Lorenzo version

And there are three more versions!!!

Emauel version

Elisa version

Mauro version

1 song, 4 videos and just a word: genial!

He is my favorite singer and have the chance to meet him face to face is something I never expected!

His mind is a melting pot of ideas and its original life style has no rivals.

All began two days ago. We were invited to the Festival fo Creativity, held in Florence during this week. I tried to keep me away from this, I have my thesis to write.
Unfortunately (or luckily I should say now) I could not. So I was kindly compelled to be there yesterday and the day before.
So far it is nothing special. Going to the fair, mounting the field, setting up the network, cutting the goal posts, trying to let the robot work: just routine.
Then, during the dinner at 10pm, the shocking notice: Lorenzo would talk at the fair. Unbelievable!
I was so excited to meet him I did not sleep well.

10 o’clock. There I am, ready for the talk. Of course I was standing up close to the stage. And he entered.
Suddenly it became a sunny day.

His music is really wonderful, he put his soul inside each note. He is a genius in using different media to let his mind go outside.

Yesterday he should have presented his new project, OrlandoLab, a laboratory of creativity inside the Cortona Fortress.
He talk about this too, but the focus was in what is creativity for him. (if you would like to know more about his inventiveness, try in his website)

Creativity is Invention.

We cannot create, everything is already created. We just invent new things from the actual ones. The biggest inventor was Leonardo, of course, but everyone can be an inventor.
Technology today allows everyone be an artist, there are no excuse like “I cannot do that”. If you have a good idea, a great idea, you can won the Oscar prize with no effort. Everything is up to help you become a communicator, and it depends just on you.

Did you have ever do the game of free association? It is like you start from a word and then connect it to another that comes to your mind. Then you do the same with another, and another and so on.
This is what he often did to take the inspiration from the world. Sometimes he surfs on Google Images and makes a collage on what he finds.
He did it too in preparation of his talk.
With a borrowed pc, he showed us dozen of pictures. For each of them he talk about why he chose it.

The Red Baby by Keith Haring

The Red Baby of Keith Haring was the first one. The power of this picture is eternal, it will be the same in 3008, no matter what. Its beauty is all in the simplicity and in the message: a child, the light from him, a message of hope.

The angels of Raphael.

The favelas in Brasil; a Japanese Pagoda, the LHC, Leonardo Da Vinci’s face, the Human Rights Constitution
The pyramids, the Police, Bod Dylan, the slave boat, Fred Astair, the LHC, Bob Marley. the Gorillaz.
The cannabis (“someone says that with drug you can make masterpiece. I knew people that make great masterpiece and they do not take drugs. And people that even if with the drug they can do just crap. So the conclusion is simple: the drugs are not involved in the arts. Not at all!”).

The eyes of Antoine de Saint Euxpery.

Such an amazing day could not ended without a picture of me and him together, and his autograph.
I cannot take the former, and about the latter… well…

Check this:

I never watched a such crazy performance, the first time I was totally shocked about them (did you see the guy falling at the end of video? I hope he is still alive!).

Anyway they are the “Beat Crusaders” and this is another opening song from Bleach, though they sing in English.

As Holy Wikipedia says it seems they like this print-dotted face, and here there is an acoustic version of same song:

I hope you liked it, and for those that want lyrics here there is it (via). Enjoy it!

Beat Crusaders -Tonight, Tonight, Tonight!
Woke up with yawn. It’s dawning, im still alive.
Turned on my radio to start up new day
As goddanmed DJ’s chattered how to survive
Amazing news got over on the air wave

Tonight, Love is rationed
Tonight, Across the nation
Tonight, Love infects worldwide
Almost another day

Woke up with yawn. It’s dawning, im still alive.
Turned on my radio to start up new day
As goddanmed DJ’s chattered how to survive
Amazing news got over on the air wave

Tonight, Love is rationed
Tonight, Across the nation
Tonight, Love infects worldwide
Almost another day…
Almost another day

She’s a shooting star, good night, good night
She’s a shooting star, good bye

Tonight, Love is rationed
Tonight, Across the nation
Tonight, Love infects worldwide
Almost another day
See you some other day

Life is always full of beautiful things, but we forget that. Sometimes you need a nudge, to understand that life is pink and not blue.
Here there is one.

I discovered this video weeks ago, and it was love at first sight.
This young singer is Korean, from Seoul, its name is Younha (Korean: ???; ???; Go Youn-ha, Japanese: ???, Yunna).

The song came from ending song of Japanese manga Bleach, a beautiful manga and anime I started to read and watch just few months ago.

I found that I like some Japanese pop song, despite I can’t understand well words. This song in particular is an explosion of good emotions, and watching the video I was so surprised about how beautiful can be Asian video.
The colors, photography, scene, everything tell how life can be beautiful. I always watch it when I don’t feel very good, or I’m quite sad, or stressed. I guess it is much better than any pills you can take: music it’s better (and this is good music, at least for me).

If you are curious about what you listened (did you watch it, didn’t you?!?!?!) here there is a translation (original lyrics taken from here).

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yozora wo miage hitori houki boshi wo mita no
isshun de hajikete wa kiete shimatta kedo
anata no koto omou to mune ga itaku naru no
ima sugu aitai yo dakedo sora wa tobenai kara

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moshi atashi ga houki boshi ni nareta naraba
sora kakenuke tondeiku
donna ashita ga kite mo kono omoi wa tsuyoi
dakara houki boshi zutto kowarenai yo

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ame ga futte iyada to boyaiteita toki ni
anata ga itta koto ima demo oboeteru
ame no ato no yozora wa kirei ni hoshi ga deru
sore wo kangaeru to ame mo suki ni nareru yone to

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moshi atashi ga houki boshi ni nareta naraba
afureru hikari furasu yo itsumo
kanashii toki yozora miru anata ga
egao ni naru youni motto kagayakitai

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anata wa itsumo hitori nanika to tatakatteiru?
soba ni iru koto shika atashi ni wa dekinai kedo

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moshi atashi ga houki boshi ni nareta naraba
sora kakenuke tondeiku kitto
kanarazu todoku kono isshun no hikari de
anata no ima terashi sora wo megurou
atashi ga houki boshi ni nareta naraba
kitto soba ni ite ageru
donna toki mo

Younha – Comet [English]

Alone, I looked towards the sky and saw a comet,
Although the burst suddenly vanished in a moment.
My heart becomes hurt with thoughts of you,
Right now I want to be with you, but I can’t leap the skies so…

Maybe if I could become a comet,
I could leap through the skies to you.
Whatever kind of tomorrow comes, since a comet is always unbreakable,
This feeling is strong.

I don’t like it when it rains. When it was dimmed out,
I remember what you said, even now.
“In the night sky, after the rain, beautifully, the stars appear.”
Considering that, I’ve come to like the rain too…

Maybe if I could become a comet,
The overflowing light will fall,
So whenever times are sad, the you who looks to the night sky
Will come to smile and, like the comet, want to shine more.

What are you always fighting with on your own?
Being by your side is something I can’t do but…

Maybe if I could become a comet,
I could leap through the skies to you.
Surely, without fail I’d reach you in this moment of light
And your now illuminated sky will revolve.
If I could become a comet,
Surely, I would rise by your side,
Whenever the time.

Do you feel better, don’t you?