the journey to the east

Pois claro que é a Alice

2008-07-16T20:28:00.002Z

Pois claro que é a Alice. Vamos a ver, se dou por terminado o tema dos gatos neste blogue.

Etelvina com 6 meses

2008-07-15T17:44:00.004Z

Etelvina (1975) - Sérgio Godinho

Aproveito o tema dos gatos e das gatas, para dedicar ao novo membro da minha família , a gata Etelvina, uma música a condizer com o nome. Parabéns ao fotografo, não sei quem foi , mas é uma bela de uma fotografia.

Parabéns para nós, que estamos a crescer de amor ; )

obs. Esta do crescer de amor é para dar um ar alternativo.

A Alice

2008-05-29T20:14:00.003Z

Para os amigos que tem saudades…

Mirtilos para todos

2008-05-07T21:22:00.007Z

Gostei do filme, acho que vou ver outra vez, e vou contar quantas vezes é que existem pessoas a limpar vidros.

Não sou uma grande fã do Wong Kar-wai. Gostei muito do "Chungking Express" e do "In the Mood for Love", achei excessivo e detestei o "2046", porque é completamente vazio, sem qualquer sentido, e com uma grande banda sonora, e uma fotografia fabulosa.

Pensava que não iria ter qualquer prazer a ver um novo filme deste realizador, fiquei muito desiludida com o último.

Mas nesta Blueberry pie existe honestidade na forma como as cenas são apresentadas. Sim, não é real aquela América, mas a visão, a atmosfera é real para ele(Wong Kar-wai) e para mim também.

Acho que ele nunca se expôs tanto.

Os planos são encenados atrás de vidros sujos, ou com letras, mal iluminados, e sem som. Os planos em vez de esconderem o que se quer dizer, ficando apenas numa superfície estética de mistério e desencontros, mostram e confessam. Os segredos deixam de ser escondidos em buracos, mas são enviados em postais e no fim… vejam o filme.

Beijinhos doces com sabor a tarde de mirtilos.

Dia 1 de Maio

2008-04-30T18:19:00.008Z

Uma imagem pelo povo Tibetano

2008-03-30T16:42:00.001Z

Fotografia de Henri Cartier-Bresson 1978 Suiça

Memórias de Quem

2008-01-21T16:12:00.000Z

Searching For Mr Right

2007-12-29T20:03:00.000Z

Neste final de ano, continuo à procura de Mr. Right

Searching for Mr Right
Waiting up half the night

Feeling like I'll be dead
Before I'm old
Teaching myself to be
The Young Untold

How can I hope to be
Someone for you to see?

Blind as the Fate decrees
I will go on
Teaching myself to be
The Young Untold

Am I in vain tonight?
Lose you against the light
Who can you be
Mr Right?

(Stuart Moxham) Young Marble Giants

feliz natal para todos

2007-12-21T20:14:00.000Z

Novo Projecto

2007-12-09T19:36:00.000Z

Esta cadeira poderá ser a inspiração para o novo projecto de estofo. Aguardo pela fotografia da cadeira a recuperar.

Gio Ponti, Superleggere bicolore, 1957

Assento (quase)

2007-12-08T19:51:00.000Z

Já só falta fixar o assento, na parte do espaldar.

Fixar o embalado

2007-12-02T14:32:00.001Z

O ponto ao centro

2007-12-02T14:15:00.001Z

No centro de assento faz-se o ponto como se vê na imagem.

Este será o aspecto geral do ponto no centro do assento. Neste momento as costas, frentes e laterais ainda estão abertas, para que se possa colocar mais crina vegetal.

O embalado ( 1ªparte)

2007-12-02T13:33:00.000Z

Esta é já e a segunda parte da documentação do processo de fabrico do assento da cadeira.

O embalado:

A crina depois de aberta é presa ao assento, através dos pontos largos que anteriormente efectuámos na linhagem.

A crina deverá ficar colocada como mostra imagem.

Ao colocar o pano da linhagem, a crina vai moldar-se à forma do assento. Quanto mais crina colocar mais resistente será o assento.

ex-sistere

2007-11-12T19:41:00.000Z

Começo agora a de comentar as etapas do assento, que o levarão a existência plena, no final de Dezembro.

Para que exista assento, para além de todas as implicações transcendentes, espirituais ou mesmo filosóficas, existe uma, não menos importante, que é a das etapas ou a sistematização do processo de realização do acto de existir.

Apresento aqui essas etapas.

Não é no entanto garantido, que seguindo estas etapas, consigam ajudar a que exista um assento. Por que existir é feito de outra coisa.

Como escreve Miguel Unamuno, em Como se faz uma novela, página 45.(da grifo).

“É curioso que a palavra grega para designar que alguém está louco seja a de estar fora de si, análoga à latina ex-sistere, existir. É que a existência é uma loucura, e aquele que existe, o que está fora de si, o que se dá, o que transcende, está louco.”

2007-03-25T10:51:00.000Z

“Se o homem é formado pelas circunstâncias,
é necessário formar as circunstâncias humanamente.”

K. Marx e F. Engels, A sagrada Família.

2006-12-23T05:35:00.000Z

“O que faz um homem é como se o fizessem todos os homens. Por isso não é injusto que uma desobediência num jardim contamine toda a humanidade; por isso não é injusto que a crucificação de um único judeu baste para a salvar. Schopenhauer porventura tem razão: eu sou os outros, qualquer homem é todos os homens.”

Jorge Luís Borges in Ficções

A grande viagem interior

2006-12-05T17:07:00.000Z

“Não quero deixar de o saudar nesta quadra do Natal em que, em plena festa, a sua solidão lhe deve parecer mais dura do que em qualquer outro momento. Se assim for, regozije-se. Ora pense: que seria uma solidão que não fosse uma grande solidão?

A solidão é uma e, por essência, grande, pesada e difícil de suportar.

Quase todos conhecem horas que trocariam de boa vontade pela mais banal e medíocre das conveniências, pela aparência do menor acordo com qualquer ser, por mais indigno. Mas talvez essas horas sejam precisamente aquelas em que a solidão se amplifica – e o seu crescimento é doloroso como o das crianças e triste como a ante-primavera. Mas não se importe. Uma só coisa é necessária: a solidão a grande solidão interior.

Caminhar em si próprio e, durante horas, não encontrar ninguém – é a isto que é preciso chegar.”

In Cartas a um jovem poeta de Rainer Maria Rilke

Arrojos

2006-12-04T01:46:00.000Z

“Se aquela por quem já não tenho risos
Me concedesse apenas dois abraços,
Eu subiria aos róseos paraísos
E a lua afogaria nos meus braços.”

Cesário Verde

The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us

2006-09-24T19:36:00.000Z

“Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they made a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passenger a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, - what will compare with it?
The urban activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! How cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”In Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

This is a quotation of my holiday’s reading.
Of course I’m not a sailor, I wish I was.
For now I will continue to cheerfully consign myself to perdition,

Or breaking stone, or gaze through the day’s illusion

Chester, Nova Scotia

2006-09-19T18:00:00.000Z

Pope Yoda

2006-05-05T16:35:00.000Z

Pope Yoda, the ancient and revered Catholic Master, lived his final years hiding on the swamp city of Vatican. This could be the title of this cartoon.

Don’t get me wrong I love Yoda the Jedi Master, and I would love to believe that the pope is just a little bit like him, but I can’t. Anyway… is my wishful thinking.

This great cartoon is on exhibition in Sintra it’s the 1^st prize caricature of the World Press Cartoon.
The Exhibition will be at Centro Olga Cadaval in Sintra, Portugal from April 21 till May 20, 2006.

April 24 -30, 2006

2006-04-24T08:49:00.000Z

Turn of television week; think about the effect that television as on your live, how it shapes your thinking.
Get in perspective, imagine that television is watching you, scary isn’t it?

Have a look at the site http://www.adbusters.org/metas/psycho/tvturnoff/

Evil is the impotence of the will to release them self’s from the slavery of inclinations

2006-04-14T05:15:00.000Z

Yes, this post is about advertising in a time that the Blessed Virgin Mary helped to sell coffee.

These objects are from the thirties, it’s really easy to see the social representations of that time, maybe because those images or experiences are so far from us.

It is the representation that makes the object possible rather than the object that makes the representation possible. This introduced the human mind as an active originator of experience rather than just a passive recipient of perception.

Que dias há que n’alma me tem posto um não sei quê, que nasce não sei onde ...

2006-04-06T19:17:00.000Z

Busque Amor novas artes, novo engenho,
Para matar-me, e novas esquivanças;
que não pode tirar-me as esperanças,
que mal me tirará o que eu não tenho.

Olhai de que esperanças me mantenho!
Vede que perigosas seguranças!
Que não temo contrastes nem mudanças,
andando em bravo mar, perdido o lenho.

Mas, conquanto não pode haver desgosto
onde esperança falta, lá me esconde
Amor um mal, que mata e não se vê.

Que dias há que n’alma me tem posto
um não sei quê, que nasce não sei onde,
vem não sei como, e dói não sei porquê.

Sonetos de Camões

re-engage with the world

2006-02-27T09:22:00.000Z

Todos à cinemateca

2005-10-22T04:39:00.000Z

Estava eu a pensar que devia chamar atenção dos amigos para irem à cinemateca rever ou ver Ivan o terrível do Eisenstein, e o VERTIGO do Hitchcock , e logo depois na programação aparecem vários filmes do João César Monteiro e mais à frente os filmes do Nicholas Ray ….
Fiquei na dúvida… qual dos filmes falar …. Por isso vejam o programa de cinemateca …. Só estou a escrever isto porque sei que o pessoal anda distraído … e só gosta de grandes efeitos de produção e argumentos rebuscados .
A ESSES, eu digo:
- Vejam EISENSTEIN.

Eu cá, como sou fã, vou aproveitar para ver Nicholas Ray. Vai passar: They Live By Night; The Lusty Men; On Dangerous Ground;
Sinto-me com sorte, é que ainda por cima tenho horário para ver … é claro que existem outras pérolas … mas infelizmente ainda não é desta …

há coisas que ninguém quer perder

2005-10-11T13:00:00.000Z

Gostei muito de Alice, gostei logo no início da escuridão da sala. Fiquei a pensar …bom antigamente o cinema português tinha uma qualidade de som deplorável agora deve ser moda fazer filmes escuros.
Mas não, enganei-me.
A certa altura já estava a perguntar-me:
- Mas que raio, porque é tão escuro?
Passei do preconceito à questão.
Devo dizer que foi na cena da piscina que compreendi. Por essa altura estava já sem ar, e tudo me parecia um grande exercício de estilo… Mas o azul e a luz da piscina, aliás toda a sequência, fez-me acreditar no filme. Tinha deixado de ser aflitivo e passado a ser acolhedor. Se é que alguma vez podia ser. Naquela pausa para respirar senti que estava a ser respeitada, que me queriam contar uma história e contavam com a minha atenção.
O filme passa a ser estranhamente quente, existe na chuva, no nebuloso, uma luz fraca que resulta em agasalho. Faz lembrar aquela luz que acendemos quando vamos espreitar um bebé que está a dormir e não o queremos acordar, vamos só confirmar que está bem…

Somos deixados nessa luz com uma história assustadora. A história de como sobreviver à perda de alguém que amamos, como encontrar um sentido para aceitar esse facto, quando nada parece fazer sentido? Como é que controlamos a realidade? Povoamos as cidades de câmaras até encontrarmos o que queremos? Como aceitar o vazio sem reagir? é preciso fazer alguma coisa para encontrar?

Como Mário Cláudio pergunta in Amadeu "Na trama de relações que constituem a história (...) somos nós que nos buscamos ou o encontro objectivo que se dá?"

E se é preciso ir em busca de, para encontrar, para que é que serve uma estratégia, para nos enredarmos nela?
A estratégia ou quotidiano apenas talvez sirva para suportar a ausência, para conseguir sobreviver. No final do filme já sem distanciamento para poder acreditar. Mário ficou embrenhado na estratégia, tal como nós vamos ficando.

Para encontrar é preciso acreditar. Em todos nós, como nos rostos da multidão, falta acreditar. Estamos tão fechados dentro dos nossos mecanismos de ida e volta, onde todos os acessos são circulares, que mesmo que esteja na nossa frente outra realidade, já não acreditamos… estamos loucos.

Já perceberam porque gostei?

Breathless/ À Bout de Souffle

2005-10-05T11:43:00.000Z

O Acossado
Título original: À Bout de Souffle
De: Jean-Luc Godard
Argumento: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard
Com: Daniel Boulanger, Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Género: Cri, Dra, Rom
Classificacao: M/12

Dia 5 e 6 de Outubro no Nimas
14h30, 17h, 19h30, 22h

A não perder para quem ainda não viu.
Fica o aviso para quem deseja rever, não é todos os dias…

Time and Eternity

2005-07-23T15:10:00.000Z

IF I should die,

And you should live,

And time should gurgle on,

And morn should beam,

And noon should burn,

As it has usual done;

If birds should build as early,

And bees as bustling go,—

One might depart at option

From enterprise below!

’T is sweet to know that stocks will stand

When we with daisies lie,

That commerce will continue,

And trades as briskly fly.

It makes the parting tranquil

And keeps the soul serene,

That gentleman so sprightly

Conduct the pleasing scene

Emily Dickinson (1830–86)

2005-07-11T20:51:00.000Z

Ladies Kitchen Accesory

2005-06-30T17:09:00.000Z

Ana send me this picture, thanks sweetie.

I was without any ideas how to start talking about one movie, Sin city, By Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez.
And them I got this picture and this morning the tree outside the apartment where I live, was complete destroyed, they didn’t take the logs to used in a fire or to use as another thing.
Or should I say we destroyed a living creature with no purpose, just because the tree will be in the middle of a parking area ...
and that is not nice, it goes against some fancy architect plan so...
Let’s break it in pieces and mix with other plants and earth and transport it in a big truck.
I’m still in shock,
I don’t understand how this was possible; all my life I saw that tree, that tree was a part of my life. To be honest that tree was more important to me that many of my neighbors are.

There’s no respect for things that live with us, we are very near to become Sin city. And that was one of the reasons that I like the movie, is so near to what we are, empty, black and white creatures, eating each other and keeping the heads as trophies.

Hoje na cinemateca!

2005-05-17T02:15:00.000Z

François Truffaut na Cinemateca Portuguesa

A não perder!
Em Maio e Junho deste ano de 2005, a Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, em colaboração com o Instituto Franco-Português, apresentará uma retrospectiva integral da obra de François Truffaut (1932-85), composta por vinte e uma longas-metragens e três curtas-metragens.

Vejam o programa e bons filmes!

http://www.cinemateca.pt/imgs/programacao/doc.pdf

Writing

2005-05-17T01:23:00.000Z

“Der Untergang” or in English “The downfall” by Oliver Hirschbiegel

2005-05-12T17:43:00.000Z

A German movie about Hitler and the end of the second world war that raises very interesting questions:
What can we do as individuals to prevent the destruction of other human beings and the destruction of a civilization?
What is our role as individuals in the history of our country?
How did we all let this happen?

When I lived in Germany a small number of discussions ended talking about the war. All my friends were born after it, and they talked more about the Americans and the division of Germany (I lived in the west side of Germany), and how families got separated, than about the reasons that led to the war, or the war it self. Some of my friends didn’t feel at all responsible for what had happened and they didn’t think that their family was responsible, because they didn’t know what National Socialism was, and they were just defending their country. On the other hand I also had friends that thought that not knowing is no excuse, they should have known and as a nation they should have prevented the war. And I remember that the uncomfortable question was how did we let this happen? And if it happens one time could it happen again?

I remember once ending a conversation telling my friend: if you are responsible because you belong, you are a part of the German people then I‘m also responsible, because I belong to a nation and to a people that do nothing to prevent it from happening.

With this movie I got the impression that finally Germans are looking in to and thinking about their history. And it’s not through the eyes of the American occupation force that for years showed Germans as being Nazis or evil and Hitler as a monster.
They are looking at each other not with a guilty or victimized feeling but with an open heart, and this is a victory for all of us.

this photo was taken from:
http://www.ulay.net/ULAY_AFTERIMAGES/sieges_7.html

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

2005-04-24T10:36:00.000Z

Preamble
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, therefore,

The General Assembly,

Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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Amar

2005-03-21T18:12:00.000Z

No início desta Primavera borrifada, gostava de partilhar convosco este poema de Amor. Amor grande, o que ama todas as coisas e que nos ata ao mundo.

"Que pode uma criatura senão,
entre criaturas, amar?
amar e esquecer,
amar e malamar,
amar, desamar, amar?
sempre, e até de olhos vidrados, amar?

Que pode, pergunto, o ser amoroso,
sozinho, em rotação universal, senão
rodar também, e amar?
amar o que o mar traz à praia,
e o que ele sepulta, e o que, na brisa marinha,
é sal, ou precisão de amor, ou simples ânsia?

Amar solenemente as palmas do deserto,
o que é entrega ou adoração expectante,
e amar o inóspito, o áspero,
um vaso sem flor, um chão de ferro,
e o peito inerte, e a rua vista em sonho, e uma ave de rapina.

Este o nosso destino: amor sem conta,
distribuído pelas coisas pérfidas ou nulas,
doação ilimitada a uma completa ingratidão,
e na concha vazia do amor a procura medrosa,
paciente, de mais e mais amor.

Amar a nossa falta mesma de amor, e na secura nossa
amar a água implícita, e o beijo tácito, e a sede infinita."

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Narcissus

2005-03-09T17:09:00.000Z

if he never knows him self
Originally uploaded by Daniel Quinn.

This is about Narcissus and breaking eggs to make omelettes :

2005-03-09T16:28:00.000Z

“He waited and waited. At two thirty, he finally gave up and went to sleep. He waited the next night, and the night after that as well. Just as he was about to abandon his scheme, realizing that he had been wrong in all his assumptions, the phone rang again. It was May nineteenth. He would remember that date because it was his parent's anniversary--or would have been, had his parents been alive--and his mother had once told him that he had been conceived of her wedding night. This fact had always appealed to him--being able to pinpoint the first moment of his existence--and over the years he had privately celebrated his birthday on that day. This time it was somewhat earlier than on the other two nights--not yet eleven o'clock--and as he reached for the phone he assumed it was someone else.

"Hello?" he said Again, there was a silence on the other end. Quinn knew at once that it was the stranger.

"Hello?" he said again. "What can I do for you?" "Yes," said the voice at last. The same mechanical whisper, the same desperate tone. "Yes. It is indeed now. Without delay." "What is needed?" "To speak. Right now. To speak right now. Yes." "And who do you want to speak to?" "Always the same man. Auster. The one who calls himself Paul Auster. This time Quinn did not hesitate. He knew what he was going to do, and now that the time had come, he did it. "Speaking," he said. "This is Paul Auster speaking."

in the city of glass by Paul Auster

These wondering inside our thoughts for hours and don’t find nothing, I call this silence. Quinn lives in this silence, pretending and yearning to be someone else. This inner search is then replaced by a new identity. He masks him self with different characters and because he is too much absorb with his own world he is out of the world.
I have the feeling that Quinn in “the city of glass” is an outsider. He lives in a state of mind. He is really involved with his own thoughts and speculations about others. Not with others.

How much does he get involve?
What is he really looking for?

And us, the readers:
Are we just sitting there like Humpty Dumpty, playing with words and never dare to fall …and if we don’t fall, how can we be human?

In the story "Through the looking glass" by Lewis Carrol, Humpty Dumpty never actually fall out of the wall, so he never breaks.
If humpty dumpty is a metaphor for human kind , and
If we all are sitting on a wall, what are we trying to restore? What was never broken?

Are we like Humpty, eggs, so not born yet?
His he alive? Yes, but not a living soul.

Being a living soul means being involve with, being a part of .In the bible sense, dust of the ground. I will explain with a quote from the Bible:

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” GENESIS

Being involved or a part of something it’s to make choices and be full aware of our responsibility and commitment with life, because we have a meaning.

To be a living soul is an active process. So when you say that advertising creative are Humpty Dumtpys sitting on the wall, I laugh and agree! Many of them are, you are right, because they forget to be complete human beings that have a soul that have a meaning for existing. And they put them selves in a position of outsiders looking in.

I’m writing about Humpty Dumtpy and “the city of glass” because I read an article that a friend wrote about the book “the city of glass” by Paul Auster. And he wanted to know what I thought about it, so I decided to tell here.

He lifts all these interesting questions related with some issues up bring by the book. For all of you that didn’t reed the book (you should), the fundamental questions raise by the book are: the fall of civilization, the loss of language, the isolation of the post modern human, and how people live divide by thin glass walls.
About the article and for the Portuguese people is from the magazine called Alice page 65. so if you are interested go and find it.
Well, I liked very much the article and he is really sarcastic to the advertising creative guys.
The fundamental question that he puts in the article is:

If is just creative that live in some kind of virtual existence that is about to become real but never achieves its potential? (I don’t know if he agrees with this translation, I did my best)

And I would say to him that I don’t think it is just them, and is something that I have notice in all kind of creative people; movie directors, writers...It’s a fashion or maybe a psychological mutation that human kind is experiencing, this mutation can be describe as a desire for emotional bond without giving your self completely .

People want to be loved and at the same time stay sited on the wall ... so what we have is a bunch of people in love with their own thoughts, sitting in tall buildings looking at their self reflection.

Obrigada linda!

2005-03-01T15:48:00.000Z

Pois é claro que és tu.
Obrigado pela música.
Gostei tanto que fica aqui o poema.

Luiza
"Rua,
Espada nua
Bóia no céu imensa e amarela
Tão redonda a lua
Como flutua
Vem navegando o azul do firmamento
E no silêncio lento
Um trovador, cheio de estrelas
Escuta agora a canção que eu fiz
Pra te esquecer Luiza
Eu sou apenas um pobre amador
Apaixonado
Um aprendiz do teu amor
Acorda amor
Que eu sei que em baixo desta neve mora um coração

Vem cá, Luiza
Me dá tua mão
O teu desejo é sempre o meu desejo
Vem, me exorciza
Dá-me tua boca
E a rosa louca
Vem me dar um beijo
E um raio de sol
Nos teus cabelos
Como um brilhante que partindo a luz
Explode em sete cores
Revelando então os sete mil amores
Que eu guardei somente pra te dar Luiza
Luiza
Luiza"

Antonio Carlos Jobim
A música é do album Edu & Tom ( Edu Lobo e Antonio Carlos Jobim )

Between Going and Staying

2005-02-09T01:50:00.000Z

"Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.
All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can't be touched.
Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.
Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.
The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theatre of reflections.
I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.
The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause. "
Octavio Paz

It's a wonderful life

2005-02-05T17:41:00.000Z

You ask for the original title, and here it is:
It's a wonderful life, Frank Capra, 1946.
http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/Wonlife/wonlife.htm

Hehehe!!!

2005-02-02T13:21:00.000Z

Finally I found the DVD of the movie
Neon Genesis Evangelion vol. 1
I will let you know what I think of it …
I just was so happy that
I had to let you know.

"... a new breed of bottom up enterprise that does things differently: promotes ethics over profit, values over image, idealism over hype."

2005-01-31T21:35:00.000Z

This past week I saw a post called "Red Dot, Black Spot" in one of my favourite Portuguese blogges Nefasto e Funesto Lda http://nefastoefunesto.blogspot.com/
It’s about Adbusters, and sneakers… The blackspot sneaker.
It’s a really interesting post and an interesting idea how you can fight back against capitalism and corporate enterprises by doing advertising campaigns whose "mission is to establish a worldwide consumer cooperative and to reassert consumer sovereignty over capitalism."

http://adbusters.org/metas/corpo/blackspotsneaker/

Maybe you can notice how you can have a responsible attitude when you buy something … like brand clothes… that can help fight the exploitation of children in the east, well, everywhere. Maybe you can notice that those brand clothes are the result of a hypocritical economic policy and could never look good on anybody.
It’s true that you can’t stop what is going on, just by not buying brand clothes, but it’s also true that you can
“Rethink the cool”… that’s their slogan for a campaign against NIKE…

Hiroshima Mon Amour

2005-01-31T21:11:00.000Z

The collage My first journey to the east (see previous posts) was made based on two concepts: the inside and outside in architecture. It’s a part of a work I did about concepts related to architecture such as dimension, sound and light… It was a long time ago, so I don’t remember where I put the rest of the work… I just kept this collage, because it reminded me of the movie Hiroshima Mon Amour, one of my favourite movies ever. That’s why I posted this work here, and that’s why it was one of the first pictures I have sent to you.

Like in the movie, this picture is about balance between the inside with the bird and the outside with the city that surrounds and forms the background. This construction of the environment makes it possible for the bird to be in that position … in that weak balance.

In the movie our memory would be the inside, and the outside is what is really happening, and our human way of being in control of the weight of our decisions.

What can we remember and what are we able to forget?
How do we control that balance?
These are the questions that the movie raises for me.

I made that picture to answer to those questions.
We don’t control the background but we can change the place where we fit and we can build the structure to be in balance. And in one moment, like that bird, we can feel that we are in balance.

Acknowledgments

2005-01-24T01:16:00.000Z

The journey to the East is for you. It’s just a way I found to tell you how important you have been in my life for the past six mouths. It’s a space where you can find me ...well, at least one part of me.

My first journey east

2005-01-23T21:52:00.000Z

inside/outside
Originally uploaded by Daniel Quinn.