#Migros is the in-between

[chaberkowepole]

So cancelled

I have a super important question for you. Coop Kind oder Migros Kind? Jokes aside I always find it funny when fellow Swiss people are internet celebrities. I just never expect it because so many of them are from Anglophone countries, or just larger European countries, so it's always a nice little surprise, haha. Stay silly <3

coop kind

[mentaltimetraveller]

Tatiana Trouvé, A Stay Between Enclosure and Space, exhibition view, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich / 2009

[catmiemy]

After watching the full replay of the Insta live the Swiss girls did today I think it's a pity that there are so few people out there that can actually understand and therefore appreciate it.

So here are some of my highlights, although the best thing is just the general chaos

Luana saying she hasn't always been a dog person because she has five siblings and that's enough 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

Ana saying that her 15 (!) year anniversary on the team is coming up

the very typical Swiss discussion about which dialect is the best (and it's always between Walliser or Bündner)

the equally as Swiss discussion about which supermarket is better (Coop or Migros) with the addition of Ana saying both were too expensive

Ana frantically looking for someone from the French part while Luana wants to get an answer to the very important question "Nutella with or without butter?"

aaaaand Ana saying that she hopes Lia will be back soon 🥺 (and that she should be!)

[swissforextrading]

Landlocked Switzerland’s taste for seafood is raising a stink

Around 96% of all fish consumed in Switzerland is imported but it is estimated that only around 40% can be considered sustainable. Just before Christmas, Greenpeace Switzerland accused the major supermarket chains Coop and Migros of heavily discounting salmon to stimulate the consumption of unsustainably raised fish. Research carried out over three months showed that the retailers were selling farmed North Atlantic salmon at discounts of between 41% and 50%. According to Greenpeace, the two retailers generate more than 45% of their sales from fish products via discount sales - the highest share of sales in the food sector. “Industrial aquaculture only exacerbates the problem in the oceans. In terms of sustainable development, the only coherent action is to offer less fish,” said a Greenpeace press release on December 18. Questionable imports The Swiss consume an average of nine kilos of seafood a year, according to the Federal Office for Agriculture. A review of the Swiss... https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/landlocked-switzerland-s-taste-for-seafood-is-raising-a-stink/49073938?utm_campaign=swi-rss&utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=o (Source of the original content)

[dosesofglamour]

Doses of Glamour ⚜️

Women of colour in high society:

Brooke Devard Ozaydinli

African American marketing manager and podcast host

Dominant feminine seduction archetypes: The sophisticate and the gamine

Profile: Career

This stunning Stanford alumni is a product marketing manager at Instagram as well as the founder and host of the award winning podcast Naked Beauty Podcast. The Naked Beauty Podcast isn’t simply about physical appearance, Brooke believes that any discussion on beauty taps into complicated personal histories, what we’ve inherited from our mothers and grandmothers, how our ideology shapes our sense of self, how sickness or health (or even being in love!) effects our self-esteem. Beauty is all of these things and she wanted to create a safe space and platform for women to share their stories.

Marriage to Umut Ozaydinli

Brooke is married to Umut Ozaydinli, the founder of Deviant Ventures an entertainment marketing company in New York. He is the son of Bulend Ozaydinli of Istanbul, who was the chief executive of Koc Holding, an industrial company in Istanbul with assets worth $84.8 billion and later the chief executive of Migros, a supermarket chain in Istanbul.

The couple met in London during the 2012 Summer Olympics. Umut, who lived in New York, was in London organizing a live music performance and art exhibition for Coca-Cola. While Brooke, who grew up in New York, was living in London at the time, where she was an executive producer of six short documentary films on underground music culture for Nokia.

When a mutual friend introduced them at the Dorchester Hotel, “I literally couldn’t take my eyes off of her,” Umut said. By February 2013, a romance was starting to blossom. “Every time we saw each other, we grew a little bit more attached,” Brooke said. “Despite living with an ocean between us, we didn't fight the impracticality and quickly recognized that a strong bond was forming. I had never met anyone who thought so big and lived the way he did, he was so full of passion and curiosity.”

In the ensuing months, they had what Brooke described as “these intense weekend rendezvous in Amsterdam, Milan, Los Angeles, Istanbul and Atlanta, stealing time between work and other commitments to be together.”

In August 2013,Umut invited Brooke to join him and his parents, on their boat, to sail the Greek Islands and coast of Turkey. “Little did she know it was my final acid test,” Umut said. The couple got engaged not long after, eventually tying the knot in a beautiful Tuscan ceremony at Villa Cetinale.

[gagosiangallery]

Tatiana Trouvé at Gagosian 976 Madison Avenue, New York

August 18, 2021

TATIANA TROUVÉ From March to May

September 18–October 30, 2021 976 Madison Avenue, New York __________ When quarantine was announced, newspapers from countries around the world that were being ravaged by the pandemic took on new meaning. I began, each day, to draw on the front page of a newspaper—it was a way of escaping the confinement, and of being connected to the strange atmosphere that was spreading around the globe with the virus. This world tour via headlines and front pages was like a journey in reverse. Suddenly, I could no longer meet the world unless the world came to me, through the newspapers. —Tatiana Trouvé Gagosian is pleased to present From March to May, a never-before-seen body of work by Tatiana Trouvé produced in direct response to the pandemic era. At the beginning of the COVID-19 quarantine in March 2020, Trouvé, isolated in Paris, began a series of daily drawings using inkjet-printed reproductions of various international newspaper front pages as her starting point. As the pandemic marched on, spreading instability and uncertainty throughout the world, Trouvé continued to work ever more methodically in graphite, ink, and linseed oil. Trouvé’s project is linked to certain modernist traditions. Connecting daily realities to poetry and the Symbolist movement, Pablo Picasso utilized scraps of Le Figaro in Cubist drawings and collages that used aleatory haphazardness to literally dematerialize neatly formatted columns of type into a chaotic jumble. In Hannah Höch’s provocative collages, newspaper cut-ups represent a feminist challenge to and reclamation of society’s dominant images and narrative.

From March to May extends these themes and connects them to Trouvé’s own temporality, while also underscoring the role that technological reproduction and human intervention play in shaping aesthetic experience. In another departure from her modernist forebears, Trouvé’s drawings are fundamentally rooted in today’s digital age; they acknowledge the instant and universal connection that online newspaper editions provided during the pandemic. As print issues became increasingly difficult to obtain in a world halted by quarantine, it was the ubiquity of digital media that allowed the news to circulate into people’s homes and lives despite the constrictive realities of isolation, thus taking on an even more precious and profound status. Trouvé uses the newspaper like a serialized canvas, layering lines and figurative drawings over each formatted and printed front page from around the world. Beneath drawn and painted marks, ominous headlines swirl in and out of legibility, and familiar photographs mix surreally with Trouvé’s visions. Her drawings are both guided and interrupted by the arbitrary form of the printed page, inflecting the pragmatic character of newsprint with a dreamlike quality. In this suite of fifty-six works on paper, exterior and interior worlds fuse into one. Like Trouvé’s large-scale installations and sculptures, From March to May tests the exchange between memory and matter, combining abstract and quotidian elements. Sometimes immersive, sometimes setting the viewer at a distance, Trouvé’s art creates both real and imagined spaces that unsettle and distort standardized structures and perceptions of time. To mark the New York exhibition, Gagosian will produce a special edition of From March to May in the form of a newspaper, underscoring the medium’s persistent presence as a vehicle for engagement with the outside world at large. A conversation between Trouvé and Laura Hoptman, executive director of the Drawing Center, New York, will take place on Tuesday, September 21, 2021. Event registration details are forthcoming. Tatiana Trouvé was born in 1968 in Cosenza, Italy, and lives and works in Paris. Collections include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris; Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Recent exhibitions include Double Bind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); 4 between 3 and 2, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); Il Grande Ritratto, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria (2010); I tempi doppi, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2014, traveled to Museion, Bolzano, Italy; and Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany); The Longest Echo/L’écho le plus long, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2014); Desire Lines, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York (2015); L’Éclat de L’Absence, Le Numerose Irregolaritá, Villa Medici, Rome (2018); and The Great Atlas of Disorientation, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel (2018). Trouvé is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Paul Ricard Prize (2001), Marcel Duchamp Prize (2007), ACACIA Prize (2014), and Rosa Schapire Kunstpreis (2019). The Residents, a site-specific installation by Trouvé for Artangel in Orford Ness, England, opened on July 1, 2021. A major solo exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris, will open in June 2022. _____ Tatiana Trouvé in her studio, Paris, 2021. Artwork © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Pushpin Films

[lookingforthedoc]

So, I did a little bit more research on Torchwood Technologies. This is going to be a long post, but the information further dow is worth it, I promise.

A product that they offer is RFID Tags. RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. These tags use electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects.

Here is another definition:

They also do barcoding. For the sake of not typing it all out, I will leave a screen recording of what they have to say about their barcoding and their list of products:

Additionally, Torchwood Technologies have Near Field communication. Essentially, this allows the transfer of information using wireless technology between 2 end points. This is the definition in the company's own words:

And here are some case studies I found.

Here is a complete list of their clients:

Amazon

Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

MiGROS

WEMBLEY Connected by EE

NHS

Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service

Gane Dara

British American Tabacco

Real Asset Management

Dorset + Wiltshire Fire and Rescue

Idhammar

SPIE

Romec

Capita

Midquest (by idhammar services)

University of Sheffield

Engie

Oxhey Hall redkite systems

University of Bristol

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Now, Torchwood Technologies are located in Wales. I typed in their address into Google

Unit D8.1, Forest Court,

Main Avenue, Treforest Estate

Pontypridd,

CF37 5UR

And found that it was where a digital printing place is called Dectek Ltd.

Which adds up as Torchwood Technologies will need to use a printer. However, this suggests that they don't have a proper place of work, or that it is confidential.

This place is around a 30 min drive from Cardiff Bay where Torchwood was filmed.

This sparks a very interesting conversation. We learned previously that this company was created before the show, which make you wonder where they got the name. Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who and that is why they use it for the show. But why does the company use it?

Also how long has the company been situated in Wales? Cardiff? And how is it so close to where the show was filmed?

It is possible that it is just a coincidence but it is to obscure and too on point for me to brush it off as such.

The company and the show are both based off technology and in both cases, technology that tracks things. Both are situated in Wales, very close to eachother. Reguarding the name, that is the most intriguing for me. For the show, Torchwood is an anagram. That word has never been used for anything really before that, yet the company was created 2 years before DW's Torchwood was even mentioned.

So. I don't know what this really means though. Do you get me? Like its just very interesting but doesn't say much about the doctor.

If anyone has any other input let me know.

[drawdownbooks]

Producing Futures: ⁣ A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com ⁣ ⁣ Stemming from the 2019 group exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Producing Futures: A Book on Post-Cyber-Feminisms focuses on feminist concerns in the post-internet era. While in the 1990s cyber-feminism—a term coined by artist collective VNS Matrix—celebrated the cyberspace as a place of liberation and empowerment, one is now confronted with the fact that, rather, it multiplied and enforced existing hierarchies and power structures. Thus the question remains of whether cyberspace can be appropriated when striving for gender justice, emancipation and social equality. As the virtual world(s) and real life are increasingly merging, artists reflect on and productively alienate the tools and platforms on hand to produce a future that is worth living in—offline and online. To relate historical claims and visions of cyber-feminism to the current situation, as well as to different feminist approaches which focus on the tension between body and technology and discriminatory gender norms, this publication gathers together works and approaches by artists such as, among others, Cécile B. Evans, Cao Fei, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shana Moulton, Frances Stark, Anna Uddenberg, Wu Tsang, VNS Matrix, Guan Xiao and Anicka Yi.⁣ ⁣ #Producing #Futures #Book #Post #Cyber #Feminisms⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qWO-RnquA/?igshid=1oy5pf0odsqhl

[isfeed]

This coffee machine wants to make capsules a thing of the past

This coffee machine wants to make capsules a thing of the past

We’re all pretty bored of plastic or aluminum capsules for coffee-making, and I guess buying pre-ground coffee, a beans-to-cup machine or just grinding your own beans is too much work for some folks. Swiss coffee brand Migros has launched the CoffeeB machine, which uses Coffee Balls instead of traditional capsules. It wants to carve out a space between the convenience of capsules and the green…

[digitalbusinesscardapp]

The Swiss Experience

You know you've been living in Switzerland too long when: - you think it's economically wasteful to have more than one brand of a product in a store. - you think getting up early is good. - you actually get interested in the local elections. - you expect the shop clerk to say goodbye after you purchase something. - you try to defend cartel-based economics to a visitor. - you think that plaid jackets with flowery ties don't look that bad. - you think it's fair that you can only wash clothes once a month. - you wonder why anyone would want to shop outside of working hours. - you think it's OK to drive slow on Sundays. - you feel like you're broke if you have less that SFr. 300 in your pocket. - you dress up to go grocery shopping. - you understand why Chinese food should costs more than normal food. - you prefer Swiss wine. - you wish that your town had expensive garbage bags too. - you think it's OK for a Chinese restaurant to be run by a Swiss and  staffed by Yugoslavs. - you think Thursday night shopping is really convenient. - you think that large American cars are 'cool'. - you only feel good about using pink toilet paper. - you actually know who the current Swiss President is. - you are not fazed to be riding the tram with an 18-year-old carrying a sub machine gun. - you think it's cool to drink expensive imported American beers. - you buy next year's highway sticker on December 1st. - you can't start your morning without putting Cenovis on your toast. - you prefer fizzy mineral water to tap water. - you throw a party and expect everyone to leave by 11:30 pm. - you clean up during parties. - wash opened tin cans before throwing them away. - you expect dinner guests to help with the washing up. - you begin to understand the subtlety of the Swiss cuisine. - you appreciate the differences between the cantons. - you feel really hungry if you don't start eating lunch by 12:00. - you go home for lunch. - you have breakfast cereal for dinner. - you don't mind paying SFr.20 for a paperback book. - if something is too cheap, something must be wrong with it. - you ask everyone their nationality. - you look forward to the January and July sales so you can save 10%. - you prefer white socks since they go so well with your lime green suit. - Migros is your preferred grocery store, bank, school, fitness centre and hardware store. - you consider a 30-minute commute to work is totally unreasonable. - you actually know that a Bernese Mountain Dog comes from Bern and not from Burma. - you put double the money needed into the parking meter. - you are not concerned when the light in the restaurant washroom goes  off after only 15 seconds. - you think that 3% unemployment is high. - you think it was through its own efforts that Switzerland stayed out  of World War II. - you only eat fondue in winter. - you complain about the 25% tax rate you have to pay. - you complain to your neighbour about the noise when he flushes his toilet after 10 pm. - you become interested in the myriad of insurance offerings. - you become concerned about the colour of your neighbor's curtains. - you worry about getting a cold when there's a draft. - you become offended when reading this.

[nyancrimew]

what are your go to energy drinks? have you seen 'cure for wellness' movie? it's a scary set in a swiss sanatory...

my favorite energy drink switches quite frequently between the migros store brand ones and monsters! and yes i watched cure for wellness at a date together with someone else who also gets rly scared at horror movies, we uuuh saw each other just once more

[katiegardencreativeennquiry]

Carey Young- Artist 

Carey Young developed her artistic practice from a cross-fertilization of disciplines including law, business, politics and science. The tools and language of these different fields act as material for her installations, performances, text works and photographs, as well as for videos in which absurd relationships develop between the performer or subjects, and the rhetoric of political, commercial or legal discourse. Recently, she has explored relations between law, gender and the cinematic, most notably with the video installation Palais de Justice (2017), in which the artist surreptitiously filmed female judges working at the main courthouse of Belgium.

Young’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows at Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (2020), La Loge, Brussels (2019), Towner Art Gallery (2019), Dallas Museum of Art (2017), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2013), The Power Plant, Toronto (2009), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2009), Eastside Projects (Birmingham, 2009), MiMA (Middlesbrough, 2010), John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, 2001) and group shows at Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2018), Aspen Art Museum (2016), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2015), Tate Liverpool (2014-15), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012), New Museum, New York (2011), Tate Britain (2009–10), ICA (London, 2003), The Photographers’ Gallery (London, 1999) amongst many others. She has participated in numerous biennials, including Moscow (2013, 2007), Taipei (2010), Sharjah (2005), and Venice (2003). In 2023, Young will have a solo show at Modern Art Oxford.

Works in public collections include Tate Gallery, Centre Pompidou, Sharjah Art Foundation, Arts Council Collection and Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Two monographs on her work have been published: Subject to Contract, published by JRP | Ringier in 2013, and Carey Young: Incorporated, published by Film and Video Umbrella and John Hansard Gallery, 2001. Young is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Carey Young has had an Honorary Fellowship in the School of Law, Birkbeck, the University of London since 2013 and has given lectures at Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Cambridge and Oxford University. She is an Associate Professor in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

[weedgrowlight]

Are Full-spectrum LED Grow Lights Better to Use?

Before moving any further, let’s first learn the basics of the light spectrum.

When we refer to the “full” spectrum, in general, it defines the continuous spectrum emitted from the sun. From gamma rays (< 0.01 nanometers) to radio waves (1mm to 100km), the “full” spectrum actually covers all the wavelengths known to humans.

Now, the visible wavelength ranges from 400nm (violet) to 750nm (red). It is the only portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that human eyes can see. VIBGYOR (Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red) is a mnemonic we use to remember the colors in this spectrum. When we see all these colors together, we perceive the white color.

LED grow lights are created to render the colors of this visual band only.

So, there’s no complete full-spectrum LED grow lights!

However, as advanced LEDs illustrate all these visible lights, we cumulatively decided to call them full-spectrum LED Grow Lights.

Along with visible lights, some full-spectrum LEDs also have warm/reddish (3000K), MIGRO (3500K), neutral (4000K), and cool/bluish (5000K) spectrum to achieve better yields.

Always go for the full-spectrum LEDs as they maintain intensity between warm and cool lights. Your plants can receive a wide range of colors. You can check the CRI (Color Rendering Index) rating to verify if your LED unit is full-spectrum or not.

ECO Farm MB4 880W Commercial LED Grow Light With UV+IR Spectrum and Screen Timer Function

High efficacy Samsung & Osram diodes,With an input power of 880W, the PPF could up to 2200umol/s and high-efficacy 2.8 μmol/J, 50000hrs of a lifetime, that help you effectively optimize plant growth, increase the yield and save money.

Embedded dampers make the installation much easier, and allow the light to hold still at any angle.

[ippnoida]

Trying Beyond Meat or the Beyond Burger in Delhi

As Bhairavi Singh of CNBC TV wrote on 6 October 2021, the global alternative meat market is projected to reach between US$ 350 to 400 billion by 2035. In India where contrary to common belief, 71% of the 1.3 billion population self-identifies as non-vegetarian the alternative meat market is projected to reach US$ 650 to 700 million by 2025.

In 2020 there was a significant expansion of this food processing segment in India with eight out of 21 plant-based meat alternative startups launched in the 2019-20 financial year. Moreover, this was followed up during the first pandemic year (FY 2020-21) with five International and Indian companies entering the alternative meat segment.

An estimated 50 to 70% of the future forecast increase in protein demand globally, is expected to be driven by emerging markets such as India, China, and Southeast Asia. This demand is not only driven by the need for increased protein but also reflects the environmental implications of eating natural or processed animal-based meat. According to the food consumption forecast of one global organization, India will spend an estimated additional US$ 1.6 trillion by 2030 on aspirational and healthier foods. Another study (Ipsos) says that 63% of Indians are inclined to choose plant-based foods in place of meat.

The India-Sweden Smart Protein Corridor

Singh refers to a recent India-Sweden Agri-Food Tech webinar in which reports were cited indicating that 54% of the early adopters in India are familiar with plant-based meats and, presumably, 80% of these early adopters are ready to try them. In India, the plant-based market is expected to grow to US$ 650 to 700 million by 2025. Other studies suggest that the Indian plant-based protein market will be approximately 10% of the Asia Pacific market.

Investments in alternative protein companies have spiraled globally, reaching US$ 3 billion last year. The figure does not include recent developments such as the recent announcement by Buhler, Givaudan and Migros on setting up a new research center near Zurich in Europe. While both of these companies are active in India and Asia, the recent webinar announced a more specific and concrete development. The India-Sweden Smart Protein Corridor will provide startup support and venture capital investment, bilateral funding, and supply linkages between the two countries.

Sampling plant-based protein foods

We have been writing about plant-based meat and laboratory-grown meat for the past two years. We were given samples of plant-based chicken tikka by a local manufacturer that we cooked and tried out about two years ago. Frankly, as a longtime meat, chicken, and fish eater, I was not convinced.

Then I was given some plant-based burgers (normally based on beef) from an American company called Beyond Meat. The Los Angeles-based producer of plant-based meat substitutes was founded in 2009 and its initial products were launched in the United States in 2012. The company offers plant-based options in the beef, pork, and poultry categories. As of March 2021, Beyond Meat products are available in approximately 118,000 retail and foodservice outlets in over 80 countries worldwide including India.

As advised by a friend who had tried it, we defrosted our Beyond Burgers for a couple of hours to bring them to room temperature and then we cooked them on a non-stick frying pan using butter. (Olive oil is also recommended.) Three to four minutes on each side did the trick, bringing them to a nice charred color. They were, frankly, surprisingly good.

Made from ingredients such as peas and brown rice and without GMOs or soy or gluten the Beyond Burger is claimed to have 35% less saturated fat and 35% less total fat than 80/20 ground beef and also more protein and iron. Coconut oil is one of the ingredients. The company also claims that it has fewer calories and no cholesterol compared to the typical ground beef burger. No antibiotics or hormones are used in its production.

Since we have eaten burgers in several well-known eateries over a good number of years we think that it will satisfy many if not all who crave the taste of a real burger. The Beyond Burger also sometimes labeled Beyond Beef scores on taste, although the texture is a bit more uniform and dense than the real thing. The price is currently high at Rs 500 per burger (more than twice what it is in the US) – compared to Rs 150 to 200 per mutton burger made of an equivalent weight made at home.

The Beyond Meat burgers are not healthy food – their only claim is that they are vegan – plant-based protein that taste like beef burgers. Real beef burgers are also not healthy – apart from the fact that they would be banned in some parts of India. The difference is that the plant-based protein point to a future of protein consumption that is healthier for the environment, given that meat production that supplies 33% of the protein in the US market, takes up 75% of agricultural land in that country.

[greenbagjosh]

20 April 2001 - dithpickable ducks in Lugano, DJ BoBo’s new CD - for 2001 anyway, and with an easy puzzle

Grüezi Mitenand!  Bonjour!  Buongiorno!  Hi everyone!

Thank you for joining me on the second day of the April 2001 journey.  On Thursday the 19th April 2001, I had departed Washington Dulles for Milano Malpensa MXP.

For the most part, the flight was uneventful.  About 5 AM UK time the flight was just entering British airspace.  The flight still had to cross French territory.  The flight landed at Malpensa around 9:10 AM.  The difference between September 2000 and April 2001, was that there was no jetway assignment for April 2001, and that there would be a "remote staircase exit" with a shuttle bus.  I took the bus to the terminal, went and did the passport check and baggage claim.  I turned my radio on, to tune into Italian stations.  The two major rules of digital tuning in Europe, AM stations are on 9-kHz steps instead of 10-kHz steps as in the USA, and FM stations are on 100-kHz steps instead of 200-kHz steps, but nowhere in the world anymore is 50-kHz step used.  I tuned in an adult contemporary station, I think "Radio Italia, solo musica italiana", and heard "primo treno per Marte" (first train to Mars) by Gianluca Grignani, and after that, "Campi Flegrei" by Edoardo Bennato.  I made sure to have hit the Record button.  And there would be more songs when I boarded the bus to Lugano.

About 9:50 AM, I left the airport terminal for the bus station next door.  I saw two busses empty that were to go to Lugano.  I picked the one that was due to leave sooner.  The fares were the same, 25,000 Italian Lira or 20 Swiss Francs.  The driver for FlyCar (sponsored by the Swiss Post, no longer exists, was since replaced by a regional rail service) came about 10:25 AM and let the few who were present board the bus and we went on our way.  The bus made its first stop at the old terminal, Terminal 2, which I remember flying in with my family in June 1987 when we were going to drive to Orta San Giulio in the Piedmont region.  During the bus ride I remember hearing the song "Questa nostra storia d'amore" by Matia Bazar.  The bus went north past Gallarate on A8 and my video camera was showing 11 AM local time.  I tuned into a radio station that was playing "Crying at the discotheque", a cover version of the 1979 Sheila and B Devotion's song "Spacer" by a new Swedish band called Alcazar - the videos of both songs are just as bizarre to watch.  The bus exited A8 just south of Varese and went on local roads to Gaggiolo where the border with Switzerland was located.  We had to sit for fifteen minutes for passport control.  I received a stamp in my passport as Stabio Confine with the 20th April.  After that, we were in the Ticino.

The bus went to Mendrisio, the first rail connection.  Everyone was going to Lugano, and between Mendrisio and Lugano, the bus was only on a drop-off basis after leaving Malpensa.  The bus skipped Mendrisio and went north on A2 to Lugano FFS.  It went past Fox Town mall, Bissone and Campione (one of Italy's exclaves surrounded by Switzerland), Melide (has a miniature museum) and ended at the station.  I did not have a rail connection at Lugano.  The hotel knew I was going to arrive about 1 PM, so I withdrew some money in Swiss Francs, and paid 5 Francs for a day pass for the bus.  At the time, bus line 9 went from the rail station to within a block of the hotel.  There also was a connection to the former trolleybus lines.  I arrived at the hotel, and they had a room for me.  It was a single room with a balcony facing Mt. San Salvatore.  Sadly the weather was not quite as nice.  The Ticino usually does not get visitors between November and March, and as a consequence, many hotels are closed between Airolo and Chiasso.  I had asked for a half pension for the night, so I should be awake about 6:30 PM.

I was not quite tired at 3 PM but would soon be.  I went to the Migros Supermarket at the bus stop, bought some food for lunch, then walked from the hotel to Riva Paradiso from Via San Salvatore.  I ate at the park on the lake.  I watched some ducks having a hassle with each other, some going as far as saying to the other duck, "you're dithpickable!" in the manner of Daffy Duck, making the AFLAC duck seem like Big Bird from Sesame Street.  About 3:45 PM I was getting tired and went into my room to sleep.  I turned on the radio and recorded an hour of the German-language station DRS 1 (you cannot get DRS 3 in the Ticino using a conventional radio, or anywhere south of Göschenen UR for that matter, but you can tune in its Italian-language equivalent.  DRS 2 is also available in the Ticino as is DRS 1 but not DRS 3).  About half an hour included an interview in Swiss-German with DJ BoBo.  He was invited to discuss his new CD "Planet Colors".  DRS 1 played a bit of "Color of life", one of the songs from the CD - “Chihuahua” would not be released for another couple of years.  After that, DRS 1 played "Yellow River" by Jeff Christie and "Layla" by Eric Clapton.  I don't have the recording at the moment but I remember there were a few more songs on that tape.  I went to sleep for a while.

The front desk called at 6:45 PM wondering where I was.  I came down fifteen minutes later.  They were still serving supper.  They served fish (cod, I think), penne pasta alfredo and steamed spinach.  It tasted excellent.  The hotel offered me more of the vegetables which I accepted.  The meal cost about 20 Francs. About 8:20 PM I left the hotel to go into downtown to see what had changed.  You might remember the San Carlino delle quattro Fontane church in downtown, on display in September 2000 when I was last there, but that had since been dismantled.  I walked to Piazza Alighieri Dante, where I remember in September 2000 seeing the thunderstorm and buying a point and shoot camera at the Manor department store on sale for 60 instead of 100 Francs.  There was a big sign with Helena Christensen's face, asking "C_e cose _anca a Lugano?"  It was an ad for a clothing store, and I do not want to give the name away.  I took the bus back to the hotel to sleep.  I recorded about an hour and a half of a local station, Radio Campione, which I remember from my last visit.  About a quarter of the songs were in Italian.

Tomorrow after we are well rested, we will go to Bellinzona, Locarno and maybe some interesting places off the map.  Please join me for tomorrow's journey.  Buona notte!

Auf wiederluege!  Au revoir!  Arrivederci!  Goodbye!

[dneurin]

"Dynastie" Trailer from Pink Mama Theatre on Vimeo.

DYNASTIE

Pink Mama Theatre lets collide worlds in their sixth and latest dance theater production. In "DYNASTY" an artificial, modern and superficial plastic world meets the world of antiquity overcrowded with symbols and mystically.

The Associated Artist of the ‘Dampfzentrale’ has taken his inspiration for the latest production from the classic drama "The Bacchae" by Euripides and from Polish folklore: the folk traditions and rites from Poland, which derive from Christian and pagan customs are primarily implemented in the music and the costumes.

The subject and the text of "DYNASTIE" are based on the Greek drama of the poet Euripides: In "The Bacchae" the royal and divine family of Pentheus rules over the city of Thebes. Dionysus, the youngest of the great Greek gods, returned in human form there. He was named Bacchus or Bachhus (caller) after the noise, which his entourage made. Dionysus wanted to introduce his orgiastic cult of terror and madness - against him stood the only and last righteous king Pentheus. The conflict of the main characters resulted in a tragedy that no one could avoid, because it was the will of God.

Versatile figure has the divine, And much - unexpectedly - bring state of gods. And now what you want, was not Finished. Unexpected created his way a god. So this event also took place. (Quote from “The Bacchae”, Euripides)

Pink Mama Theatre staged in "DYNASTIE" mysticism and tradition in an artificially-modern scenery: holiday and leisure worlds, such as the Tropical Iceland in Krausnick near Berlin, serve as a backdrop. This scenario of so-called "Fake Holidays" promises a paradise under a Biosphere dome. Thus, a South Seas paradise is imitated in the Tropical Iceland with banked beaches, artificial landscapes and lagoons, which is reminiscent of the beautiful scenes of Hollywood South Seas films of the 50s in its approach and seeks the same perfection of the illusion.

The dancers and actors come from different parts of the world. This leads to an interesting dialogue between cultures and traditions.

A dance theater in which the word, movement, music and pictures give an inseparable unit.

Duration: approx. 120min. plus break

Casts and Credits

Idea, concept, stage direction, scenography, costumes: Sławek Bendrat und Dominik Krawiecki Choreography: Sławek Bendrat Dramaturgy: Dominik Krawiecki acting and dance: Sławek Bendrat, Dominik Krawiecki, Giuliano Guerrini, Miryam Garcia Mariblanca, Tomek Pomersbach, Ahmed Soura, Marek Wieczorek Management: Angelika Rohrer Technic and musical design: Jonas Weber Lightdesign and video: Andac Karabeyoglu Photos: Monika Chmielarz Dressmaker: Anna Utko

This production is sponsored by: Kultur Stadt Bern, Swisslos Kultur Kanton Bern, Migros-Kulturprozent, Burgergemeinde Bern, Dampfzentrale Bern