Via Venti Settembre, Roma.
Huge street ads really come into their own as the nights draw in.
15.10.2025 19:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@philipcurnow.bsky.social
Lived & worked across 3 continents before co-founding in Rome the first English language Italy travel portal. Television production, qual ad researcher, author (Hurst), linguist & Arabist. BlueSky is my daily jotter, but a pencil is always close to hand.
Via Venti Settembre, Roma.
Huge street ads really come into their own as the nights draw in.
15.10.2025 19:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Joey and Neco.
15.10.2025 09:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A mongrel. Half Irish, half East Anglian.
15.10.2025 08:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Would love to see this. I visited an abandoned Suakin in the mid 80's. An abandoned colonial British port. No need for any imagination to see how it had been.
14.10.2025 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For Talal Afifi, curator of Voices and Visions of Sudan, the programme offers a space to reflect on Sudanβs story while keeping its cultural spirit alive π
14.10.2025 11:59 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0You've already put that in AI yourself haven't yer .. π
14.10.2025 16:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Enrico is the first of the old school television presenters to retire his personal appearances and let an AI avatar to do all the tedious heavy lifting.
youtu.be/jjcCdIkr_TY?...
Assisi in early Spring
Assisi. Early Spring this year.
14.10.2025 08:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0North Rome
Porta Pia
Almost there ...
Just the short weekly walk to our supermarket of choice.
14.10.2025 08:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Eugenia Roccella's career has always been about catching the wave in vogue before attaching herself to the next promising big ride. A human thermometer of political opportunism.
14.10.2025 07:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They can still have links with the Mediterranean capital of genocide if they decide, but beyond classical music what has Mediolanum got to do with a seaside resort smaller than Bari and more toxic than Taranto.
14.10.2025 07:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Superb image. π
14.10.2025 07:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0www.fondazionechanges.org/doors-of-cha...
14.10.2025 06:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From the 17-19 October, Doors of CHANGE will 'open to the future' with events promoted by the Foundation CHANGES. All state funded through the PNRR CHANGES "Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Next-Gen Sustainable Society."
The phrase 'no stop action for turbo ski man' comes to mind.'
Will someone rid us of this troublesome tosser?
13.10.2025 19:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0An absolute masterpiece of animation and storytelling. The full film is on YouTube. War is horrible.
youtu.be/r2mnkt8bsF8
New from @EmpirePodUK
THE LOST WORLD OF OTTOMAN GAZA
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
Once upon a time there was the White House ....
youtu.be/_uA4sh9lcZE?...
youtu.be/tWYxrowovts?...
The retro 1978/79 teacher look is very familiar for some of us of a certain vintage.
youtu.be/KqU7HXSFo_E?...
"It's Corto Maltese, Jim, but just not how we knew it"
What a tosser.
13.10.2025 17:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In these situations, I always ask a jazz quintet to follow me on the route. Although at my age it's me trying to keep up with them! Stolen Moments is a favourite tune as we jog. πββοΈπ
13.10.2025 16:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/10/12/t...
You don't get this in Conde Nast!
"Most AI creativity is combinatorial: mixing known ideas in new ways. True breakthrough discoveries (e.g., a novel mathematical theorem or a brandβnew visual style) often require leaps that go beyond statistical correlation."
Source: AI.
"Per la prima volta dai tempi delle sperimentazioni di Queneau e Calvino, il linguaggio appare davvero capace di auto-organizzarsi in forma significativa senza un interprete cosciente, senza una mente intenzionale che ne garantisca il radicamento (grounding) nei fatti e nelle cose?" π·
13.10.2025 13:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Anyone want to buy a used football stadium. Two previous owners. No, it's not Prenton Park but the San Siro. The price is β¬197,075,590 & is inclusive of the current Stadio Meazza and any other real estate.
A bit steep. You could get the whole of Birkenhead for that and a new striker for the Rovers.
"SchΓΆnbrunn, close to the Czechia border, has been the home of the Lang-BrΓ€u brewery for 172 years, surviving some of the most tumultuous events in European history."
13.10.2025 11:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0