“Imagine you are a deer. You have essentially only four things to do during the day: sleep, eat, avoid being eaten and socialize (by which I mean mark a territory, pursue a member of the opposite sex, nurse a fawn, whatever). There is no real need to do much else. Now imagine you are a … Read More
Nested in the Norman palace in Palermo there’s a chapel decorated with mosaic of unparalleled elegance. But wait, there’s more, much more. This small 32-meter-long church built in 1132, combines harmoniously a variety of styles: the Norman architecture and door decor, the Arabic arches and ceiling designs and script adorning the roof, the Byzantine dome … Read More
Bam! That blue, the orange, the green, the red, and the black turning in to… maroon. Almost too much. It happened in Florence, when wandering around without a specific destination that all of a sudden I got hit by a screaming combination of colors. The poster on the wall was promoting Joan Miró exhibition in … Read More
I love playing chess, and one common cliché is that the mark of chess players is that they can see a number of moves ahead. That may be true in some simple positions with very limited number of pieces on the board, but the reality is that even the best chess player cannot calculate so … Read More
I remember when man landed on the moon. I was just a little kid in Italy — electrified by the sheer genius of the idea and of what it took to get there. Parked in front of the TV, eyes as wide as saucers, it didn’t matter that it was in the middle of the … Read More