The Beach Party

Finally I'm able to post about the party! These past two weeks have been quite crazy, I had my parents from Estonia here, they rented a lovely summer house at the beach side in Riviera Ulisse, (I've posted about it here in past too, chek out!), and so I spended some time with them. Now I'm finally back in Rome but I'll be gone already on Thursday, we're going in Salento in South-Italy for two weeks.. So I think I must officially say I'm going to be gone this summer and there won't be much of intense blogging.. :(

Now, about the party. We arrived at Ladispoli, a small cittadina near Rome, which I personally find very lovely. It was the safest place to have a falò (beach party). It was also my classmate Gaia's birthday (she's the one on the picture above) so she presented herself with all the food and stuff, we teased her by calling her a scout (she hates scouts).

The Happy Crew!

The beginning...

The continuing..



Gaia made us a surprise and brought 60 cornettos at the midnight, by the time everything was laready eaten and the hunger was killing us!









Me and Gaia



Simone & Francesca! The kiss was a must, there is no falò without a kiss;)



Us girls: Anna Maria, Alessandra, Gaia and me.






There are no more photos as actually we were too busy enjoying the fire and the chit chat and the moon and the sea and everything else.. so excuse me for the bad quality of the photos, but I honestly didn't force myself much;)
Beach party is really a must in the summer, make sure you'll go on a one this summer!
;)

OUTDOOR vernissage in Garbatella

Friday evening I went on "OUTDOOR" vernissage, which was held in Palladium Theatre in Garbatella. Garbatella is famous for lotti's (former housing units) and thanks for particular urban planning & architecture in the past 20 years this neighbourhood has transformed from a poor working class district into a in a hip residential area. And no wonder- Garbatella with it's cozy little villas and delifghtful flowery balconies is like a small garden city. Anyway, this is the first street art exhibition on currently occupied public housing in Italy with the aim to show how street art can enhance urban spaces. And let me tell you, I have a big weekness for street art, quality street art ofcourse (read: for street art artists).

Me and Concetta with all the chit chat got distracted and went on the opposite direction of where the indicated buildings with the art "on" them were. It wasn't hard to mistaken, as many buildings in Garbatella are covered with different decorations and paintings, writings (with strong political messages).



Writings like "Ti Amo" are as common as pigeons in Rome, this caught my eye for it's colour though.



All you need is wall... and a permission. It was a great thing that Rome's Municipio gave the permission for such an innovative thing.. I was surprised first when I heard..





The artists:
STEN & LEX
check out their flickr (click!)
JBROCK
check out he's myspace (click!)
l'ATLAS
check out the homepage (click!)
C215
check out he's myspace (click!)





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I loved the colours!
















And here are the party pictures:



















































NB NB NB, as not bad.
And as an artist I mean...






DJ









The exhibition is held until 15th of June, if in Rome, make sure you get there!!

info@nufactory.it
+39 3391798650
major details on OUTDOOR website (click!)

PS!

What do you think of street art?
Is it something you think a city needs to refresh it's look?