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Monday, November 29th, 2010100 Days to 100 things challenge
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
- Image by Nomad Photography via Flickr
Decided to unclatter my life and to try to break free from the confining habits of consumerism. I often feel like “stuck in stuff.” My closets, loft and garage are too full of things that don’t really make my life much better, on the contrary they make me feel heavy. So I decided to try the minimalist approach.
But how to get unstuck?
Reduce (get rid of some of your stuff)
Refuse (to get more new stuff)
Rejigger (your priorities)
I totally believe that living without abundance of personal possessions for an extended period of time is the first step we ought to take in order to realize that we don’t need ever-more stuff. If you do this — if you will give up your stuff for a while — I am sure you’ll never go back. You’ll spend the rest of your life creating a more valuable life, instead of wasting your money and time on stuff. You will be glad. And best of all, the people around you will be blessed by your efforts to prioritize more meaningful pursuits.
Related articles
- How to Live with Just 100 Things (time.com)
- Be More with Less (bemorewithless.com)
- Minimalist Approach
- miss minimalist (missminimalist.com)
- Defining minimalism (johndcook.com)
- 10 Zen Approaches to Curing Your Home zen habits (apartmenttherapy.com)
- 4 Strategies for Getting Unstuck (gigaom.com)
Must stop moaning
Friday, November 5th, 2010
- Image by ophelyee via Flickr
I have complained before about the so called Artist Block at least here and just few days ago . Today I realized that I must stop moaning, at least for the time being, and here are few of the reasons:
- I am lucky enough, in this period of my life, to leave in one of the most beautiful and inspiring places of the world: Venice.
- I live very close to the sea, probably 20 meters and I believe the sea is very inspiring
- I live about 100mt from where Tintoretto used to live and work, there are so many of his works close to me that is unbelievable.
- Venice is so rich of libraries, galleries, museums that is so easy to get inspiration.
- Life here is relaxed and at a different pace, so you do not get stressed and have all the time you need to get inspired.
- In Venice lived just to mention some Italian Artists Canova, Canaletto, Vasari, Giorgione, Mantegna, Titian….
No more excuses then!
Related articles
- Visions of Venice 300 years apart (bbc.co.uk)
- Canaletto’s Venice: a city for pleasure seekers (telegraph.co.uk)
- 12 Hours In Venice – Venice, Italy (travelpod.com)
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Internet Needs
Monday, July 26th, 2010
What your email address says about you
Monday, July 19th, 2010
I am not a Playboy
Monday, July 12th, 2010Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a top level intellectual political speech in Milan at the Med Forum, affirmed ” I am not a playboy anymore . I am rather a play old” The guy is unbelievable!
Unfortunately he did not stop there. Mr Berlusconi mentioned as well that he is the inventor of the “cou-cou policy”. The Italian prime minister’s odd choice of words was a reference to an incident two years ago when, at a summit in Trieste, he hid behind a lamp post before springing out in front of Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, with the words “cou-cou” (Italian for “peek-a-boo”).
After recovering from the surprise, Mrs Merkel spread her arms in welcome and said: “Oh, Silvio!”
“I inaugurated a new kind of diplomacy, peek-a-boo diplomacy … a very special kind of politics,” he told a summit of politicians and diplomats from Mediterranean countries in Milan.
14th July 2010: The Spanish (Catalan) Newspaper La Vanguardia has published one of my pictures of the above event
La Vanguardia
14 Jul 2010
Watermelon
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Milan
Saturday, May 29th, 2010Burns Night in London and Kilts
Sunday, January 24th, 2010Few days ago I decided to do a small photographic feature on Burns Night in London. In my search of Scottish life in London I came a across a Kilt maker!
John is a great kilt maker with roots in one of my favourite parts of Scotland has been doing this job for many years and not only knows everything about it but is also passionate and love his job. Obviously he only uses the best Tartan from top mills.
After few minutes in his work shop I felt as I have known John for most of my life. Despite me being in a hurry I think I have spent a good two hours chatting away about a wide range or subjects from Congestion Charge to the traditional London, from crooks to Lord Cadogan…from Dunkeld to Killin.
If you need a kilt and you are in London this is for sure the place to go!
