Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Death of a party
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
People, world, Monocle
CaféBabel Copenhagen. Monocle. Radio Monocle.
Back to London?
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Monday, 15 August 2011
Cooking and pictures
I like composing them, looking at colours and shapes, but unfortunately I am not good at taking pictures. They are flat, with no souls. Basically, like for many other things, I have no patience to learn.
BUT, today I shot a good one. I mean, nothing extremely good, nor original, cause that is the kind of picture you find in many cooking blogs but...still...it's a beginning!

FULDKORN PITA MED SPRøD GRøNT
Det var lækkert!
YAY!
Sunday, 14 August 2011
Do you believe in astrology?
I confess....sometimes i find hard not to...
Gemini is fresh and playful, with a carefree spirit. His relentless curiosity keeps him young for a long time, constantly updated, ready to catch any change or innovation. Gemini wants to know as much as possible, making the experience more diverse, he is very good ad adapt to different people and environments. Equipped with a quick and agile mind, he immediately grasps the essential aspects of every situation.
The nature of Gemini is essentially the brain. The core of his personality is the mind filters through which he filters each stimulus and external event, emotions included.
Gemini is a brilliant speaker and witty entertainer. However, he misses a certain emotional detachment that often keeps him away from emotional involvements. Gemini is intellectually lively and quick, imaginative and versatile. He has literary qualities, but sometimes he is shallow, due to his fickleness of tastes. Moreover, the restless research for new experiences and freedom makes him reclutant to respect commitments.
Gemini gets tired quickly, often changing idea attracted to now stimuli that keep boredom away.
From a Gemini, do not expect understanding or solidarity in difficult times.
Gemini look for a partner that is both a friend and a lover.
Gemini betrays especially with the thought. He can fall in love just glimpsing on a bus or can is attracted for the person most disagreeable person, because he is convinced that some uncommon features hide wonderful secrets. Gemini is definitely the sign of those who "think too much".
Be his confident, be his complice, that's the best tool to domesticate Gemini.
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
n.2. a story to tell
What you are participating in is halfway between a social experiment and a writing therapy approach.
Few weeks ago, I made a list of receivers. They don’t have a real connection the ones with the others, a part that I have something I've never told them. Among them: a couple of friends, an ex boyfriend, two relatives, and a semi-stranger. This is not a 40 years old crisis. Rather the opposite. I am doing well lately. Well, better than last winter for sure. I would call it more a turning point, towards what though...i still don’t know.
Tonight, my list says I should write to you. This is the second letter of the seven I planned to write. The non-relation with you it’s a part of my incomplete puzzle.
Yeah, well…maybe I am slightly late.
Last time I saw you, it was about two years ago in Paris. I remember, at Gare de Lyon, the feeling of you leaving was a mix of frustration and de-stress.
Two years ago. It seems almost unreal. That’s why I can write about it now. Even if I don’t remember precisely every hour of that visit, I do remember that, by the end, I was pissed off.
Oh gosh, I started writing to send you this, but now I am only considering to let you know what has been going on in my mind. Well, if you are reading this, it means that I finally found the strength to keep on going with my writing project. All in all, I think a letter is always something nice to receive, don’t you think? I mean, if it does not contain any bad news, of course. For me, it’s a writing therapy, for you… I don’t know, but I guess it’s nice to get something unexpected and to see that our passage leaves something to other people.
I am sorry, I have been an horrible host in Paris. The reason is that I am uncomfortable in taking decisions for others. Being a mother is different. I decide for my kids all the time. It’s normal. At work, I leave my assistant as much freedom as I can. Well, at least I give her some possibilities to choose. In general, I don’t like to feel responsible for others. The responsibility becomes a burden if the person “depending” on me is someone that does not completely fall in the category “friend” or “kid” or “assistant”. Do you know that there are two kinds of persons? Dogs and Cats. For most of my life I thought to be a cat, or I wanted to be seen as such. Then I became a dog-person. I liked the idea of stability. No more loneliness, no more decisions to take. Lots of wagging tail and cuddles and life is easy. I am serious, for a while, it really was.
Basically the main issue with you, and the reason for this letter, is the unclassified thing we had. Not because it was “unclassified”, but more because we didn’t even said each other that we wanted it to be “unclassified”! Before you came to Paris, I was scared. I had promised myself to ask you why you came and what you were thinking. But finally, I did not manage to surprise myself, and I let you go without pulling a word out of your mouth.
I’ve never been good at relationships. And I am even worse at talking about relationships. Really, words just don’t come out. Since I was 14, I found boys who, facing my aplomb, were forcing me: “please Susan, tell what you think, its not that hard…”, they forced me saying, somehow, what I wanted. In front of it, I have to pull myself together. With you, I really wanted to know, so I should have been the one asking. But I badly failed. I really have problems with questions. I never told you, but I even studied to become a journalist. That would have been the limit: a journalist afraid of questions. It might be because of some traumas in my childhood…bah, who knows. But, you, you put me in front of a big challenge without even being aware of it. I was happy you were finally there. I spent months longing for a new meeting with you. Then when you wrote me that you would have been travelling to Paris for a work meeting, I passed from being happy to insanely scared. And when the time came and you arrived, I discovered myself so shy and clumsy. For days I’ve been constantly trying to find something intelligent to say, but I was too scared of doing something wrong or saying some bullshits, so I always opted for silence. Classic. While you opted for bullshits. I understand.
There is one thing I am proud of, but at the same time it can turn to be a disadvantage. I can’t lie. I mean, I can’t pretend to feel fine if I am not, I can’t laugh if I find a joke stupid. But verbal communication is all another story. During those days in my mother’s flat in rue de Merlin, I felt the less attractive person on earth, while, usually, I’m kind of self confident in my being an interesting person. That wasn’t me. I couldn’t really react. Even if I was realizing it, my mind was completely out of service. I don’t remember that well how it was during those days, but all in a sudden I felt we were sleeping together just because we were bored. You were not saying anything. You were there, we were deadly bored, and you were like everything was fine. I hated this. Did you have a good time? I don’t think so, since you completely disappeared. In Paris, I did not have expectations about you declaring love of anything close to that. I was happy with being your sweet great escape for some days. I just wanted us to enjoy our time together. I don’t even know if you are married now, or you have a girlfriend, or two.
Hey, wait, maybe I didn’t expect anything, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t have liked that to happen. It’s unbelievable how the pale idea to press that “send” prevent me from saying what I feel, even writing. Were we not compatible or was it a question of miscommunication? (Ja, rather non-communication at all).
Besides the awkward boredom of those days, I remember the night we were on the roof having an apéro at my Polish colleague’ place. You put your hand on my knee. What what what? This inscrutable stranger is opening a bit up- I thought. But, with my exaggerate dose of optimism I thought it was just because of the wine. So, even later, when we ended up hand in hand, I retreated mine straight away after few seconds. I had this period when I wanted to behave like a man. Not a normal one, but an asshole like many. The worst thing is that when you play a role for sometime, then you get used to it, and you cannot recognize anymore which is your real nature. You get lost in your character.
I was protecting me from something that I was looking for. Leaving my husband home with a lame excuse. Travelling all the way to Paris to protect myself from an emotion, the verve that I couldn’t find anymore in my marriage.Absurd.
I’ve always liked the idea to have a non-string relation like the one we had. It’s like a game. Hopefully, I still love playing. That unclassified thing we had has been something standing out of a boring daily life. The kind of exciting thing you can tell your friends, you can write a story about, especially because it was illegal. Like when, after graduation I jumped naked from a 10 meters diving-board, I got my tailbone broken and a technicolor ass for one month. This one is definitely the best story of my life repertoire. It was before I started sitting everyday behind my desk 9-17. I was still fit. Now, with 10 kilos more, the impact with the water would kill me, no doubt about it. I’ve never wanted to jump. It was just because I was bored and I needed something to tell to my future nephews. Sorry about the wandering… I was saying, those few days, that sweet parenthesis out of the world, helped me in accepting my being a mother, a bored wife and an unmotivated boss. I wanted our meeting in Paris to be like it was the first time in Frankfurt, when I came for the book fair. Yes, actually Frankfurt: episode number one, for me was an unexpected earthquake. I think it is because of those days that you still pop-up to my mind. It is because of that time that I still check you out sometimes, sending you lame sms. After Paris though, I lost any hope, you never answered one of my attempt to reach you.
I don’t know if normal people write letters like this one, after years. Maybe it just happens in the books I sell. So what I am doing now is basically trying to turn my day, once again, in a story to tell.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Hey you, what song are you listening to, mate?
I actually think that the Copenhagen performance is one of the worst...
enjoy, if you can :P
Monday, 16 May 2011
Writing e-mails in the middle of the night has always been one of my passions.
I am a terribly romantic soul who doesn’t want to give up writing letters, and still hope, in vain, to receive some. A letter is always welcome. I think. I can’t imagine of anyone who is not happy to receive a letter. Of course, except for those coming from the income tax agency or those of condolence. I love the moment when you look at the envelop, trying to figure out from where it comes from. The curiosity to open it when you still don’t know who sent is one of my favourite feelings. When I was about 11, I used to have a pen-pal. Her name was Jessica, she was Finnish. We wrote each other 6 letters. Six extremely colourful letters, that travelled back and forth from Italy to Finland for about a year. I remember I was going home from school every day, eager to listen to my mum saying: "The letter has arrived”. Then internet came, Jessica and I exchanged few emails more, then I lost my Finnish friend. I think I started using internet when I was about 12. Thank to my elder brother I felt a pioneer.
Only less than 15 years ago Finland was so far away. I don’t regret carrier pigeons, but I can’t help hiding to be a fan of the slow movement, also in communication. Slow communication. I don’t regret social media evolution, I am actually extremely fascinated by that world and its communicative potential. But, to me, it definitely overpassed the borders, and sometime I need a detox therapy. Detox therapies are demanding. It’s a bit like leaving home without my mp3 player, or opening a chocolat bar and put it away after only a bite. Suddenly though, the feeling of having succeed pays you so well back. Unfortunately, receiving letters is more and more rare. With the thousands of positive stuff that internet brought along, I won't never ever forgive technology to have deprived me from the little spark to receive a letter. Technology changed the way to communicate and destroyed my romantic moment, or made it even more elitarian. Actually, at the beginning, it was still fine. At the beginning, e-mails were a faster and updated version of mail service. Opening outlook was a bit like checking the real mailbox. Having one e-mail was the little joy of the day. 10 years ago, maybe 15...there were no newsletters, nor spam, not that much at least. But, above all, Mark Zuckerberg was only 13.
Friday, 8 April 2011
Waiting and listening
A French friend of mine posted this video on facebook, and even if i missed this in LA, i can't miss to post this video on the blog. (besides the subject, the video is really well made)
Enjoy!!
Thom Yorke Live DJ Set @ Low End Theory LA 3.9.11 from Theo Jemison on Vimeo.
Friday, 4 March 2011
A short parenthesis home
I've started writing my thesis on creative Nantes, and all in a sudden, my brother tells me he got involved in a brandnew creative projet: Neverlab
At the moment, it is an agency dealing with mainly concerts and festivals. However, they also started building up a booking part with a few bands to promote.
Of course, we are talking about independent music.
I am actually quite excited and hopeful about this structure: it was born in a rich terrotory (both musically and economically speaking) but, until now, pretty sleepy. Regarding to music events in fact, Bergamo has been always living in the shade of Milan. I actually think that Bergamo is going to became part of Milan outskirts in some decades. Neverlab could really shake the city and its province, bringing some fresh air by setting big events, and putting new ideas on the table.
And of course, above all, it might foster italian indie music by highlighting its potential.
Also to be noted...the ideal goal: to liberalise music industry from majors' tentacles by opening italian indie music to Europe...well, hej, that's my job!
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
City one minutes
Today it came back to my mind and I decide to talk about it.
cityoneminutes is a Dutch website plenty of videos that trys to describe the 24 hours of a city in 24 minutes. For people like me, those eager to live in n'importe quelle ville, or maybe just extremely curious, this can be a the discovery that makes your day.
Today for example, i went to Utrecht. I was in a club at midnight, I had a stroll in a park early in the morning, I also saw i guy preparing herrings and another eating them. I finally ended up in a bar in front of a sexy underwear shop. Basically I had my little escape from my daily routine in this rainy Nantes. Ah, in Utrecht the weather was even good.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Saturday, 20 November 2010
Back from Strasbourg
Here's the outcome of four intense days at the Assises of the Journalism as a reporter of the Youth Press team
1st video intro: European Youth Press' Orange magazine coverage - Assises internationales du journalisme from Sebastian Olenyi on Vimeo.
2nd video: European Youth Press' Orange magazine coverage - Assises internationales du journalisme from Sebastian Olenyi on Vimeo.
Final video: European Youth Press' Orange magazine coverage - Assises internationales du journalisme from Sebastian Olenyi on Vimeo.
Organge Magazine #41
E.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Elogio al movimento -In praise of movement-
Prefazione
E' giunto il momento, per voi, che io vi sveli un segreto.
Conoscete il celebre monito “Mind the gap”?
Ecco, la frase che ha reso famosa la metropolitana di Londra non vuole affatto avvertirci del dislivello tra i treni e il piano della banchina e del pericolo di essere travolti dal treno in arrivo come tutti pensano, tutt’altro. Il suo unico scopo è quello di non farci prendere quel treno e tenerci lontani da un passo rischioso, forse maldestro.
Dopo una vita passata a lavorare per la progettazione della metropolitana, come colpito da uno sberleffo del destino, un distinto signore inglese sulla quarantina era stato lasciato dalla moglie. Lei lo aveva lasciato solo, tra la folla in festa alla stazione di Farrington, per il primo viaggio inaugurale della metropolitana di Londra, il 10 gennaio 1863. Non l’avrebbe mai più rivista. Da quel giorno, non solo iniziò ad odiare quella metropolitana per la quale aveva speso anni di fatica, ricurvo su progetti e piantine, ma iniziò a sviluppare un’ossessiva paura del movimento di cui i treni erano il simbolo più moderno. Lo stesso movimento che lo aveva privato della moglie, e insieme della vita stessa. Lasciò dunque il lavoro per rinchiudersi in un’ostinata e statica solitudine. Usciva il meno possibile, camminava il meno possibile. Non sopportava che il tempo scorresse, né che le lancette del grande coucou in soggiorno cambiassero posizione ogni sessanta secondi.
Perciò, cari lettori, la scritta MindTheGap altro non è che il risultato del suo grido di dolore, partito come esperienza personale e trasformatosi in un monito per i posteri. Quasi fosse un padre troppo premuroso, il nostro, ci dissuade dal fare quello stesso passo che gli portò via sua moglie.
Si dice partire, significa lasciare.
Di certo ascoltando il suo consiglio non si rischia di cadere sui binari, né di prendere la metro nella direzione opposta alla nostra meta. Ma inibendo il movimento, dissuadendoci da quell’eventuale passo, è come se ci privasse della vita. Il movimento è fondamento dell’essere umano come lo è della vita stessa. Sin dalla preistoria l’uomo ha sentito il bisogno di spostarsi, cambiare luoghi di tanto in tanto, vedere cose nuove, conoscere. Soffocata dalla sedentarietà, dalla staticità, l’anima si impoverisce e perisce in un limbo di certezze. Come spesso accade tuttavia, non tutti rispettano le regole. Qualcuno che quella linea gialla l’ha superata c’è stato e, fortunatamente, ci continuerà ad essere. Qualche avventuroso che decida di rischiare, e fare quel passo azzardato, scavalcando il gap, per prendere un treno. Che vada ad Holland Park o a Liverpool Street, poco importa. Non si prendono treni alla ricerca di sicurezze in grado di assicurare una vita serena; piuttosto si prendono treni per rompere la continuità, iniziando dalla coerenza dei luoghi.
Si dice partire, significa scoprire.
Che pena provo per quel triste signore con la bombetta, per la sua misera fine e quella folle scritta mal interpretata! Una vita a progettare treni e poi un treno lo ha privato della vita. E l’inopportuna scritta di dolore che ci ha lasciato? Io, vorrei non l’avesse mai scritta. Vorrei che la signorina della metropolitana di Londra la smettesse di gridare “Mind the Gap” perché, insomma, credete ci sarebbero più morti o suicidi senza il suo ossessivo monito? Io credo di no. E credo anche che sarei meno irrequieto e irritato la mattina quando arrivo in ufficio. E voi invece, che ora sapete il segreto della tube, con che spirito prenderete il prossimo treno?
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe?
I've been to some concerts, and I've been working a lot.
PVT were pretty good, and the Scopitone festival too. Japanese Pop Star kicked ass.
Tomorrow i have my first interview on air, with the guy of the Ninja Tunes label. Frrr....
I've spent all the day writing and thinking about my thesis, and of course about Denmark.
I am in a fantastic and lively French city. it's surprisingly sunny and i think of the grey Olborg. Ja, there's something wrong with me.
Ah, last week I attended some seminars of the EAIE conference in Nantes, and I found out I would like to work at an European level. It was so interesting and international.
There's a journalists' conference in Strasburg and I think i'm going to try to participate, who knows...I might be lucky.
For the rest I am a bit stressed because of the job. I love it, but I still have to find my daily routine. I need to organize myself with no rush.
Listening to Mozart tonight.
Thursday, 19 August 2010
What's happening up there?
Arcade Fire, Caribou, Crystal Castles, Tokyo Police Club, Phatogram, Japandrois and I don't know how many others there are and I don't remember right now. It would be interesting to understand what is happening up there. What recently made the music industry, or/ and artists' creativity, explode.
Well, if I figure something out and I get to a sociological theory, I'll let you know.
For now just enjoy these two less known bands to get a full of energy and healty immaturity.
E.
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Creativity and Cities
It was a documentary about Berlin and its artistic environment. The creativity is definitely having a blooming season there, and it also drives a change in the urban physiognomy of the city.
So terms such as regeneration and gentrification are well known not only for architects, sociologists and urban planners, but they are perceived as crucial processes for the future of the city by large part of the population. Indeed, these changes need to be controlled to avoid areas of the city to become big niche quartiers, inaccessible to most of the population.
Besides the transformation of former popular blocks into hip and expensive residences, another problem linked to the regeneration is the drastic conceptual changes that these areas are facing. For example, for some the quartier of Prenzlauerberg, now famous as the hippest place in the city, has lost its historical roots. It was transformed in something else, with the only purpose to make it cool, without taking care of the original Berlinese spirit that once used to live there.
Here's the doc in three parts
E.