Saudade

another great picture with a message... wish I'd been the one with this imagination!

missing my mum, dad, sister, friends, family, pets, anything really.. .just makes you think how great thing are when they're there...

Friends of great talent

Another great picture taken with a simple Sony DSC-80. It was chosen among hundreds as one of the top 10 pictures taken during a photography marathon (I Maratona Fotográfica da Fábrica da Pólvora) organised earlier this year. The remaining nine photographs will be published online soon. On November the 16th these pictures will be present in the exhibition entitled "Exposição de Fotografia Água" in Edifício 51 da fábrica da Pólvora.

United States of America elects it's 44th President

A global advertising agency - Grey New York , released a striking image (referred to as 'Obamccain') on the night before the elections with the the following message: "Let the Issues Be the Issue".
Grey New York's Chief Creative Officer had to say: "This is a non-partisan image. We wanted to address the race issue straight on. And it cuts both ways. If you're hopping on either candidate's bandwagon solely due to the color of their skin, you're voting for the wrong reasons."
It seems like voters did put aside all evident differences between the Senators and voted blindly.

The final results dictated:
Obama - 364 Electoral votes (270 needed to win)
McCain - 163 Electoral votes

Underwater Scream

Don't you ever get the feeling that everything you say, try or attempt to communicate is buffered in some kind of a deep river, sea or even an ocean. Probably one of the most unpleasant occurrences to have doomed upon me is that of: "not being heard", "understood" or even "given a remote chance".

Cherry Blossoms

A black television screen
Snow white and black
Deep and open
Splashing against the windows
Looking out onto a three-terrace town
There’s a garden, grey-green
And cherry blossoms
Get in in the morning (All seasons here, saved for a rainy day)
Climb in beside you (A part of a hole)
Watch the clock for half an hour (An orange and its peel)
It’s cold on the outside
There’s steam on the windows (A star in a night sky)
And I put myself there all the time (A gentle beauty)
You let me forget again
And I snore on and on
You let me forget again
Forget how it feels to be wrong
If I could show her completely (Funny how everything makes you feel low when you’re already low)
But it comes out so drunkardly now (Lying on the bed, the light-bulb banging down)
Fall over on my words (Get up, pull the sheet from the window, to see the rain still coming down)
That peace when the door slams (Downstairs there’s hot coffee, sit down to a cigarette)
Soon shattered the hot light (Down to the filter, another and down to my last)
I came so well-oiled (Another and my last penny)
You let me forget again (4 a.m. 6 feet down. Already up with the larks)
And I came stumbling through
You let me forget again (4 a.m. 6 feet down. Already up with the larks)
Forget what I always knew

Cherry Blossoms - Tindersticks

The wheel has to keep on turning

The London Eye – August 2008


I’m pretty sure that back in 1893, when George Washington Gale Ferris conceived the idea of the wonder of the Fair in Chicago he didn’t exactly have this in mind. Fixing the cars at thirty-six, the number of seats in each car, the admission fee, the size, the plan of stopping six times in the first round to load yet another one without stopping and all these details make him, no doubt, a genius of engineering… but (to me) a lot more than so.
One can look at the Ferris Wheel as merely a ride of pleasure. The sight-seer is elevated two hundred and fifty feet above the ground and the movement is gentle and nearly noiseless. On the other hand…
In a far fetching idea the ride can be encountered as a one in a life time experience. One of the few chances to place a wining bet on the game with the highest stakes ever. Imagine that each car represents either a positive or negative vibe known to mankind. Cars of hope, faith, loyalty, understanding, respect, acceptance, joy, optimism, modesty, kindness, tolerance, freedom, courage, mercy, self-confidence, openness, reverence, faithfulness, compassion contrast with cars of despair, regret, greed, desire, lust, impatience, fear, pride, anguish, pain, jealousy, envy, self-pettiness, unhappiness, selfishness, sadness and hate.
The choice isn’t entirely in our hands nor is it completely random, each of us adds guidelines through everyday life pointing the direction of which car we’ll land in on the next visit to the fair. Having landed in negative car one has to wait for the right time to place another bet, and this time hope for a better round.

Swimmer

Proof that not only Phelps makes a great picture

Something in the air (tonight)

from the talented of friends