Leo Dis Vinci
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UK-based creative, filmmaker, artist and writer. 80s' Geek, Star Wars fan and cinephile.
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A Memento of loss, love and life
“Aren’t you worried about what you and your tattoos will look like when you’re old?” It’s the question you hear a lot if you have ink on your skin. While the answer in my head is usually “fucking cooler than you’re going to look.” I usually smile politely and mumble something about them meaning something to me. But, why mumble?
By Leo Dis Vinci5 years ago in Humans
Cinnamon Cloud
My first ever kiss tasted of sour cherry Bubbilicious, smelt of waffles and bacon, sounded of Cindy Lauper and felt of a state champion gymnast in greasy gingham. It happened in the alley behind the 24/7 diner, Toni’s, where we both worked after school. It was 1983, we were both sixteen. Her name was Debbie di Marco. It was the single most amazing moment of my adolescent life, strike that, life.
By Leo Dis Vinci5 years ago in Humans
Ten things Covid-19 has created that need naming. Top Story - August 2020.
Ever since Coronavirus, Covid-19, the Rona, or whatever you want to call it, came into our lives, things have been different – drastically different. Every day has become a collection of disconnected socially awkward moments with once simple tasks becoming a massive ball ache to achieve.
By Leo Dis Vinci5 years ago in Humans
The misunderstanding of white privilege
When we each consider our lives as a whole, our existence, what we have achieved, where we have failed, it can be measured, or rather scaled, against a spectrum of our happiness. At one end we can put our happiest moment, our greatest triumph, and at the other end, we can place our darkest moment - the lowest to which we have ever been. To quote the most unlikely of sources, Richard Nixon analogised this idea in another way when leaving the Whitehouse when he said, "only when you have been in the deepest valley can you understand the magnificence of standing on the highest mountain."
By Leo Dis Vinci6 years ago in Humans
The happiness of being Lois Lane
I have watched you cry. I've seen the tears slowly roll down your face. Looked upon you as transparent pearls of empathy pool in your blue eyes and drop from your long eyelashes down on to your golden skin. Every story you've heard on the news, every tale of another hero, every life lost, I've seen you shed a tear. It's moved you. It's moved us both. It's moved the nation, the world.
By Leo Dis Vinci6 years ago in Humans
The Operator
Despite the sun radiating through his bedroom window and the sound of his sister’s laughter next door, Jackson was heartbroken. Even the aroma of cinnamon that wafted up from downstairs couldn’t raise his spirits. The comfort of French toast could not replace what he’d lost—or rather, what he’d found—that morning.
By Leo Dis Vinci7 years ago in Humans
All Men Must Die, but What Is Dead May Never Die
#VocalGOT I didn't find his body. All men must die. He never left us a note, but we knew why he had done it. All men must die. He was my hero in every sense, and I know heroes are just human. All men must die. I understand that the future he saw for himself, he didn't want. All men must die. I never got the opportunity to tell him one last time how good a father he had been and how much I loved him. All men must die. It broke our hearts. All men must die. I get that one day we all will die, but when, in 2016, my dad took his own life, I wasn't ready to accept: All men must die.
By Leo Dis Vinci7 years ago in Geeks
