A Sunday at home

Today, in town

So far: four 2012-calendars created

You have already seen the Java-theme Calendar for year 2012.

The Calendar made for my brother.

On 19th December officially started “my” Christmas vacation.
This means that on 19th December afternoon I have started doing what I had been desiring to do for at least 4 weeks:
just stay with my pictures and imagination!
since it’s the end of the year I opted to go ahead with the calendars project.

On Monday I created a soap-bubble theme calendar for my mother.

This one will hang on a wall in our apartment corridor for the next 12 months.

On Tuesday I created a nature-events theme calendar for the webmaster:
For the first time he will hang his calendar in a room in north Italy. Big changes in our life are going to happen in a couple of week, I want to give him something that would make him feel at home even for just a second per day.

On late Tuesday a good man I met on the web asked me a calendar for his granddaughter. He asked me a calendar full of cats

Here it is. Except for the cat on the left bottom corner, that is the grandpa’s cat picture taken with a cellphone the rest all all cats picture I have taken from late Summer 2006 to October 2011.
I tried to use lighter colors since it will go as a present for a 7 year old girl. I hope she’ll enjoy it.
This was actually the most difficult calendar since I have no idea of what a little girl might like (but this is another story…)

Now the last big dilemma is left: WHAT ABOUT MINE CALENDAR?

I know that these calendar are not exactly the most useful thing in the world, but people receiving one of these as present seem to enjoy his/her calendar for the whole year.
Plus: I really love making them because it’s another way to enjoy the process that start with a just-white page and ends with a colorful page.

With or Without You

There are funny status message based “games” that people play on FB, among this there is the one to check on a wikipedia page which was the “number-one hits” the week you were born… I used the US list cause I have no idea where to get the Italian list (actually I don’t even care).

It was funny to see people reaction to this game results: some liked the song, some said “i didn’t know it”, some were happy.
Out of curiosity I checked which was “mine” song and I found that when I was born there was this song:

The U2, I’m not an expert of music but I generally like their songs. I think U2′s music is appreciated by my friends on FB too, some left a comment  saying “You are lucky” – if we consider a luck that there was something nice played on radio or whatever when you were born.
I couldn’t avoid smiling at reading the song title and meaning since I use to sign my works writing “ElyLon” that is just a kind of pun with the contract form of my name and first 3 letters of my surname that form the English word “lonely”.

If I were able to sing… I would sing this song not to a person but to Photography… but don’t worry. I won’t sing.

trallalleru

Does PhotoNmessage app for twitter works?

Via Pulchritudinis

Today I would like to reflect briefly on one of these channels that can lead to God and can also be of help in the encounter with him. It is the way of artistic expression, part of that “via pulchritudinis” — the “way of beauty”, of which I have spoken several times and whose deepest meaning must be recovered by men and women today.

It may have happened on some occasion that you paused before a sculpture, a picture, a few verses of a poem or a piece of music that you found deeply moving, that gave you a sense of joy, a clear perception, that is, that what you beheld was not only matter, a piece of marble or bronze, a painted canvas, a collection of letters or an accumulation of sounds, but something greater, something that “speaks”, that can touch the heart, communicate a message, uplift the mind.

A work of art is a product of the creative capacity of the human being who in questioning visible reality, seeks to discover its deep meaning and to communicate it through the language of forms, colour and sound. Art is able to manifest and make visible the human need to surpass the visible, it expresses the thirst and the quest for the infinite.

Indeed it resembles a door open on to the infinite, on to a beauty and a truth that go beyond the daily routine. And a work of art can open the eyes of the mind and of the heart, impelling us upward.

BENEDICT XVI 31st August 2011

Odd lonely rainy day

For my fellow TapFishers

Yeah… i found another way to waste time…but the game is nice and it’s another way to meet nice people and talk with them

UPDATE: Janury 12th 2012

Who is about to leave?

Her?
Him?
Both?
Maybe both, or probably one of the two has just arrived

They sunbathe.
In October.
In Sicily
The sun is still warming the air quite well, you can stil use just a t-shirt.
It’s the 17th of October, the warm outside is lovely.
Only the cold wind you feel in shadowy places reminds you that winter is coming.

You keep on looking at that notice of a change.

You would avoid looking at it, but your eyes are staring.
You wonder if you sight is a little gloomy for something you hoped and didn’t happen,
or if it’s a little sad for something that you were scared of and happened.

While you are looking, a little voice breaks in your mind with a little laugh:
“Look at the way his hand is placed on the luggage”.

Everything change

Yep, his hand is not just resting,
looks like a lock,
for keeping under control the luggage.

A watchful rest,
a rest in a pubblic park.
You think “That’s exactly what I would do in the same situation…”

…and you smile.

I don’t want to think today

Just wanted to show this semi-hidden “beauty” in a Sicilian park

Ok…

let’s see.

Someone said I should get back writing English post even if my “creative use of words” might result a punch in native English speakers’ eyes.

This means that soon I am going to translate the recent posts and… well… hopefully, get back running this blog too.

Pray for me ;P