Always the days, aways the hours *

*as horas Sem grande inspiração ou concentração ou, talvez e acima de tudo, coragem para parar e pensar e escrever – porque a escrita sempre me custou imenso (como um amor doentio)-, deixo aqui palavras que escrevi há uns meses para um projecto fotográfico em progresso.   <poema> Born 1981   childhood is a misterious place a place where we were born a place we don’t remember quite so well how can you move forward not knowing where you are coming from I remember parts of it, not beautiful or ugly, but more real than the present time underneath the surface, underneath it all I emerge bigger and different childhood is a place of losten memorys I am discovering my body, my heart, myself, I am getting away from the world and from you all

don’t take it too seriously*

* a ciência dos sonhos, m. gondry

discovering

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Late night movies taste so sweet

Hard Candy

Candy

Se for grande quero ser como…

The Adventures of Guille and Belinda
and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams

a photo work by Alessandra Sanguinetti

Maddona, 2001

Mi gustan twilights

Eu gosto muito da Maria. A Maria tem um nome bonito e tem muito sentido de humor e um coração muito grande e muita força – e as pessoas revelam-se na força, na força perante as adversidades. E agora tem um novo blog que eu acho que vale muito a pena ler porque é a cara dela e porque me faz rir e porque é mil vezes impulsivo e autêntico.  E porque os mundos paralelos nunca são demais.

My favorite 16 iPhone free* Applications

These are currently my 16 17 extra iPhone apps (in the picture the balance app is missing because, as I use it on a daily basis, it is on my first “page”).

As an iPhone  starter, my main concerns while filling my dear iPhone where finding free, quality software that would actually be usefull for me. I did some research on the internet and realized that iPhone apps actually bring to light the differences between users. I mean some ofthem are universal, some relate to a specific country and some are so very personal. I take this in consideration in the small summary I wrote about each one of them.

I must say though that, when talking about more personal items, I do enjoy simple and beautifully designed apps. They make me feel happy and confident that the iPhone is not going to crack accidentally!

Also, a good tip for searching apps is to be faithful to a programer you are familiar with. If you enjoy an application search for the name of the person that conceived it. They shoud have apps that match your taste and that work as well as the others.

Another tip, which is kind of stupid but has worked with me, even before i owned an iPhone, is to trust your instinct. Look at the image that comes with the app and read the text that describes it. Usually people selling bad software are not very bright, so you can easily identify them.

Balance - free – monthly budget. Usefull in a very personal and debatable way. I need it!

Cine Sapo – free – information about movies in Portugal

WordPress – free – to post from everywhere on my blog

Google Earth – free – We just love eveything about google!

History Map – free – Ancient World Maps linked to historical events

MB Phone – free – portugueses ATM system that allows you to do everything that you would do in an ATM except withdraw money

Sepia Camera – free – ok, now we enter the very personal zone…actually I wouldn’t recommend this as a must have application, but I like to have it on my iPhone!

*oops – Toy Camera – 1,75 – .this one is cutter, but also not essential. I enjoy it though, but wait for the following.

*oops – Quad Camera – 1,75 euros – This is the 3rd photo application I have that actually replaces the original iPhone camera. This I would mark as  must have! It takes a sequence of photos…pretty much like the LOMO camera.

Mill Colour -free – photography editing application that you don’t really need. I need it because it’s free and because I am a bit obsessed about photo apps.

Sketch Book – free and too cute to be true. Draw with your finger and save the images. It’s actually very usefull, from my point of view, of course!

FlipBook Lite – free and cute app that simulates a flip book. Not essential tough. But what is the definition of essential, anyway? Something that makes you smile!

Stanza – This one is definitly a must have and should come as no surprise because it’s the best online library! You can download a lot of classic ebooks for free (and also contemporary paid ones) and read it in a forest, for example. Or, even better, by the sea not worrying about the wind turning the pages. Use your fingers…

Shadows – free – This one shouldn’t even be considered by me as an application. It is actually an artistic project made exclusively to be seen on iPhone and I think it’s beautifull and therefore essential to make you HAPPY while you wait in the bus station or in a traffic jam. It works trough zooming and it’s magical.

Cruelty Free – free – Essential and usefull if you are really human. Otherwise you may want to keep on buying animal tested products!

Bubble Wrap – well, i guess we always need a game and here is a free addictive one.

Planets – because we do love to stare at the stars, no at the gutter.

believe

We stay still not to stay still as we search simplicity in complexity. The way is not the end. One day we will get there.

“Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero” Marc Brown

Às vezes quando falo dos meus irmãos, não explicando logo que temos uma enome diferença de idades, as pessoas olham-me com ar estranho. Isto acontece quando eu digo, por exemplo, que o André já se consegue exprimir espantosamente bem. Depois lá tenho que explicar que os meus irmãos ainda são muito novinhos e as pessoas, aliviadas, acham muita piada ao facto de eu ter irmãos com idade para serem meus filhos. Apesar de terem idade para serem meus filhos não há nada de confuso nesta relação. Eles são meus irmãos e são o maior espelho de mim própria. São as pessoas que amo de forma mais incondicional e, apesar de não vivermos juntos, é incrível como os laços são inquebráveis e naturais.

Courage*

*also known as love, is the secret revealed.

(Sri-Lanka at War)

(Balkan Wars – Bosnia War)

Pictures by Ron Havive, War Photojournalist.

Yesterday it was late at night and altough there was no light outside other than the one from the lamps in the street the morning was soon to emerge. I was watching a tv documentary about the role of photojournalists during the Balkans Wars, and Ron Havive was one of them. I was amazed with the courage of a man and then I was amazed with the lack of courage of most of us. This is the thing: if you face someone extraordinary, you can’t help but feel sorry for mediocrity. Ron Havive is extraordinary, he did something very real for the world. I don’t know why he did it, what moved him, what fed his enourmous courage. Not a sense of duty to his nation, not religious purposes, something more grandious, something more human than most humans will ever realize, the sense of responsability maybe, the will not to be impotent, the rage, the determination not to hide, his heart, something grand.