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Eco-fitness: sports becomes green

November 13th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Lotus flower“Nourish the inner aspect” is the motto of Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s website dedicated to lifestyle.
Simple recipes, places to visit, green things to do. The project tries to raise awareness on eastern philosophy: nourish the spirit while rediscovering the little things of everyday life. Very zen!

GreengymPerhaps, I’ve found a good reason to go to the gym: you can generate electric energy while riding a bike! It’s so cool to control both the calories you burn and the watts you produce. Twenty minutes of hard pedaling and you can recharge your iPod! Too bad,  there are only eco-gyms in Oregon and Hong Kong.

Anyway, there are plenty of choices for eco-sustainable workouts in Italy!
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Festival: an invasion of our cities

November 11th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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A winter fairy tale by Gaja LucchiniIf you’re in Milan until 16 November, you could catch sight of cascading, enchanted princesses in the window of the Coin department store. Don’t be alarmed. It’s all part of the (con)Temporary Art show taking place in Milan’s Tortona district. This unique event is a contemporary art festival being hosted in coffee shops, bars, stores and hotels.

100 Pure Love - Nhow Design HotelBonbons, sinuous shapes and a romantic atmosphere are the theme of “100% Pure Love”, the exhibition in the new Nhow Art Design Hotel, the first ever museum-hotel in Italy.

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Do-it-yourself interior design

November 6th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Home sweet homeHave you just bought a new home or feel like redecorating your current one?
Firstly, you can go to the Get decorating.com website,  which is the best place to find interior design and decorating ideas. You can find inspiration browsing through its numerous articles on and photos of actual home plans! Once you get into the gallery, you can choose the category you are interested in and view all the decorating details you might need.
Along with the many cool insights offered by architects and designers, at Architectural Digest you can take a tour of celebrity homes. Even just out of curiosity!

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Retro technology: once upon a time there was hi-tech

November 4th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Eton-Fr250During one of my many attempts to restyle my grandmother’s apartment, I took possession of a strange orange “box-radio“. I was going to take it to the dump until a well-informed colleague of mine insisted that it was a real piece of design history!

BrionvegaHold on! Her old radio – on permanent loan on my desk – is a mix between a brand new Eton F250 and a shiny Brionvega. 
The only (irrelevant) difference is that it doesn’t have USB, MP3 or iPod ports.

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Panos 2013: artistic street signs

October 30th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Panos 2013- cloud riding is forbidden

Cloud-riding is forbidden.
Freaky-thinking is forbidden.
Access to vandals is forbidden.
Upside-down bus transit is forbidden.

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Autumn books

October 28th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Do you have any alternatives to watching the same old TV programs?
I’m building a tall stack of books on my coffee table for those long nights and Sundays in autumn!

The Road HomeOn top is The Road Home by Rose Tremain, winner of the latest Orange Broadband Prize. It’s a contemporary story about a man named Lev who comes to London from Eastern Europe to get work and send money back to his family. It’s the struggle of a foreigner adapting to the English way of life.
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Black Autumn: horror or chocolate?

October 23rd, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Chocolate scuplture - Play Chocolate 2008Black as chocolate.
My beloved chocolate is going to be celebrated in many different ways, to the delight of gourmets, during Play Chocolate in Perugia, running until 26 October!
If the traditional tour of the producers’ stands is too risky, perhaps it’s better to train your noses at the “Golonaso” exhibition, where you can have fun with the olfactory tasting of all kinds of chocolate bars. Well, that will be very hard for me as I have a bad cold!

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Places of the heart

October 22nd, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Water tank near S.Luca Church in Bologna.jpg

Eco-monsters: areas turned into chaotic parking lots, posters and signs disfiguring monuments, abandoned cement skeletons and illegal buildings in uncontaminated seaside resorts.

Enough! Let’s save Italian cities from ugliness!

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Vintage Passion

October 16th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Chanel spring summer 2009Vintage and retro, that’s what everybody is talking about on the web these days! I love to go rummaging around in vintage markets such as the Montagnola in Bologna or Portobello Road in London. Perhaps this year, with my leather jackets and bags “stolen from my grandma”, I’ll be trendy!

 UltrachicKarl Lagerfeld is setting trends based on the Chanel icon database. Everywhere you go, you see double Cs, pearls and bouclé women suits.
Emerging brands are inspired by the 50s or the Sex Pistols’ punk wave and are showing innovative, but not impossible, women’s wear.

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Travel guides

October 14th, 2008 - posted by Ducky

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Dilemma: online or paperback guides?
Well, considering the vast number available, the only thing I know for sure is that we need a “guide to guides“!

Before planning a trip, which can be a real investment, it is best to get some tips.

The Landau Restaurant LondonThe pocketbook guide Wallpaper is very stylish looking and available for 60 different world capital cities. When I was in London, I made a great impression  on a Scottish friend of mine who told me that the roast beef with applesauce was better than her grandmother’s! Perhaps it was due to the placebo effect created by the restaurant’s Buckingham Palace style furniture. Anyway, as a native of Bologna, I prefer my beloved lasagne!

MoleskineFor major world destinations, you can find suggestions at Tripadvisor, where users are gurus of “do-it yourself” tourism. The blogs at Moleskine are a bit more romantic and written in travel diary style similar to Chatwin. Unfortunately, the number of cities is quite limited.
The next time I go to the States, I’ll check out Zagat to avoid the usual mega-calorie fast food meals. They present just one risk: side effects due to extensive mouthwatering!

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