Habemus i-muse
If it sounds too bold or solemn let’s try in this way: i-muse is ready! 😀
The PDA guide, the core of our entrepreneurial project, is ready to be tested!
Since this week the staff of the Educational Silk Museum of Como, who kindly allowed us to build the first contents for the guide according to the exhibits placed inside the rooms, began testing i-muse and evaluating its potential both from the technological and multimedia contents points of view.
Now we’re starting an intense invitation-only test phase in which we’ll test i-muse with different typologies of people and at the end of the visit we’ll ask them to fill a feedback questionnaire, a phase which will quickly bring us to the official presentation press conference.
We’re proud of the work we did so far and we feel ready for the fire test, the moment in which the guide will go into the hands of visitors. 🙂
Maybe we don’t realize it well enough by ourselves yet, but we have a great social responsibility with this project.
We created i-muse for you, bending technology to the service of you as visitors of museums and art events, so you’ll be the judges and you’ll tells us if we hit the target! 😉
Looking Out: Young Art Exhibition in Lurago d’Erba
Ilaria, the art lover who “lend” her voice for the guide in i-muse ;), is the curator of an art exhibition that will be inaugurated on saturday june 2 at the Salone Age Parrucchieri in Piazza Vittorio Veneto 13 a Lurago d’Erba, not too far from Como.
For i-muse Ilaria did a great job, so it’s a pleasure for me publishing his announcement: 🙂
Guardando fuori è la seconda e più famosa mostra d’arte giovane, promossa dal Salone Age Parrucchieri in collaborazione con la Biblioteca Comunale di Lurago d’Erba e con il contributo di quattro imprese brianzole: Age Giardini, Edil Alfa3, Ferrari Impianti e Poliform. All’inaugurazione verranno offerti da La Coccinella di Albiate caffè e vecchi dolci dimenticati.
Guardando fuori prosegue a portare la sperimentazione creativa all’interno della vita reale, descrivendo in modo verosimile, la realtà delle piazze italiane, soprattutto quelle di provincia. Molte tele dipinte e molte stampe fotografiche presentate sono strumenti per acquisire la verità di ciò che si vede.
La mostra è caratterizzata dalla particolare laboriosità di Chiara Aldeghi e Antonio Bernardo, che presentano situazioni reali stereotipate, deformate ed estremizzate.
Le tele di Antonio Bernardo, articolate in sezioni che presentano gli elementi peculiari della piazza/sagrato e i personaggi che li popolano, sono state precedute dalle fotografie che l’artista ha utilizzato per i suoi dipinti.
Le fotografie di Chiara Aldeghi descrivono la piazza vera e propria; sulla base di alcuni specifici riferimenti si può immaginare che essa sia situata a Lurago d’Erba. La piazza accoglie un mercatino dell’usato, un’insegna di avventurosa costruzione e una vasta offerta di personaggi. La descrizione di questi uomini e donne è ottenuta tramite un brillante uso della luce, della posizione e dei colori.
I personaggi che popolano la piazza comprendono moltissime figure dell’immaginario collettivo: il tecnico, sedicente esperto di calcio e di qualsiasi altro argomento, il professore, filosofo e studioso di figure femminili, il tuttofare, il bimbo. E poi il nonno, il fattorino scapestrato, il carabiniere e le anziane signore che discutono esclusivamente di necrologi.
Nella piazza si discute di improbabili eroi, le cui storie costituiscono un racconto nella mostra.
GUARDANDO FUORI
Doppia personale di Chiara Aldeghi e Antonio Bernardo
LURAGO D’ERBA
2 giugno – 17 giugno 2007
Salone Age Parrucchieri, P.za Vittorio Veneto 13
Orari: festivi 10 – 12; 15 – 19
INGRESSO LIBERO
INAUGURAZIONE
Sabato 2 giugno 2007 – ore 17.00
Salone Age Parrucchieri
Lurago d’Erba – P.za Vittorio Veneto 13
Beppe Grillo’s Modern Slaves
I was waiting for Beppe Grillo’s book since even I have been a “modern slave“, a underpaid worker, without any contractual guaranties and to the mercy of superiors making their arrogance their unique way to get listened.
Beppe Grillo’s initiative was born to give voice to the stories of more than 400 young workers, often with a degree, which don’t seem true such is the humiliation level in many cases. 😯
The book is well structured in different sections dealing with problems going from black work to “forced” VAT accounts, from escaping brains to mobbing by superiors.
Such witnesses don’t paint a nice picture of the italian work market at all.
They say that who critics his country the most is actually the one who loves it the most, and italians are pretty good at this ;), but the real situation is really bad, we definitely need a Reset as Grillo says!
Initiatives like this not only helps to give voice to a generation of young precarious but also to start a reaction aimed to change things.
Great Beppe, keep it up! 😉
Vespatour 2006 Part 9: Vinci and Florence
After three nights spent in Lucca, the Vespatour continued into the hearth of Tuscany towards Florence, passing by Vinci, where a museum dedicated to Leonardo is located, and then in Anchiano, where I visited the birth place of the tuscan genius.
In the afternoon of august 13 I entered for the first time in the Uffizi Gallery, a place so full of masterpieces, the Birth of Venus by Botticelli above all, that once out I think I felt the symptoms of the Stendhal’s syndrome: “What I’ve seen!” I was repeating to myself while walking in the town center.
A pretty chaotic town in august, it was much better riding my Vespa in the surrounding campaign. 😉
The 52 photos of the ninth gallery of the journey I did to discover the wonders of the Belpaese are online.
Enjoy them! 🙂
i-muse Financed by Saturno
Some weeks ago I was reading that the astral conjunctions were pretty against my zodiacal sign, the Lion, and that Saturn was the bad planet according to the horoscopes. 😯
However, fortune wanted that it was Regione Lombardia’s Saturn Project to actually bring some luck to the project I devoted myself together with my team in the last months!
They published an official chart of the entrepreneurial projects admitted to the Action 2 of the Saturn Project providing the financing of the 70% of the immaterial expenses of the financial plan submitted. 😀
Reading my name in the top section of the chart was a satisfaction, even more considering that the number of the submissions was pretty high.
After the useful courses I attended in Mantua for the Action 1 of the Saturn Project, this is a great news that makes all the i-muse team more at ease about the expenses we have to face in order to complete the PDA guide and begin its promotion.
We’re almost there! 😉
7th National Vespa Meeting Town of Mantua
Being in the middle of more than 500 people sharing the same passion for a two wheels transportation vehicle become legend was a feeling I wouldn’t ever thought to feel when I purchased my Vespa GTS exactly two years ago. 🙂
On last sunday, together with Egidio and Andrea, two members of the Vespa Club Como, I attended the 7th National Vespa Meeting organized by the Vespa Club Mantova, a town that reserved for me some other pleasant surprises thanks to the Saturn Project.
The day was intense and even more pleasant thanks to the fact that I finally met again the three Vespa riders from Mantua I met by chance in Tuscany during the Vespatour: Alberto, Angelo and Claudio. 😀
To them I send special thanks for their welcoming and see you soon to the next meeting, the Vespa World Days in San Marino!
The Virtual Tailor Ready for the Real Market
Posted by Albegor in Como, Net-Tailor on May 10, 2007
The handshake with Cleto Orefice, the “Virtual Tailor in Cernobbio”, celebrates the delivery of the latest version of the Net-tailor software, right in front of the system made with the scientific coordination of the Centro Volta, in particular with the engineer Matteo Baracani.
While I was implementing a series of modifications and improvements he requested, Cleto began studying the market and setting up the marketing plan, fundamental elements to be able to place his innovative system on the market.
From what I’ve seen so far the favorable conditions do exist and the system could be soon deployed in Italy and abroad.
A real good luck to Cleto the virtual tailor then! 🙂
For the technical side of things he already knows he can count on me. 😉
Vespatour 2006 Part 8: Pontedera and Livorno
For a Vespa rider visiting the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera it’s like a sort of pilgrimage to the Mecca, the origin of everything, where you have to go at least once in your life.
Pontedera was an obvious stop of the Vespatour and while visiting the museum I had the feeling to assist to the celebration of a myth.
While I was watching the video of Corradino D’Ascanio on the Pda-guide available to visitors I was impressed by the easy and friendly way with which he explained how he designed the Vespa.
A confirmation of the fact that simple ideas are the best ones. 🙂
After a day spent at the museum, in the evening I had a nice surprise in Livorno, in the workshop of Marco Quaretta, Peter Moore’s friend, author of the book that inspired my journey around Italy: I found Sophia, the Vespa Peter used for his tour. I couldn’t believe it! 😀
Enjoy the 59 photos of the eighth gallery of the Vespatour celebrating the Vespa, a little airplane that one day left his wings in the sky to become a myth on earth..
Vespatour 2006 Part 7: Pisa
Do you know why they call Field of Miracles the famous square in Pisa where the Duomo, the Baptistery, the Monumental Camposanto and the even more famous Leaning Tower are located?
Because the poet D’Annunzio was so impressed when he saw it that he described it as “Meadow of Miracles” in his 1910’s work “Forse che sì, forse che no”. 🙂
I’ve already been there when I was a child, but on 11 august 2006, after spending the whole day there I built a pleasant memory of the view of the perfectly proportioned buildings and the harmonious spaces among them.
Not to speak of the Tower and the treasures stored inside the Opera del Duomo Museum where I met a guide who explained me the origin of the square’s name and also allowed me to try the PureForm system in the museum.
I hope the 60 photos of the seventh gallery of the Vespatour will give back some of this miracle in Pisa. 🙂
Vespatour 2006 Part 6: Lucca
Lucca is a town of magic!
On august 10, 2006, when I visited it for the first time, fifth stop of my solo-journey around Italy I called Vespatour, I immediately felt at ease, almost safe, protected by the 4 Km long wall surrounding the town since centuries.
I discovered it thanks to the visit with an audioguide: the walk upon the walls, the towers with the roof-gardens, the churches, the oval square, the historical locals, the elegant San Frediano hostel, the delicious Tuscan slang and a detail representing the style and harmony of this italian jewel: the manholes shaped like the walls perimeter! 😀
I think I could live there and I’ll get back to Lucca for sure to be able to see it from the top of the Guinigi Tower, something I wasn’t able to do.
I hope the photos of the sixth gallery of the Vespatour will give you back some of Lucca’s magic. 😉
Enjoy the photos!