Ransen's Blog

 Settembre 1997, Biennale di Venezia, Unimplosive Art   Dicembre 2004, Villa Pomini, Castellanza   Settembre 2005, Biblioteca di Pregnana Milanese.     Settembre 2009, Studio F22 Palazzolo sull'Oglio (BS)       6 quadri, 12 immagini... Le stesse opere da diversi punti di vista     Ottobre 2010, con Silvia Menuzzi, Spazio Zero, Gallarate.     Maggio 2019, Famiglia Legnanese, Legnano       Novembre 2022, Atelier Ferioli , Legnano, Pura Vanità     Lo stesso disegno da diversi punti di vista.   Maggio 2023, Pregnana Milanese, Vanità Pura. Giugno 2023 Volpara (PV) (organizzato da Claudio Mori) Video delle sculture (1)   Video delle sculture (2)  Disegni 2020

    I sell software on line. Avangate was my credit card handler. It was bought by 2 CheckOut and then Verifone, who spent months ignoring my requests for support more than a year ago . Now they are at it again . I realised that they had stopped sending me emails with every order I got. I contacted support, no reply. I contacted support again, no reply. I must say though that I got this email three times: So they are unable to resolve problems  or email me with help but they are able to send surveys. My reply was this: And while Verifone are not able to offer support Verifone are able to chastize you about not replying to their non existent emails:

 The program Can a machine read my mind? confirmed my opinion that concepts are above, at a higher level, than language.   In the program Marcel Just explains that there is a universal language of the brain, and concepts are stored identically in brains which use different languages. He gave the example of "An old man throws a stone into a lake." That idea activated the same areas of the brain in people who spoke different languages. And this is just the beginning.   See also Concepts before Language .

 There is a ton of podcast/audio dross out there, so be guided by me, search out these programs: KCRW's The Business is about the movie business, mainly in the US, with comments on  Hollywood news and interviews with key artists/producers etc. Always interesting:   Call Jonathan Pie , a BBC podcast, a comedy which uses extremely bad language, is sometimes politically incorrect, and very funny:   The Beef And Dairy Network a BBC comedy podcast. I have to admit that the first time I listened to it I did not "get it." Impossible to describe, so just give it a couple of episodes before deciding if you like it or not.   Last and not least The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry , a science podcast which is actually fun. Wonderful.

 I read On The Spiritual in Art , by Kandinsky interested to see what he meant. He was the first famous abstract painter and I do like his paintings.  The book is as odd as he is. He says (and I agree with him, 100 years later) that: " The observer these days is incapable of emotion when looking at a work of art.  The observer looks for objective reality or interpretation. Thus the observer misses the whole point. "  Elsewhere in the book though he goes into mechanical detail of how to construct colors and images to have this emotional effect. Here is a small selection: Black mixed with any other color evokes tragedy . (Does it? Really?) Green contains yellow and blue as paralyzed forces which can be reactivated. (Here he shows he does not understand light mixing.) Blue evokes the infinite. (That seems true if you only think of skies. But why not black as well? A dark night sky full of stars for example) Yellow never contains a profound meaning. (A bit of an arbitrary stat