment

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