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Assignment 1 for #ds106–A Short I Shot Myself

At last I dare publish the first assignment of a short story about myself for the Digital Storytelling class #ds106 of Jim Groom. It’s simply awful, and the shots didn’t come out clean, I know. I edited two little segments, … Continue reading

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Wanted, but not Welcome

Wanted, but not welcome This is the video presented some days ago in Milan, completely shot with migrants’ cellphones. It tells the hard story of people who escape their fate in Africa and try their fortune going north. They first … Continue reading

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Crystal Plumage

The bird with the Crystal Plumage is a complicated title in English, Image via Wikipedia but wonderfully cryptic in Italian. It happens to be Dario Argento’s first title. A classic thriller, one of the first to develop many of the … Continue reading

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Dear Vincent (Price)

Image via Wikipedia I will never forget The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971!) and its Vincent Price performance. I love Vincent Price, period. And this movie is probably precursor to lots of horror cliches, along with the baroque theme of what … Continue reading

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Apple, Corporations and Censorship

Every now and then, in our so called free world, we must talk about censorship. This is a story of media and the freedom of the press, which is put in danger, in the US and elsewhere -in fact, everywhere- … Continue reading

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