art power in the Tunnel ending to light

hi all viennian actuel friends and friends of future

despite of our hard macrobiotical nutrition diet, that Emanuele seduced me to take part, (in theory im alive but...), we will organize again a t-shirt collecting day next sunday in tunnel restaurant.

last sunday we received new quests and some old fans also, but there is still much more space free for new people to introduce themselves to this incredible social art gathering.

for those, who dont know whats going on, ill explain shortly here what we r doing: one of our art projects in Vienna is to collect t-shirts from viennian people and also take a little interview from the history of the shirt and photo (with a shirt). then we make artfashionshit from those items collected by customizing them with different techniques and themes. finally we will sell them forward and connect x-users and the new users together in some magical way.

so take your sweat smelling old t-shirt and bring it to us and join to this enlightning group making the world better place

info: 4th february from 3-6pm at "tunnel"restaurant", Floriangasse 39

and if u feel, we really enjoy the idea talking with u on a telephone: 068110336557 and 068110213123

photoshooted and -shopped

First steps in modelling and photoshooting. Experimental, sweaty, nervous, little ashamed and blushed. But still hilarous, excited, brave, courageus, daring and trustful. Saturday evening has been spent with things that we need to do and what we wanted to do, -what wanna try and what wanna learn-. The direction of growing and developing is nurished by little choises day by day, sensations of line choosen, to which emotions connected, what kind of concept will be revealed and to who. The question is about processing the polar positions of the sensations and values behind them. When the value behind an item is more precious than the sensation received from its esthetic. Until how far is it possible to continue only following answers to simple questions as "what i like and what i dont" ?

Changeable as the Weather

The challange of two people or more, coming from different european cultures with different sight on esthetics , co-working together in a same new place on a same new project is always not just a simple form of respecting " the other " - this, most of the time makes the subtle tendency to pack aside conflicts in pressurized evil thoughts -, but making work that particular kind of "opinion filter" that prevents to take any kind of word coming out from the mouth of " the other " as an invasion of field, or just a rude interruption for having fun.
Yesterday in Finland there was minus ten. The last news I had from my family in the north of Italy was that there was twenty-one degrees.

THE ONLY FLYER WITH THE GLOVES

Mes dames et monsieurs! If You all didn't came to our debut at Museum Quartier 21 -that believe us- never we thought could be so frantic and nash in a way, now You are invited to a warmer place for our bone's sake too. For the always cold people we thought it was nicer to organize our next meeting point at TunnelViennaLive, a very comfortable place with a very friendly and warm ambience (for keeping the friendly and warm ambiencewe we thought that bringing cookies and tea as last time was surely pissing off the boss, there so you'll find lots of wine, beer and veggie as no veggie food).

Bring as many t-shirt as you can, we are thinking about a trophy cup for the one that will bring more at the end of this march!!!

A post we had to write much earlier

When we started to think some months ago about what exactly to do here, there was a long and really wide list of possible things and different actions we put in the box of "possible and not so impossible missions". It wasn't for the lack of a concrete direction, or of an helm to direct our different strategies and life experience in a defined one creative line, but I remember very well that during our so free brainstorming, one of the weirdest thing that came to my mind -in that moment- was something I really was believing strategically possible: making home made rice milk joghurt.
It makes a week and something we are active in Vienna and when we looked at the blog, something was missing, something really obvious: what did we choose to do for starting and what we are concretely making of all the brainstorming now?

We write about here, about our life here, about the aspects that every day are happening - for example right now Henna got out bringing home the sewing machine with the support of Franco' s car - as if everything was clear for someone that is reading and following our blog and as, and this is the point, if she or he finds relations between a post and the other.
One day we speak about a graphic design agency, another about a supposed magazine and the other one about a fashion project. The very first impression that someone may have reading us is that still the brainstorm didn't finish - that maybe now is directly mutated in a brainhurricane - or we completely are flipping out in this really beautyful capital city.

After the choice of a main project as trunk on which dedicating ourself more, the ideas we had two month ago started to be involved as ramifications or branch of a same tree. If I have now to explain you in very few words what is - You Are Our New Testimonials -, so what we choosed as main project, I could resume it in a social-fashion project.

As here we know nearly anybody, we thought that doing something that had to do with an opening movement to outside, to the wild blue yonder, to the infinite lots of thousands people living here, well ya, we thought it was a good idea for starting.

So what is - YOU ARE OUR NEW TESTIMONIALS -?
During the first part of the week we prepare a flyer that can't be found in lots of copies in town, every flyer that we give is a personal invitation because we want at first create a contact and speak with people, with the person we meet in the street, with the saleswoman at Boesner shop, with the coordinators of clubs or hacking the officials flyers of important events or vernissage just putting it in the middle.
We invite people to bring us a simple thing they have in their house that they don't use anymore: a t-shirt. This t-shirt after a photo with the ex-owner and a little interview is customized during the week, sewed, embroidered and following mini collection theme in a maximum of twelve pieces, sold to shops.
The buyer of the customized item is not just buying a -something- with just a price, she or he is buying a piece of our survival here, with not just a label but a personal unrepeatable Testimonial, the one that used before the t-shirt (obviously the t-shirt wonna be very much recognizable).
When we begun doing the firsts prototypes the few people passing by the atelier, friends of the other guys working in, asked us immediately if they could buy this for theirselves. We sincerly wasn't prepared at this. Not anyway surely in this so fast and nice way.
The sewing machine is now home, and we are ready to start with any other interruption. The unique pieces we will do during the weeks will be shown also on line as a virtual shop here. You can order them!!!

first gathering for t-shirt collecting at museumquartier

This sunday (21st jan) we dragged ourselves in front of the main entrance of Museum Quartier to fullfill our promise in the flyer delivered to people around: collect their used t-shirts! 3 litres of tea and cola plus 5 packets of biscuits with us.

Amazing weather was not exactly our friend: two times we needed to collect all our things flyed with the wind around the yard (biscuits and cameras included!)..and after one hour waiting in coldness i was sure we both will be sick next days.. meanwhile i was about to die for laughing so much: what a comic serie! what two sympatetically pathetic artist characters on the stage!

after 2 hours waiting and after eating two packets of biscuits ourselves we kind of realized that its obligatory to organize the project better: we received only two people during whole time (who both were our friends already). greetings mister R and madamoiselle M.

serious series and lovable lists

recipe for gaining energy to do all from "to do list":
1. one packet of "sissi taler" chocolates
2. double-pack of "ferrero" chocolates
3. different kinds of drink products
4. bio-pasta (lots)
5. sardiner different tastes
6. nice bread (fullcorn and carrot)
7. white vegetables
8. lost sesam cakes (not eaten)
9. some snacks

"to do list":
1. learn and practice new techniques for fabriques
2. travel around flee markets for accessories for clothes
3. write e-mails to new contacts in Vienna
4. phone to some people
5. prepare material for "t-shirt"-gathering for tomorrow
6. visit 2 cultural centres
7. think about preparing precentation cd
8. plan how to have sewing machine
9. call to couple indie club for having a show there
10. share more flyers than yesterday
11. plan themas for t-shirt campagne for next week

among all above, take care of this:
1. be polite
2. be friendly toward others
3. dont shout
4. dont drink too much coffee
5. remember dialogue
6. accept compromises
7. believe in project
8. make another believe in project also
9. think about "to do list" for tomorrow
10. think about future in general
11. dont stress too much about the money
12. share your visions about your lifestyle
13. realize you r always late from what u planned to do
14. try to catch last metro at midnite to home
15. reach bed before falling into sleep with pasta in your mouth
(16. wake up with too little sleep, but very enthusiastic) (easy to do)

YOU ARE OUR NEW TESTIMONIALS

It have been really a loOoOooOOOooOong day in the atelier today. We begun experience with new printing and painting techniques on basic used old fabrics coming from our first Testimonials taking part to our fashion project - really nice by the way, for this yes, we are really very lucky - that after beeing modified in new shapes, presented themselves in all their astonishing new soul. It have been really a full day. Dankeschoen und buenas noches. Faites des beaux reves

after 5 days designing; visitenkarten

"I feel like an owner of a Playboy magazine with his playmate", said Emanuele today at Kirchengasse. Seems we r doing well here, and why it wouldnt be true: just check out our ready "visitenkarten", and vote if its good enough to take to printhouse tomorrow morning! Oliver, our collegue in atelier, presented us today to the Boss of Printhouse, who promised all his products for reduced price.

QueenBee and LittleBoyUnicorn at Kirchengasse

Emanuele and I arrived first time to our atelierplace in the center of Vienna. After connecting laptops into internet we designed our "visitenkarten", that we will print out soon. Our ensemble baptized "Queen Bee and Little Boy Unicorn", will be a globetrotter agency for fashion and graphic design.

Flyer, fly fly!

First weekend in Vienna: designed, printed and shared. Personal invitations to first event of "You are our new testimonials" t-shirt campagne.

We heard the Master's Calling!!!

Ok, have you ever heard about Mac Gyver? If not well - HE - was the main character of a serial film passing on tv some fifteen years ago that from a pen, some clothes peg and a little of bicarbonate was able to declare war to Pyong Yang from his canadian tent lost in Ohio or in some desertic place of Sahara. At the end of this soap-opera for masturbating engineers, that found theyr God in a blonde man with a cut of hair understandable in this television era just looking at some videos of George Michael before his solo-career in his group -The WHAM! - , Mc Gyver like a Buddha leaved a message to everybody in the planet : "Two people will come taking my place, they will be a girl and a boy, they will be skilled like me and using whatever tool with theyr volcanic creativity they will build up peace, eternal happyness and love through something I never used before, GRAPHIC DESIGN."
So, the people that still thinks that the end of the Cold War is just a vodka and hamburger trick made by some politicians is wrong. The words of Mac Gyver inspired HOPE in the soul of people around the globe, and hope generated a period that in the History Books is named " The Period of the Long Wait".
NOW, after nearly fifteen years from the end of the serial WE, Miss Queen Bee and Little Boy Unicorn - We - can reveal our real identities to the world and say that WE are the TWO chosen by Mac Gyver (now anymore Mac Gyver but Ananda Prem Karna Shempala - he is in India now teaching Peace and Love in a Jungle Ashram community near Poona), that appeared in front of us in his Spiritual Shape and told us the TRUTH concerning our real existence.
By steps, because HE is a Great Master of Life, HE told us to do the baggage and install a Graphic Agency in Vienna and spread his Love and Peace and Happyness and Whateverelse to the Mediatic World through the support of all the agencies that would help us. At the end, before disappearing, he just leaved this last sentence " Write Without Words".

So, now my dear graphic design agencies in Vienna, we are asking your support to follow the will of our Bright Master.

Sympatism in Suburbans

Week has been amazing. I travelled 200 kilometers from Helsinki to enjoy the golden silence of Finnish wild forests of Rusko village, but it seems that Cyberhippie has set wireless net over all Created Nature, and this action has made possible to continue skype negotiation between Rusko and Reggio Emilia.

With inspiration received from Firenze art clothes store, we have focused on preparing our "ugly t-shirt" -clothes project: "You are our New Testimonials ". Plan is that after arriving to Vienna, we attack with flyers to every household in the neighbourhood and ask population to take part on this social art campaign. We will write on the flyer our artist identity and our mission that is essentially "is there another option than to prostitute us?" After a so warm and astonishing welcome message, we will ask them to give us their old-used-not-too-ugly-we-are-not-miracle t-shirts and posing for a photo of our customizing t-shirts- campaign. These photos will accompany their ex t-shirts in the travel from our atelier to the shops in format 8x8 as advertisement with our logo on the back in the shops where we will be sold.

The date of this public collaborative celebration of giving and receiving will also be published soon in this blog. It means that this located action is open for all the public (all of U included).

1st of January- Sacrifice of Lentils & Carrots Pie to all the Protecting Gods

When I woke up -feet on the cold marble ground- the first day of this year, it was too late for having brakfast with His New Presence, and maybe also for dividing some kind of lunch and sharing some nice words; so for admitting my personal fault and beg my pardon to Him and correct my lazy start, I made with the remaining parts of a lentils mousse and what was inside the wok of some other cereal and vegetable stuff cooked the Previous Dead Year, a nice pie, and I offered it to the New Year Gods of The Bright New Year represented in the altar by some dozen of winged angel heads, a yellow Jesus, a clay Buddha with a hole in his hand for holding incense, some flying sheeps, two mexican skull heads and the black spiders shadows eating each other meaning the beautyfullness of natural symbiosis of life and death. A good beginning not? Someone could say that I had to do some noodles or springrolls or lasagne or pasta con melanzane alla parmiggiana or some spaghetti or a moussaka or a bottle of Pepsi or some of my nails or the nails of my brother or a nicer pie anyway, but it was the meaning of the gesture, not the pie itself -the important thing- I thought looking at the belly of Buddha that seemed to accepted my present as a very delicious thing. So, to everybody there reading our blog, our narration of what does it mean for us as - ensemble - moving to Vienna in a few days, starting and building up from nothing with as resources embodied in us love and creativity: We wish you a really olimpionic and spectacular year remembering You that a sword is useless in the hands of a coward.