Weird photos and moments of life – Page 7

Escape: Tuscan countryside

Yes I was escaping, flying away from the city, just for a brief wend.

But it was like going back home, in the countryside of a wonderful area as Tuscany.

That’s why I want to share some pictures with you, to offer you an escape, going deepen in the fields and trees and sun and weird moments of life.

Let’s start the tour from a little town near Arezzo, named Civitella Val di Chiana (exactly where the popular ‘chianina’ is made). Here you are some little snapshots of a huge landscape:

Tuscany - Civitella Val di Chiana — Tuscany – Civitella Val di Chiana

and then, something more particular and weird…

for example, think about those little towns that became popular thanks to their homemade products, as cheese and wine..

The following are Montepulciano’s ‘cantina’ views:

Montepulciano: Ercolani's cantina (1988) — Montepulciano: Ercolani’s cantina (1988)

and the to finish this brief tour (actually it lasted at least 1 hour), here you are the perfect end:

products of Tuscany: wine, cheese, homemade jam, particular smoked ham, lots of..

to finish, just ring the bell if you want to book and taste and enjoy…

Enjoy the rest of the trip in the next article!

– coming soon –

Philately: fabric stamps, luxury brands stamps, artistic and historical stamps of the past.

Spending some days in your own house, the house where you grew old and your family still lives in, always gives you nice surprise and souvenirs from the past. While tidying up one of the room, where all the books are stored, that I found the interesting stamps I’m going to show.

Some are made of fabric (never seen before!) and some seem to be part of a fashion collection, because their illustrations are about specific luxury brands. Then, there is an ‘artistic’ one, that represents a painting by Giorgio Vasari and an ‘historical’ one that shows the boundaries between the Republic of San Marino and Italy.

Here you are the little pieces to collect:

On the top there are luxury brand stamps: Krizia, Dolce & Gabbana, Ferrè, Giorgio Armani, Laura Biagiotti and Prada. On the bottom you can see the stamps made of fabric and they were made to celebrate the art of crochet.

Here you are the second tranche: the first stamp represents a painting by Giorgio Vasari

Also in this picture you can see the Vasari’s one and another stamp about ‘Tintarella di luna‘, which is an old Italian song sung by one of the most popular Italian singer, Mina is her name.

the last one is about the representation of Italian state. In details, the division between Italy and Republic of San Marino:

That’s it for now, see you at next discovery 😉

It’s not a bag!

What I would like to share with you this time, it’s my very enthusiastic discover of last night, in one of the room of my house where I would never expect to find this thing.

As written in the title, when I was in front of it, I totally thought it was a vintage bag, maybe one of the bag of my grandma..or one of my mum’s adolescence. But I was wrong.

Actually, you can have this impression just at first sight, because after some seconds you can realize what is it…

A very old camera, the real vintage mood 🙂 I think it was of my grandpa, and it was completely lost in the frippery of that room. I was completely surprised to find it and imagine its story.

Here you are one more picture:

et voilà: ‘Alfa‘ seems to be the brand of this camera (never heard about it, but I’ll start my research asap), model should be Click II – type Achromat 186 (or maybe not?!)

Now you can understand why I firstly thought it was a little bag from the past – its case is totally made by brown leather and it’s also vintage model – no doutbs..

Anyway, if you know more about this camera history – for example, when it was produced? in which year ? (I also think it must be used with a sort of base, because there’s a little screw on one side, don’t hesitate to write me!

Video about an Italian Radio: Radio Kiss Kiss

Just some words about this post: in the video, they talk about this new phenomenon of Cloud.
Actually it’s one of the most important Italian radio, Radio Kiss Kiss, based in South of Italy, Naples.
Actually, also the more ‘traditional’ channel of communication (that is not traditional anymore), has to compare with the new kind of infrastructure, the Cloud. In fact, radio speakers and managers talk about this moment of transition: how the radio is evolving and decides to base its business on cloud.

The language of the video is Italian, enjoy the video!

Modern Arts, black&white sequence of pictures: find the difference!

Again, you just need to get lost in your city for a while,
to find something very cool,
in an usual gallery,
a place that looks like an old track, a bottleneck.
Here’s the picture N.1 – God:

Here’s the picture N.2 – Love:

and N.3 – Flower:

and here you are N.4 – Matchstick:

Oh well, there’s one last picture I wanna show you, by Mr/Mrs K.
It was not part of the sequence, but was not so far from them…maybe they’re related:

Enjoy them and share with me what they mean for you?

Bye!

Nightlife: those scenes you can see just in those hours

Nightlife, some times I think that nights should last longer. When you don’t have any plans for the night and then suddenly some friends call you to go out and see what to do together, those are the best moments ever. It always happened to come across some scenes that you can only see by chance, if you’re lucky enough.

Here’s what I came across some nights ago, while going towards the poshest street of Florence, maybe of Europe..because of its historical importance and the value of the brands that are located in its shops. Pay attention, you won’t be shown what you supposed to be shown 🙂

You know, we exactly are in Via Antinori,
and ‘Antinori’ it’s the name of one of the most important family in the history of this city. And it’s exactly the corner that leads you to Via Tornabuoni, the poshest street I was referring to before. So why an orange ironing board is there?!

Hence, a not very great scene.And that’s not all! The night it’s not finished yet…
We arrived in Santa Croce area..et voilà!Another weird wall appears to us:
Spermatozoa? Well, I don’t think they’re tadpoles..
but there on the wall? What’s their meaning? The green tag at the bottom right said ‘URBAN’, yes, a urban work of art, but I really don’t know what could it mean, and if you know, please help me to understand 🙂

Junk shops or values of the past?

Here we go, let’s have a walk in the narrows of Florence.

Let’s explore the streets you always avoid because they’re not the main ones, you won’t see any important brand shop windows, you won’t meet anybody and they’re a little scary. But you go on and maybe have some surprise.

I saw a little light, maybe there’s an old house or a little trattoria..but not. Just look at the bottom right of this picture:

The first things that drew the attention it’s the fantastic, smiling and cheerful old plastic doll ‘Susanna’, a myth for all the children, the symbol of mini chees portions that have always been part of the life of any child. Those triangles of cheese that made all the children happy were produced by Invernizzi, a popular Italian brand that became part of the international Krafts Food company. It’s ages that Susanna disappeared from TV – because there were a lot of TV spots about it – so it was really unexpected to see her in this little unknown shop.

And as you can see, you can explore all the variety of things from the past: old photos, old TV and radios, 101 Dalmatians puppets, old plates, guitars and so on.. an entire world of things of the past that sometime helps you remember.

And here’s some other stuff of old memories, pictures, statues, record player, Xmas decorations and weird stuff, it’s to you to find the other ones..All of these pieces could be very appreciated, it’s not so usual to see them, and I don’t think you can buy them on eBay. Maybe this is exactly what keeps them exclusive things.

Just some minutes after this first stop, you can look at a totally different kind of shop. This time it’s not a shop, it’s a gallery, a modern gallery. Exactly the contrary of the previous place.

Let’s try to understand these traffic signals and the re-interpretation of their artist:

Historical aim. Any of them has got a print of some historical-political important character: danger signals, alerts, stops, any of them just advise us of something. This is how any person interprets the things, old junk stuff showed in a window to help remember the past, modern traffic signals that advise for the future.

Let’s finish with this picture:

One Panda by Armani

Post-one-shot.

Just while going all around, randomly,

here you what drew my attention:

Panda by Armani - in Florence — Panda by Armani – in Florence

Nice view: one white Panda car – not very the most recent kind of car – with corn plants on the top of it (or maybe some other plants that look like corn) and then the best… yes, I had to get closer to the car, to confirm I did not mistake.

A white clothes hunger that shows the Armani brand: maybe a suit, a coat or just a jacket.

Sorry for these photos, they are a little bit blurred, but the important was to show you ‘Armani Collezioni’ and share this wonderful scene of everyday life, in Via Verdi, Florence.

Why just the Gold Fish?

Yes this is the question. I don’t really think it’s worth to mention just the Gold one. I support the Blu one. I vote for him.

I vote for the different ones, the ones that are not so official and conventionally known, the ones that are not so common. That’s why they’re more special, because they’re exclusive…you won’t find them at the market, you won’t see them by going to your friends’ home, neither in regular pet shops..

Have a look

what do you think about the anti-gold fish trend?

So nice and sweetie, I introduce you Azul, and its little home.