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A new Oscar Award for title design – Un nuovo Oscar per i titoli di testa

(EN) Titles sequences are getting more and more elaborate and New York Times proposes a new Oscar Award: Best Achievement in Film Title Design. Here you can see their proposals (Wall-e is number 1) for this season. ———– (IT) I titoli di testa stanno diventando sempre più elaborati e il New York Times propone di creare un nuovo premio Oscar intitolato: Miglior titolo di testa. Qui puoi vedere le loro proposte (Wall-e è al primo posto) per questa stagione.

Visualizing the Crisis of Credit / La crisi americana patinata

(EN) I’m really fascinated by visual essays and this ambitious work from Jonathan Jarvis gives form to a complex situation making  it easier to understand the dynamics of the big fiasco at play. The only think not clear is: why home owners stopped paying? Probably because they were working “bad jobs”, and not because they were “unreliable” or “bad people” like depicted in this infographic movie (have you noticed it?). But not many like to talk about  income inequality in the US. ———————– (IT) Sono affascinata dai saggi visuali e questo lavoro ambizioso di Jonathan Jarvis riesce a dare forma a una situazione complessa rendendo più semplice capire le dinamiche in gioco nel  grande fiasco dell’economia del credito. La cosa non chiara rimane una: perchè i proprietari di casa hanno smesso di pagare? Probabilmente perchè erano anni che i loro stipendi non crescevano, anzi crollavano sotto il peso dell’inflazione e non perchè sono inaffidabili  o poco responsabili come l’icona animata

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Clean coal is a dirty lie/Il carbone pulito è una sporca bugia

(EN) Clean coal debate is getting hot especially because Al Gore and Obama this time are not on the same side.  Nowadays the fuel provides half of U.S. electricity but also 30 percent of the greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to global warming.  Coal-power lobby is very powerful in Washington and they decided to invest $300 million over 3 years to convince the population that Clean Coal Technology is going to solve  the environmental impact problems of coal (did you know that 1 gram of mercury can pollute and entire lake and coal plants in USA produce 50 tons every year?). I already showed you a campaign trying to fight this gigantic propaganda and now  it’s time for a new one called: The dirty lie. It’s new retro style! And here’s a pie on global distribution of electricity from coal in 2009: ————————— (IT) Il dibattito sul carbone pulito si sta scaldando specialmente perchè Al Gore e Obama non sono schierati

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