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MARION BATAILLE'S genius book

2008-10-23T10:12:00.003-07:00

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

MARION BATAILLE'S genius book

2008-10-23T10:12:00.002-07:00

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

MARIO

2008-10-23T10:12:00.001-07:00

MARIO

2008-10-23T10:12:00.000-07:00

my peeps

2008-04-14T17:39:00.000-07:00

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

i think i'm in love with that reverend....

2008-03-27T11:52:00.001-07:00

can u imagine life without clean tap water?

2008-03-22T06:45:00.001-07:00

teresa, el cuerpo de cristo

2008-03-22T06:44:00.001-07:00

fierce! love this!

2008-03-22T06:43:00.000-07:00

ahahah! che risultato di un'educazione repressiva !!!

2008-03-19T22:50:00.001-07:00

sad song ... i'm sorry, b

2008-03-16T12:42:00.000-07:00

how did he do this without laughing his ASS off!!!

2008-03-15T01:04:00.000-07:00

chops to you, mr. de niro!

BRUNO BOZZETTO'S VIDEOS

2008-03-10T16:13:00.000-07:00

some of BRUNO BOZZETTO's works:
ITALIANS VS. EUROPEANS

For the post and interview, click HERE.

MAN vs. WOMAN

OLYMPICS

GRASSHOPPERS

ADAM

are you a circle or a box ?!?

2008-03-03T08:40:00.000-08:00

written and animated by cris carpio-garing

Okay, so in everything, we should always find the good sides, right? Well, in occupying my position with the paper, i was bombarded with a workload that should be done by four people...

The good thing? I was able to learn not one, but about five computer programs for design and graphics.

now that we are nearing may (in which a select group, including yours truly, is cooking up something for the filipino youth here in italy), i had to face the fact that i will not find a kind (and time-endowed) person to help me with doing the presentation for aforementioned event.

course of action? the old trusted method of D-I-Y (do-it-yourself)

so after long hours of experimenting, my pc rebooting and shutting down and rebooting at its own perfervid pleasure, and a couple of sleepless nights, here's my simple (yet cute, as others have attested) teaser.

hope you like it!

WHAT ARE YOU?

j's videos

2008-03-03T08:37:00.000-08:00

READ MY POST ABOUT JEIAR:

intervista con skysports italia.

games footage:

IF YOU WANT TO BE A SPONSOR, OR KNOW HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH THOSE WHO DO, LET US KNOW: WRITE TO : carpio_garing@yahoo.it

discovering YAEL NAIM

2008-03-03T07:54:00.000-08:00

I think that what i want to remember of the "Great" SanRemo Italian Music Festival of 2008 is the performance of one of the international guests at the said event.

It was the first time I've heard of her, seen her and witnessed her singing live!!! And i love her! I hope good things come her way!

Her name is Yael Naim.

This is the actual Music Video of the same song, "New Soul"

A French-Israeli singer and songwriter, Naim's first solo album, In a Man's Womb, was released in 2001, but it was with the release of her second and self-titled album, in which the songs were in French, English and HEbrew, that she gained critical fame and recognition.

SHe is the first Israeli solo artist to ever have a top ten hit in the United States and guess what, she even did a Britney Spears cover! TOXICCCCC! BUt Yael's?!? ABsolutely not! Her version is wicked!

se7en

2008-03-03T07:19:00.000-08:00

a millionaire's first love

2008-03-02T11:17:00.000-08:00

reading remo

2008-02-29T06:51:00.000-08:00

For a festival that's been running and churning out if not the best and most remembered Italian songs, then at least, the stars of the past(such golden times), present (even if just the short present) and future (painfully unpredictable), the SanRemo Music Festival sure is an annual rima oris (hehee - rima oris - maybe it's better if the vocalizations are obturated) of controversy.

oh well, why fight it. let's be one of them. the public. of the songs in the festival, much have been said of singer L'Aura's socio-politically-inspired (quasi) anthem, BASTA!

Testo (di Laura Abela):
Sai che succede amica mia?
C'è chi ora prova a portar via
Sogni giovani che il tempo cullerà,
Pieni di libertà
Gente che resta e che va via
Colpa di un uomo o della democrazia?
Dai peccati Madre Guerra assolverà
Chi la venererà!
C'è qualcuno là
Che ci aiuterà
A dire "Basta!"?
C'è qualcuno là che
Fermare potrà
La violenza?
Sai che succede amica mia?
Quella che oggi è una bugia
L'indomani per qualcuno evolverà
E sarà verità
C'è qualcuno là
Che ci aiuterà
A dire "Basta!"?
C'è qualcuno là che
Fermare potrà
La violenza?
C'è qualcuno là
Nell'immensità
della terra?
C'è qualcuno là che
Vivere saprà

Con la testa?
Quante pietre da scagliare
Tiene in serbo,generale,
Il suo esercito di frode ed empatia?
Quante sono le persone
Che in nome del Signore
Finiranno nella cenere?
C'è qualcuno là
Che ci aiuterà
A dire "Basta!"?
C'è qualcuno là che
Fermare potrà
La violenza?
C'è qualcuno là
Nell'immensità
della terra?
C'è qualcuno là che
Vivere saprà
Con la testa?

english translation (done by me! if you think i did something wrong, pls. do write me!)
Words by Laura Abela:
DO you know, my friend, what is happening?
there are those who would take away
young dreams that time will sway,
Filled with freedom
People who remain and people who go away
Is it man's fault or democracy's?
From sins Mother War will absolve
Who will revere them?
Is there someone there
who will help us
To say "Enough!"?
Is there someone there
who can end
the violence?
DO you know, my friend, what is going on?
What is there of today but a lie
That tomorrow for someone
becomes the truth.
Is there someone there
who will help us
To say "Enough!"?
Is there someone there
who can end
the violence?
Is there someone there
in the immensity of the Earth
Of the earth
Is there someone there who
knows of Life
with his mind?
How many more stones to fling
has the general set aside
in his army of deception and empathy?
How many are they
That in the name of the Lord
would end up in ash?
There is someone there
That will help us
Is there someone there
who will help us
To say "Enough!"?
Is there someone there
who can end
the violence?
Is there someone there
in the immensity of the Earth
Of the earth
Is there someone there who
knows of Life
with his mind? ( or possibly, is there someone there who only lives LIFE with his mind?)

now let's get to the fun part.

below are some of the contestants in the festival (in varying degrees of popularity) but what i've done is, I've included below each video a funny, bashing or praising comment from our Youtube peers.

Is it really a human trait to find faults in others? I've never really met anyone who's so saintly, so kind and proper that he never at least thinks something ill of a person (no matter how small it is). I include myself in this. I try, but sometimes the best (or maybe, it should be the worst) of situations can get to me.

Michele Zarrillo "L'ultimo film insieme"

from mitchikaboola 5 regole per scrivere una canzone Italiana. Si deve dire 1/ Il mare, 2/ Senza di te, 3/ L'amore, Il dolore, mio cuore 4/ Senza di te, e 5/ La luna piena. Insomma, questo e' la solita cagata. Come tutte le altre canzoni. Quando L'Italia sveglara? 5 rules for writing an Italian song You have to mention 1/ The sea, 2/Without you 3/love, pain and the heart 4/Without you 5/The full moon. In short, the same tired thing. Like all the other songs. When will Italy wake up?

Paolo Meneguzzi "Grande"

from Anahata76
....oddio....ho aperto il video e pensavo cantasse il figlio del salumiere alla sagra del cotechino affumicato poi mi sono accorto che era Meneguzzi in preda a coliche renali e chiari segni di dissenteria......ma non potevano chiamare il 118 invece? di farlo soffrire cosi'?????
Sono vicino al tuo dolore Paolo :)))))) ...oh god...i opened the video and i thought the meat shop owner's son was singing at the Cotechino (Italian meat specialty)Festival and then I realized it was Meneguzzi suffering from intestinal colic and unmistakable signs of dysentery ... couldn't they have called 118 instead? instead of making him suffer like that? I suffer with you, Paolo!

Anna Tatangelo-"Il Mio Amico"

from bradshaw84
ma vuol diventare una nuova icona gay xké sa che noi gay siamo il migliore pubblico?o solo xké siamo l'unico pubblico rimasto a poterla cagare?ILLUSAA,non è certo una canzonetta neomelodica scritta dal suo SIMPATICISSIMO amichetto a farcela avvicinare,soprattutto con questo testo,quelle rime ridicole e FIGLI DELLO STESSO DIO,frase x riallacciarsi al suo pubblico di sempliciotti!
Anna,se vuoi piacerci devi cambiare genere(+ giovanile), testi(meno ridicoli),look(+ porca)e soprattutto fidanzato!! DOes it mean that she wants to be the new gay icon because she believes we are the best (paying) public? Or is it only because we're the last of the public to tolerate her? DIsillusioned, it is certainly not a neomelodic ballad written by her oh so kind friend to be close to her, especially with those words, that ridiculous verses and Son of the same God, phrases designed to relaunch her to her public of simpletons! ANna, if you really want us to like you, you have to change style (more hip, younger), lyrics (less ridiculous), look (bitchier and sexier), and most of all, boyfriends!!

To check out more, simply key in San Remo 2008!

Youth for Human Rights Ads Campaign YOU TOO CAN HELP!

2008-01-10T06:34:00.000-08:00

WE ARE ALL BORN FREE AND EQUAL

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Released in June of this year, these 30 or 60 second spots bring to life all 30 articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Their appeal was instant and within weeks they were showing on over 1,000 TV stations around the world.

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RIGHT TO A NATIONALITY

The uses for these messages are limitless. A representative for one UN non-governmental organization wrote of his organization’s intention to “spread your short films in the best way we can, since we are working in about 60 countries with like-minded friends.”

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YOU TOO CAN HELP!

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these japanese game shows probably started it all

2008-01-04T06:13:00.000-08:00

stupefied by the stunt-filled, crazy-antics-shows that are growing in numbers all over the world?
well, the japanese might have started it. think back to takeshi's castle!
in this other game show set in a public library, you are sure to lose your wits and roll over in laughter!

silent library 1

silent library 2

counting in engish

japanese ski/spa resort

so ... who'd you vote for ?!?!

2008-01-03T06:09:00.000-08:00

hilary vs obama

hilary vs obama 2

ikea commercials

2008-01-02T10:43:00.000-08:00

funny commercials from ikea !!!
i just love commercials, they're short, gets the message through effectively and is a treasure trove of wit!
some of the coolest ones though, are the funny commercials! and ikea has some of the best!

funny1

SPAGHETTI

funny gay commercials!

2008-01-02T06:06:00.000-08:00

one out of ten men is gay

more than meets the eye

you think you all that , miss thang

mtv gay commercial - love changes

Brian (mr. Ego) finally says it!

2007-12-27T05:24:00.000-08:00

reliving the queer as folk series.... i gotta say, this one scene encaptured the essence of the entire series!!!

hilarious/sentimental christmas family video

2007-12-25T02:28:00.000-08:00

this christmas, i decided to go through all the letters and pictures that my family sent me via snail mail and e-mail.

i haven't really felt the spirit of Christmas ever since i came to Italy. i guess it really is different here. Or maybe my heart just wasn't in it.

Christmas Eve was spent gorging on maki rolls and teriyaki while watching A Millionare's First Love and A Moment to Remember (both for the umpteeenth time). This, after a good friend dropped by for an unnexpected gift.

The day after, I decided to stay in as well and continue looking at my friends and families' profiles over the net....

I really miss home.

sigh.

christmas songs

2007-12-24T09:14:00.000-08:00

wonderful christmas songs sung by artists i like

My Grown-Up Christmas List

MISS YOU MOST (At Christmas time)

CHRISTMAS MEDLEY by OPM ARTISTS

the knack

2007-12-02T04:26:00.000-08:00

i almost pissed at myself when i first saw this video... thanks, jean! it was so good!

p.s.
cheer up, all you engineers...at least you get to be cartoon stars...

per te by josh groban

2007-11-10T18:56:00.000-08:00

some call it dependency. some call it not being strong enough. some call it real love. i simply call it life. we are alone. and we do need each other. and so, if you do find someone who's worth holding on to, as a friend or a lover, hold on to him or her as long as you can.

someday

2007-10-17T19:35:00.000-07:00

love the song!

2007-09-11T23:15:00.000-07:00

not love at first sight

2007-09-11T20:15:00.000-07:00

There someone I'm in love with...Although I can't be with her now...I'm still in love with her...

I've always taken the gift of sight for granted. I would hurt my eye, not take care of it. I love reading until late night, and i love to do it in the most hurtful of conditions - while in motion, or with little light. NOw that my passion for photography has taken ahold of me, i can't imagine being without it, being lost and unable to appreciate the beauty - to view what is real and envision possibilities.

The words above were words narrated by the man in the the video. He is a photographer himself, and he chose to up this most precious gift for the girl that he loved and hurt. And love still. AT the end, the girl realizes that it was him who gave her back the ability to see, and it's heartbreaking to watch when she realizes the sacrifice he made for him.

Everyone of us makes that wish. To find someone that would love us. Few of us realize that this wish is most easily remedied not by a wish getting granted .... but by a choice being made.
My wish? To be strong enough to make that choice one day. To give my heart to someone and love that person so damn much that i would risk everything, be less, lose everything and yet, be better , be whole for it.

The song is by KISS ( Jini, MIni and Umji) , one of Korean's instant hits, but which disbanded after their one and only album. Would you believe that this clip is so popular that many versions of the song were made, and in many languages - english, french, mandarin, cantonese, even tagalog! The two actors in the video are Shin Hyun Joon and Goo Hye JIn. Both gorgeous!

a sad love song / choeun

2007-09-11T18:29:00.000-07:00

utada's first love

2007-09-09T20:14:00.000-07:00

il mondo che vorrei

2007-07-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

TEARS EVERYTIME I SEE THIS VIDEO ...

pride kisses

2007-06-25T22:18:00.000-07:00

THANKS YURI FOR THE LINK TO THIS VIDEO!!! AND TO WHOEVER DID THIS, GREAT IDEA!!! AND YOU GOT THE GANG'S KISSES TOO (YURI AND MAX, NICOLE AND BAILEY)

TO SEE THE PHOTOS I TOOK DURING THE CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY PARADE:
http://hiroportamiindietro.blogspot.com/2007/06/christopher-street-day-parade-milan-23.html

one night only

2007-06-19T12:17:00.000-07:00