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The Tattistampa Art Print Day: how did it go?

Here are a few shots from the “open door” event with Wolfgang Scheibe and his combined universe of art, agriculture, and music. As a peculiarity, with over 400 events in this celebration, the one in Tatti was the only one in Italy (and, in practice, almost the only one out of German-speaking countries…there was another one in the South of Denmark.

Now, we have a question..how come there are some grains in the picture? Are they ancient? Are they modern? Are they hand-made? To know more you will have to wait for the next episodes of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere! series, or you can write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228 if you are curious.

Wolfgang is waiting for you for the International Day of Art Printing (Mar. 17, 2024)

Sunday March 17, from 11AM to 6PM, Wolfgang Scheibe AKA Tattistampa, known in the world for his production of hand-made prints, posters and other graphic works, is waiting for you to celebrate the international day of art printing in his secret workshop between Tatti and Meleta, in the rolling hills of Southern Tuscany.

Considering the limited size of the premises, it is necessary to book your visit by Saturday, March 16, 8PM. Please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or message on whatsapp or SMS on +393317539228. A few slots are still available.

The day will also be an opportunity to learn about other projects on which Wolfgang is active, and in particular with his Jug Band Colline Metallifere. Some of the band members will be present during the day and, accidentally, there might be musical instruments in the surroundings…who knows what might happen

But please, book yourr visit by 8PM, Saturday March 16!

In addition to the promo video below, we encourage you to review some of Wolgang’s feats since 2014 in the pibinko.org netowrk (link 1), and with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere (link 2)…combining music, printing, and agriculture there are lots of intersting stories!

Please see also the initial announcement for this event, published on Jan. 31.

For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

The Recording of Maremma in Diretta, ep. 799, with Open Data as Seen by the pibinko.org Network

What can we say…have part of an interview where international events, rural community maps and appetizer recipes are all in the same picture feels good when you work on and promote interdisciplinary activities. For more open data stories in the pibinko.org network, see https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=%22open+data%22 (articles start in 2010).

Thanks again to Carlo Sestini for the hospitality and see you in April.

To support the pibinko.org activities on open data outreach and production: https://www.pibinko.org/support/

For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

Interviews and People Talking

This is a partial list of interviews and video of situations with people talking in the pibinko.org network. Articles start from December 2006. For more video with broader settings (music, natural or not-so-natural phenomena, animals, etc.) see also https://www.pibinko.org/videos/.

The majority of these interviews is in Italian. We do make an effort to maintaing a English version of most of our articles, but subtitling all the videos goes beyond the scope of our standard operations. Please write us if you do not understand the content, but would like to know more.

If you would like to have an interview by: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228

Community Place Names

This map represents the progress in the collection of “community place names” in the pibinko.org network projects.

These are localities and other geographic features which currently are not represented in official base maps (namely, the 1:10000 so called “technical regional cartography”). For the various areas we have engaged, we indicated the starting year. All communities of the participating villages are acknowledged.

If you click on one of the points you will see a list of pibinko.org articles referring to that location.

A Video by CNR IBE Featuring a “BuioMetro” in the Svalbard Islands

During our last “M’illumino di Meno” we explained that Luciano Massetti from the Italian Research Council’s Institute of Bioeconomy could not participate directly to the BuioMetria Partecipativa events due to the overlap with a mission to the Svalbard Islands. In fact, his goal was to deploy a night sky quality sensor. We did check with Luciano the possibility of having some form of live connection, but due to the tight schedule in such a peculiar research facility this was not possible. However, Luciano was able to document a few moments of his presence in this video, from which you may also have a glimps of what happens when Italian researchers venture in very cold places:

For more information:

Video source: https://video.ibe.cnr.it/w/oZwcqDV6UYxZ8rG1jcHxAv

Also Castelfiorentino is in the Heart of Tuscany

Jennifer the Verona Reindeer and Mauro Tirannosauro have ascertained it beyond any reasonable doubt. Also Castelfiorentino, close to Florence, is “in the heart of Tuscany”.

Help us to draw the perimeter of this great big hear by letting us know about locations to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +33317539228. For the moment the heart of Tuscany is looking like a tight ventricle, but we are only in the very first steps of this survey.

To follow the story: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=heart+tuscany

To Friends in Bayern and Baden-Württemberg (and surroundings)…

…if you live in Bayern or Baden-Württemberg and you are curious about the Jug Band Colline Metallifere and about stuff we propose about “music & territories”, please contact us for an initiative which will be reaching you in a couple of months: micalosapevo@pibinko.org o 3317539228.

For a refresher:

Please note that for posts after May 2023 the Italian-language version of the sites has a lot more content than the English-language version, so you are encouraged to browse the Italian version..

The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now embeds also readings by Unihedron

A sky quality meter in the process of being “passed” as a relay baton between two characters in the pibinko.org network (Dec. 2016).

After switching back on the interactive BuioMetria Partecipativa map during the twentieth edition of “M’illumino di Meno”, we are gradually adding layers to the canvas that we would like to use over the coming months to trigger actions about light and darkness.

After the CNR IBE monitoring network, we have reloaded the data collected by Unihedron, i.e. the producer of the “Sky Quality Meter”, which we renamed as “buiometri” for our Italian communities.

The new map is available at https://www.pibinko.org/buiometriapartecipativa-map/.

We would like to recall that the Sky Quality Meter is not the only type of sensor existing for the measurement of night sky quality. In fact, with the BuioMetria Partecipativa since 2011 we have conducted various intercomparison and cross-calibration experiments. However, the SQM still remains as the most widespread entry-level sensor, plus it is the one which we have historically used as a liaison between the various participants to the buiometria measurement campaigns.

For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

Here we go with the “In the Heart of Tuscany” survey!

The more you review presentations of tourism and culture situations in Tuscany, the more you get the feeling that a very high number of these places is characterised as being “…in the heart of Tuscany”. At this point we would like to better assess what is the perimeter of this heart…

The pibinko.org network, with over thirty years of experience in incredibly strange mapping, welcomes you to a “geo-anatomy” exercise, by helping us to locate the pulse-setting organ in this region.

If you manage a business, or you know somebody who does, and this business is “in the heart of Tuscany”, please let us know at micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

For those of you who are more social-network oriented, please see also https://www.facebook.com/groups/intheheartoftuscany/

All of your feedback will be relayed to our mapping department, and they will gradually create a map, which will be published at some point (we will give the survey a couple of months). If you like the initiative and would like to help us keep it alive, please consider supporting the pibinko.org network (https://www.pibinko.org/support/)

Thank you for your attention, and best regards from…the heart of Tuscany!