A trabucco is a massive construction built from wood consisting of a platform anchored to the rock by large logs, jutting out into the sea. From this platform, two long arms stretch out suspended above the water, supporting a huge, narrow-meshed, net…
Read MoreSanta Maria di Nazareth is a Roman Catholic Carmelite church in Venice, northern Italy. It is also called Church of the Scalzi (Chiesa degli Scalzi) being the seat in the city of the Discalced Carmelites religious order (Scalzi in Italian means "barefoot")…
Read MoreIn a context characterised by ever wider political divergences and ever greater economic inequalities, we ask architects to imagine spaces in which we can live generously together: together as human beings who, despite growing individuality, wish to connect with each other and with others, especially in the digital and real world; together as new families in search of more diversified and dignified living spaces…
Read MoreAs I said some time ago, photography is not only a passion for me, it is also a cure for the daily efforts of a production like that of Sparks of Hope, which requires great commitment and dedication…
Read MoreIn Chioggia there is an old traveler who, after his long wanderings around Europe, decided to return home, to the same house where he was born, an unspecified number of years ago, from which he left with his nine brothers and in which he now lives with his wife…
Read MoreIn recent years in Venice there have been many closures of artisan businesses. Partly due to the fact that some trades no longer attract young people as they once did, partly because Venice is increasingly becoming an open-air museum, with many Venetians leaving the city and selling their properties…
Read MoreFiora, what a beautiful name it is. The origin of the name Fiora are primarily Italians and it means flower…
Read MoreAs I have often said, walking around the city and taking pictures is enriching and warming my soul, but it serve also as a way to mitigate the growing stress from work…
Read MoreI wanted to start the first “Out of curiosity” edition with a dear friend and a talented Composer. Since that guy was not available, I’ve asked Grant Kirkhope to participate instead…
Read MoreI went for the very first time in my life at City Life only a week ago. Probably I was the only one remaining in Milan who didn’t went in that district yet. CityLife is a residential, commercial and business district, under construction, situated at short distance from the old city centre of Milan, and its a big project with the goal of redeveloping the historic neighbourhood of the Fiera Milano…
Read MoreOne of my dearest memories is certainly the one I associate with the day when, at E3 in Los Angeles, I had the opportunity to see Miyamoto San again in a context of celebration for the presentation of the game, with a jolly mood, and no longer in a context of tension, like when I had to present the game for the very first time…
Read MoreI wanted to keep this photo for as the last one because this it is the place that impressed me the most in all of Pripyat…
Read MoreI am about to leave Milan. Not much time is left for me in this city now. In two months and few days, I’ll be leaving Milan and move at almost 60 miles away from the city where I’m born…
Read MoreDear Yuri, it’s a pleasure having you here in my blog. We've known each other for a long time, so it’s a bit strange for me interviewing you, but I do have some curiosities which I think could be interesting for the people reading this, and all the people interested to H.P Lovecraft, Creepy-pasta, Horror, Magic and everything related to occult…
Read MoreAround 1981, two new reactors were planned, the reactor number 5 and number 6. This photo refers to reactor number 5, which at the time of the Chernobyl accident was 70% completed…
Read MoreIn 2012 Ubisoft Milan faced the greatest challenge we could imagine. We worked on a game that was so far from our radio waves and to what we were used to, that we didn’t know how to deal with it, initially…
Read MoreThe Conca dell'Incoronata, or Conca delle Gabelle, is an ancient navigation basin located in Milan which was used to easily overcome the difference in height between the Naviglio della Martesana and the Cerchia dei Navigli…
Read MoreIf you have been as young and passionate about video games as I have been, and if you have spent part of your youth daydreaming about being able to work on your video game, then you are able to understand the rest of this story…
Read MoreThis damn lockdown gets on my nerves…
Read MoreThe palace of culture Energetik, which is a play on words since it means both "energetic (lively) and working power plant, was a multipurpose center which included a theater, cinema, library, swimming pool, boxing ring, halls rooms, meeting rooms, a polygon in the basement and a gym…
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