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Rubbernecking at the G8 summit..

Judge by yourself ns3

My impression is that they are just watching the beautiful white footwear.. ns45

See ya..

I guess that it is time to pack some things up..

many many baggages & stuff

many many baggages & stuff

Starting skateboarding

As I promised Frost I have started skateboarding. I bought it for 40 bocks in Pacific beach and as soon as possible I’m going to send you some videos about my improvements.

Starting skateboarding

Starting skateboarding

See ya later… hopefully without broken bones.

A scary poker hand..Texas Hold’em!

Yesterday night during the poker game. Both the players (Bedo and Orkun) were All-in:

After the FLOP

After the TURN

After the RIVER

Orkun won with Straight Flash that is really difficult hand to draw. The amazing part of the story, is that the last weekend the same guy drawn another Straight flash. I have played for more than 6 months and I’ve never drawn one SF. Following, the pictures of yesterday and the weekend before yesterday…

Pictures a live:

With this poker hand, for today is over..

See ya the next time!!

Invasione di mucche alla Jolla

[Article of "SignOnSanDiego.com" - 06.11.2008]

Nonprofit groups see public art as cash cows

CowParade, a public art exhibit of painted fiberglass cows, is coming to the region next year, organizers announced yesterday.

CowParades have become an international phenomenon in the past decade since starting in Chicago in 1999. The whimsical exhibits have since been staged in New York, London and Paris, and auctions of the artwork have raised more than $25 million for charities worldwide.

Currently, CowParade Lala Tijuana 2008, is taking place across the border.

Plans for CowParade San Diego were unveiled at Liberty Station in Point Loma, where developer Corky McMillin Cos. has donated buildings to be used as an artist laboratory and warehouse for the project.

CowParade San Diego expects to exhibit 200 life-size fiberglass cows in prominent public spaces – such as trolley stations, Balboa Park and the San Diego County Administration Center – from Jan. 3 to March 31.

A cattle call is being put out to artists in the San Diego and Tijuana region to work on the project. Individuals and businesses can sponsor a cow, and each artist whose design is selected will be provided with a blank cow and $1,000 upon completion.

The top 50 cows will be auctioned at the end of the exhibit to raise money for Rady Children’s Hospital, the Zoological Society of San Diego and Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. The auction is expected to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“We will do everything we can to milk CowParade for as many philanthropic dollars as we can,” Mayor Jerry Sanders quipped at a news conference announcing the project, where milk and cookies were served.

Not all public art fundraising projects have been successful. For example, a plan to install 40 individually decorated Garfield cat statues along Old Highway 101 fizzled last year because of a lack of sponsors.

But CowParade has received enthusiastic response from artists in town.

Perry Vasquez, an artist who teaches at Southwestern Community College, said he was drawn to participate in CowParade after finding out that some of his cultural heroes, such as director David Lynch and former Czech President Vaclav Havel have created CowParade artworks.

“I thought this is more than a frothy pop-art project. There have been some serious minds who have been involved. If they can do it, I can do it,” Vasquez said.

To create his design, Vasquez has been thinking about the cultural significance of cows in Greece, Scandinavia, India and other nations. He’s also been dwelling on the contemporary issues tied to cows, such as slaughterhouse ethics.

Organizers say that cows are a good fit for a public art project because they are nonthreatening and recognizable. Their body shapes also happen to make a good canvas. The fiberglass forms used for the exhibit are modeled after Swiss dairy cows.

[Tratto da UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER By Helen Ga]


In due parole, quest’articolo del 2008 preannuciava una parata di 200 mucche a San Diego che sarebbe cominciata il 3 gennaio e finita 31 marzo 2009. Questo progetto e’ gia’ stato sviluppato in diverse citta’ come New York, Londra e Parigi che negli anni passati ha raccolto piu di 25 milioni di dollari.

Nel 2008 questa sfilata stava prendendo luogo a TIjuana, citta’ di confine tra California e Mexico.

I fondi che saranno raccolti saranno donati all’ospedale Rady Children’s, alla societa’ zoologica di San Diego e al Balboa Park Cultural Partnership.

Chiunque puo’ sponsorizzare una mucca. Questa sara’ consegnata ad un’artista della citta’ che provvedera’ a pitturarla per poi quindi essere ricompensato al termine con 1000 dollari. Alla fine della sfilata, saranno selezionate 50 mucche che saranno vendute all’asta al fine di raccogliere fondi destinati a progetto.

E finalmente queste 200 mucche sono arrivate a San Diego piu’ colorate che mai. Non puoi girare l’angolo senza trovarne una…

Ovviamente non sono stato li a fotografarvele tutte 200, ma ve ne ho “portate” un po’ per farmi assaporare la pazza atmosfera che ha invaso la citta’ in questi ultimi 2 mesi. Queste sono quelle vicine alla mia scuola in la Jolla.

Godetevi la galleria:

per oggi e tutto ragas..

P.S La mia preferita e’ la numero 10.. =)

Alla prossima!!

L’ultimo dell’anno! ::: 今年最後の日! ::: ultimo dia do ano! ::: letzter Tag des Jahres! ::: The last day of the year!

Good evening everybody.. How are you doing? What did you decide to improve about yourself the last day of the year? Quit smoking? Begin to be a better person? or just hope that this 2009 will be better than 2008?

About me, I just decided to take the last day of the year like all the other normal days, using to drink a little bit more alcohol when I was near the midnight and just for those 6 hours during the party in the night, take everything easy in completely relax with everybody and especially with myself.

I and Tim decided to go in a couple of parties in Ocean Beach & Pacific Beach, two of the most popular suburbs in San Diego, but we didn’t know where we were going. For those parties, I trusted Tim for almost everything. In the afternoon, I’d liked to call the guy that had the information about the place, the time and those stuff, but Tim obviously didn’t have the number. Anyway, with the explanation that Tim told me, I imagined that the party was where we have gone these 3 months in the last parties in San Diego.

In the afternoon, I went to the supermarket Vons to buy some alcohol, like what everybody use to do, before go to the party.

My host mother just for the last day of the year bought the alcohol for me. She said that it was impossible spend the last day of the year without drink something, deciding to help me.

In the evening, at almost 6 pm o’clock, we went out. We decided before to go in “In n’ Out” (in my opinion, the best place where you can eat fresh fries & hamburger) to have dinner, then we took the bus to go to Jason’s house, the guy that had to bring us to the party.

Finally, after one hour and half we arrived in front of his house. After that Tim knocked the door, I realized where we were going. In front of me, I could see a guy like 30 years old. At the time, I was wondering if Tim has the ability to think sometimes. Damn, I don’t pretend always, just occasionally. That’s not all. After just those 30 seconds, I understood that he was an American guy not a foreigner like us, so I realized that probably the party was just with older American guys.

Anyway, we had to wait one hour and half in Jason’s house for his friend. After a couple of beers, finally the friend arrived and we could go to the party. After something like 20 minutes, we arrived.

Everybody was like 30 years old and the style of the party was really different to the normal party that we have used to go in this 3 months. It was very difficult stay there for the first hour, but after that we began to feel really well. We talked with everybody about our experience here in San Diego: school, host family and our feeling about stay here very far to our country. I have to say that when I’m drunk, I can speak really good, ’cause you don’t use to think so much what do you want to say, but you just use to go ahead with a lot of spontaneity and relax. At eleven o’clock arrived somebody with our same age: Janine with one her friend, our classmates in Kaplan Aspect.

One thing very sad in America about the midnight in the last day of the year, is that here nobody use to use the fireworks. Here, no iper colourful sky, no bunches of people that lose fingers or arms in the night and no all the pets that freak out for the bursts and go under the table: that’s so sad!

At two o’clock we left for change party. We arrived, that the party was almost over. Also in this party there were just people over 25, but I didn’t care anymore ’cause they were really friendly. I just played a couple of time with a Play Station’s game, where you have to play with a fake guitar, then we decided to go at home.

I didn’t think to enjoy so much. I’m really satisfied to join those parties.

Anyway, here we go with the photos!

For today that’s it. Write you soon guys!

Byez..

Funny video about a blonde girl

This video was send by Judy to me

That’s all.

See you the next one!