SUNDAY WHEATHER REPORT : a garden is the best alternative therapy

fioriscono i girasoli
ma il primo temporale
ne fa cadere alcuni


stanno ora appesi 
al muro del magazzino
raccolti in mazzo
legati con lo spago


in attesa come gli altri
di nutrire con le loro sementi
i passeri e le cinciallegre

sunflowers bloom
in the summertime
but the storm
made down some

now they hang upsidedown
tied up with string

like other waiting 
to feed the sparrows 

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Four picture of Venice the day before the first day of lockdown march 7, 2020

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blocknote drawing, poesy and photographs all by rinaldo rasa, july 2020.

sunday july 26, 2020

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sunday wheather report : the sky above

 

acrylic painting on paper, spring 2020, by rinaldo rasa

Questi molti giorni e mesi passati portano a delle riflessioni sulla conduzione sociale della nostra vita. Indubbiamente davanti al pericolo di morire per una influenza al tempo di internet e dei viaggi spaziali è davvero una cosa singolare, inaspettata.

Over many days and weeks bear the thoughts around social behavior of our life. The danger of contracting a mortal flu in the age of Internet and space travels is really strange and unexpected thing.

Davanti a questa realtà si possono avere idee molto diverse ma su una non possiamo transigere : noi viviamo in una società globalizzata e non serve a niente minacciare accusando un particolare popolo di avere infettato il mondo.

About it we can have differences of opinion but we are in agreement about the fact we live in an increasingly globalised society so it is pointless charging some particular people of infecting the whole world.

Mi ricordo i primi anni ’60 quando c’era la corsa agli armamenti atomici e molte nazioni faceva esplodere bombe nucleari, io al tempo ero un ragazzino e fui molto impressionato dalla possibilità che le rivalità tra nazioni potessero distruggere l’esistenza stessa del pianeta. Forse allora ebbi per la prima volta il concetto di democrazia e in senso lato della “politica”.

I remember the early 1960s when it was the nuclear arms race, I was a kid then and I was very impressed by the possibility that the rivarly between nations could destroy the planet. May be since then I started thinking about Democracy or in more general sense about Politics.

Noi tutti siamo abituati alle città e guardandoci attorno troviamo normale essere circondati da edifici, strade, veicoli etc. i nostri occhi e la nostra mente si sono assuefatti a quest’ambiente. E sebbene il traffico stradale sia diminuito in questi mesi di lockdown l’impatto visivo non è così grave. Mi chiedevo però quale fosse quel senso di straniamento che provavo, insomma qualcosa di strano era accaduto al paesaggio.

Living in cities, noise traffic
decreased in lockdown time
but anyway
landscape was something strange
with me.

Infine ho trovato la risposta. Il cielo della terraferma veneziana normalmente è solcato dalle strisce bianche dei jet di linea ed è raro guardare il cielo e non capire se quella è veramente una nuvola oppure la rimanenza di una scia d’aereoplano. Da mesi il cielo è come lo vedeva Canaletto, le nuvole sono nuvole e nient’altro, non c’è confusione.

And finally… I find the answer : usually sky above
venetian mainland is with white stripes by aeroplanes
up in the sky but air traffic was blocked by
epidemics hence sky is precisely the same
saw by a Canaletto. The clouds was clouds and nothing else.

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Intermezzo filosofico

La nostra civiltà occidentale è basata sull’individualismo che portato alla esasperazione sconfina nel vedere solamente se stessi come unica realtà. Il campione di questa idea è il filosofo Kierkegaard e la sua idea di singolarità. Quando però il filosofo già malato si accorse di essere prossimo alla morte cercò l’aiuto delle persone vicine di casa per essere portato all’ospedale. In ciò dimostrando che c’è un limite all’egocentrismo e infine dobbiamo umilmente accettare il fatto che non siamo soli e abbiamo necessità della compassione sociale.

A philosophical interlude

Western civilization is founded on individualism that borders on overrating our “I”. Kierkegaard extremed this philosophical position but when the sick philosopher realized that he was at the point of death sought help from the neighbords. He was taken to hospital. In practice egocentrism is limited, we have to humbly accept social compassion is more important than anything else.

<quote>

“The Empiricists preferred to concentrate on the factual, as exemplified in the greek philosopher who respond to the Eleatic philosophers’ claim that there is no movement by silently walking back and forth”

– Arnold Gehlen, The Certain of Irrational Experience. [Man: His Nature and Place in the World, 1988 Columbia University Press]

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The Church of Greeks in Venice, march 7, 2020

photograph by rinaldo rasa

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sunday 7 june 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : two months of lockdown

something about troglodytes troglodytes.

In the 50s (when I was child) was given to me a book carefully kept for sixty years on my bookshelf.

At that time there was nothing if not the drawing to successfully represent things. Photography was expensive even black and white. My parents always told me I was talented in recopying birds illustrated in the book. What to say except that handmade drawings reveal information hard to find with photography? As time passes everything is idealized, maybe I wasn’t so good in drawing and my parents were just nice to me. Fact remains that for several reasons the book survived over the years until today.

Something fascinating is the latin names of birds that curator of ornithology drawings has put as caption.

During my childhood was not difficult in the garden among twigs and foliage to see a small bird as a wren. But what a surprise his Latin name is

Troglodytes troglodytes
not just one but twice named as
troglodyte

such a small and lovely animal. Troglodyte is associated with a rough caveman of prehistoric times! Perhaps Linnaeus in his taxonomy had a playful moment with the wren.

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Today is a strange time so I remember Piazza San Marco (Saint Mark Square) before the lockdown that I photographed on morning 7 March 2020.

digit scan images from book “Uccelli” (“Birds”) and venice photographed by rinaldo rasa

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sunday may 10, 2020

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sunday wheather report : week five of covid-19 lockdown

my last photograph of venice rialto bridge taken at noon march 7, 2020 before the lockdown

 

 

This is a dream I made during these days of lockdown. In short I am on way going shopping at the supermarket but just all of a sudden I realize I do not wear face mask I forgot at home. Then I go home and tell to my mother “I am back just because I forgot the mask“.

 

You may say : what is so odd about that?

 

Yeah, well, I found inusual to disregard the existing rules about lockdown covid-19 but instead I think it is natural to talk to my mother died about twenty years ago.

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photograph and flowers by andy warhol(1970) detournement (2005) by rinaldo rasa

 

 

SUNDAY APRIL 19, 2020

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sunday wheather report : springtime

for easter day

enjoy the good old times feelings

 

i got my first digital camera in 2001, it was springtime— now it’s time travel during fourth week lockdown—

vibrant colors of pixels, long download, that was a different time, just different. as subject of my photographs was the venice mainland (named venice-mestre) where my house. here my very first pictures of a small farm with animals, hens and rabbits , a country home in town. i cannnot believe nineteen years passed since.

 

what happened to the small farm?

 

here a picture i taken in 2003

 

 

and at last 2006 the small farm was razed to build a parking lot. the last picture i took on april 8, 2006

 

but doesn’t lose hope, everything changes but the pixels wrote an everlasting memory.

picture taken by rinaldo rasa— 2001, 2003, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

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sunday april 12, 2020

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wheather report : third week venice lock down for covid-19

I didn’t know which one was the picture to represent the lock down for covid-19 during this month and coming across my collected pictures I found this one.

The heavy snowfall on March two years ago.

Waving adieu to March 2020.

we hope for better

photograph by rinaldo rasa taken in venice,

near the san trovaso bridge 1th week of march 2018

 

 

 

 

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tuesday march 31, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report: March 8, 2020

Silent Spring in Venice

 

In the deserted city. Venice waterbus running without passengers,
the railroad station seen at noon without people at the same time
normally crowded. The gondoliers w/out tourists by the Bridge of
Sighs, while thoughtful cat walk alone.

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all pictures taken in venice, italia by rinaldo rasa, first week of march 2020

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sunday march 8, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : March The First 2020

Everybody knows that corona virus arrived in Italy therefore one has to be careful about, but Venice is an irresistible city : here the masked painters at work.

 

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All the famous Venetian museums closed.

 

 

 

 

Banksy in Venice. (Ponte San Pantalon, near Campo Santa Margherita).

all photographs by rinaldo rasa

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sunday march 1, 2020

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Wheather Report : Mardi Gras 2020

The last day of Carnival (Mardi Gras) in Venice presents itself in an unusual way, few tourists around, gray sky.

Here are some photographs.

 

 

 

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The cat is inside.

 

 

all pictures taken in venice february 2020 by rinaldo rasa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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tuesday february 25, 2020

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SUNDAY WHEATHER REPORT : Wolfang Amadeus Mozart was here two hundred years ago

Carnival in Venice is just around the corner. After the big flood and fear of contagion people come back to find these carnival days, it is a good news because the mask has win against the “mask”.

Anyway I have found this label on the wall, the sign says “Here stayed a 15 years old Wolfang Amadeus Mozart during Carnival 1771 having fun.” All right, you would say, what’s the scoop? Venice the city is full of memorie like that.

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So here are the pictures of “view from the bridge” series… oh I forgot : the house where Mozart was is at “Ponte dei barcaroli o dei cuoridoro” ( translation: gondoliers bridge hearts of gold ) and the cat was looking near the Tintoretto house.

picture taken by myself in venice february 14, 2020

 

 

 

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sunday february 16, 2020

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