31/12/13


"I was an aeronautical engineer and mathematician in my early years, but mostly I've taught Zen Buddism, and tha's where we both met. Not just in meditation, which is what most people think of when they hear Zen, but the Zen of action, of living freely in the world without causing harm, or relieving our own suffering and the suffering of others." 

Bernie Glassman, in The Dude and the Zen Master, 2013

30/12/13

Ainda é longe?

© Nasa & Ana Barros | Great Smoky Mountains National Park


"E se a alma perguntasse «Ainda é longe?», teríamos de responder:
Do outro lado do rio, não deste, mas do que está mais além."

Alejandra Pizarnik, in Dicionário de Lugares Imaginários

28/12/13

© Fernando 


And it’s off in a cab to Brasileira, the cafe in Chiado
Where Fernando Pessoa spent so much time writing his immortal
Multiple-personality-disorder poems,
Now called Dissociated Identity Disorder.


Frederick Seidel, in Nice Weather

27/12/13

sandboy

© Teatro Maria Matos | Marc Almond
© Teatro Maria Matos | Marc Almond

You were happy as a sandboy
Always had a cheerful song to sing
Forever looking for the sandboy
Whatever happened to him
Happened to him


Marc Almond, in Varieté, 2010

26/12/13

© Gonçalo M. Tavares & Os Espacialistas| Atlas do corpo e da imaginação, 2013

“A literatura é uma investigação que não termina”


John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts, 2013

Back then I often found myself
Driving on the road at night,
And the radio was broadcasting the ocean.
Warm late Spring wind whips through my hair.
And no one in this world is gonna stop me.

24/12/13

© Alex Kozobolis 

Voices, loved and idealized,
of those who have died, or of those
lost for us like the dead.
Sometimes they speak to us in dreams;
sometimes deep in thought the mind hears them.
And with their sound for a moment return
sounds from our life’s first poetry—
like music at night, distant, fading away

C.P. Cavafy, in Collected Poems 

23/12/13

Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart


"We love poets for the things their poems lead us to imagine; but equally, we love them for how we imagine their lives to be." 


Orhan Pamuk, in Other Countries, Other Shores 

22/12/13

as time goes by

USMA - A clock without a visual interface.

19/12/13

Martin L Gore | Counterfeit 2, 2003

"In My Time of Dying" (traditional, Gore's version is primarily influenced by Bob Dylan's recording, but Led Zeppelin version is more well known.)
"Stardust" (written by David Essex)
"I Cast a Lonesome Shadow" (written by Hank Thompson/Lynn Russwurm)
"In My Other World" (written by Julee Cruise/Louis Tucci)
"Loverman" (written by Nick Cave)
"By This River" (written by Brian Eno/Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Dieter Moebius)
"Lost in the Stars"2 (written by Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill)
"Oh My Love" (written by John Lennon/Yoko Ono)
"Das Lied vom einsamen Mädchen" (written by Werner R. Heyman/Robert Gilbert, originally performed by Nico)
"Tiny Girls" (written by David Bowie/Iggy Pop)
"Candy Says" (written by Lou Reed, originally performed by The Velvet Underground)

16/12/13

stupid, disturbing and hilarious



"About twenty years ago, I was wachting the evening news, and a story came on about a small town somewhere in the south whose board of education - because of budget difficulties, I think - had decide to dispense with the teaching of foreign languages. A number of local citizens were interviewed on camera and asked to give their reactions to this new development, and one man said - and this is an exact quote; his words burned themselves into my brain and have been lodged ther ever since - : «I have no problem with it, no problem at all. If English was enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me»."

Paul Auster, in Here and Now - letters 2008-2011 - Paul Auster and J.M.Coetzee

14/12/13

© Gerhard Richter | Townscape Madrid, 1968

Ao cuidado de Valkirio.

13/12/13

To fight is to kiss.

© Wong Kar Wai | The Grandmaster, 2013


The actor trained for four years before shooting, working with Duncan Leung, who met Ip Man through Bruce Lee, and his son Darren. "I used to think kung fu was just fighting techniques, defense, things like that," [Tony] Leung says. "But it's very much like meditation, how to have a mind free from emotion and desire. It's about training your mind to achieve harmony with your opponent. You don't anticipate, you don't expect, you don't decide anything, you just follow your opponent's movements."

Wong [Kar Wai] quotes a Chinese saying, "To fight is to kiss." You have to get very close, you have to be confident, your whole body is pressed against your opponent. And there is this stillness—it's easy to trick the audience when you are moving, dancing around. The most difficult part is the pose, it has to be flawless. You move your hand like this," he says, demonstrating, "and it has to be flawless."

Daniel Eagan, in Lessons from 'The Grandmaster': Wong Kar Wai chronicles life of legendary martial artist Ip Man, aqui.

12/12/13

© Angelo Merendino, 2007

"I began to photograph our everyday life, hoping to show the reality of living with this horrible disease. As time passed, trust grew, and at a certain point Jen stopped feeling like she had to pose, she was just Jen… happy, sad, silly, or whatever she was feeling at that moment. Now that Jen has passed, I look at these photographs and I feel our love."

Angelo Merendino, aqui.

11/12/13

work in progress

© Edouard Boubat

"Marriage is above all a conversation, and if husband and wife do not figure out to became friends, the marriage has little chance of surviving. Friendship is a component of marriage, but marriage is an ever-evolving free-for-all, a continual work in progress, a constant demand to reach down into one's depths and reinvent oneself in relation to the other..." 

Paul Auster, in Here and Now - letters 2008-2011 - Paul Auster and J.M.Coetzee

10/12/13

Estava frio

© Fernando | Alentejo, 2013 

"Li algures que nas regiões boreais, quando chega o inverno, a congelação da superfície dos lagos ocorre por vezes de uma forma súbita, como um golpe de sorte que cristaliza o frio, uma pedra atirada à água, um peixe que salta fora dela e ao cair um segundo depois é apanhado na lisura do gelo." Fernando 

06/12/13

05/12/13

God Is In The House


Higgs Boson Blues . Far From Me . Stranger Than Kindness . The Mercy Seat . And No More Shall We Part . Wide Lovely Eyes . Mermaids . People Ain’t No Good . Into My Arms . God Is In The House . Push The Sky Away . Jack The Ripper

04/12/13

© Mark Seliger  
© Fernando | Alentejo, 2013


E não há Inverno, se vires, não há Verão,
há só febre dentro das costelas, imenso azul
e palavras a despirem-se na boca.

Sándor Csoóri

03/12/13

© Colin Kenniff

Peter Broderick: I hope the little people inside survived?
Colin Kenniff: They did. It was a small miracle.