Water in its best dress: Airbrushing

Let’s not talk about brands and clothing brands; the protagonist is water, but in its most crystalline form: ice.     For launching the application of “Shiny Specular Indirect Areography” on ice, being our whole nation in quarantine due to Covid 19, a live broadcast on various social media was organized with Irina Petrenko, head of the Italian-Russian “Center for Dialogue on Tourism and Culture”.    Her presence was of particular importance as it represented an event of religious union. The realization of St. Nicholas, symbol of the union between Catholic and …

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An egg, a confectioner and Africa

Africa.   The idea of Airbrushed Eggs was born thanks to an ostrich egg.  A wedding gift, given as a present by a South African bride of whom Nicola Giotti was the best man.  Nothing incredibly different from any other gift in the warm continent’s handicraft tradition, excepting beauty of  breathtaking glossy decorations.   At that moment he asked himself: “Will it be possible to make a chocolate egg similar in shine and beauty to that ostrich egg?”     His teachers of the time considered it an impossible feat.   For the Giotti family the adjective “impossible” has never been …

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