“Maybe it's madness, maybe it's about dealing with a vision, with something completely new and unknown, maybe it's a waste of time, yet I'm convinced that the road is already traced, we just have to dare to recognize it and follow it.
I wonder if you also guys reading me have yourself a “crazy” vision of life. And I'm not talking about impossible climbs, I'm talking about something new that you are planning, a project in which people around you do not agree much with or they are simply struggling to understand. Maybe you too had a vision that will be real in the future. I hope you won’t give up”
#DanieleNardi January 21st 2019
www.danielenardi.org/2019/01/mummerypost-11-the-journal
Since I was a child I have always been enchanted by the mountains, although I was born by the sea, as I was born in the Eternal City, which yes it is located on the legendary 7 hills but still not exactly immerse in a mountain context. Thanks to my father love for mountaineering and climbing, which he passed on to my whole family, I met mountains, I got to learn about mountaineering, having the chance to spend summers and winters in the Dolomites for our holidays.
I am not a mountaineer, but I am definitely a mountain lover, I am inexplicably attracted by this natural element, towards which I feel an ancestral call, to which I have always attributed many meanings and through which I have pushed myself into many reflections and cogitation.
As a teenager, I had already read many books by Bonatti, Messner and Cassin, almost mythological figures to me, at the time while at the high school I was learning the Greek mythology, on the other hand I was actually choosing my heroes, I found them in mountaineers, in some specific mountaineers. I was feeding my imagination with their stories, and each time I faced and stood in front of any peak or on top of them, I could not help but be fascinated, entering a loop of symbols, thoughts and meanings about life.
I've been lucky enough over the last 10 years, to discover a young, talented, lesser known yet very important person for the Italian and world mountaineering environment that is #DanieleNardi. Daniele is just a bit older than me, he pulled at the heartstrings from the very beginning. He took mountaineering to another level for me. It turned it into something more real and authentic and not mythological, and the fact that he was born and raised not far from Rome, in the heart of the Pontine plain, in Central Italy, well I have to say this made me even more curious about his incredible passion and love for the mountains. High mountains.
I constantly perceived him as a mountaineer “next door”, though I could feel his fire and desire to push boundaries of his knowledge and to explore the unknown to get to know more about himself. A rare personality.
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{Street poetry in the suburbs}
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“sometimes running away is necessary to get away from this daily violence, from a destiny that’s been witten and the fear of not being able to change it. When your dreams stuck in the sky, here where the suns burns our souls yet doesn’t light the way, running away is necessary or you risk dying immerse in grayness. Beyond life and death, hope and desperation, let’s climb the way and enjoy the view”
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When I first saw this wall I had goosebumps, the wall is yelling, so much energy, it tells me a story about strength and courage. And when I then realized it was the first large scale mural ever made by @mosa.one I felt overwhelmed 👏🏻 👏🏻 just brilliant!
So strong, yet so gentle.
The mural features a child climbing up a grey wall to enter a colourful maze of symbols and patterns some calligraffiti recalling his Arabic roots.
It reminded me a bit of @seth_globepainter mural in Tormarancia, Rome made in 2015, where there’s a child climbing up a ladder and peeping into a blue sky vortex.
But Mosa One style is unique as well! If you take a look at his works you immediately realize his talent and trademark!
The quoted words at the beginning of the post are taken from short music video realized during the making of the wall by @yosifkeshk and @noesis_production make sure you see it! Keep up the good work guys 🙌🏻
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{Facing life fearlessly}
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Diamond is one of my fav street artists from Rome, he was one of the first in late 90s evolving from graffiti to mural art, and another aspect that fascinates me about him it’s that his favorite subjects are women, portrayed in dark atmospheres, surrounded by decorative subjects and symbolism (mainly influenced by liberty and art nouveau styles). This is one of his last walls in Rome, painted on a facade in Tor Bella Monaca neighbor, eastern suburb of Rome. This is probably one of the most powerful mural from his production, and it’s called “No surrender” and it does not go unnoticed: a red background where a woman is depicted with a knife pointed at her throat. It may seem like a violent image, but this is obviously a metaphor. The woman represents all the people who live under the pressures of our contemporary western society, where people and values appear to have lost all kind of humanity and mercy. The woman represents the lack of choice in the daily life - especially those people living in the edge of society. The knife represents threats and constraints.
The artist's message is anything but violent: it is a call to act and react with dignity. Look at this woman's wary gaze...it’s so powerful and passionate it definitely penetrates you with a vigilant intensity. (Side note: any controversy about the meaning of this mural is just useless)
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{Love on the outskirts of town}
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cit. Because of you, I found out what love is
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I love my city so much, I love its bold beauty, what everyone knows, I love her secrets and hidden gems, I love its suburbs, the city outskirts, I love exploring and discovering authenticity and fascinating yet neglected urban symbolism.
I’m pretty comfortable with prying eyes, scraped concrete walls, unheard stories.
For those of you who are fortunate to live in large cities, please give yourself the chance to experience what your city hides, what is faded from view....you will be surprised to know your city best kept secrets, hidden in the shadow and known only to few
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{Whatever you do, don't let anything kill the dreamer in you}
I was immersed in my everyday work, when suddenly I couldn’t help but hearing like a voice whisper distantly. Something kind of caught my attention.
I raised my head and looked behind the curtains through my room window. This was stunning, magnificent. My inner child came out all of a sudden, my eyes popped out and filled up watching this colorful rainbow “originating” so close from where I was standing. I had to stop and admire its beauty for ten very long minutes.
The rainbow must be more than a natural phenomenon, must be definitely something magical, a tunnel made up of swirling energy of colour or a bridge made of sunbeams and drops flowing in the air taking you and your imagination suddenly far away on a spin cycle to the realm of unicorns 🦄 🌈
well, what about Lisbon pastel colors?
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Along the Tagus River edge in the Belem District sits the serpentine structure of new MAAT Museum. The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology was opened on October 2016, and was designed by British @amandalevetearchitects. Its conception was entirely funded from the contemporary vision of the EDP Foundation – the philanthropic arm of Portugal’s electricity supplier.
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The MAAT building with its sinuous shapes and lines links together the river to Lisbon’s riverfront, literally inviting you to explore and walk along the river’s edge, blending structure into landscape and lifting people up, as you can also walk up the roof above, where to admire an amazing view!
🆘 Save Our Seas 🆘
Discarded plastic makes 8️⃣5️⃣ % of the garbage in beaches around the world and while the problem is at our feet, we tend to easily forget the issue...
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In Lisbon I visited the new contemporary art venue MAAT where in the oval gallery you can literally dive into the matter of plastic pollution, thanks to Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata installation called “OverFlow”. He takes you reflecting on overconsumption and waste: the artist used the garbage handpicked from Portuguese shores by @brigada_do_mar to create such a immersive installation together with collective @os.espacialistas “OverFlow” is an assemblage of plastic bottles, styrofoam coolers and other sea-dredged debris – including two intact boats. The artwork is suspended in the MAAT oval gallery and you can view it from above, where it appears as a tumultuous wave of plastic, the fishing lines used to stabilize the whole thing are almost imperceptible. You can then walk down the winding path that leads to the level below; there, the feeling is one of immersion, like you’re literally under water, into the mesmerizing play of light and shadow shaped by debris.
You feel suffocating, you can breathe the heaviness of humans’ addiction to plastic and its unsustainable consumption. This is an urgent wake up call.
🆘 Save Our Seas 🆘
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• unexpected wonder in the middle of Lisbon •
Estufa Fria is a huge covered greenhouse in Lisbon, a gorgeous indoor tropical forest, a jungle amidst concrete.
This green space was built in an old clay pit in the heart of Lisbon, which at the beginning of 19 cent. has been closed as they discovered the presence of a water spring that started compromising the extraction of stone. The site has been converters, in 1933 the botanical garden was officially inaugurated and today it’s definitely an oasis and quite magical place to visit here in Lisbon. Not much tourists actually come here, when I visited there were only a few people and at some points it seemed to have the place only to myself. It is a great place to escape the confusion of all the touristical places, a visit can last as long as you'd like (I’ve stayed 45 min, but if you have time you can even bring a book and sit there for the entire afternoon)
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Ci sono moltissime cose da fare e vedere a Mantova, a buon titolo Capitale italiana della Cultura per il 2016 – ma siccome in genere mi piace essere il più originale possibile, a guidarci per il capoluogo lombardo sarà Davide, un mantovano doc, molto appassionato della sua città, che ha pensato per il blog un itinerario davvero particolare, che non troverai sulle guide. 
