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The Top 20 of 2009

Oh well, I have to. Each year, this should be done, it's a stupid habit, but it is fun and can then be used to report something that may not have heard.

Here's my personal ranking of the best albums of 2009. This is not a ranking of actual quality, but only to a ranking based on the mere personal taste.

1) Circulus - "Thought Becomes Reality"

This is the best album of Circulus, who not content with being a niche band to a record indie niche, you are licensed to base their personal record, to be more indie . And we indie snob like this, is not it? United Jethro Tulls to something very vintage electronics, put in psychedelic, brit pop, very medieval, mixed with lyrics about goblins, English gardens, thoughts become reality, small woodland creatures, bodies made of light and so on, pray with a more English accent that you can not, and get a rough idea of \u200b\u200bwhat may be the Circulus. Needless to say, if I put them in first place, I love them excessively.

2) The Horrors - "Primary Colours"

Yes, there is a hand of Portished and feels. This is the best blend of punk and rock I've ever heard since the Ramones, and has run very sorry. Listen and listen all the time.

3) Grizzly Bears - "Veckatimest"

are branded as a bit 'too soporific, but I love them beyond measure these Americans who manage to merge the acoustic with electronics, truly poetic composition to Simon & Garfunkel with the most sophisticated electronic experimentation to entrarti under the skin in a deep sea of \u200b\u200bsoothing psychedelic nightmare that is sweet to drown. The album tells me more, in terms of intellectual depth of the poem and music research. If only it were in a bit more catchy, it won first place in the standings.

4) Editors - "In This Light And On This Evening"

and style reigns supreme, in a whirlwind of stuffy pleasantly cupissimo nightmare electronic rock in the middle strada tra i primi Depeche Mode e l'indie rock. Non aggiunge nulla agli splendidi album precedenti, ma ne uguaglia perfettamente lo splendore.

5) Doves - "Kingdom Of Rust"

Ovvero: come dovrebbe essere il pop. Si tratta di un album densissimo di ballate e canzoni tutte rigorosamente orecchiabili, fascinose, sincere e ispirate. Siccome esistono i Doves, non ha senso continuare ad ascoltare altri gruppi pop come i Coldplay. Che aspettate a buttare via tutti i loro dischi e comprare immediatamente quelli dei Doves?

6) Muse - "The Resistance"

"Senbee", I wonder, "and through it all 'I'm indie, we do Muse?" We make them a terrible figure, I answer, because the fact that the others are all coming from the indie scene is not explicitly intended by me, but it is only the result of the pitiful state in which they made the major labels today. Let's face it now: this is the worst album by Muse. Citationist too, too "done as a joke," too over the top, too bombastic, Baroque, and sarcastic megalomaniac. But is his exaggeration, its totally out of reasonable bounds, which I like very much. Fill also lack the Queen, and for the general atmosphere (tragic-ironic-kitsch, catchy but apparently schizzatissima and experimental), and for the style in a couple of songs is explicitly mentioned, even with samples from solos of Brian May. I prefer Muse's "Knights of Cydonia", but it is never too late to go back to the glories of that wonderful piece.

7) Sunset Rubdown - "Dragonslayer"

Here we are among the last Beatles and the first David Bowie ideas foaming and convincing style, really says something no squares in the mere exercise in style which unfortunately many others - also excellent - band from Canada.

8) Ebony Bones! - "Bones Of My Bones"

should also be fun, right? Well, it had been years since I've heard music like that. So truly gorgeous, I mean. We are one of the first Beastie Boys and Cansai De Ser Sexy (the first album I mean, not the commercial the second). That music that is perfect if you're on the beach with 50 friends and friends naked and drunk, when you realize that everything is too anarchic and fun way to not end up in hospital or police station, but in the meantime you enjoy it and you unleash bad.

9) Love Me - "Watersport"

One word: neurasthenia . This album is a genuinely, genuinely neurotic . One of those things that after hearing them after you find yourself apologizing to the bathroom sobbing as Roger Waters in "Do not Leave Me Now" of The Wall . The "Love Me" are from the dissolution of the greatest Black Eye, and I'm a natural continuation, or rather the inevitable course of psychiatric illness.

10) The Prodigy - "Invaders Must Die"

Boys terrible electronics and more hick in bad taste, can one more time in order to create more genuinely ignorant of the hard ' year. You ignorance wise, what makes you an idiot but inexplicably tangled up clubbers to be so fierce.

11) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "It's Blitz"

Here I feel more indie and less snobbish ... A disc so more consciously trendy than the previous of this amazing band that will probably turn up their noses more than a music critic in search of "pure", but they are dicks to them this album is fun, catchy, just beautiful to listen and admirably product. We are at rock-trance, say, generally, though not very defined.

12) Kasabian - "West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum"

Indeed, there is nothing new in this album of Brit pop at its best. But dutifully fills the terrible lack the dissolution of Blur and Oasis pitiful boiling after just the first album left in my heart.

13) The Decemberist - "The Hazards of Love"

Mixing rock ballads wise Phrygian scale, Canadians Decemberist churn out an album where extremely attractive, particularly in the interludes, they can create that magical atmosphere of the dawn, you can almost hear the smell of crisp air and the mist that rises through the woods while a pale sun illuminates the timid wild Canadian landscape.

14) múm - "To Sing Along Songs You Do not Know"

I really like, this Icelandic band that blends traditional music locally for years, played with strange instruments, with original and almost hidden electronic, without neglecting a healthy experimentalism also very thorough. The soft, hypnotic voice of the singer and the sweetness of the dream-like compositions makes this band, and this yet another good album, something new, a breath of fresh air in a suffocating landscape of contemporary popular music. E poi sono islandesi, come Bjork. E si sente, molto.

15) Dead Weather - "Horehound"

"Wow! Sembra quasi il nuovo album dei White Stripes!" Poi leggi bene i credits del CD e vedi che c'è Jack White alla batteria. Eh eh eh, vecchio marpione!
Insomma, niente di nuovo anche qui, ma se vi piace il genere - come al sottoscritto - questo è un album coi controfiocchi. La mia preferita è "I cut like a buffalo", che sembra realmente provenire da un'altra epoca ahimè dimenticata.

16) Neko Case - "Middle Cyclone"

Neko Case is the singer and author of "New Pornographers" historical Canadian band of all respect. This is his solo album, though suffering a degree of formality (but gave her a place in the top ten U.S. single case of indie music that scale the U.S. charts), is full of really beautiful songs. This is pure songwriting as much like me. The hope for the talented, nostalgic Neko Case, is to stay on top of the charts without the end which made the fellow Alanis Morissette or unlistenable Lavigne.

17) Beirut - "March Of The Zapotec" / realpeople - "Holland"

Si tratta di un doppio EP, curiosamente realizzato dalle due diverse anime dello stesso autore, Zach Condons: la prima, ("Beirut") è influenzata dalla musica messicana con banda di ottoni e atmosfere che a noi potrebbero ricordare vagamente la musica balcanica; la seconda ("Realpeople") è influenzata dalla musica elettronica pop minimalista. Nonostante la totale diversità di arrangiamento, si sente chiaramente che è lo stesso autore, e questo gli fa decisamente onore, perché lo stile e il genere sono due cose completamente diverse, concetto che molti ahimè continuano a non capire.

18) Passion Pit - "Manners"

debut with a bang: a more beautiful than the songs of perfect pop, but arranged with electronics rather original. It is the staggering amount of amazing inventions that, much of their actual depth. Surely happen sooner or later someone will extract pieces here and there and this album will draw fifty hit songs. It is not my thing, I do not touch the heart, but I have to bow to the objective quality and quantity of inventions that erupt like a volcano just uncovered. It's an album so rich that it can be appreciated only after several good plays. The hope is to add a bit 'more substance in the future and hope that this is not a flash in the pan.

19) Phoenix - "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

To fill the distressing lack of good pop rock music in the contemporary music scene this year we think of France, with this amazing album, in where every single song is a potentially infinite success. In reality there is little new in this perfect rock and brit very very electronic, halfway between the sounds of Air France and more than most rock of the British, but what is it works fine.

20) Iron & Wine - "Around The Well"

Ok, this is just a collection of unreleased and rarities, but the same place in the ranking of the best albums of 2009 because the great Samuel Beam ( aka Iron & Wine) is the best composer of poetic ballads of today, ideal continuation of that trend running from Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel passes and Joan Baez, a lot of peeps in the production of John Denver and reaches to the first Belle & Sabastian. Well, you get the kind: to hear and sung with a guitar, being always attentive to the texts well.

Sorry to leave out of the rankings, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Sting and other "big" released in 2009 with the new album, but there is little you can do: they are boiled. Album are clearly motivated by contractual maturity and genuine inspiration.

Sorry to not even enter the album charts in almost all sites reported to be the best indie music of the year: "Merriweather Post Pavilion" Animal Collective of . It certainly appreciate the innovative and powerful technique that has created true psychedelic sound with pop complessissime voices and real instruments mixed with sophisticated electronics, but such feelings do not tell me anything. I mean, how musical invention and inspiration is the usual gnegnè American teenagers who listen on headphones when they go to college in skateboarding. Bleah.

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POLAROID: the impossible project - 31,536,000 seconds to launch

It speaks a lot and before long there will be a long-awaited return . I suggest you to read the 'last Sunday Jumper where it is spoken and where you can find some interesting considerations.

hey, there are also in the comments to tell you the mine.

Since I'm on the subject Polaroid I take this opportunity to post that I made a few years ago. (Occhei. name it after the post I could have "disturbing self-portrait).

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& TIME APERTURE

(LESSON #3...prima parte)

Dopo il tutorial sul grandangolare , mi è stata richiesta una nuova pappardella su “combinazione tempo e diaframma”.  Ebbene sì, non ve lo aspettavate, ma vi tocca starmi a sentire... di nuovo!!! yeah.
Quando dobbiam scattare una fotografia (...di un albero, di un sasso, di un muflone, di una modella,  di una mortadella, o di qualsiasi altra cosa), abbiamo “2 informazioni” da inserire nella nostra fotocamera:

Tempo,Diaframma

 (i più  bravi di me penseranno “e gli ISO??” non abbiate fretta., peace & love ...). In general, to get a properly exposed picture, we must make sure you have the right combination of time / aperture.

TIME The time (... guess a little bit?) The amount of time in which 'our camera's shutter must remain open to let light through.

Time is in seconds or fraction of a second.

For example, if you turn the dial on the machine that regulates the time, you see the numbers (not necessarily to play the lottery, I tried and I am poorer than before):

.... 4 "2" 1 " 2 15, 30, 100, 160, etc. ....

What they mean respectively .... 4 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second, ½ second, 1 / 15 second, 1 / 30 of a second, etc.

What changes in practice to use an exposure time rather than another?? Depends on the subject of our photography and an 'effect that we want to achieve.

As a basic rule, if the subject is a wild sheep racing, and we want them in our photo is not moving, shall we use a fast exposure time .

(Ehmmm. .. In the absence of the mouflon, c 'is a girl who jumps the same ... okay?)

focal length 50 mm t 1 / 120 sec F/ 5,6

Al contrario, se il nostro soggetto è un sasso,  possiamo decidere un tempo di esposizione lento, anche di diversi secondi. (ovviamente in questo caso utilizziamo un  cavalletto).

Se poi vogliamo la classica foto  con un corso d' acqua in movimento e vogliamo che questo movimento si percepisca, siamo nel posto giusto al momento giusto per capire come lo si ottiene. possiam infatti  mantenere sempre diversi secondi di esposizione, ed ecco cosa succede:

                         Focal length 50 mm t 8 sec f/32

Yes but, you say, until the time we can afford to work freehand without the risk of to blur and when we are forced to use a tripod?

The answer is mainly due to the focal length of the 'goal that we are using at the moment.

fast-fast intuitive Examples:

if I am using a 35mm can easily take a free hand to 1 / 30 of a second.

if I am using a 50 mm, 1 / 60 of a second ...

Se uso un 300 mm, a 1/320 di secondo... e così via.

Come avrete notato a mano libera è molto più facile usare tempi brevi usando i grandangolari, mentre con con i teleobiettivi è un po' più tragica. (per fortuna hanno inventato i treppiedi e le ottiche stabilizzate).

Quella riportata è una regola per capire in maniera molto semplice, poi ovviamente il valore sotto il quale non dover scendere per lavorare a mano libera è soggettivo (sopratutto per chi, come me, è soggetto a tremarella...).

Ed ora ho tirato fuori dal cassetto il vecchio/ impolverato hard disk e pubblico questa mia foto. Ancora una volta è un esempio of how to play with photography, in this case the exposure time:

Focal Length 40 mm t 20 sec f/32

In this picture there 'is post production (including perchè, ai tempi in cui l' ho scattata non sapevo neanche cosa fosse...). Ho lavorato a lume di candela, tempo di esposizione 20 secondi. Quindi ho iniziato il movimento: 5 secondi mantenendo le gambe in posizione 1, 5 secondi mantenendo le gambe in posizione 2, e così via per un totale  4 volte (4 posizioni). Se volete provare è semplicissimo, ed aiuta a capire meglio come il fotogramma viene impresso dalla luce.
Come al solito la fotografia offre le basi di partenza, siamo poi noi a decidere dove vogliamo andare e che viaggio vogliam percorrere.
Con questa mia ultima perla di saggezza per oggi chiudo, ma temete. Temete pure.Tornerò presto parlando di diaframma & co.

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PHOTOGRAPHING CHILDREN MY PORTFOLIO

Update your site and think. Photographing children is simply wonderful.

in March (if my memory serves me as usual ....) will be out on newsstands, along with digital photography course De Agostini, a video with an interview with me .... you got it, have done an 'interview with me, just me.

I'll talk about my work, children, my expertise in fashion photography, baby how I started, of why I can not do without it (well, the 'last domandina me are invented time ...) Of course

c' is always the hand of Luke Pianigiani, my holy guardian, who involved me in 'initiative.

However, the question "what is difficult to photograph children, known to be very bright?"

I think the answer I gave, where I talked about the difficulties they often encounter (the kind that children run away when they see the camera, the set is here and they want to be there .... and all things not so encouraging as initially ....).

Ad ogni modo, se volete dedicarvi alle foto di bambini, una cosa che faccio e che vedo funziona, è quella di coinvolgerli, fare in modo che vivano l' esperienza come un gioco., fare in modo che vi vedano come un compagno di giochi. Anche prima di iniziare a fotografare anzi, sopratutto prima. Io, ad esempio, appena li vedo arrivare (il più delle volte imbronciati,  aggrappati alla mamma) ancora prima che si pettinino, si vestano, ecc... gli vado incontro, cerco di dire qualcosa che possa attirare la loro attenzione. Se vedo che non vogliono ascoltarmi ed il broncio diventa ancora incredibilmente più lungo,  passo al piano B ad esempio facendo qualche gioco, tirando fuori matite e colori number, etc. ... this works, great.

For example, during the Christmas holidays, I bought some magic tricks. I will use them in my next service (ehm. ... after I learned to use them). So

involve playing. If you want to devote to photography children, I think these are the keywords to achieve significant results.

Once you start will not want to do without it, like me.

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Silvia Coluccelli Showreel from Silvia Coluccelli on Vimeo .

December of hard work. Thanks to this during the holidays I was so collapsed that I discovered my ability to sleep 14 hours straight / for several consecutive days.

The new year on my part with a video blog / portfolio of the length of a minute, neither more nor less. I took the pictures of everything else has thought of Mr / Super / Great Luke Pianigiani who believes in me, in my work and makes beautiful things happen.