Can you believe that my grandparents, Rhona and Victor Gorvy have been married for 60 years as of today???
THATS FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!! This year is amazing. Sister Lara turns 30, Rho and Vic have their 60th Anniversary, Father Jacob turns 60, and Matriarch Granny Gertrudel turns 90!!! Wow. Anyway, the world should be in awe of Rhona and Victor’s relationship. 69 years later, they are the cutest couple that function in (almost) perfect harmony… The (almost) is a negligable issue -> simply understand that we should all aspire to this kind of lasting love. All my love to my whole family on this momentous celebration of two people we all care for.
Archive for March, 2006
60 YEARS!!
Friday, March 31st, 2006Viareggio Carnivale & Capoeira
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Im doing some of that non-linear posting again… The morning after I got home from my brief trip to SA for Rhona’s exhibition, I went straight to Viareggio with my Capoeira group! We joined another school associated with our group for some fun capoeira action during their famous Carnivale. Aside from the fact that I was so incredibly exhausted and literally CRASHED upon arrival – it was an awesome experience – especially when followed by the Uber famous Venice Carnivale the following weekend.
Suffice it to say we had a magnificent time – playing capoeira in the mad carnivale energy, and seeing the serious attitude people had to wearing ridiculous outfits ;-) My two favorite moments were: Seeing people dressed in their costumes riding their motorbikes in a frenzy to join the other crazies; and a group of five or so Elvis’ pushing their Elvis Shrine (very VERY drunk) The shrine was playing elvis tunes for the world to see. It was beautiful.
just over a year later…
Monday, March 27th, 2006As of the 14th of this month – 13 days ago – I have been here over a year. So this is my opportunity to recap.
:Top reasons for loving it here:
- Im living in Italy; Learning Italian; Learning to cook; Learning Capoeira; Meeting interesting people from around the world; Living in a different culture; I share my apartment with a Thai Ice Cream designing lass named Prima, and an Italian improvisational saxophonist named Diego; I walk through a city thats been around for a couple of centuries… walking the same cobbled (read: uneven as hell) streets that people have been walking for centuries; and well… just taking in a whole lot of wonderful things. Plus its kinda like being in high school again
:Top reasons for being frustrated:
- I work for an organization that is totally lost; Ive worked on a number of projects – some for a short period of time, and others for a long period of time… But for almost all of them, the result is the same: It gets swallowed up by inconsistency, bureaucracy, lack of creativity, and an obvious lack of vision. Fabrica is such an interesting place. It is full of potential – almost bursting at the seams with people who are desperate to make marvelous incredible things – but more often than not, their ideas are misunderstood – or don’t fit within a vision that is supposed to be Fabrica’s – though they really don’t know what their vision is anymore. Also its a lot like high school… Sometimes you want to get away from the gossip (although most of the time you REALLY want to know whats been going on with everyone else that you’re so close to so often!
Fabrica is changing. Theres no doubt about it. I don’t know how long its going to take before Toscani’s vision of a creative hub disappears, and gets replaced with emotionless corporate fun.
I’m a little on the cynical side tonight. But its because Ive been seeing the frustration grow in all my colleagues / friends eyes.
The up side is that its spring, and there are some potentially interesting projects that could… well probably won’t (but lets be optimistic) COULD make their way to completion! Heres hoping ;-)
er… hello??? Is there anybody still managing this blog?
Monday, March 13th, 2006Its been a while.
So much to do / say / recommend etc.
Things that are gonna be dealt with in the near future:
- Uploading a BOATLOAD of pictures to my flickr library – with mini explanations and all the other important stuff;
- Mention something important about my gran’s exhibition – which was just extraordinarily successful!
- Mention a few stories of interest from the last few weeks…
A quick recap though: Went to South Africa again for the exhibition. Ran around like a motivated headless chicken. Almost missed my flight, got drunk, met people, did an UPGRADE!, saw friends, saw family, experienced first-hand a little about the SA art world, erm…. and oh yes! Went kitten shopping with the fam. (It turns out the two they chose were not connected to the ones we looked at before hehehehehehe…. But was really cool to play with little kitties…)
Then: BACK to Italia (pre-spring). And back to the wonderful world of super beurocracy – where decisions are made based on blood relations more so than the relevance of that decision. It is a VERY different place to south africa. Read ann’s blog for a decent idea of the bullshit we have to deal with. I am not entirely certain whether its possible to actually finish anything here… Or in fact REALLY get it started… (But is that the fault of the fabrica system? Or an inadequacy of my own? Hmmmm….
Anyway, so what Im busy with now is a few short projects. But most importantly – its all about data reorganization right now! Too many backups of the same shit – too much confusion. My brain hurts.
Back again soon.