Post-apocalypse in Italy

Some posts ago I tried to do a post-apocalyptic version of TempleBar in Dublin. That was just a game and I almost forgot about that untill my friend Elsa asked me to make a post-apocalyptic version of Roma. After that I start enjoying this a lot and I made a post-apocalyptic version of Milano too.
So, here there are my post-apocalyptized Italian cities, I'm thinking to go on and improve my tecniques so guess which city will be the next one? At the moment I don't have a given idea!

Alcuni post fa ho provato a creare una versione post apocalittica di TempleBar a Dublino. Era solo un esperimento e me ne ero quasi dimenticata finché la mia amica Elsa non mi ha chiesto di provare a fare una versione di Roma post apocalittica. A quanto pare ci ho preso gusto perché poi ho fatto una versione post apocalittica anche di Milano.
Dunque, ecco qui le mie città italiane postapocalitticizzate, penso che continuerò e cercherò di migliorare la tecnica, quindi chissà a quale città toccherà ora? Al momento non ne ho idea neanche io.

Post-apocalyptic Roma: Piazza di Spagna

Post-apocalyptic Milano: Piazza Duomo

Miss January

Il post in italiano lo trovate qui


"Hello,

Congratulations! We’re very pleased to announce that Neil has chosen your artwork as one of his runners-up for the month of January."

Those 24 words are the beginning of an e.mail I got on March 22nd from BlackBerry Keep Moving Team; those 24 words almost  caused me an heart attack.

Let's explain what did happen: some months ago I was dicking around on deviantart.com as I often use to, and, in my message box, I spot an adv for a BlackBerry contest.  I've a looser attitude I know it and I'm trying to fight against this point of my character but it's still very rare I read this kind of advertising till the end; I use to stop within 5 lines: the good time to make me persuaded I'm not able to take part to the contest or I'm not really interested in. This time something make me read the advertisment till the end and that thing was the name Neil Gaiman clearly visible in the headline (that and the fact the text was quite short).

Shortly the adv explained mr Gaiman wrote 12 short stories, one for every month, basing on some tweets he himself had chosen in a previous part of the contest, and he was inviting whoever to illustrate them. All you had to do was to dawnload the short-stories, read them, pick-up one of them, make an illustration and upload it on the dedicated web page; then it will be up to Gaiman to choose his favourite ones to be featured in the digital A Calendar of Tales.

Now, I'm not an absolute lover of every Gaiman's work (let's say I even don't like some of his works), but Neil Gaiman was the one who taught me to look to comic books using completely dofferent eyes (it's not I become a Corinthian stealing people's eyes anyway),  some of his works went along with me during those complicate, absurd years that are between childhood and being an adult and sometimes, when I look behind my shoulders, I have to admit Sandman has been influencing my unconscious and my personal and career choices more than it's recommended for a comic series.

And, since it would be Neil himself the one to choose the illustrations, I hand the possibility to let the hero of my teenage know I do exist (yep you can have a lot of bizarre heroes during you teenage such as the Italian actor Bud Spender or the basketball player Dino Menegin and so on...). Neil Gaiman would watch my art work: perhaps he would like it, pheraps definitely not but I didn't care so much: HE WOULD WATCH MY ARTWORK; he would know that somewhere in the world there is FedZeppelin, that thing alone was a triumph.

So I downloaded the shortstories, printed them, read them all during one night (not a big deal really; they are very short), I loved some of them, I just liked some others and I just didn't like a couple of them; but I was very sure from the first moment I would make an art work based on January Tale. That wasn't my favourite one, the easier to illustrate neither but - I don't know why - it was the one which had a sort of correspondance in my mind, maybe because its asmosphere but is sounded sort of familiar to me.

I started work on a photomanipulation (you sow it at the top of this entry or, if you like - and please make me happy and  do this - on the project page here): I took photos, searched between my files, looked for the help of some friends of mine (and I use this entry to say thanks to them: Valberici who long long time ago gave me the X-ray of his damaged eye and Luca who use to assemble such beautiful dioramas that I use part of one of them for my version of the character of Twelve).
At the end of all this I sent my artwork.

When they sent to me the e.mail telling me Neil (writing just the name was an idea of them not mine) shortlisted my work for the final selection and asking me to send an higher resolution file my heart stopped beating for a moment and what I thought was (in this very order): "so that's what a mail of good news looks like!" (I'm such a collector of "We are sorry to..." shaped mail and know very very well how they look like) and "OMG! OMG! Gaiman saw an illustration of mine and he liked it! Whatever will happen I won! The hell what happens now!"

And then the things went better than I can expect: surprisingly, some days later, I found in my e.mail box the letter I wrote in the beginning of this entry and I had to wait till A Calendar of Tales was officially online to spread the news all over the world.

In the meanwhile I wrote this blog entry again and again and again in my mind looking for the better form to share with you all my happiness. That is a small victory against my bad attitudes and that gives me the strength to keep on working.

And if when I was 14 they told that to me I would never never believe this: Neil Gaiman chosen my artwork.

Don't Blink

Sorry I forgotten this blog for a while, but lot of things happened and I had no so much time to keep on uploading this blog. Now I'm back and I've a lot of arts to put on theese pages, so, here we start with two photomanipulations that are really good for this period.
This photomanipulations are inspired by the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who TV show and I did them mixing my usual stuff and some photos I took in my walking in Cemeteries all around Europe.

Hope you'll enjoy.

 

Scusatemi se sono sparita per un po', ma sono successe un sacco di cose e non ho avuto molto tempo per continuare ad aggiornare il blog. Eccomi di nuovo e ho un sacco di lavori da pubblicare su queste pagine. Cominciamo subito con due fotomanipolazioni che sono particolarmente a tema in questo periodo.

L'ispirazione viene dagli angeli piangenti del telefilm Doctor Who e sono fatti mischiando materiale vario e foto che ho fatto nelle mie passeggiate nei cimiteri europei.

Spero vi piacciano.

Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck.

Non ti girare, non distogliere lo sguardo, e non sbattere le palpebre. Buona fortuna!

Disastering Dublin

Basing on this tutorial and dedicated to Elsa Emanuela Stella who showed it to me/ Basato su questo tutorial e dedicato a Elsa Emanuela Stella che me lo ha linkato

Before

After

Merry Xmas

Explore, dream, discover

Yep it's a very very long time, I had a lot of work and little time, but here I'm again with my last photomanipulation in two version: with and without a wonderful Mark Twain's quote that's making me think a lot in theese days:

“Twenty years from now

you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do 

than by the ones you did do. 

So throw off the bowlines. 

Sail away from the safe harbor. 

Catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore.

Dream. 

Discover.”

Sì, sono scomparsa per un sacco di tempo, ho avuto un sacco da lavorare e poco tempo, ma eccomi qui di nuovo con la mia ultima fotomanipolazione in due versioni: con e senza il testo di una bellissima frase di Mark Twain che in questi giorni mi sta dando parecchio da pensare:

"Tra vent'anni 

sarai più deluso delle cose che non hai fatto 

che da quelle che hai fatto.

E allora molla gli ormeggi.

Lascia il porto sicuro.

Cattura il vento nelle tue vele.

Esplora.

Sogna.

Scopri."

Happy towel day!!

Fed Zeppelin musicale / Music Fed Zeppelin

Fed Zeppelin is a blog template creator!! 

Ok, that is true just in part... well I admit I'm talking about a blogsport template but I gave a personal touch on it. 

The thing is that some days ago Gianni asked me a header for his music blog: Resto in Ascolto. After his post I had to discover what the hell a header is. 

Now I know it. 

And you can see my last art work here!!

Of course if you go on Resto in Ascolto you'd better read some of the Gianni's music post, 'cause they absolutely worth it!

Fed Zeppelin è una creatrice di template per blog!!

Ok, non è del tutto vero... va bene, ammetto che quello a cui mi sto riferendo è un template di blogspot, ma gli ho dato un tocco personale.

Il fatto è che, qualche giorno fa, Gianni mi ha chiesto un header per il suo blog musicale: Resto in Ascolto. Dopo il suo post ho dovuto accertarmi di cosa accidenti fosse esattamente un header.

Ora lo so.

E potete vedere il mio ultimo lavoro qui!!

Ovviamente, dato che vi trovate sulle pagine di Resto in Ascolto, fareste meglio a leggere i post musicali di Gianni dato che meritano assolutamente!

Another night at the court of the rabbit queen

The Wake Of Magellan

"  I believe what the prophets said

That the oceans hold their dead

But at night when the waves are near
 

They whisper

And I hear"

The Wake of Magellan - Savatage

White ghosts on parade

M the vampire

La faccia della terra...

Till the end of the world...

Eye in the sky - mind-blowing color competition

Questo è il lavoro che dovrei iscrivere al concorso mind-blowing color competition.

Se siete interessati potete trovare qui le regole del concorso (si può vincere un set di pantone!!!) ma sbrigatevi perché il concorso scade mercoledì prossimo (dopodomani).

Proprio per questo anche io ho dovuto lavorare piuttosto di fretta.

All'inizio pensavo di partecipare con questo vecchio lavoro.
Poi ho deciso di creare qualcosa di nuovo.

Qui sotto (dopo la English version di questo pezzo) potete vedere il primo risultato; ma poi ho notato che i colori non esplodevano gran che :(

This is the work I'll submit for the mind-blowing color competition. You can find all the rules of the contest here (you can win a kit of pantone!!!!) but go in a hurry 'cause the contest will end on next Wednesday (the day after tomorrow).

For the same point I'd to run fast on this work.

At first I thought about  subscribe this old work.

Then I decided to create something new.

This is how the work looked like at first, but I noticed that colors weren't blowing at all :(

Così ho deciso di aggiungere qualcosa, e questa è la nuova versione:

So I decided to add something and that's the new version:

Una vera esplosione di colore, non vi pare?

Per chi se lo stesse chiedendo, l'occhio è mio, per la precisione il mio occhio destro.



A real color-explosion, isn't it?

The eye is mine, my right one if you wanna know.

Divertissement

An angel for Tenshi

Lady Despair of Endless

Lady Death of Endless

Swamp Thing