Green stimulus: Italy sucks / Stimolo verde: l’Italia fa pena

(EN) The white circle represents the total size of each county’s fiscal stimulus package, while the green one  inside is the country’s allocation towards environmental initiatives. Click on the image to interact with the infographic on the Financial Times. ——– (IT) Il cerchio bianco rappresenta lo stimolo fiscale totale di ogni paese, mentre il cerchio verde all’interno è quello  dedicato all’economia verde. Clicca su una delle immagini per interagire con l’infografica completa sul Financial Times.

Animated Soviet Propaganda / Propaganda Sovietica animata

(EN) I run into this great long documentary (here’s  3 and 4) about soviet propaganda. It’s full of animated shorts starting from the twenties but also interviews with some directors still alive. One of the first one was written by Vladimir Mayakovsky who was sent to Cuba where  US corporation run the business of sugar and tobacco. He wrote  poem with his experience called Black and White and his drawings were used to produce an animated movie depicting fat priests and white business men enslaving cubans. Propaganda today is still alive and kicking in many other contests and this documentary it’s a good starting point to its strategies and how they evolved. —————— (IT) Mi sono imbattuta in questo sorprendente lungo documentario (qui trovate la parte  3 e 4) sulla propaganda sovietica. Non si tratta dei soliti poster ma di una serie di corti animati creati a partire dagli anni ’20 insieme ad alcune interviste sia ai registi ancora viventi,

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