Smoke

The webmaster sees a face in these “smoke” clouds, but it wasn’t of course what caught my attention.

I just wanted to take a picture of the woman in one of those shops where you can get food at the Meeting of Rimini.

A little story of kindness…

Me: Hey webmaster, do you think I should start using my tele lens?

Webmaster: Mh, dunno…

Me: Nah… we are in a hurry and. Hey! Wait, let’s sit here.

Webmaster: What did you see?… The little girl on the other side of the pool?

Me: Yeah, but by the time I change lens she might decide to stop playing. I won’t use the tele lens, let’s what can I get… isn’t the reflection on the water amazing?

Webmaster: Yeah.

Few seconds later the little girl “lost” her ball and it started floating on the water moving toward the centre of the pool.
She wanted to “catch it” but she couldn’t and stood at the edge with the sweetest worried expression I had ever seen.
Her brother (I think they were sibiling) got close to help her catching the ball, but the wind made it “run” toward another side of the pool… they runned as well along the edge of the pool.
The ball reache the point where 2 women were sitting and one of them took the ball and gave it back to the girl who went back playing with the ball, away from the pool.

That’s just one of those little nice good stories you can “see” at the Meeting of Rimini.

Photography, a way for “storytelling”

(A guy looking at some pictures at the exhibition: Gdańsk 1980. Solidarność )

One of the best new aspect of the Meeting of Rimini this year was that most of the exhibition had a way larger ammount of pictures.

I was pleasantly surprised of this new aspect, because for me looking at an image is often an easier way to understand something, from a physics concept to and historical moment.

Beside, I’ve always loved the way pictures are a kind of portal to the past that tells you what was happening in that moment.

Well, not exactly all pictures…but that leads to a way longer post that I’m not able to write. Not yet

Playtime at the Meeting of Rimini

Playing with waves

Math tree

Pizza and photo

Here, they sing and clap their hands when they are making pizza…

Well, not often, but happens.

While the “singers” are making pizza I start editing  my pictures

That’s from the second, amazing, exhibition I’ve visited.
That was great and showing a lot of Beautiful “details” of a great masterpiece.

As I thought before coming here to the Meeting of Rimini, soon or later I want to visit Santiago De Compostela (in Spain).

So much!

I’m having pretty busy days, there is so much see, listen to.

A lot of friends to meet, and…

My feet are killing me.

But that’s good!

Ouch!

(More pictures later, I hope.)

In this moment

that’s what me or people on my left are probably looking at, just from an higher point of view.

It’s such a great show!

Meeting Rimini 2009: People

The convention I’ve  been talking about in the last posts is really interesting, but really tiring too.
Rimini Fiera is a wide place and there are many things to see… therefore you have to walk a lot!

arAs a consequence, starting from the hours following lunch time, you can find a lot of people trying to get some rest.

Someone walks in the fresh water in order to cool down their feet:

Someone reads:

Some others, at the CDO stand, preffer to lie down on the comfortable sit placed there… where you can see:

the really tired ones…

Some were laying down alone, someone close to a friend or a dear person, someone (as I did) was using a laptop.

Someone looks like a modern version of a Mark Twain novel character

Or somewhere else, you can find group of friends relaxing together, but each of them relax in a personal way. Who plays with a water bottle and gravity force, who just talking with other friends:

Seemed that the younger was the relaxing person the more active was the rest:

as for this little girl that lied down for several minutes, but never stopped moving her arms and head. Her relax was a play that followed a thought that probably she won’t remember, but that in that moment seemed a lot of fun.

Or a little boy playing with soap bubbles and and a little girl, probably his sister,  running away from the bubbles:

Many children played with balloons of any kind, probably a gadget of some stands. I loved the fact that most of the time the balloon and the children clothe color fitted.

and, once the balloon color fit with the luggage color too:

All these children were able to play for several hours with those balloons, and never get tired of such a simple game. Just in spite of those that says that the new generation cannot have fun with simple games.

I loved to watch these little guys playing. The first time I went to a Meeting in Rimini I wasn’t much older than them (9). Probably as most of the today volunteers.

And, at times, some of them moved back to their childhood and started to play with children, even with no more flying balloons:

These are some of the folks you can find there. Simple people, families with children of any age, I also saw a couple of pregnant woman and many people of any race.

Exhibitions, talks, important people, shows, stands and everything belonging to the program is essential, but there would be no Meeting in Rimini if there weren’t thousands of people spending some days of their vacation there.

There is no meeting without people willing to even get extremely tired, both if they got there as volunteers or as simple visitors.

Meeting Rimini 2009: The Exhibitions

What did I do there?

A lot of things but essentially:

- visit exhibitions

- meeting friends

- getting some relax (=taking pictures) after hours of walk.

Let’s talk about the first thing that comes up to my mind when I think about the Meeting in Rimini: the exhibitions.
I went to Rimini with the aim of listening to talks, visit the exhibitions and meeting friends, but after a few hours I understood that talks would have taken too much time to my visit and I would “waste” precious time to see those exhibitions that cannot be seen online as the talks.

Therefore, I tried to visit at least one exhibition a day, and after 4 days I have visited something like 6 or 8 shows about many different topics… running from art to philosophy and philosophers life, from science to Christians situation in Russia during the Sovietic Revolution of 1917, to not talk about the little shows about homeless people and City Angels, and other little shows. Loved them all, taken the pictures of the only one I visited twice: The exhibitions about Galilelo Galilei’s discoveries.

I didn’t took much more than this picture…

of which I love the way the 2 young guys look at armillary sphere (or spherical astrolabe) .

Or this, with showing my boyfriend’s hands while he was “playing” with an example of zooming lens:

Picture taken just to show the little, but important, details you can find in these shows that are thought for people of any age. (Yes, the ring he’s wearing is our promise ring)

And less important, but not less interesting details alike this one:

or this other one:

both set beside this guy:

Do you know who is he? Just guess! ;D

These last 3 shoots have been taken in a dark room where there was a video projected on the room ceiling. Yep! People working on the Rimini Meeting aren’t normal ones, and I think that’s one reason that makes amazing the Meeting… and, wait a moment, isn’t rational to show up on the ceiling something talking about the discover of Jupiter satellites? ;D
These last 3 shots are pretty far from being “good shots”, but they have been taken just because I love the way people working on the exhibitions care about “scenography” details…