Only a few days ago McDonald’s ended up in the middle of a media blizzard after Labor Watson called the Monopoly campaign misleading and harmful to health. The British MP referred to the fact that the advertisement induced children to choose junk food instead of other types of food just to get a free gift. 

Well, the response of the fast-food chain was not long in coming and came with another campaign called Say No More, curated by the TBWA\San Juan agency. There are three posters, each with the image of a McDonald’s product, from chips to the Happy Meal box. What distinguishes the images is that they are all blurred, but still recognizable to all.

Italians Gio Forma Studio Associato have created an incredible project called Maraya, an enormous site-specific installation in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert, composed of a gigantic mirror cube that serves as both an auditorium and a work of land art.

The word Maraya, which in Arabic means mirror, better identifies the installation that has been covered with reflective panels: these offer an ever new view of the surrounding desert. This is also thanks to the location, since the Al-Ula region in Saudi Arabia is a UNESCO world heritage site.

The structure-installation also includes an immersive theater, which lends itself perfectly to the preparation of interactive exhibitions of kinetic art by Italian creative agency Todo.

It was 2018 when Jordan Peele, until then known for his multiple roles in comic films and series, on stage at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles withdrew the Oscar for best original screenplay thanks to the masterpiece Get Out. 

A little over a year has passed since then, and Peele seems to be reluctant to go back to comedy. After Get Out, in fact, he immediately went back to work to introduce us to another film that already provides a masterpiece. 

While in Italy it will be released on April 4, in America Us is already beating all records. 

Made with a budget of 20 million, during the first weekend it grossed more than 70 million, becoming the original film with the highest revenue achieved during the first weekend, ousting Avatar and overtaking Captain Marvel which instead had a budget of 150 million. 

Nothing special, it happens that a film grosses stratospheric figures, it happens to get straight to the hearts of people, it happens to enter the story. The question to ask is Why? 

During a holiday, a black family finds itself having to fight with its doppelgängers. The summary of the plot contains everything, all the themes that Peele has brilliantly addressed. 

In Trump’s America, but the same of Obama and Black Panther, it’s finally a black family that is the protagonist of a horror movie of rare beauty these days. 

Although the racial theme is well present is another theme that strikes us, but hits us in the face doing us harm. If in this author’s horror film the protagonists find themselves fighting against themselves, it’s because for the director the real problem today is not foreigners, it’s not others, but us. We are our worst enemies, we are the monsters that do not exist but we fight.  

Jordan Peele has entered the Olympus of great directors by right, his films attract and disturb us, they wrap us up to the point of crushing us and we desperately need them. 

Do you know the collages with the colored cards you used to make in kindergarten? Well, forget about it. Those by designer John Ed De Vera have nothing to do with our little works and deserve to be exhibited in a museum.

After carefully cutting dozens and dozens of pieces of paper, John glues them by stacking them together, creating three-dimensional sculptures depicting characters from films, books, famous people or natural landscapes. Each subject lends itself perfectly to this art form and it is amazing to see how each work is studied in detail.

The hyper-realism of John Ed De Vera’s sculptures makes us fly with our imagination and succeeds in transforming a simple sheet of paper into Iron Man’s iron armor, into seawater, into Daenerys Targaryen’s silvery hair.