Saturday, January 24, 2009

Speed motion - The Flux


Un tributo al Kung Fu.. sublime arte marziale che pratico; Ho voluto disegnare questa sequenza che rappresenta il flusso, l'andare avanti. Credo che l'effetto speciale dello spostamento con le linee che perdono definizione più la velocità aumenta sia venuto molto bene, sono soddisfatto.
Inoltre ho utilizzate una ragazza come soggetto principale, non ho mai disegnato moltissime ragazze come protagoniste delle mie storie...magari questo può essere l'inizio di un filone...
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A tribute to Kung Fu.. sublime martial art which i practice; I wanted to draw this sequence which represents the flux, the going on. I do believe that the moving effect with the lines that dissolve as the speed increases is well done, i'm satisfied.
Furthermore i used a girl as main character, i don't usually draw so many girls in my stories, perhaps this might be the start...

Cheers!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tutti bravi ai fornelli - Good at cooking

Part 1



Part 2



Spettacolare e a dir poco geniale!!

That's brilliant, absolutely brilliant

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

KEEP YOUR HEAD UP HIGH!!!!

BE SELF CONFIDENT!! TAKE NO SHIT!! KEEP YOUR HEAD UP HIGH!!



You're a dreamer and you live in a world
Of lies full of sinners
You will never understand
You're a great deceiver a result of a system
That's fake and always holds you

Are you really in command?

This is the time to change and make things right
This is the time to make it on your own

You'll never be yourself,
Don't ever lose your pride
Just find out who you are
You keep your head up high

You're not a believer you just go with the flow
Never an achiever
You will suffer in the end
You think you're a winner but this game you play
Will make you burn in fire
Smile and wake up dead

You're not forever so you're aiming higher
You stumble in every step you take

You'll never be yourself,
Don't ever lose your pride
Just find out who you are
You keep your head up high

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Highlander A Testa Alta - Head Up High

Nel dopoguerra molti reduci camminavano per le strade cercando sul selciato qualche cicca da raccogliere per poi unirle e farsi una sigaretta. Il mondo era crollato e se c'era qualcosa di utile per la sopravvivenza quella poteva essere soltanto nascosta tra le macerie o abbandonata sull'asfalto.
Camminare curvi è anche sintomo di depressione. Spesso chi lo fa si accartoccia su se stesso, quasi a proteggersi dalle ingiurie che lo minacciano. Eppure tutte le cose belle sono in alto. Gli alberi, il sole, la luna, il cielo e la speranza. Non si può rivolgere una preghiera guardando in un tombino.
Non c'è nulla di positivo sulla punta delle scarpe che muovono a fatica l'esistenza di tante persone. A testa alta è anche sinonimo di orgoglio, di fierezza, di non voglio essere bendato quando sparerete e desidero guardarvi in faccia. Questo anno nuovo di zecca, con ancora la plastica sui sedili, va affrontato con la consapevolezza che nessuna notizia potrà mai farci abbassare il capo. Se noi speriamo sempre che la fortuna degli umani dipenda dalla cabala, dal superenalotto e daglio oroscopi, prendiamo un granchio.
LA NOSTRA FORTUNA SIAMO NOI! Con il carattere, il coraggio, la resistenza e la fame di vita. Non ha senso festeggiare un anno che se ne va se non si è in grado di presentarsi alla partenza di questo 2009 corazzati e fiduciosi. Lasciamo che gli intrallazzatori si divertano a presentarci, a seconda del loro interesse, mondi virtuali e incomprensibili. Non potranno sicuramente fermare la pioggia che libera, il sole dell'estate che riscalda e tingere di nero lo splendore di un cielo che da quando esiste l'uomo ossigena la nostra esistenza. A testa alta! Brutti, belli, fortunati o meno, sollevate il mento dalle miserie terrene e volgete lo sguardo all'universo infinito e misterioso.
Godiamoci questo passaggio terreno diventando agenti attivi del continente felicità. Corazzatevi dentro e fuori e niente e nessuno vi potrà fare del male. Guardatevi dai saldi fasulli, dalle promesse malandrine, dagli agitatori prezzolati di sentimenti di massa. Voi, noi, siamo unici e abbiamo il dovere di comunicare a un certo mondo che non siamo facilmente gestibili come sessi credono. Facendo così sentiremo riempirci i polmoni di un'aria buona che non potrà mai trasformarsi in veleno. Sollevate la faccia ai vostri bimbi, fateli guardare oltre la playstation, raccontate le storie commoventi della vita reale e sconfiggerete la vita finta. In fondo siamo così semplici. Desideriamo tutti le stesse cose: pace, salute, dignitosa sopravvivenza, comunione di spirito e amore. Un pizzico d'amore che possa farci vedere il panorama sotto tutti i punti di vista diversi dal gretto possesso. Si, lo dico e, facendo una spremuta dei miei due o tre secoli, sono in grado di garantirlo: si può essere felici, si può godere questa meraviglia che è la vita secondo per secondo, possiamo galleggiare nel cosmo assieme ai nostri sogni e alle nostre speranze.
Questo sarà possibile se decideremo di vivere a testa alta.
Auguri
(fonte: Di Tutto, n.2 del 16 gennaio 2009,
Rubrica Highlander pag. 9)
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In the postwar many survivors walked down the streets trying to find some butts on the ground to pick up and make one cigarette. The world crashed down and if there was something useful for surviving, that could only be hidden among the ruins or abandoned on the asphalt.
Walking with one's head down is also a symptom of depression. Often the ones who do this curl up themselves as to shelter from insults that threaten them. And yet all the good things are up high. The trees, the sun, the moon, the sky and hope. One cannot address a prayer by looking at the inside of a manhole.
There's nothing positive on the toe of the shoes that move the existence of many people with difficulty. Head up high is also a symptom of pride, dignity, it means i don't want to be blindfolded when you'll shoot me and i wish to look right at your face.
This brand new year with still plastic on the seats, must be faced with the awarness that no news will ever make us bow our heads down. If we always hope that human fortune depends on cabala, on superenalotto and horoscope, we get the wrong end of the stick.
OUR FORTUNE IS US. With character, attitude, persistence, stamina and hunger of life. It has no sense to celebrate a year which is gone if we are unable to start up this 2009 armoured and self confident.
Let the wheeler-dealers have fun in introducing us, according to their interest, incomprehensible virtual worlds. They shall not be able to stop the rain that sets free for sure, the summer sun that warms us up and paint of black the brightness of a sky that oxigens our existence ever since the man has come to life.
Head up high! Ugly, good, lucky or less, raise your chin from earthly miseries and turn your look towards the boundless and mysterious universe.
Let's enjoy this wordly passing by becoming active agents in the continent of happiness. Armour yourselves inside and outside so that nobody's gonna hurt you. Watch the fake sales, the crooked promises, the hired agitators of mass feelings.
You, us, are unique and have the duty to communicate to a certain world that we're not so easily manageable as they believe. Like this we'll feel our lungs filled with good air which is never gonna turn into poison.
Raise your face to your children, tell them the touching stories of real life and you'll defeat the false one. After all, we're so simple. Everyone of us desire the same things: peace, health, a survival full of dignity, communion of spirit and love. A bit of love that makes us see the landscape from new perspectives, different than the shabby possess.
Yes, i say it, and by summarizing my two or three centuries i can guarantee that: we can be happy, we can enjoy this wonder which is life second by second, we may float on the universe along with our dreams and our hopes.
This shall be possible whether we decide to live with our heads up high.
Best wishes!
(English translation: 2009 MB-COMICS)

Saturday, January 03, 2009

YIN YANG - Filosofia, Arti Marziali, Vita - The Tao of Life - Per un 2009 equilibrato



Yin and Yang represent two interconnected parts of a whole, each of it holds the qualities of its complementary within its borders.

The Yang principle (white) represents positivity, maleness, brightness, the day, the heat and so on..

Yhe Yin principle (black) represents negativity, femininity, darkness, the night, the cold and so on..

The base theory about Yin Yang affirms that there's nothing which is not subject to change. In other words, when the activity (Yang) reaches the extreme point, it becomes inactivity which generates Yin.
In the same way, the inactivity taken to the extreme turns back into activity, which is Yang.

Then the activity becomes the cause of inactivity and vice versa. One can see as the two forces, apparently in conflict one another are actually mutually dependent: instead of opposition there are cooperation and alternation.

In the Yin-Yang symbol we may see a white spot in the black area and a black spot in the white one which explain the balance in life, for nothing could survive that long by getting to one of the two extremes, wheter it is about pure Yin or pure Yang.

The extreme heat kills and so does the extreme cold; the violent extremes can't last for a long time, but a sober moderation can. Therefore the positivity (Yang) is always hidden into negativity (Yin) and vice versa.

Good and evil or pleasure and pain may only exist in reciprocal function. They can be considered complementary one another rather than opposite and each of them exists because the other does.

Firstly, if i've never experienced pain, how could i understand pleasure and vice versa?

By staring at the sky, i can distinguish a small star from the bigger ones, but if there wasn't a dark sky as a background, there wouldn't be stars at all.

It's not about fighting between good and evil but flowing like waves on the water.

One one expands the other contracts; when one wants to take, the other must give.

Everything in this world reveals the alternation between existance and non existance (positive and negative).

We are one thing alone...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE OUT THERE!!!

(Bruce Lee, Pensieri che colpiscono, video e versione italiana by

PietroJeetKuneDo http://www.youtube.com/user/pietrojeetkunedo 2008,

English translation: MB-Comics 2009)