Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, what a mouthful. They’ve got a load of fabulous hand-carved wooden signs all along their coast, along with a couple stragglers which are also just basically fabulous in their non-woodness. I’ll tell ya though, wood looks nice near the water, especially carved to lettering and painted to niceness. Here we’ve got a collection of photos of these fantastic signs clicked by the daring Luca Paolassini, who is also seeming to have more than a couple rated-x photo shoots under his belt, so to speak.

Don’t worry though! The photos in this post are rated E for Excellent.

Diplomato in “Arti Visive – Fotografia” presso l’Istituto Europeo di Design di Milano nel 2006. Dal 2002 si occupa di fotografia (reportage-moda-slillife-backstage- foto di scena-eventi) e video (videoclip-documentari-candidcamera-backstage)

Ha collaborato con Domus, XL de la Repubblica, Rolling Stone, Babilonia e Tele Cinco (realizzando video documentai sui Festival) Fotografo ufficiale del festival musicale Rototom Susplash dal 2003.

Nel 2006, espone i ritratti “gli Alpini” al Teatro delle Erbe di Milano. Lavora dal 2005 al progetto “Oddpeople” (www.oddpeople.net), una ricerca video-fotografica sui piu importanti festival e raduni nel mondo. Nel 2007 collabora con SKY (canale: Comedy Central) alla produzione e realizzazione del programma “Amici Miei”.

Nel 2008 collabora con All Music alla realizazione di candid camera.
Nel 2009 a fronte della grande crisi si è dato al giardinaggio ….
Vive e lavora a Milano

now in french!

Graduated in Visual Arts – Photography “at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 2006. Since 2002 takes care of photography (reportage-fashion-slillife-backstage-photos of the scene-events) and video (video clip-Documentary-candidcamera-backstage). He has worked with Domus, XL de la Republic, Rolling Stone, Babylon and Tele Cinco (making videos on documentai Festival)

Official photographer of the music festival Rototom Susplash since 2003. In 2006, he exhibited portraits “the Alpini” al Teatro delle Erbe in Milan. Works from 2005 to the “Oddpeople” (www.oddpeople.net), a photo-video search on the most important festivals and gatherings in the world.

In 2007 collaborated with SKY (Channel: Comedy Central) to the production and realization of the “My Friends”. In 2008 collaborated with the All Music realizando of candid camera. In 2009 in the face of great crisis has given gardening ….

He lives and works in Milan

I must say you’ve got to visit Luca Paolassini’s lovely portfolio, if only for the strange, whacky world of pornography-convention-photography. Distorted realities and design-conscious image collecting are this dude’s hot spots.

Behold a tiny trove of photography from the strong and the wild at World Famous Design Junkies. Totally where we’re at. Hot exposures. And of course, one of the more important categories on WFDJ will always be SIGNS – nevah forget that.