LEGO’s 50 years

In 2008 the most famous brick all over times celebrates its 50° birthday. And it’s a real invasion in every fields, from art to web, from design to fashion, to show.. in a fantasy and creation’s explosion! Lego, for celebrating in a big way, has brought out ToyTastic collection, vip and celebrities in a ”plastic” form very similar to the original shape: Beckam, Madonna, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Batman, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones (in the photo, The Pitt)But Lego means also art:the Little Artists are the Art Craziest Nation’s authors, reproductions of famous work of art. The two artists John Cake and Darren Neave takes care and builds their personal “mini exhibition” of modern art in the consumption’s kingdom where also art has become a product. Lego so continues his course, passing from art to fashion, with the new collection of Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, famous french fashion designer, and his colorful and original clothes and accessories inspired to the bricks. It’s also noteworthy the naif-jewelry series by Jacqueline Sanchez: necklaces, ear-rings, rings, bracelets realized with the magic briks and little diamonds. But..it’s not ended! The multifaceted Lego bursts also in “street-architectural” field: first in Bocchignano, near Rome, where Jan Vormann has repaired cracked wall using Lego bricks, on the occasion of art contemporary exhibition 20 Eventi, giving a surprising touch to walls and streets; Lego has also become protagonist of a Guinness record:in front of Vienna’s town all, infact, 3000 children have built a tower made up of 500’ooo Lego pieces, creating a really unique sculpture. Lego also in the music! For their videoclips Fell in love , the pop american group White stripes has even chosen as protagonists two characters made up of Lego..

Riciclarte: The art of the recycle

Remarkable and stimulating meeting point for those italian artists’ communities that consider recycle as a basis for their own art, Riciclarte is a virtual space that allows to exhibit one’s artistic creation, where one can meet other creatives for exchanging ideas and information. Moreover there’salso a sapce where it’s possible to promote the personal and collective exhibition.

Adeart is a laboratory in Bolzano that realizes ecological bags and accessories, full-blown unique pieces created using recuperated material, as for example truck’s inner tubes.Heart and soul of this project is Heidi Ritsch, born in 1973, that units her extraordinary creative gifts with a deep consciousness of the bnecessity of informing and make more aware the world of recycle market.

www.adeart.it

Elisabetta Pescucci

a myriad of “lost identity” objects : that’s the raw material of Elisabetta’s creations, very odder trash jewelry, a mix between microsculptures and contemporary cheap trinkets. The unique instruments are pliers and wire cutters, for giving new life to tinfoil, chewing gum, lego, stained glass, plugs..

3D fiction Paula story

The story of Paula tells, through three friends’s events -different from age, social extraction, formation, lifestyle- the very difficult course of who discovers a breast cancer, and bravely reacting, is able to defeat the desease, surely thanks to the new therapies and to an excellent assistance, but also to the affection and support of the closer. The three different destinies allows to show how the differences in the access to information, in cultural level, in income and contacts influence the desease’s development. In this fiction it has spreaded a positive message about the importance to modify our lifestyle for reducing at-risk behaviour: it’s underlined the importance to eat healthy foods, to have a correct sport life and to eliminate the smoking vice. This story’s aim is to contrast the more frequent prejudice connected with cancer: t is not true that cancer is incurable, but it’s important that the patient learns to fight against it but also against bureaucratic and cultural obstacles concerning the reintegration of the individual after the therapy. It’s a final hopeful message that show how, also a such kind of devastating disease, could be a human rich experiene.I’d like to underline the meritorious work and the great value-added of voluntary associations that everyday invest their time to give information and sanitary absistance to cancer patients and to thei families. This fiction is been realized by Intermedia agency, thanks to an educational grant of Astrazeneca. The story is entirely shot inside the virtual department of oncology of Ospedaliera – Universitaria di Modena. There’re real doctors of Policlinico di Modena. The dvd will be distributed in the Azienda Ospedaliero -Universitaria di Modena, in every italian Oncology units, in collaboration with Fondazione AIOM, alle patient’s associations; and the movie will be also online, on Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria website, Fondazione AIOM, on www.intyermedianews.tv.

Fantasy in SL

There’s no another the such rich in fantasy and creativity as SL. A complete platform that pools the inexperienced user that tries to work for the first time with grahic expression, to the professional designer that has found an ideal place to show his works testing audience’s liking. However play and creativity in SL are the “bosses” in manifold sectors. We think about all the users that for work or for delight put the test in some extravagant building’s realization , from retrò to pure futurism, passing for fantasy, cartoon, urban ambientation and so on.. Surely, the best way to express our creativity is the graphic art in sculpturization of objects, but creative are to be considered the LS language’s programmers. Thanks to it, infact, they will be realized many special effects that embellish the lands and the avatars.It’s not important where experss the own reative’s thought, what’s is important is doing it with enthusiasm and fun, playing with fantasy and colour!

Creative Hub: users community generated architecture

The Hub Creativo project, supported by Milano Metropoli and Milano Provincia, iso going on. It’s patronized by 2LIifeCast for CrossCreative.

The first stage is on January 8, on WDT-Planet (http://slurl.com/secondlife/WDT%20Planet/80/156/33) at 22.00 CEST, a mother sim where SaliMar, Vstex and  DapRaf Creation are joined to create an archipelago of harmonic islands communicating by sea, born without commercial or business aim, they’re going to become a natural point of aggregation and creative and artistic exchange.

We are welcomed by Mila Tatham, designer and builder. She has established Solidea/ Builders in Second Life with Rodroguez Imako. In this meeting we’ll report all the  proposals of general dispositions of spaces according to functions and blog tips. We recall that your partecipation is always open! You can follow the calendar and the roadmap to know where we are and for taking part in it.

It performed on december 22 the first meeting with Hub Creativo project. A very interesting moment in which the project has been presented to builders in a debate that has raised a lot of very important and stimulating questions.

“Project your Creative Hub” is not a contest: it’ something beyond usual competition ways ( where the besrt creativity of the best builder is award-winning) and it’s organized to be a full-blown workshop with the aim of facing new forms of collaboration in SL in the course of an architecture planning. In these workshops’ sessions we laid the fundations for a shared planning’s method, using the digital world as an ideal environment for the involvement of citizens, public administrations, institutions and communities in the sharing of  processes of territory’s management, with the clear purpose to take the inworld activities to integrate themselves in RL management economy. Second Life as an instrument for generating a project marketplace where architectural simulations are workable and able to be visited in real time and therefore purchasable as winning solutions.

It’s obvious a testing course, but at once we deal with very important subjects: for example the governanceof creativews and citiziens: what’s the real value of hints and proposals in modifying the administration’s choices? Or also: the circuit of Blog/Community+ second Life is sufficient for creating substantial projects?

The project is still in itineris, and although its aim is clear, the road for reach it will feel many variations.

So we invire all the builders, the designers and the digital citiziens of virtual worlds interested in the search of innovative and productive instruments to partecipate: we always need of new voices and experiences!

‘HUB CREATIVO’ is a project supported by Milano Metropoli territory agency (http://www.milanomet.it/) and 

Provincia of Milano, patronized by 2Iifecast for CrossCreative (http://www.crosscreative.org/gioco/memberlist.php). 

Attached below (http://idisk.mac.com/sennett/Public/download/box.zip), you’ll find:

1 the project document with the calendar and the roadmap

2 the document of specifications of hub’s use destinations and the relative area

3 notecard text for the first stage

4 logos for the set up

For further information:

Send an IM to: Vive Voom, Stex Auer, Core Tatham 

Send an e-mail to: staff@2lifecast.com