Where the wolf’s ears are, the wolf’s teeth are close Viking saying
Author: marco grasso
Mongolia
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. Gengis Khan
Tai Hang Fire Dragon
Hong-Kong c’est le dragon. Il ondule, se cabre et plonge et s’enroule de tous ses boulevards hérissés de rues adjacentes, de bazars qui sont des ruelles, d’impasses borgnes et d’escaliers à pic. Et toutes ces rues, tous ces boulevards, ces ruelles, ces impasses, ces marches, […]
usa
“Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscrapers. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will jut glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm.” John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, 1925 New York Coney Island Washington DC Montana […]
singapore
“The Singapore story is all about the creation and then sustainable continuation of what can only be described as an improbable nation” Ho Kwon Ping, The Ocean in a Drop, 2016
hong kong
This is Hong Kong. An Eldorado of good opportunities and adventures, where one expects to see, at any moment, C-beams glitter in the dark. But, at the same time, this is not Hong Kong. Because the city is under continuous mutation and everything you believe […]
japan
– Tokyo? What is it? – Well, it’s a kind… a kind of jungle made by man The Son of Godzilla, 1967 2024 – 2026 2018 2016 2009
nepal
Nepal is a Middle-Earth. A small country nestled between earth and sky, pressed by the immense size of three giants. Two of them are China and India, two superpowers that look at this tiny strip of rock and mud as an appendix of their huge […]
norway
“There are countries in which Man has submitted to the dictates of Nature until he has become her abject slave, and there are countries where Man has destroyed Nature so completely that he has lost all touch with that great living mother who forever must […]
iceland
“The twenty-nine volcanoes […] have covered the island with vast tracts of lava, some of which are over a thousand square miles large. Earthquakes have upon occasion destroyed hundreds of farms and enormous fissures or clefts, running often for miles across the solid sheet of […]
sicily
“Sai cos’è la nostra vita? La tua e la mia? Un sogno fatto in Sicilia. Forse stiamo ancora lì e stiamo sognando.” Leonardo Sciascia, Candido ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia, 1977