tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31754189921922823052024-02-19T15:29:53.522+13:00All The Days OrdainedA collection of ramblings about the enchantment of travel, art, literature, cinema, music, history, and life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-44498768504849884182014-10-16T21:23:00.000+13:002014-10-16T21:23:04.236+13:00Giacorno and Stefania Montegazza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Giacorno and Stefania Montegazza at their villa, La Casinella, Lake Como, 1983.</div>
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Photographed by Slim Aarons.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-85482186549212258222014-09-29T21:21:00.001+13:002014-09-29T21:21:54.711+13:00Trieste Cliff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Near Trieste, Italy photographed by Anthony Stewart for National Geographic in 1956</div>
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Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer in Rome, May 1955.</div>
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Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren's home in Rome captured by LIFE photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1964.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-57360466140204770092014-07-26T11:59:00.000+12:002014-07-26T11:59:14.008+12:00Aotearoa - Stan Walker feat. Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, and Maisey Rika<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Aotearoa, he waiata mo Te Wiki o te Reo Maori - Stan Walker feat. Ria Hall, Troy Kingi, and Maisey Rika<br /><br />No matter how much I dream about travelling the world, this land will always be the most special place that is home <3<br /><br />'Nō tawhiti, nō tata<br />nō te whenua o te Atua tātou<br />ahakoa nō hea mai koe<br />ka whawhai tonu mātou mōu.'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-48997057396775587322014-07-24T15:09:00.000+12:002014-07-24T15:09:21.788+12:00Journey of a Private Moon in the Arctic - Leonid Tishkov<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Russian doctor-turned-artist Leonid Tishkov’s Journey of a Private Moon project in the Arctic</div>
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A 1935 travel video by Carl Dudley about California</div>
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A couple of years ago I got super excited because Emily Gilmore had a Raphael cushion, and now it turns out Monica Geller has a Leonardo one. Watching re-runs is pretty much educational.</div>
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Forza Azzurri! Best dressed. Who needs actual football attire when you can just play in a Dolce & Gabbana suit.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-54467798480285117732014-06-02T22:35:00.001+12:002014-06-02T22:35:40.713+12:00Festa della Repubblica<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's Google doodle celebrates Festa della Repubblica, Italian National Day. 68 years have passed since Italy became a republic, after World War II and the end of Fascism. </div>
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Just realised Mia moved to Santa Barbara! The sun is precisely why I loved it.</div>
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This song has possibly just converted me into a Beyonce fan. Recently, I heard people talking about a ‘stiletto camp’ that was being run by a beauty pageant, which I found out later was Miss Universe New Zealand. I’m shocked that these competitions still exist. It’s great that there is a little more emphasis on the minds and intellectual thoughts of the entrants than there was before, but there is nothing empowering in beauty pageantry.</div>
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Fashion, beautiful clothes, heels, and make-up are all so much fun, and I love them, but not when they start to define us. Of course, intellectualism and physical beauty are not mutually exclusive, but we have to wonder, as women are reaching higher levels of education than ever before, why are we still continuing to rely on and resort to physical beauty? We want respect and equality, but when we support and praise conventional ideals of beauty, what message are we actually sending?</div>
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The awful tragedy in Isla Vista last week reveals just how detrimental the idea of ‘perfection’ is when it infiltrates our psyche. It’s astounding that any self-respecting woman would put herself up to be judged and objectified in such a manner, or pay any attention to a competition that has made ‘Keep Calm and Wear a Tiara’ its slogan. A couple of years ago there was also talk of an American company looking to bring child pageantry to NZ. Why any parent would even consider entering their child is beyond me.</div>
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And we wonder why insecurity, over-sexualisation, misogyny, eating disorders, and depression continue to plague society. As a nation that became the first to give women the vote, why are we still entering and supporting such ridiculous competitions?</div>
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I’m not saying that we should disregard ‘fashion’ altogether, but I think it’s important to be critical of what we are feeding our minds.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-44118739211491996752014-06-01T16:34:00.001+12:002014-06-01T16:34:55.903+12:00When Great Trees Fall - Maya Angelou<b>When Great Trees Fall</b><br />
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When great trees fall,<br />
rocks on distant hills shudder,<br />
lions hunker down<br />
in tall grasses,<br />
and even elephants<br />
lumber after safety.<br />
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When great trees fall<br />
in forests,<br />
small things recoil into silence,<br />
their senses<br />
eroded beyond fear.<br />
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When great souls die,<br />
the air around us becomes<br />
light, rare, sterile.<br />
We breathe, briefly.<br />
Our eyes, briefly,<br />
see with<br />
a hurtful clarity.<br />
Our memory, suddenly sharpened,<br />
examines,<br />
gnaws on kind words<br />
unsaid,<br />
promised walks<br />
never taken.<br />
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Great souls die and<br />
our reality, bound to<br />
them, takes leave of us.<br />
Our souls,<br />
dependent upon their<br />
nurture,<br />
now shrink, wizened.<br />
Our minds, formed<br />
and informed by their<br />
radiance,<br />
fall away.<br />
We are not so much maddened<br />
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance<br />
of dark, cold<br />
caves.<br />
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And when great souls die,<br />
after a period peace blooms,<br />
slowly and always<br />
irregularly. Spaces fill<br />
with a kind of<br />
soothing electric vibration.<br />
Our senses, restored, never<br />
to be the same, whisper to us.<br />
They existed. They existed.<br />
We can be. Be and be<br />
better. For they existed.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-61391902085129758332014-06-01T16:24:00.000+12:002014-06-01T16:24:49.109+12:00I.V. I Love You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past week has been one filled with sadness, pain, and horror at the terrifying events that took place in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara; the same streets and neighbourhood I called home last year. Through all the dark talk about the NRA, misogyny, and politics, has shone the beautiful light of I.V. and UCSB’s community coming together in love and support. It hurts not being there, but you are all so inspiring and I love you so much. I will always believe that guns have no place in everyday society, and feel upset and angry that in some places the fear is made very real. The gunman’s actions cannot in full be blamed on his weapons, but the ease at which he could legally obtain three firearms and over 400 rounds is astounding. His twisted ideology highlights the importance of women’s rights, not for the quick call upon feminism, but because blaming his actions on insanity is not enough. He felt entitled to women, and there is something so devastatingly wrong with that. It is something that must be universally addressed, here in New Zealand too where groups like the Roast Busters are not dealt with seriously enough. To honour these victims and others worldwide we must change our mentality and the way we treat and talk about these cases, and in doing so, help prevent more atrocities from occurring.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-4614298370680442332014-05-09T09:03:00.000+12:002014-05-09T09:03:23.702+12:00Dolce & Gabbana x Magnum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Magnum's 25th anniversary Dolce & Gabbana have created a Sicilian themed ice cream bar; vanilla ice cream with dark chocolate bits and crushed pistachios, covered in white chocolate. I want it to come to New Zealand so bad! They should also make a cassata flavoured one.</div>
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Thanks for the advice, Rory, maybe one day I will!</div>
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Valentino Exhibition in London on Euromaxx, Deustche Welle</div>
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Italy, with its scenery and its people's life, occupied my soul, and towards this land I felt a yearning. </div>
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Some wonderful photographs of Italy in the 1980's by an American named Charles H. Traub, released in his new book <i>Dolce Via.</i></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-50332761488789270822013-08-10T14:05:00.003+12:002013-08-10T14:05:45.117+12:00The Price'You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.'<br />
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- Miriam AdeneyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3175418992192282305.post-9666686161244632692013-08-05T22:56:00.000+12:002013-08-05T22:56:55.213+12:00Roman era graffiti found on Colosseum<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Graffiti dating from the Roman era has been found scrawled on the walls of the Colosseum during restoration work.</div>
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Restorers also discovered fragments of brightly coloured frescoes, suggesting that the ancient monument was gaudily decorated when it hosted gladiatorial fights and wild animal hunts under the emperors.</div>
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The fragments – in ochre, red, blue and green – are in stark contrast to the monochrome grey and white of the travertine marble that covers the facade of the amphitheatre today.</div>
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The graffiti includes hard-to-decipher words and symbols as well as two large phalluses – possibly an erotic representation, or perhaps just lewd scribbling.</div>
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The new discoveries were made on the third and highest level of the Colosseum, which is closed to the public.</div>
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They are spread out over a 200ft-long section of a covered tunnel which would have funnelled spectators to their seats high above the arena.</div>
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The coloured frescoes were "an extraordinary discovery", said Rossella Rea, who is in charge of the landmark in the centre of Rome.</div>
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"We weren't expecting to find them. There is still a great deal to be studied and there will almost certainly be other surprises."</div>
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The frescoes would have been "rich and elaborate" in colour and detail, said Ida Simonelli, the head of the restoration team.</div>
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A £22 million restoration of the Colosseum, to be funded by Diego Della Valle, the multi-millionaire founder of the Tod's shoe empire, is scheduled to begin within weeks.</div>
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It will be the most comprehensive restoration effort in more than 70 years and is expected to take two years.</div>
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The project, which will entail removing decades of grime from the facade of the Colosseum, will take place in phases so that the amphitheatre can remain open to visitors.</div>
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The privately-funded work, which has been delayed by months of bureaucracy, is being seen as a model for the sponsoring of other ancient sites in Italy, including Pompeii.</div>
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An artist painting a picture of a statue of a Flemish artists in Bruges, Belgium, May 1955</div>
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Interview with Richard Mosse, representing Ireland in the Venice Art Biennale 2013 with "The Enclave", filmed in the Congo.</div>
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