30+1 days Challenge w/ @lovelybluepanda

Everyday this month (May 2022), me and @lovelybluepanda will share our personal finds and opinions on a specific subject we decided beforehand. You can join us too in the comments or simply by tagging us in your post!

DAY 18 - COLORS

I have had a very huge and passionate dive in period last year concerning this subject: being into photography and movies, I bought a couple of books that only talk about colors, the theory of colors, how they were used in different medias (especially communication/marketing) in the different ages (e.g. how they discovered and used each of them for paintings!) and let me say, it’s soo interesting. Colors speak to us on subconscious levels too. Not to mention that we may not perceive most of them in the same way.
I don’t read much anymore, but those two books had me hooked. I don’t know if you can find them in your mother tongue or not, still I’ll leave you the titles here, just in case (and I think you can find a couple of epubs on Google too, especially of the first).

• CROMORAMA by Riccardo Falcinelli (so very accurate and complete)
• DI TUTTI I COLORI by Alberto Boatto (smaller, but still good)

From the first book, on the back of the cover, you can read these questions (to which the author answers accurately in the book):
Perché le matite gialle vendono di più delle altre?
Perché Flaubert veste di blu Emma Bovary?
Perché nei dipinti di Mondrian il verde non c'è mai?
E perché invece Hitchcock lo usa in abbondanza?

(If you’re curious about these and other questions, feel free to ask. I will write you the answers)

Another media I want to leave you is by the Italian illustrator Fraffrog (that I have already mentioned another day): she just posted a video on youtube about the nonexistent color magenta that we all can actually see (but she also explains well how we all can perceive colors differently, like in a couple of viral images we all have seen online - the shoes and the dress). She has made an older video about the colors’ theory too (the link to that is in the video as well).

I’d talk about colors with your for ages, as it’s a subject that fascinates me a lot: there are so many hidden meanings behind each of them, its crazy.
And for this reason, I’ll leave some more links on youtube (non-Italian ones)
Color Theory in movies (short, tw:blood)
Understanding color in film (useful for colorists too and explains kinda well the subject)
There are so many videos though… I will stop here.

(As for music, I already used the song by Alessandra Amoroso so… Il Mondo è fuori by Velvet)

-> No vocabulary perché il post è già abbastanza lungo così, MA vi lascio questo vecchio post sui colori: the name of colors.

30+1 days Challenge w/ @lovelybluepanda

Everyday this month (May 2022), me and @lovelybluepanda will share our personal finds and opinions on a specific subject we decided beforehand. You can join us too in the comments or simply by tagging us in your post!

17 - AMNESIA

About the magic of our mind (I know this is a serious condition, but still I find our mind to be magical in this sense, cause it’s not always easy to understand it and how it works and from how something originates)…

Memory is located in our brain inside the sistema limbico, where it is supposed to register new events, store old ones and analyze the received infos. If any of these three phases is altered, we can have a subject affected by amnesia.
Amnesia can happen and appear after an injury of the brain, a psychological trauma (that could have also taken place during the early days of the subject), medical conditions, abuse of alcohol… Aging too can be a factor.
Having amnesia means you cannot remember a recent or a past event (recent ones are more common), and you cannot form new memories, but you can still learn new actions.

memory = la memoria
brain = il cervello
mind = la mente
events = gli eventi
amnesia = l'amnesia (pronunciation.: amnesìa)
aging = invecchiare, l'invecchiamento (n.)

30+1 days Challenge w/ @lovelybluepanda

Everyday this month (May 2022), me and @lovelybluepanda will share our personal finds and opinions on a specific subject we decided beforehand. You can join us too in the comments or simply by tagging us in your post!

DAY 16 - SPIRITUALITY

Online there are many different acceptions of this word but the most common is “the belief that something beyond our self exists and we’re connected to it, and through it”.

What is your relationship with spirituality? I feel like in Italy, this side of each person isn’t really taken into consideration, especially by the youngers. On the other side, there are also elders who are quiet devoted to their spiritual side but are a little close minded: this because spirituality is often connected to Church and, historically, it has never been really open but always tried to address people thoughts and beliefs in a specific direction (no offence, just stating the truth).

Anyway,this is the Italian wikipedia page, and later, you’ll get your short vocabulary:

Spirituality can have different acceptions and interpretations. It denotes behaviours, ideals and values related to the spirit.

From the most basic point of view, it consists of a perspective according on which there’s a reality’s level that one cannot perceive through their physical senses, that it’s located beyond the tangible matter, from which it takes life, intelligence and the meaning of existence. It can include faith in supernatural beings or powers (as in religion), but it always keep the focus on the personal experience.

spirituality = la spiritualità
behaviour = il comportamento
interpretations = le interpretazioni
perspective = la prospettiva
to perceive = percepire
beyond = oltre
existence = l'esistenza
faith = la fede
supernatural (adj.) = sovrannaturale/i (sing/plu)
being (n.) = l'essere
power = il potere

The old master scribe settled onto his reed mat and looked at the boy sitting in front of him. ‘Why have you come here?’ he asked. 'I have come to learn how to be a scribe like my father was,’ the boy said.

The old man smiled, 'If you want to be a scribe, you must first learn about the scripts used to record the language of the Egyptian people. Then, you will learn to read and write these scripts.’ He paused, then closed his eyes. A minute passed. Then he began to speak in a low voice. 'I will start at the beginning.’

'A long, long time ago, Thoth, the great god of writing and knowledge brought the gift of Medu Netjer ('God’s words’) to the land. For hundreds of years this sacred script has been used to record the words and deeds of the pharaohs and the gods and goddesses.’

'If the script was sacred, what did scribes use for writing letters?’ the boy asked.

The old master scribe continued .'Some years later, another script was developed so that everyday information could be written down quickly and easily. It was used by scribes working in the temples and palaces who need to keep records and write letters.’ He paused.

'The signs for the new script were based on those of the sacred script. However, they were drawn with fewer lines and decoration. That made it easier and faster to write the signs.’

The old master scribe picked up a reed pen and carefully drew the hieroglyphic sign on a piece of limestone. Next to it, with a quick sweep of his hand, he drew the same sign in hieratic .

He showed it to the boy. 'Do you see the difference?’ he asked. The boy studied the signs and nodded his head.

'Today, in the reign of Wehemibra (Nekau II), we do not use the hieratic script that much anymore. Our common script is sekh shat, ('writing for documents’). The signs are based on hieratic signs, but they are even simpler. This makes them faster and easier to write.’

The old master scribe paused and wiped his brow. 'As a scribe you are given the power and knowledge of writing. First, you must learn the common script of the land so you can perform everyday tasks. After that, if you are lucky and talented, you will also learn the sacred script. Those who learn the sacred script will learn the secrets of the gods and the mysteries of the land.’

(source: ancientegypt.co.uk)

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