No more thumbs-up! just click

Hippie used to do it in the 70’s asking passages. Nowadays hitchhiking has changed name and face! its name is back-paking but the backpack is not more the symbol in which the hitch-hiker identified himself. Young people with a good English, business card in their hand, they read only alternative and sophisticated touristic guide, they want to do a new experience between fixed-term contracts: they are the new hitch-hikers. Actually women are the majority especially in north Europe. Instead of meeting on the street, hitch-hiker and motorist plan their trip in the net, booking passages in specialized web-sites like www.viavai.com/autostop. What you have to do it’s sign up and pay 13,50 euro per year for the service. There are lots of commodities of this planned hitchhiking:

. save 80% of the costs of gasoline and road tool

. guaranteed because they will give you ID of your trip mates

. skip out long trip alone

. don’t waste time on the train or bus connection

. contribute to void pollution and traffic jam.

Staff 4you!when a girl from Turin meets a guy from Ferrara…

SHE:

Eleonora Carisi is 23 years old and lives in Turin. The first time I see her, I was in a club in Ferrara and I immediately understand that she was not a local. I asked some friends about this girl with the original pink lady jacket, the big glasses, and an Holga camera. They told me she has a very cool and trendy shop in Turin, You you shop, and she was in Ferrara because she was working on a project, staff4you, with Filippo, an old friend of mine.

HE:

Filippo Falleroni Bertoni is 29 years old and is from Ferrara like me. I met him for the first time when I was like 13 years-old. He was the shop assistant of a boutique for men called “Stefano Cervi”. After 7 year he still works in the fashion world but thanks to his passion, his friends and financial support of his family he has opened his own shop, Staff Store, which is getting more and more famous not only in our city but in Italy.

I spoke with them about Staff4you and design.

· Hi Filippo and Eleonora can you tell me what is staff 4you?

Staff4you is a project born almost accidentally on myspace and on skype, after being acquainted with a beautiful girl, Eleonora Carisi, with whom I was immediately at ease. The project concerns 4 graphics every 4 month for a theme collection limited edition. The theme of the first collection was black and white vs CMYK and the graphics were:charaket atypik, Pona, at graphics Oobie Doobie.

· What was your goal?

Our goal was proposing something new that get out of monotony of the overseen sample book. Something unconventional. This Is a good way for young designer to let them know, producing work like t-shirt for example that can conveys their design….and skip out that their ideas remain only ideas

· How do you manage the project in an economical meaning?

Fifty-fifty for expenses and proceeds.i think that’s the best way to manage our business because first of all we are friends. The commercial aspect is secondary compare to the benefit of doing what you like with the people that you love.

· Filippo, how do you live your work experience in a provincial city as Ferrara, in my opinion still immature on a design point of view?

Ferrara like all the small cities is not so receptive about what are the going out of the new proposal, I’m talking about staff4you for example. But I was born here and I want with all my heart provoke a changes in people minds. I can also say that guys younger than me are very open-minded for god sake!.

· What are you planning for the future?

We are planning another project always about t-shirt limited edition but it’s too early…I will tell you something later..:-)

www.myspace.com/staff4you

www.staffstore.it

www.freetobeyou.it

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist is a low-budget documentary film released by Music Video Distributors in 2002[1]. The film is a "celebration of the underdog" and deals with why artists do what they do, regardless of a continuous paycheck. The film features some artists that define the DIY ethic and speaks to the overall DIY culture. The DVD was released (under the title "D.I.Y. or Die: Burn This DVD") with no region restrictions or copy protection. Director Michael W. Dean allowed and even encouraged people to make copies for non-commercial use and in october 2007 he put the entire film on youtube. It features interviews with Lydia Lunch, Ian MacKaye, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, Jim Rose, J. G. Thirlwell of Foetus, Mike Watt, Richard Kern (filmmaker), Ron Asheton of The Stooges, Madigan Shive of Bonfire Madigan, Dave Brockie of Gwar and more. Here are the 8 Chapter that compose the entire film: