I will be M.I.A.. No, not the singer who does some great music. From monday for 10 days I will be M.I.A. click read more to see why.
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A picture worth a thousand words, and all of them the right ones. I’m not going to say much here, just that I found this painted facade on the way to making my new ID, and I really liked it, it’s a strong message showing that people do notice that these companies are drinking the world dry and fucking it up. If you didn’t notice the companies on the crown include BP, Galp, Esso and Repsol and the building is abandoned…and it’s on a busy road in central Lisbon, so the fact that it is abandoned is already alarming really, at least it’s put to some good use. Why would one say that this is not good? As in graffiti, some of it is really good, useful, nice. By the way, one can see the hint of another painting on the left.
Last week my friend, Miguel Cravo, and I started a film project for a competition Micro Films para Macro Causes.
[João Marrana]
The truth is we aren’t all the same. And we aren’t all the same in any way.
The people lived in their places, they had their spaces and friendships already established, and suddenly the municipality says: “For your own good, you will now have a nice home and will move to Ameixoeira, to Chelas, to…”
So there is a relationship of neighbourhood, of mutual help, of complicity, of friendship, which is destroyed once you take the horizontal and turn it into the vertical.
The quarter is dirty, it’s filthy, but the residents’ own houses are clean. Therefore the quarter of those people is only their own house from the walls inward. From the walls outward is not theirs. If we don’t find a mechanism for them to identify themselves with their own quarter, the house will always be clean, but the street will be forever dirty.
[Livia Tirone]
The people who come from simple, rural communities are people who learned to feel confidence only towards their familiar aggregate. When they are introduced into a part of a city they have to feel confidence towards a larger aggregate. This demands from them certain skills which if they don’t have the facility to learn they can’t create the bridge to their quarter.
[João Marrana]
In those 1000 [One Thousand] homes you didn’t see even one grocery store, one café, or one supermarket. You didn’t see anything, there is nothing.
This isn’t an agreeable way to live; we wouldn’t like to live in a place like this.
[Livia Tirone]
And one of the levels on which it is reflected is in that relationship which is sometimes symbolized by elements like meters. And the meters in the houses we saw, practically all were being hoodwinked by stealing the resource before it goes through the meter.
But in the case of electricity and gas it can actually put the peoples lives at risk, not only the ones stealing it, but everyone else around them.
We saw that the elevators didn’t work in most the buildings we visited, and they stopped working also because of lack of knowledge, because these people don’t know how to work with elevators.
[João Marrana]
And that is where we come back to the old question: ‘Is it the people who are bad, who are uncivilized because they wreck everything, destroy and do, or is it us who when we called them to this new model of life didn’t impose on them the social rules of our city, as well as the utility and usufruct of what we gave them?’
If we can come down to earth, relate and be able to communicate with them, which is the hardest part, we will be able to make them feel respected and get their respect in turn. Our function is for the people to find their way; we just have to give them the tools to find it, as it’s them who define it, not us. Each person is one person, every case is one case, every family is one family and families aren’t to be put in a pot. Continue reading »
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The world has stopped to look at Africa (for the first time since the Apartheid fell, maybe) in an excited manner. A cold chilly week has past full of whining and the sound of Vuvuzelas. Every team has played one match, this is my analysis.
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Really there is always something to write about. I could write about how it’s been a year since school ended and my old teacher told me I’ve changed a lot, yet I don’t see it. I could talk about all the projects I’m excited to work on. But what I am going to talk about has this conclusion: I hate intefiatt, Dimon, Valera and Vlad.
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This week I had the pleasure of visiting the London International Wine Fair (LIWF) and having a great dinner with some wine personalities.
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From all the films I’ve seen lately this is one of the ones that I liked the most. Kick-Ass was a very fun, sometimes freaky, comic-book based action movie that makes you smile, cringe and is just generally a great story. Probably mostly seen as a geek movie, the only people I wouldn’t recommend this to is anyone who doesn’t like violence, ‘kids with guns’ or gets easily offended by swearing.
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So, the topics for tonight are the constant insistence of 3D nowadays, the quality of Avatar (in a whole) and Clash of the Titans (as a film and as a made-to-3D-adaptation) and my general thoughts on Iron Man 2 and Robin Hood.
I was thinking of ways to spice up this blog. I have my Alphabet countdown, which is a nice thing for me to write. Having a segment like that is nice, so I though ‘Ok, I’m watching films every week, mostly in the cinema, but also DVD’s, I should write about them’. So here it starts. “Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief”, “I Love you Phillip Morris”, “My Cousin Vinny” and “Capitalism: A Love Story” are up first.
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I’ve actually been looking to write this one for some time now, ever since I became obsessed with this band, and now finally with the big F I saw a good time to. In the first draft of this I focussed on the Album review, but now I’ll just focus on their music as a whole.
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