Some fisheye -ing - Furb party vol. 4 !!

Saturday afternoon I went to Mandello, where there was the Furb party.

Furb is the local crew of Mandello, that organise events, parties and contest every year. This week end they had organized a skate and bmx's jam in the skate park and for the evening, a concert near the park.

There were many skaters, but also some bmxer like Mitch, Ale Froio, Martin and the little Simone.

Check out some shots, hope you enjoy them!

Toys Go Wild !!

April, 17th I was in Milan to a creative workshop during the Elita festival Wild in the City.

This event created by a cool friend of mine, a professionist I value so much, Ricardo Ramos Lazcano and it was pretty interesting.

It was centred on plush toy art. An art movement based on toys maded by cloth, plush and other textiles stuffed and than decored with stripes, drawings and all the gadget you can find and recycle.

Guests to this event were two toy artists: Davide Mancosu and Teresa Morelli, Matteo Donini (Italy's main toy art gallerer) and Igor Zanti an art critic and IED (european school of design) teacher. While the guests were talking about the story and the evolution of this kind of art, the audience was building, sewing and painting their toys!

Unfortunately I hadn't enough time to shoot photos and make my own plush :(

 

Many thanks to Ricardo Ramos Lazcano:  ramosrick@gmail.com

SWISS part 2

A little bit late, but I'm so fucked with the school.

However... Let's come back in Switzerland for IXS cup part 2.

Sunday morning I woke up pretty seized up because I sleeped in the back of my car, that is quite small :(

However, after a small breakfast at the finish area of the track, I climbed up again.

I decided not to go up at the start just because it take too much time, so I stopped at the rocky garden and a couple of corners up.

After the morning practice, there were the finals in the afternoon and I slowly walked down to the finish line, where I followed the end of the run of the fastest racers.

Emilie Siegentaler was able to get the first position in the woman elite class, despite a crash at the bottom section of the track. Tahnee Seagrave got the fastest time of the women also if she's U17.

In the man, Markus Pekoll (AUT) got the first position,  the Aussie Joshua Button came second. The italian champion Lorenzo Suding followed him by 0.277 seconds only. Fourth Marcel Beer and fifth Brook Mac Donald.

SWISS, WHAT A WEEKEND!! part 1

This weekend I was in Switzerland for the IXS european cup on Monte Tamaro.
At the beginning I was travelling with my friends Die, Franz e Mario, but they had some problem with the federation fee, so I had to travel alone. No probs.
Friday I was at school for 8 - and I'll repeat it EIGHT hours because of our timetable, so I hadn't too much time to prepare the bags and backpacks so at soon  as I arrived at home, I had prepared everything.
Saturday morning at 5am the alarm rang up, I had my breakfast  and I was just ready for the car! Easy!
First song of the weekend? Clearence Clear Water Revival, On the road. I absolutely love this song and every time I hear it, it reminds me at the Tri-ride first video of the last wc in Maribor. It makes me feel like "Whoha! Let's start a new experience!"
The travel was pretty easy, two ours of music and relax driving to Rivera, the nearest village of the uplift.
I arrived at the parking and the weather was not the better you would for a downhill race. Pretty cloudy, windy and rainy, COOL!
Soon I met the friends of the team Biciaio; they're good friends: easy, funny, friendly (how many y i'm using today?? :D)
The practice session started at 8am, so there's not so much time to talk, so I started licterally climbing the mountain. As seams Champery, here the mountain is soo steep, and walking is not so easy.
The track was cool; it has steep and technical section with slippery roots and rocks that with every rider became worst and worster, between fast part where there was some useless mud...
Saturday morning was for the practice, and in the afternoon there was the qualifying round.
Nick Beer manage to get the first place, as his teammate Emilie Siegenthaler.
After the qualifying round, I started selecting the photos,while I was wating for the dinner, offered me by the Biciaio's friends (Thank u sooo much!!) and about the 9.30pm I was just sleeping in my car!

Soon the part 2!

Here, as usual, some photos of saturday!