Street Movement is a 3 days long event, from Saturday 30th May to Monday 1rst June, settled in Parco Sempione, the main park of Milan. Here you have the program of the party:

30 May

Reset! Party with Mace, Zizzed, Rocoe, Parro: from 11 pm

31 May

RockPlanet and RockNRoll present live dj sets. then, after midnight, there will be a party to celebrate the first year without RockFm with dj Max De Riu and Ariel

1 June

Fivestars with HipHop Tv present Hip Hop Night with Street Fighter, Numeri 2, Tormento and Max Brigante.

Enjoy!

Surfing the web, I’ve found a new special report from The Economist about entrepreneurship and the global recession that we are living in these times. You can download it for free here

One of my favourite part is about the 5 myths about entrepreneurship:

1) Entrepreneurs are “orphans and outcasts” to borrow the phrase of George Gilder, an American intellectuals: entrepreneurship is a social activity, the most successful entrepreneurs have a strong network of people, it’s  not a “me against the world” battle

2) Entrepreneurs are kids: we usually know just about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that in their early twenties were working overnight in their garages, but the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Harland Sanders, was 65 when he started his business.

3) Entrepreneurship is driven by venture capital: that’s true for capital intensive industries such high tech and bio-tech but most of the businesses out there are started with the 3 F money: Founder, Family and Friends

4) If you want to succeed, you must create a world changing product: actually most of the successful entrepreneurs focus on processes rather than products. Oprah Wilfrey has become Oprah Wilfrey through successful brand management

5) Entrepreneurship cannot flourish in big companies: well, small is good because startups are aggressive and innovative but some big companies help their entrepreneurs with money and know how.

You need…

-a jug (dimension: 1 liter)

-0,5 l of beer (the best for this use is Warsteiner but it’s ok also any lager beer)

-lemonade or lemonsoda

-one shot of plain wodka (or tequila if you prefer)

-ice cubes

spill the beer in the jug. half the jug should be full in this way. then pour some lemonade (around one inch but depends on your tastes) and let the shot of wodka slide inside the jug. add some ice cubes and if you want some slices of lemon. here it is. enough alcoholic to be the first drink of the day.

Beer Pong

it’s a classic in US, not yet in Europe. You need 2 players (1 vs 1, but you can make also teams with 2 players), 16 glasses of beer + 2 glasses of water  (just for washing the balls) , 2 balls and a table.

Each player fills a glass with beer and places it one paddle-width from the end of the table, in the center (or a paddle-width from the side for doubles). Hitting your opponent’s glass earns you a point and requires the opponent to sip (5 sips to a glass). If you get the ball in your opponent’s glass, you are awarded 5 points and the opponent must drink whatever remains in the glass (excluding the ball).

No player may touch the ball prior to its hitting the table or a glass; if the ball hits a glass before hitting the table, it remains in play even after a single bounce on the table. A player may attempt to save a point after the ball hits a glass by returning it (provided of course the ball has bounced no more than one time). Multiple hits count only as a single point (exception: a ball hitting a glass and then bouncing inside the glass, or inside the partner’s glass, counts as a 5-point inside-the-cup “poofter”)

Kings (also known as Ring of Fire)

You need a standard deck of playing cards, 1 glass or mug, 3 or more peole and of course some alcoholic beverages.

The deck of cards are shuffled and spread down on a table, usually in a circle (but there are some variations). Each player take one card at a time, and every card has a different act associated with it. Here you are a list (but you can find of course a lot of variations):

1) Rule: the drawer has to make a rule (like: “no dirty words” or “no personal names”). who breaks the rules has to drink.

2) Fuck You: everyone drink except the drawer

3) Fuck Me: the drawer drinks

4) Touch the floor: everyone touches the floor, and the last to do has to drink

5) Touch the sky: everyone points to the sky, the last to do has to drink

6) all the boys: boy’s drink

7) all the girls: girl’s drink

Nominate: the drawer chooses who has to drink

9) Game: usually a stupid game like “Never ever ever”

10) Snake eyes: if you get the eye contact by the drawer, you have to drink

Jack: Thumb Master: Thumb wrestling between the drawer and the person who is closer to him. who lose, has to drink

Queen: Question Master: the drawer can ask a question to the players. If the answer is wrong, they have to drink

King:  on every turn, one player put some alcohol into a glass in the centre of the table. who picks the king has to drink that glass.

Another Card Game

You need: 5 or more people, alcoholic beverages and a deck of playing cards.

There’s one master that gives the cards to the players (usually there’s one different master every turn). Every card has a different meaning associated with it. Here you are a list of meanings:

1/2/3/4: 1,2 ,3 or 4 shot(s)/glass(es)/sip(s)

5-6-7-8-9-10: nothing

Jack: rule: the drawer choose a rule

Queen: everyone has to drink

King: the drawer decides who has to drink

Tequila Ring

People disposed in circle, one or more bottles of  tequila. On every turn, one person sings something (with eyes closed) and the other people pass each other the bottles. When the singer stops, the person (or people) who has the bottle on his hand, has to drink.

Here you can find some points that I’ve made mine, if you are hungry for more, check the Tim’s Blog for the full text.

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.

The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.

And then certain men show the most senseless indignation—they complain of the insolence of their superiors, because they were too busy to see them when they wished an audience! But can anyone have the hardihood to complain of the pride of another when he himself has no time to attend to himself?

In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet, when it comes to the matter of wasting time, in the case of the one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal. And so I should like to lay hold upon someone from the company of older men and say: “I see that you have reached the farthest limit of human life, you are pressing hard upon your hundredth year, or are even beyond it; come now, recall your life and make a reckoning. Consider how much of your time was taken up with a moneylender, how much with a mistress, how much with a patron, how much with a client, how much in wrangling with your wife, how much in punishing your slaves, how much in rushing about the city on social duties. Add the diseases which we have caused by our own acts, add, too, the time that has lain idle and unused; you will see that you have fewer years to your credit than you count.You will hear many men saying: “After my fiftieth year I shall retire into leisure, my sixtieth year shall release me from public duties.” And what guarantee, pray, have you that your life will last longer? Who will suffer your course to be just as you plan it? Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to any business? How late it is to begin to live just when we must cease to live! What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to postpone wholesome plans to the fiftieth and sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained!Can anything be sillier than the point of view of certain people—I mean those who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves very busily engaged in order that they may be able to live better; they spend life in making ready to live“Why do you delay,” says he, “Why are you idle? Unless you seize the day, it flees.” Even though you seize it, it still will flee; therefore you must vie with time’s swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly. And, too, the utterance of the bard is most admirably worded to cast censure upon infinite delay, in that he says, not “the fairest age,” but “the fairest day.”

Those who rush about in the performance of social duties, who give themselves and others no rest, when they have fully indulged their madness, when they have every day crossed everybody’s threshold, and have left no open door unvisited, when they have carried around their venal greeting to houses that are very far apart—out of a city so huge and torn by such varied desires, how few will they be able to see? How many will there be who either from sleep or self-indulgence or rudeness will keep them out! How many who, when they have tortured them with long waiting, will rush by, pretending to be in a hurry! How many will avoid passing out through a hall that is crowded with clients, and will make their escape through some concealed door as if it were not more discourteous to deceive than to exclude. How many, still half asleep and sluggish from last night’s debauch, scarcely lifting their lips in the midst of a most insolent yawn, manage to bestow on yonder poor wretches, who break their own slumber in order to wait on that of another, the right name only after it has been whispered to them a thousand times! 

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yesterday there were too many events to attend so I chose for ZonaTortona. Zona Tortona is considered the main district for designer’s stuffs. It was freakin full of people,  and there were nothin to drink or to eat, maybe cos I hit the zone simpy too late.  It was interesting anyway, even if I’m not really into design stuffs.

After a long walk in the zone, we chose to go to Università Statale, in via Festa del Perdono. It was cool, our mistake was that we arrived there quite late, but who cares? it was full of students eating, drinkin, talkin…very nice atmosphere. It’s a pity that these kind of stuffs happen just once a year in Milan.

Today I will take a day off, I’m gonna be at Rock and Roll (via Bruschetti, close to Central Station) for a gig of The Black Mamba, my band. Tomorrow I will come back on my steps to Fuorisalone. Stay tuned

Do you want some more?

ok, here it is…

My journey started at 6.30 pm at Piazza Borromeo, avoid this, it’s just a waste of time. Then we moved to Skitch in Via Monte di Pietà (close to Teatro La Scala), it was awesome. We were quite worried by the fact that there were  lot of guardians with lists in their hands but we approched a girl asking for a fake name and saying that we had this invitation by mail. she said that it was just for press but we could do a 2 minutes tour inside. Great! We got inside and there were a famous wodka brand that were serving free cocktails to the guests and lot of food like arancini and small sandwiches with ham.

At 7.30 we moved to via dell’orso, where according to Interni’s guide, there was another aperitivo, nice, nothing special. I couldn’t remember the name of the shop.

So we begun our road to the main attraction of the night: Palazzo Reale. Along the way we said: “hell it’s just 7.45, we have to be there at 20 something, better looking for something else”. We were around Piazza Cordusio and we gatecrashed into a shop near piazza Mercanti. This shop is really peculiar cos it’s made over an old bank, and there still is a caveau where you can go there, chillin with a cup of champagne in your hand.

It was almost the time of the great exhibition of the Palazzo Reale, but before we saw some waiters and some people with cups of wine in their hands, it was in Palazzo della Ragione. Nice. There were some design stuffs from Brazil.

It was time to go to Palazzo Reale. We entered from a secondary gate, like just VIPs can do. Nice exhibition, it was a journey from baroque to neoclassic with furnitures of those times, and some modern interpretation of those furnitures. It’s called “Dalla Magnificenza al Progetto”, it worth a visit.

Then we went at the ground floor where there were one of the best buffet of the year. We’ve drunk something like liters of the finest wines, eaten risotto, tons of parma ham, then strawberries with whipped cream.

Later we moved to Porta Ticinese and piazza XXIV maggio where there was some music like a dj set but nothing special.

well, today is another sunny day here in Milan, another fuorisalone day!

(Another) Opening Party: Piazza XXIV Maggio from 9 pm: dj set nuggets garage, northern soul (The Brownstones) and trip hop funk (S.Drino). from 1 am silent disco (wireless phones)

Wednesday 22 April:

Progetto Matmos + Discosafari @ Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica, via San Vittore 21: from 7 pm to 1 am: dj sets into the museum!

Italians Do It Worse: secret party: check this www.myspace.com/italiansaliansdoitworse

Damno Party: Bar Basso via Plinio 39

Pets Ladies Night: Ricci: Piazza della Repubblica 27 from 7 pm: dj sets

Dj Persignora: Piazza XXIV Maggio from 7 pm to 11 pm: disco funk dj set

Thursday 23 April

Yellow Lounge + Francesco Soragna: Piazza XXIV Maggio from 7 pm to 1 am

Disaronno Event: via Tortona 35: from 7 pm to 10 pm: aperitivo and dj set

Elita @ Spazio Astoria: viale Montenero 55: from 8.30 pm dj set + acoustic live of Ministri

Supernova + Milly De Mori@ Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica, via San Vittore 21 from 8 pm to 12 pm

Friday 24 April

Berlin Mitte Institut vs Berlin Kreutzberg Institut: Spazio Maderna via Maderna 13 from 11.30 pm: www.myspace.com/privat_party

Mama Love Supreme: Base Mama via Fratelli Campi 2:  on invitation www.mamadesignlab.com

Design View: via Filzi 22 from 23 pm to 2 am: dancin floor dj set at the tallest building of Milan

Albibelli: Piazza XXIV Maggio from 7 pm to 11 pm: dj set

Mind the band: @ Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica, via San Vittore 21 from 7 pm to 12 pm

Saturday 25 April:

Closing Party: Ippodromo del Galoppo di San Siro, Piazzale dello Sport: from 7 pm price: 15 euro:

1 SALA BETTING (elettronica) open 8.00 pm.
DANGER (Paris -France)
ELEPHANT POWER (Bruxelles – Belgium)
TYLER NØZE (Neon Disco)
MAGNVM (Nokia Trends Lab)
DECIBELCLAN (Nokia Trends Lab).

2 PALCO GALOPPO (live + djset by Milano Music Movement – Smoking Kills Records).
open 8.00 pm
LIVE CONCERT.
Lara Martelli
Merci Miss Monroe
Orange
Mercury Drops
Pink Rays
LTD
Last Wanks
Iori’s Eyes
DJ SET post-swow: Pierpaolo Peroni, Andy Ferretti

3 SALA OROLOGIO open 11.00 pm (funky & disco).
BARKIN DOGS
CLUB SILENCIO
FORNARINO
MON C.

4 SALA PESA (Electro & Jazz) open 8.00 pm.
OLLI & THE CRABS
DIGITAL GENETIC PASTA (Biokip Records)
SANGUE DISKEN
LO ZELMO (Popstarz Gasoline)
JAMES R
DJ T_ILT (24 Hours)

5 SALA TERRAZZA (tech-house & minimal room) open 11.00 pm.
LORENZO FASSI (Limienstrasse- Session Deluxe)
MATTEO MILLERI (Nummer)
LUCA DOOBIE (Gasoline Rec – off)
EMMA (P.U.R.E.)
GLISSMANN (Distaar)

Elita Closing Party: viale Montenero 55 from 7 pm

Audioscan LIN+SAE Live Class + progetto solid@ Museo Nazionale delle Scienze e della Tecnica: Via San Vittore 21 from 7 pm

Sunday 26 April

After T.: secret place www.myspace.com/circlemilano

Fuorisalone.it Closing Party: Via G.Mora from 6 pm to 12 pm.

J3D+Alex De Ponti + Lucy Bee: @ Museo Nazionale delle Scienze e della Tecnica: Via San Vittore 21 from 7 pm

that’s all folks, have fun!

Right now, the Fuorisalone has become a very popular event with a lot of parites around the city. So my committment, will be to give you all the best tips for the parties in the town. Are you ready?