Calcio, Campo Santa Margherita: 8 April 2012

These kids are now adults--I wonder how many of them still live in Venice. And I wonder if kids today can still play like this in the campo, as a few years ago non-resident/Mr-conflict-of-interest Mayor Brugnaro began to crack down on play in the public spaces, since so much of the space had been given over to restaurants for seating. In other words, in order to allow tourists the "authentic experience" of dining in a Venetian campo, what little remained of spontaneous, authentic Venetian life had to be eradicated. This is the perverse and destructive logic of mass tourism. 

 

 

 

 

Riding Low at the Start of a Work Day, Grand Canal

10 April 2017

What News on the Rialto?: Ruga dei Oresi (Color)

I posted a not-very-good b/w version of this 7 years ago and wanted to see if I could do better with color now (taken 4 March 2018)

Entrance Stairs, Ca' Fornoni

31 March 2018

Late Afternoon, Early Spring (Campo Santa Margherita)

22 March 2015

Ritratto di un Uomo Libero: Gigi Miracol

21 March 2014

Gigi Miracol, who, like Odysseus, might truly be called a "man of many ways" (in the ancient Greek sense of abilities/skills) and who was an important contributor to many of the events I covered in this blog--as in this winemaking video, for example, in which he provides the live accompaniment, and for the celebration of the spring equinox above--is now the eponymous subject of a documentary whose Italian title I've borrowed for this post itself (Portrait of a Free Man, in English). 

It's been recently screened in Venice and other places in Italy, and you can watch its trailer here. 

Angel in Late Afternoon Light

19 March 2013