wheather report : last day of autumn 2020

Sometimes we talk and appear to be very smart. But suddenly someone explains what we said making us seem less smart than we thought: always we listen our own internal language then we speak. We need instead someone must explain what we really said.

 

there three cats near tintoretto house in venice

 

 

gheto novo [venetian ghetto square]

 

grand canal

 

saint mark square

 

catullus alley

 

Passer, deliciae meae puellae, quicum ludere, quem in sinu tenere, cui primum digitum dare appetenti et acris solet incitare morsus, cum desiderio meo nitenti carum nescio quid lubet iocari, et solaciolum sui doloris, credo, ut tum gravis acquiescat ardor: tecum ludere sicut ipsa possem et tristis animi levare curas!	Gaio Valerio Catullo, Carme II
catullus translated by rinaldo rasa	A sparrow together to my little young woman kept on her lap for her delight, she plays with him fingertips touch his beak, when I am sad I would to be like you my little young woman have a break forgetting pain …

 

blub street art

all pictures taken in venice november 2020 by rinaldo rasa

 

 

 

 

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monday november 30, 2020

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sunday wheather report : yellow lockdown november 2020 and other things

Venetian lands are in yellow lockdown,

the least worrying level of alarm but in any case the Covid pandemic is not over: the months to come will give some answers.People wear face masks and in most cases they have understood  the situation is serious and does not joke with the disease by underestimating the dangers as some politicians have done and still continue doing despite it is clear that they were wrong.

In the Venetian territory there was the first death of covid in the Western World and perhaps this led to the local authorities having decided to face the danger to public health in a decisive way.

and also a painting by John Sargent of the same subject.

https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/rio-dei-mendicanti-venice

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… and some other snapshots of the Old City

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street art

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all pictures taken  in venice, italy half november 2020 days

sunday november 15, 2020

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WHEATHER REPORT: Halloweenesque Venice 2020

Waving October (…it is still 2020) Halloweenesque Venice 2020 Qualcosa su Halloween e Venezia… In this pandemic year it is a very difficult thinking about Halloween, however here is something you can still come up with. Taking a cue from the labyrinthine Venice and the name ancient Venetians gave to small streets inside the city. As a semi-professional wanderer in the city I found these locations interesting and their names matching a halloweenesque feeling, at least I believe few cities in the world have similar street names. Alley of Murders (Rio Tera’ dei Assassini) Bridge of Rippers (Ponte dei Squartai) Alley of Deads (Calle dei Morti) thanks everybody i love you all stay tuned! all photographs taken by rinaldo rasa, last week of october in venice, italy

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saturday october 31, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : Venice on Late October 2020

This is a difficult year for everyone and I want to illustrate it with photographs that I hope will help.

Tom Cruise and the Mission Impossible film crew temporarily blocked in Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio due to the epidemic.

 

all photographs taken by rinaldo rasa in venice on october 2020

 

 

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sunday october 25, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : Early Autumn 2020 in Venice

a half gondola, a cat, two pigeons and … business is picking up again.

all pictures taken by rinaldo in venice, late september early october 2020

 

 

 

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sunday october 3, 2020

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SUNDAY WHEATHER REPORT : let’s go straight a new season

Venice mid-September 2020.

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Noah drunken in a statue at the corner of Palazzo Ducale in Venice.

Questa primavera ed estate mi sono dedicato a far crescere una vigna. Ecco i frutti.

This spring and summer I dedicated myself growing a vineyard. Here are the fruits.

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Crowded City. Good news.

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A greengrocer in a boat. (At Ponte dei Pugni)

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Piazza San Marco sunny day.

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San Canzian

John Sarget revised, Campo San Cancian

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all photographs taken in venice on september 12, 2020 by rinaldo rasa

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sunday september 13, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : end of august 2020 in venice

Venice in a glance.

Agosto è finito e tutti noi guardiamo avanti e pensiamo come saranno i prossimi mesi. Siamo indecisi cosa significhi il ritorno alla normalità dopo tutti questi mesi di epidemia.

August is over and we are all looking forward and thinking about what the next few months will be like. We are undecided what the return to normal means after all these months of epidemic.

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all photographs taken by rinaldo rasa in venice, saturday 22, 29 august 2020

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sunday august 30, 2020

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Sunday Wheather Report : after five months, my first wandering in the old City

Venice

on saturday morning

August 8, 2020

Dopo 5 mesi di lockdown tornato a venezia in tram da Mestre. In tram tutti i passeggeri, nessuno escluso, usavano la mascherina. Se un anno avessi indossato la mascherina sarei stato considerato strano, invece oggi è diventato normale.

Ovviamente la Città, non è affollata, insomma non segue gli ordinari standard estivi, ma si nota una ripresa.

Speriamo bene e che l’autunno in arrivo non ci porti brutte sorprese.

Walking through Venice after five months of lockdown. I arrived by tram and pleasantly surprised noticed all people with mask anticovid thus they demostranting to be very smart.

Of course the City is not so crowded as during past summers but there’s hope.

Here some snapshots I took yesterday morning.

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all photograpraphs by rinaldo rasa – august, 2020

 

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sunday august 9, 2020

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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.

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“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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