15THINGS VOLUME 01

ISSUE 01

TECHNOLOGY
 Hello World.
The first thing you learn in a new programming
language is how to write a program that prints out
on your computer screen the sentence “Hello World”;
I don’t remember how many times I wrote an “Hello
World” program, but I’m sure this is the first time I’m
writing an article for a webzine, and it’s not an easy
job as I’m going to introduce you to 15things.
15things is a webzine - yes, another one - and
we have choosen that name because this will be a
magazine made of 15 articles: 5 regular feature articles
about cities, music, food and drink and a twinterview,
an interview made via Twitter and 10 about a main
topic that will vary on every issue.
The first issue main topic is the relationships
between technology and humanity: how technology
is changing us, our behaviors, our habits and the
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environment in which we live.
This webzine is an example of how technology has
changed human relationships. I have never met in
a face-to-face meeting this issue’s writers and this
project is born thanks to direct messages on Twitter,
e-mails and web-based collaboration tools.
As the seasons, 15things will have about 4 issues
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soon as a new issue is available, just drop us a line: our
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prefer the 140-characters kingdom, our twitter
account is @15things. We are not just looking for
readers, the same contacts are available for everyone
who wants to collaborate with us.
So, let me say: “Hello World”.
EDITORIAL by DANIELE DE COL
C Berlin M In - Sonorization D Stop Talking to Me While
I’m Drinking! F Interview with Natalia Valle T with
@aiagaia + 1 ME AS COMPUTER 2 LET ME BE YOUR
TEDDY NERD 3 COUNTDOWN 2010 e BIODIVERSITY
JENGA 4 CONFIDENCE IS WHERE IT’S AT 5 ANOTHER
SPARK IN THE (GREAT) FIREWALL 6 NASDAQ 7 FAST FOOD
HOT SANDWICHES 8, 9 e 10 TRIPTYCH OF PROSTHESIS

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 C
“All in all it’s just
another brick in
the wall.
All in all you’re
just another brick
in the wall.”
Another Brick in the Wall
part 2, Pink Floyd
WORDS: DANIELE DE COL
PHOTOGRAPHY:
ANDREA MUHS and OLIVER ELSER
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suburbs, on the project web site
you can read:
“The expression of an era cannot
be experienced in architectural
highlights. It only appears when
we take a good look around in the
everyday urban greyness”.
Berlin wants to forget what
happened between 1945 an 1989,
for that reason anything built in
this period is often designated as
something to be demolished as
soon as possible to make room for
new buildings. This is true for both
the eastern and western parts of
town.
In 2002 Andreas Muhs, a 1. Zentrale Tierlaboratorien der FU
photographer with many Berlin, Krahmer Straße, Steglitz /// 2.
publications in newspapers and Wohngebäude, Charlottenburg, Lietzen-
burger Straße /// 3. Kunst, Marzahn,
magazines, and Oliver Elser,
Helene-Weigel-Platz /// 4. Haus der NGG,
curator at the German Architecture Gotzkowskystra&e, Tiergarten /// 5. Feu-
Museum, started to document the eralarm Oberstufenzentrum, Swinemün-
builds in risk of demolition. der Str., Wedding /// 6. Wohngebäude,
They ignored the ‘icons’ of post- Charlottenburg, Bleibtreustraße
war modernism focusing on
 During this year’s Berlin Film
Festival, 12th February, thanks
to the festival art director Dieter
Kosslick, the public could be
present at a live sonorization of the
film Metropolis.
This event was made possible
thanks to Frank Strobel, a Berliner
music artist, in collaboration with
the Murnau Foundation which is
taking care of this idea since 2001.
Frank Strobel mainly directed the
attention to the original partiture
of the sound-track written by
Gottfried Huppertz, but starting
from 1984 many other musicians
and directors tried to give a new
sound to this landmark in the
history of the cinema. Many
suggestions have been taken also
from the project written by Berndt
Schultheis in 1964.
Strobel worked on seven different
versions of the sound-track and
he admits the main problem of
a live representation during the
screening of the movie. As a matter
of fact, the sincronization has to be
kept during every moment with no
space for free improvisation.
The original partiture for the
movie is one of the first great
symphonic arrangement for
“Music is the thanks to the sound-track.
We aren’t used to silent movies
movement of anymore and to recreate in our
state of mind words and thoughts
sound to reach of the actors, or the entire mood
of the opera only thanks to the
the soul for the sound-track.
education of its A great sample of this kind of
experience has been Microcosmos
virtue.” the documentary directed by Marie
Perennou and Claude Nuridsany
Plato, The Republic with the original sound-track of
Bruno Colais.
cinema and listening to a live In that case even the life of insects
version of it, all its evocative could be better rendered thanks to
elements found a new life and have great music.
been underlined from a present-
day taste and attention.
Movie sonorization’s art is a new
possibility to give space to a music
which is grown year after year but
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bows its head to the power that
there is in some silent film’s scene.
SONORIZATION
WORDS: BIANCA FERRARI
Many times it’s easier to find
musicians that exalts the silence
in music and work on it as an
alternative expressive way. Just to
give some names we can talk about
John Cage, William Burroughs or
particular ideas of Paul Virilio.
When we watch a movie we
understand the most of sensations
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 Stop talking Here we are to suggest some
funny games you should do while
cup, he has to drink. The drinker
can also try to trick someone to
The best part of the game is its
end, because it’s unforeseeable.
to me while you’re drinking. touching the cup for him, if he We suppose four different ends,

D
There are so many ones you could
I’m drinking! do to enjoy yourselves. We are
proposing five of one’s we consider
WORDS: FRANCESCA PIAZZA the best of all.
ILLUSTRATIONS: BIANCA FERRARI
7s, 11s, OR DOUBLES
­ pub, a friendly barman (with a great (the drinker wins).
Ingredients: 2 dice, a cup (in
the middle of the table), beer and
yourselves.
is successful that person has to
drink.
BEAT THE BARMAN
Ingredients: a not so crowded
sense of humor and lot of time
to loose) and yourselves with any
plans for the following morning.
with different winners and
loosers: first, the drinker falls over
(the barman wins); second, the
barman punches drinker’s lights
out (drawn); third, the drinker gets
thrown out (drawn); the bar closes

At first someone rolls the dice.
If he get 7, 11, or doubles on his roll
he’ll pick someone else to drink,
except the next person. The one
who rolled pours beer into the cup
in the middle. As soon as the cup
is filled the choosen person must
drink. While he is drinking the beer
the roller has to try to get 7, 11, or
doubles before the drinker slams
the cup on the table. If the drinker
beats the roller the dice go to the
next person.
But if the roller gets 7, 11, or
doubles before the drinker slams
the cup down, he refills the cup and
go again until the drinker beats
the roller. The roller cannot touch
the dice before the drinker touches
the cup or he has to drink, and if
anyone else touches the cup or the
dice before the drinker touches the
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The drinker approaches the bar
and orders a shot drink (whisky,
bourbon, vodka...). The drinker pays
for the drink with too much money.
As the barman goes away to get
change, the drinker shoots the
shot. When the barman returns
with the change, go to step number
1.
BEER - PONG
Ingredients: a ping-pong table
(or something similar), beer and
yourselves.
Each player places its filled cup
of beer one paddle – width from
the side, in the center. Hitting
your opponent’s cup earns you a
point and requires the opponent
to sip (5 sips a cup). If you get the
ball in your opponent’s cup, you
are awarded 5 points and the Everybody has to use left hand
opponent must drink whatever
remains in the cup.
Remember: no player may touch
the ball prior to its hitting the
table or a cup; if it hits a cup before
hitting the table, it remains in play
even after a single bounce on the
table.
A player may attempt to save
point after the ball hits a cup by
returning it. Multiple hits count
only a single point, except a ball
which hits a cup and then bounces
inside the cup, or inside the
partner’s cup: in this case it counts
as a 5-points-inside-the-cup
“poofter”.
BUFFALO someone else draws a Jack and
becomes the Walla – Walla Moose
Ingredients: your hands, Master.
yourselves and great attention!
The Queen is the Question
Master. If the person with this card
while drinking, except if you are ask a question, the person who
lefty. If you see anyone drinking answres has to drink. It may be a
whit the right end, you have to simple question like “What time is
begin shouting “Buffalo! Buffalo! it?”.
Buffalo!” and clapping your hands The King is the Thumb Master.
or banging the table in the same He puts his thumb on the edge of
rhythm. the table. The last person to it has
Then the unfortunate drinker must to drink. Both the Question Master
finish his drink as fast as he can to and the Thumb Master are that
make you stop shouting. until someone else draws a Queen
Repeat it until you have to drink... or King.
The Ace is the Rule Master. He
can make up any rule he wants. For
WALLA – WALLA example, “each time a girl drinks,
the boys have to drink as well”, and
Ingredients: table, cards, mixed
these rules stick for the duration of
drinks, yourselves.
the game.
Sit around the table and put a
deck of cards in the middle.
The first person draws a card.
From 2 to 5 is the number of
drinks you take, from 6 to 10 is the
number of drinks you pass out.
The Jack is the Walla – Walla
Moose Master: when you pick up
it you make moose antlers with
your hands and yell “Walla – Walla
Moose!”. The last person to do it
has to drink.
You could do this anytime till
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 D: Hi Natalia, please introduce D: How do you describe your photo-
yourself with a tweet (not more graphic style?
then 140 characters) N: I guess I’m still figuring it out.
N: Hi there. I’m a 25 years old self-
taught photographer based in Rio
de Janeiro.
D: Why food? And how do you deci-
de the subjects?
N: I’m terrible when it comes to co-
D: When did you decide to become oking, shooting is my way to enjoy
a photographer? the food, I love its textures. I could
N: It wasn’t something I planned. spend all day looking at food pictu-
I always liked photography, at the res, they give me joy. When I was
age of 18 I started taking pictures younger I used to buy sweets and
of my daily life for fun, at that time desserts not necessarily because I
I had a photo blog and soon peo- wanted to eat them, but because of
ple began to say that I should turn their beauty. Ok, who am I kidding? I
the hobby into a profession. Then still do that, but don’t tell everyone.
I was awarded in an international
Interview with competition, somehow it was an
approval that I was looking for, and
Natalia Valle when I realized I was working as
a freelance photographer. I am a
QUESTIONS: DANIELE DE COL romantic girl, I like to think that it
PHOTOGRAPHY: NATALIA VALLE
was meant to be.

D: Who are your main influencers?

N: Lately, the food photographers
Helene Dujardin, Alexander Landau,
France Ruffenach, among others.
Cartier-Bresson is one of my eter-
nal idols, Marizilda Cruppe constan-
tly inspires me.

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The subject depends on the needs
of each client.
D: Looking at your web site most of
your food pics are sushi related. Do
you think sushi is more photogenic
than other food? Why?
N: Not at all. Japanese food is
delicious but not always the most
photogenic, you must be careful
when shooting all kinds of food.
Like a good picture stirs the appe-
tite, a bad one can turn a tasteful
dish into a disgusting one.
I worked several times for a japa-
nese restaurant, that’s why my
web site shows a lot of sushi.
In my opnion, the most photogenic
foods are sweets and desserts in
general. They’re colorful, delicated,
sugared fun, and most of people
love them.
D: Do you use real food in your pics?
N: Yes, I do. You can take great
pictures with real food and a good
sense of styling.
D: What’s the hardest part of shoo-
ting food?
N: Time. The photographer have
to work fast so that the food does
not change its appearance with the
temperature or other factors.
D: Are your pics “photoshopped”?
N: Yes, I usually adjust the bright-
ness in photoshop.
D: What’s the secret that makes a
food pic mouthwatering?
N: A great photographer and a
great chef. It’s important to study
the food and know the elements
that are more photogenic to com-
pose the picture, as well as working
together with the person who will
be doing the dish, to make the food
visually more appetizing.
D: What advice would you give
someone who wanted to become a
food photographer?
N: Play with food, study the works
of other protographers, read bo-
oks about food photography, ask
yourself what makes you like a
particular photo and what makes
you not like it, connect with local
chefs, restaurants, culinary stu-
dents. Browse cookbooks, usually
the best pictures are there. Take a
lot of photos, talk to professionals.
Be creative. Critique and let be
criticized.
D: What other thoughts would you
like to share?
N: I would like to share a lovely blog
I’ve found recently. It’s about eve-
rything food related: www.happyla-
dyeats.com
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 T
Twinterview with
@aiagaia
QUESTIONS: BIANCA FERRARI
@bia_hvid
mean: we’d like having more young
people using internet as an active
tool.
are already many young people
B: Here we are! Meanwhile many
thanks for accepting this deal! You
are in our first twinterview.
G: OMG, you adulate me using this,
right for the launch of @15things.
B: We are all so happy and waiting
for the issue.
G: Then everything will be written
10
in @15things? Nice: an original idea,
innovative and really interesting.
B: So I start point-blanck with the
theme: technology. In your opinion
do young people watch webtv?
G: We hope even younger do! The
real problem is that lots of them
stops at the chat level instead.
Our aim is to open their eyes, I
We aren’t pessimist ‘cause there
G: There is something good in
between, yes! We can’t forgive that
Internet (althought some try to
do the contrary) is and has to be a
free space in which is possible to
express yourself as you like, with
no manipulation from traditional
medias as thay do too often.
But you need to be able in using
Internet.
B: In your opinion do people read
blogs or do they prefer watching
Web Tvs?
G: For know I think blogs, for two
simple reasons.
1 – Web Tvs are new realities
here in Italy and we are a bit lazy,
in addition, we need some time for
the step of taking a camera, using it
to create contents about different
topics... only starting from our
initiative...
It’s easier to sit down at home
and read or write a blog, even if it’s
well done and appealing.
B: I totally agree. Many times
Internet is misunderstood
who know us and want to join aiagaia
us. I think they could be attracted
Name Gaia Roncarelli
from our being a young working
Location Bologna
group, doing active information and
Web http://www.crossingtv.it/
enjoying it, in a smart, new and not
Bio 20 years old white gemini
discounted way, above all.
female with overabundant
writing obsessions just to sedate
B: You know , I’m kind of pessimist,
her unsettled mind.
I’m hard at understanding what
can be a good middleway among
information tools in the Web...
G: 2 – Web Tvs are really recent and
(in my concrete experience, in Italy)
not so spread, althought many of
them aren’t new (e.g. apartment
house tv ‘Teletorre 19).
B: This is related to the fact that
Internet as to be better known.
Why is it so difficult to give
confidence to new ways of
journalism?
Maybe also to source not linked to
national media...
G: Im my opinion we have been
used to believe that the only real
information is the one given from
newspapers and Tvs, we have
forgiven that newspapers and Tvs
are indissolubly bounded to politics,
this is a way to distort information
as they like.
We must fight for the freedom
if Internet, for the moment is
one of the only hopes for a free
information.
B: When you talked about the first
Italian Web Tvs you made me think
at the meeting ‘Paese che vai’.
Have you been there?
G: Yes, we have been! :)
G: I’d like to add something to what
I said previously...
Concerning who isn’t confident
with alternative forms of
information, I think the cause could
be that most of the sources (for
Web Tvs...) are common people,
not wellknown anchor men and,
who knows, we believe that the
‘dapper’ journalist is clever than
us, but often this isn’t true. As it’s
false that these ‘dappers’ and who
are around them share the same
problems like who is involved in
documenting a problematic fact
and tries to get solutions for it.
Often journalists don’t even know
what is happening and therefore
have difficulties in having the same
interest in making clarity or, above
all, in doing that kind of sincere
information useful to associate
with the reader.
B: Many problems of lack of
information are caused from the
structure of main medias and daily
newspapers. Isn’t it?
G: Absolutely.
B: You were talking also about
#citizenjournalism: a ‘foreign’ word
for Italians as a matter of fact...
G: Eheheh, you are right, I answered
you before referring to it. People
look at CJ with a suspicious
approach, alas. People deem
that ‘self-taught’ information
done by each citizen has to be
necessarily unprofessional and
therefore wrong or innacurate or
even sectarian. I’m afraid but this
last characteristic is typical also of
traditional medias and they can’t
deny it ;)
B: You know that people still
want to have their 15 minutes of
celebrity, but also have problems in
expressing themselves. Why, in you
opinion?
G: I think that people are too busy
to think that in order to have those
15 minutes they need to go along
with Tv’s wishes or similar, on the
basis of what is aked to audience.
Does Tv work with smiling people?
Is it satisfied with every silly think
happening?
People act like this without
asking themselves what is THEIR
personal way of expression, what
THEY really want to say. Today
the main think is appereance,
and it is implied like a ‘diktat’ to
which the individual doesn’t feel
to rise against. I said an enormous
banality, but this is my opinion.
B: IMHO this isn’t banal, rather a
way of thinking with not much
possible opposition because many
times there aren’t basis for a
concrete conversation...
G: I agree. Many people probably
don’t even know that it’s possible
to express with other tools...
B: And strong bias are an everyday
topic to deal with!
I’d like to end with a last
question about media and tech.
In this first issue we are talking
about technology, have you got a
favourite digital tool or application?
G: Ahahah, you know ‘on the
square’ among the @CrossingTv
staff the nerd is another one, my
loves are really concrete: I like
reading and writing very much,
at most I love my iPod but only
because it let me to isolate myself
thanks to music and, of course,
when technology meets your loves
I think it’s great :)
B: I hope we won’t ever have to
bear technologies against our wills
:) At last I have to thank you a lot!
G: Thank you for this nice
possibility!
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ME AS
COMPUTER
PHOTOGRAPHY: DAVID KJELKERUD

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 LET ME BE
YOUR TEDDY
NERD.
PHOTOGRAPHY: MATTEO VISENTINI

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COUNTDOWN
WRITER: FRANCESCA PIAZZA
ARTWORK: STANLEY LEUNG
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The UN declared 2010 the
International Year of Biodiversity
(IYB).
The celebrations for the
International Year of Biodiversity
are led by the Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD).
2010
Countdown 2010 is a partner of the
CBD for the IYB.
The number of actors ranging
from local authorities and
businesses to civil society
organizations is increasing day by
day. With a powerful network of
nearly 1,000 partners, Countdown
2010 is one of the leading
initiatives mobilizing action for the
2010 Target.
It will be a key global actor for IYB
in Europe and around the world.
Countdown 2010 and its partners
will provide one of the main
information channels and will be
a major vehicle for reaching target Your story could be a model for
groups worldwide. future positive action.
You could tell your story with a
All Countdown 2010 partners video at the same email, too.
are encouraged to organize events All the stories will be posted on the
and set up initiatives for the Countdown 2010 website and the
International Year of Biodiversity. best stories will be published in a
The Countdown 2010 team counts special magazine.
on all of us to make the IYB a
successful year in Europe and
beyond. There we find three way
to partecipate at the Countdown
2010.
At first, if you have a great idea
for a project, event, or initiative in
2010 which you want to share with
other Countdown 2010 partners,
you could find a great list of open
projects in the website of the
The last suggestion, but not the
project, with the option browse -
share - vote. least one, is called “Name your
Ambassador” , by which you could
You can also send your ideas at
office@countdown2010.net. name any popular figure who is
At the same page you could vote sensitive to environmental issues
in your area.
for the best ideas for 2010.
A great social idea.
This could be useful also to have
a benchmark about the work for
For the second proposal you have
biodiversity in your own country.
the possibility to send to the main
e-mail address the description of
your biodiversity achievements,
what you have done for increase
biodiversity conscience in your
community, company or city.
 { {
OUR DESTRUCTION
OF THE TOWER
CAN LEAD
PHOTOGRAPHY and COMMENT:
MARTIN SHARMAN TO COLLAPSE

BIODIVERSITY
JENGA
“Where I work they are about to start a campaign using the symbolism
of a house of cards. This is crazy. They construct a house of cards
knowing that any one of their attempts to construct could end in
disaster, and that sooner or later, the whole thing will suddenly collapse.
This is a terrible metaphor for our relationship with the living world. We
are not trying to create - we are cutting down. Acts of creation do not
inevitably lead to disaster, as with the house of cards.
The Jenga image is much more appropriate. We take blocks out, one by
one. Our destruction of the tower can lead to collapse. But we can also
refuse to take a block out, and begin to try to put blocks back.
Collapse is not inevitable, unless we continue to remove blocks.”

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 CONFIDENCE
NEXTED (Urban Dictionary)
Usually on Chatroulette, a new random IS WHERE
IT’S AT
stranger chat site, when someone clicks the
“next” button almost instantly after seeing
your face or webcam. The most common
nexted individuals are males.

CONCEPT: BIANCA FERRARI

PHOTOGRAPHY: MICK VAN MEELEN

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ANOTHER
SPARK
IN THE
(GREAT)
FIREWALL
WORDS: FRANCESCA PIAZZA
ARTWORK: CAIN and TODD BENSON
The power of Google scares the
governments. This is almost cristal
clear.
Most of the newspapers spoke
about what the Google
management said, and what was
the reaction of Chinese
government. But what do the
Chinese netizens think about the
case? The mentioned search engine
helped us.
Spaceysun, on Flickr.com, has a
persevering opinion.
“Pornographic materials can be
reasonably censored but people
should be entitled to freedom of
speech. Our government feared
that the Chinese people become
too “information-rich”, so they
installed the Great Firewall; very
effective up till now.”
“Intriguingly, Google’s claim has
become some kind of a blatant
threat or to some extent, an
ultimatum to the Chinese
government. And this has been
utilized by the U.S. government
to exert pressure on a diplomatic
level. Escalated to such a scenario, I
assume Google China is going to be
pulled out of mainland China in the
near future.”
{
CENSORSHIP HAS
{
NOTHING TO DO
WITH THE FIGHT
AGAINST
PORNOGRAPHY
As a matter of fact, the
censorship of Chinese government
could be seen as a terrorism attack
against normal Internet users and
the global information security.
Actually many of Chinese internet
users are freezed and fixed. Lots
of Flickr normal photos cannot be
seen, for example. This is why
Chinese people thinks the
censorship has nothing to do with
the fight against pornography: it’s a
one against every Chinese netizen
who wants to seek better service
and more information.
A tweet is madly circulated on the
internet:
Facebook 的原罪是它能让人认识想认识
的人，Twitter 的原罪是它能让人说出想说
的话，Google 的原罪是它能让人找到想
找到的东西，Youtube 的原罪是它能让人
看到想看到的东西… 所以它们都被干掉了
“The sin of facebook is that
it helps people know who they
wanna know. The sin of Twitter is
that it allows people to say what
they wanna say. The sin of Google
is that it lets people find what they
wanna find, and Youtube let us see
what we wanna see. So, they are all
kicked away.”
It directly affects millions of
netizens, because since Google’s
expansion in China, its search
engine, Gmail, and Google Doc have
been widely used. A netizen in
Xiaonei, which is a social network
website popular among young
people, was panic:
陆铠 :早上看到新闻说“谷歌将退出中国市
场”... 吓醒了... 我的Gmail，我的Google
docs，我的谷歌咨询，我的互联网
“I saw that “Google planned to
quit the Chinese market”. I was
scared awake… My Gmail, My
Google docs, my Google Search,
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and my internet.”
These days are uncommon for
Chinese cyberspace. As a Chinese
local search engine with the
largest market share, Baidu is
often compared with Google. Its
reputation is blackened because of
its stronger censorship and the fact
that it has removed search returns
about poisonous milk after taking
money from the producers.
王子健 :百度该不知道的都不知道，谷歌
不该知道的都知道，他知道的太多了…
“Baidu will show you nothing that
you shouldn’t know, but Google is
the opposite. It knows too much.”
Google is highly praised among
internet users:
樊春晓→槑 :谷歌退出中国市场？！谷歌有
骨气，谴责xx一个，没有民主的地方，谷
歌情愿退出，道义、金钱，什么更重要？
我收回以前说老外没文化的话，现在他们
为我们诠释了什么叫舍身取义，XX，看
看现在的中国人，祖宗的美德一点都没留
下，枉为华夏子孙
“Google quit Chinese market?! A
firm of backbone! In a place without
democracy, Google prefers to quit.
What is more important, money or
morality? I won’t say foreigners are
impolite anymore, because they
have shown us what it means by
‘sacrifice oneself for justice’.
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Look at the Chinese nowadays,
the merit of ancestors were gone.
I am ashamed to call us the
offspring of the Huaxia Great
China”. A sarcastic price of words
is getting quite popular around the
cyberspace.
90后：今天我翻墙，看到一个国外网站叫 Also due to the decreasing revenue,
Google的，妈的全是抄袭百度的。00后： it is considering to quit the Chinese
翻墙是什么？ 10后：网站是什么？ 20
后：国外是什么？
“People born in 90s: Today I
stepped out of the Great Firewall
and saw a foreign website named
Google. Shit, it is all but a copy of The Internet is too usefull to be
Baidu.
Born in 00s: What do you mean
by stepping out of Great Firewall?
Born in 10s: What do you mean
by website? Born in 20s: What is
‘foreign’?” Tang Peng shouted:
唐鹏 :我党威武，我天朝万岁!！谷歌终于
要“自愿”退出中国市场了！！！
“Great Party, Long live the CCP
dynasty!! Finally Google would
like to quit the Chinese market
‘voluntarily’!!” People soon make
up how the state-run media CCTV
might comment on the incident
cctv:
新闻稿：近日谷歌公司由于黄色搜索，侵
犯中国作家著作权等问题，遭到了中国网
民的普遍抵制。由于业绩下滑严重，考虑
退出中国市场。这又是一次中国网民抵制
外国不良网络服务商的成功案例！
“Recently because Google
encountered issues such as
obscene search returns,
infringement on copyrights, it is
boycotted by the Chinese netizens.
market. This is another case of
boycotting a perverted foreign
website by Chinese people.”
So, this was for thinking about
young Chinese people, about the
digital natives of China.
lost. For them... and for all.
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 ‘Who are YOU?’ said the
Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging
opening for a conversation. Alice
replied, rather shyly, ‘I--I hardly
know, sir, just at present--at least I
know who I WAS when I got up this
morning, but I think I must have
been changed several times since
then.’
‘What do you mean by that?’ said
the Caterpillar sternly. ‘Explain
yourself!’
‘I can’t explain MYSELF, I’m afraid,
sir’ said Alice, ‘because I’m not
myself, you see.’¹
Alice is no longer Alice.
It’s hard to imagine a bigger
solitude than the one of who can’t
even find itself.
Here start problems: who tries to
find itself when the subject indeed
vanishes?
Probably, someone else.
There are alredy two of us.
Alice’s reasons: she has changed
size too many times and does
no longer remember well what
she thought she knew. This
schizophrenia is more familiar
to us. The problem put by the
modern technologies, above all the
personal-version, is something very
similar.
Conditio sine qua non: there are In most of cases nothing new is of view. What’s mine? We can
no one-way relationships. born: we have just potentiated hardly mediate: we negotiate
Too often you think of a subject ourselves. My voice can be spread every moment a vague, temporary,
that manages, invents, uses and all over the world and at the same unsteady conition. Nothing strange
abuses technology. He is static time i can perceive the littlest if then the ideologies come out.
whereas technology moves, vibration. My eyes can explore at The selection comes into play:
changes, evolves, transcends. the same time the surface of the in order to potentiate we need
“Computers will become more globe, the deepness of the univers to select something and not
human!” shout researchers and, and the micro-articulations of a something else. I potentiate my
behind them, while they don’t stop molecule. My arm can strike my voice, I speak to Cina but that voice
admiring “le magnifiche sorti e enemy everywhere and at the is no longer mine. She has become
progressive”, the human beings will same time can perform a micro- a wave, we have stripped it away
become more computer. surgery operation. I can run 300 from our body. The world sees
km/h, I can comunicate at ones, I my face but that face is nothing
Darwin thought the species that can know what happens in each more than a frame, a fragment in a
survives is the better adapted one: part of the world, I can get any role, showcase. Then comes the worst:
this law is true for us too even if I can say my opinion and I can the selection selects us.
the environment is, for a big part, have a my space. We can be If I try to assemble all my chunks
our product. We have created high- gigantic and a minute after very something goes wrong: I became
powered weapons, high-powered little, like Alice. We pay dearly mosaic, a cubist collage of an idea
computers, high-powered mobile for it in terms of selection and about myself. No longe manadn
phones, high-powered airplanes, prospective. technology but technoman,
high-powers cars and high- It’s easy to imagine how our no longer the subject and his
powered fridges: than we have capability to keep a steady horizon prosthesis but the subjectivity of
adapted. is compromised by all this sudden the prosthesis.
What are all these things we have changes. Each deformation breaks
created? Prosthesis. the prospective, changes the point At this point the famous modern
TRIPTYCH
paradox “the more we can
communicate, the more we feel
alone” appears less strange. The
subjects characterised by personal-
OF PROSTHESIS technology vanish slowly, starting
from the top of the tail to end
WORDS and ILLUSTRATIONS: with the facebook profile, that will
MICHELE MARTINI remain there for a while after the
PHOTOGRAPHY: ELIO ROSATI rest will be desappeared.
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 The noise is a relationship
among colours.
Remember of your childhood.
Noise is that thing that made the
brigth colours you mixed turn
into a brown-grey tone.
We might stop a bit before.
Musically speaking noise consists
in a sound which is characterised
by a hardly definable, unsteady
frequency: a fashionable mix of
frequencies. The sublime (or better,
sub-limen) exists for Noise too: just
before the “grey-brown collapse”.
We need to pay attention to do
not mistake our limits for limits
of things. Noise itself can be
essential only if we are able to get
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close to the limit whitout cross it.
Eros.
Beyond the limit there are us, our
mind and our senses to dissolve.
In the everyday life we are
exposed to a big quantity of noises
we don’t desire. In order to avoid
interferences, we create a limit
under the which we ignore any
stimolous. It’s something like a
grey curtain that simultaneously
hides the unuseful noises and
becomes the background for
interesting sounds. Naturally we
sit in the stalls and observe.
The show begins.
What’s up?
SOMETHING goes Here is, I know! Noise, behind the
wrong! curtain, has eaten away the stage,
Hey, can you moVE to the left a the flap, the public and the stalls.
bit...... That ‘s how it goes as usual! An
PleASe!!! actor can act more or less for 5
Change YOUR minutes. He comes in, says an half-
(silence) seat! cue and immediately something
drugs him behind the wings. In the
“Sorry MadaME, same way sounds, pictures and
but order FIRST, information disappear.
eh?” It’s 19.3 It’s always the same!
9 o’
Than people clock In later years technological
Put down increase (technological increase of
GOSsip... the bottle, our age) has increased the noise.
God damn it! We, unlucky castaways, try to float
And please, let my favorite on interferences. So we amplify
ACTOR go!! sounds, we pump up information,
we fatten images. Tear up curtain,
A vicious circle: in order to emerge uproot seats,
from the background, in order to smash flap,
drag out ourselves, in order to have break down stage.
a 5-minute truth.
Let the Noise of our age,
All of a sudden, in the invisible whatever it is, be heard.
turmoil, from a curtain’s breaking
corner slips out the voice of an
old news. A mobile phone’s ring
evaporates through an unstitching.
We catch a glimpse of numerous
shadows.
Now my desire is to give up war.
Turn off amplifiers, monitors and
engines. Lay off to make louder
in order to define the New on the
corpse of a dead yesterday.

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 A red light enlightens. A man sees
it and pushes a botton. A switch
sets off and an electric impulse
begins to move through the Net.
It passes by other terminals, other
lights turn on. Another man, better
dressed, sees light. He dials a
telephone number. The call goes
along the main cable and then
deviates towards the secondary
net. Another telephon rings and a
man picks up the receiver.
The man is at office, he shouts
something, another man listens
and nods. He goes to the console
and pushes a series of bottons.
Red lights enlightens. The electric
impulse begins to move but
looses itself in a device: it exits
changed into a wave. It flies away
to an airplane. It enters into an
electric circuit until it gets to pilot’s
panel. Some symbols appear: nice
wheather upon Hiroshima.
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At the pub the discussion
languishes. An old man harasses
the barman’s half-potty monkey
with the top of the cigarette. He
will die in a couple of hours, but he
doesn’t know. Ictus, to be precise,
and he’ll wet himself. The owner’s
little son looks at an old film on
television. “That people are dead
and buried!” cries a fur-covered half
skeleton, trying to get into the pub.
“Because we die, in life!”, she says,
squeaking like a rusty door. At that
moment, I guess, the boy decided
to become a raper, to rape the old
woman and to end on the electric
chair. Enough, at that age.
At the same time the monkey,
among all those bones, coveted a
beautiful femur. It was at least one
metre long, white, with a visible
bulge on the top. Nothing strange
at all but that day the light was
different. He imagined for an istant
imploding skulls, flying splinter
bones and marrow squirting
everywhere. He liked it, he named it
“Power”.
“Stop behaving like an idiot!”
“But that man...his head...”
“What’ wrong? Didn’t you study
anatomy? If you were under that
bus, I assure you things would be
the same! And now let us working!”

He went away slowly staggering.

No rest looking at the sky that
day. No rest since long time. At
the meantime the others went to
be marked. It was for free, they
said. Maybe he would do it as well,
sooner or later. If you are marked
you can keep your house, your
car and they give you a ticket for
food. It’s acceptable, after all. Mum
would be happy for sure.
She has been marked twice in
order to be safer. The crisis started
five days ago. The airlift cannot
He went, after time, in a A technology of symbols which
work, ships cannot leave the
monastery. There he found the is symbol of technology: a trick of
harbour. Telephones, televisions
holy ideograms, god’s gears. The mirrors.
and radios are mute. Without any
gears of the world were broken, Celestial spheres, after long time,
stock Tokyo can resist no more
axis were smashed, springs were still working good.
than three days. People will soon
streched out. The world, like an old Doubtless a good mechanism.
begin to starve.
carillon, was stuck. At the end the
technology of symbols have shown Valeria wants to become your
his limits. Nothing fit together, friend. You have 134 common
maybe nothing had ever fitted. friends.
Ignore.
Everything was a game.There was
a hidden gap, a little but iterate
imperfection, a viper fed in our
womb. Grown, she had put her
slimy body into the gears and it
was the end.

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