opera

"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house."

Maria Callas

my next life

In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You
start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you
wake up in an old people's home feeling better every
day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go
collect your pension, and then when you start work,
you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.
You work for 40 years until you're young enough to
enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and
are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high
school. You then go to primary school, you become a
kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you
become a baby until you are born. And then you spend
your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa like
conditions with central heating and room service on
tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You
finish off as an orgasm! I rest my case.

Woody Allen

Billie Jean & Caetano

Caetano, Caetano.. E eu que achava que já ouvia tudo deste senhor..

e.e. cummings (1894 – 1962)poeta e pintor. Humor, amor e ironia. Poesia americana moderna, dizem.

if strangers meet

if strangers meet
life begins-
not poor not rich
(only aware)
kind neither
nor cruel
(only complete)
i not not you
not possible;
only truthful
-truthfully,once
if strangers(who
deep our most are
selves)touch:
forever

(and so to dark)

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may i feel said he

may i feel said he
i'll squeal said she
just once said he
it's fun said she

may i touch said he
how much said she
a lot said he
why not said she

let's go said he
not too far said she
what's too far said he
where you are said she

may i stay said he
which way said she
like this said he
if you kiss said she

may i move said he
is it love said she
if you're willing said he
but you're killing said she

but it's life said he
but your wife said she
now said he
ow said she

tiptop said he
don't stop said she
oh no said he
go slow said she

cccome?said he
ummm said she
you're divine!said he
you are Mine said she

# 80's

“I hate to face it, but volatility is adventure in a women, and a turn-off in a man.”

Sylvia H. Townsend

statistics - the colour of happiness

Map coloured according to The World Map of Happiness, Adrian White, Analytic Social Psychologist, University of Leicester.
green = happiest
blue
purple
orange
red = least happy

statistics - 85% were right

85% of women, and 50% of men eventually discover their suspicions were right and their spouse was cheating.

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.

3. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

4. Think with your mind. Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.


Bruce Mau, in Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

13 abril - dia mundial do beijo

Man Ray. (1890-1976). Rayograph. 1922.

by Luiz Claudio Marigo

ingrid

"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
Ingrid Bergman

spring

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Paulina Morales: You're weak, Ivan.
Iván: Yes, sweetheart.
Paulina Morales: Don't agree with me.
Iván: But you're right.
Paulina Morales: Sometimes I like to be wrong.

in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de niervos,
Pedro Almodóvar

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# monty python - aeroplane pilots

Pale September, I wore the time like a dress that year
The autumn days swung soft around me, like cotton on my skin
But as the embers of the summer lost their breath and disappeared
My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within
But then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full
And sank in the burrows of my keep

And all my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep

He goes along just as a water lily
Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats

Unweighted down by passion or intensity
Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
And he finds a home in me
For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

And all my armour failing down, in a pile at my feet
And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep
All my armour falling down, in a pile at my feet
And my winter giving way to warm, as I'm singing him to sleep

Fiona Apple

"The most interesting things about the so-called lies of Diego is that, sooner or later, the ones involved in the imaginary tale get angry, not because of the lies, but because of the truth contained in the lies, which always comes forth."

Frida Kahlo

# by Jeanloup Sieff

# by Jeanloup Sieff

unison

A ti..

"O amor é uma vida dentro da vida."

alguém disse.

my blueberry nights - Wong Kar Wai

Edward Hopper, Summer Interior #

Edward Hopper, Summer Interior #

"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."

Charlie Chaplin

Inauguração - dia 7 Fevereiro, 22h00

confuse a cat

"Women are never stronger, than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses."
Madame Marie Anne du Deffand, letters to Voltaire

www.baobabstudio.blogspot.com
Bernardo, ficamos à espera da próxima exposição..

ryan

“I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.”

Um 2008 cheio de uma "força estranha"!

jamie - part II

jamie - part I

Rome, here i go!

ill be back.

"from Space series"

"Self Deceit"


Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)

"I thought i told you to wait in the car"

Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968) when remeeting old lover after many years.

"and in sadness, we're left to celebrate.."

TO YOU ROB!

...

JoeApology.com is a site where people can freely and anonymously post their apologies. Think of it as a confessional of sorts (without the religious ties, that is). Are you feeling sorry about something you did? Do you want to get something off your chest? Go on, tell me about it...and remember, it's completely anonymous. Just post your apology, no matter how big or small, and you'll feel so much better. I promise.
-Joe Apology


http://joeapology.blogspot.com/

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(zoom in..)

Chris Rock on marriage

DA MAIOR IMPORTANCIA

Foi um pequeno momento, um jeito
Uma coisa assim
Era um movimento que aí você não pode mais
Gostar de mim, direito
Teria sido na praia o medo
Vai ser um erro, uma palavra
A palavra errada
Nada, nada
Basta quase nada
E eu já quase não gosto
E já nem gosto do modo que de repente
Você foi olhada por nós

Porque eu sou tímido e teve um negócio
De você perguntar o meu signo quando não havia
Signo nenhum
Escorpião, sagitário, não sei que lá
Ficou um papo de otário, um papo
Ia sendo bom
É tão difícil, tão simples
É tão difícil, tão fácil
De repente ser uma coisa tão grande
Da maior importância
Deve haver uma transa qualquer
Pra você, e pra mim
Entre nós
E você jogando fora e agora
Vai embora, vá!
Deve haver um jeito qualquer, uma hora!
Há sempre um homem
Pra uma mulher
Há dez mulheres para cada um
Uma mulher é sempre uma mulher etc., tal
Assim como existe disco voador
E o escuro do futuro
Pode haver o que está dependendo
De um pequeno momento puro de amor
Mas você não teve pique e agora
Não sou eu quem vai
Lhe dizer que fique
Mas você não teve pique
Não sou eu quem vai
Lhe dizer que fique…

"Da maior importância" , Caetano Veloso

Coliseu dos Recreios 12 e 13 Out 2007

johnny

# Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

# Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

# Work the metaphor. Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

"When you enjoy something, you must never let logic get too much in the way. Like the villains in all the James Bond movies. Whenever Bond breaks into the complex: 'Ah, Mr. Bond, welcome, come in. Let me show you my entire evil plan and then put you in a death machine that doesn't work'."

Jerry Seinfeld

...

"If you're not failing every now and again, maybe it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

Woody Allen

80's

# filthy frrench revisited I La Noyee

"Love is being stupid together."

Paul Valery

Boa sorte

richard galliano new york tango

mentes que brilham

Ingmar Bergman (1918-07-14 - 2007-07-30)


"...I always admire people who are going on, who have a sort of idea and, however crazy it is, are putting it through; they are putting people and things together, and they make something. I always admire this.."

Nick Knight - Pirelli 2004 # november

# Scat. When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words.

# Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it.

# Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.

Nick Knight - Pirelli 2004 # march

# June

June 2004 - "Making love with asian girl on meadow"


Nick Knight based his Pirelli calendar's images on women's sexual fantasies.
"I decided if I was going to do the calendar, I was going to try to change it in some way."....
So Knight approached a range of famous women and asked them to tell him their sexual fantasies, their dreams, their desires, which he would then interpret - using models - month by month in the calendar...A fascinating group of women responded to his request: authors Catherine Millet and Elizabeth Wurtzel, artist Tracey Emin, singers Bjork, Courtney Love and Marianne Faithfull, and actresses Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Seigner, Liv Tyler and Isabella Rossellini, among others.
"I had lengthy phone conversations, a lot of them very late at night, with these famous women, when I was asking them to tell me: 'What are your thoughts about sex? What are your fantasies?'...Knight made one promise to his confidantes: that he would never reveal whose fantasy was whose. We'll never be certain who said what.

Come away with me in the night
Come away with me
And I will write you a song

Come away with me on a bus
Come away where they can't tempt us
With their lies

I want to walk with you
On a cloudy day
In fields where the yellow grass grows knee-high
So won't you try to come

Come away with me and we'll kiss
On a mountaintop
Come away with me
And I'll never stop loving you

And I want to wake up with the rain
Falling on a tin roof
While I'm safe there in your arms
So all I ask is for you
To come away with me in the night
Come away with me

sky with a view

#1. Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

#2. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

#3.Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.

#4.Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.


Bruce Mau

Monty Python # Mouse problem

“Sometimes you know what you're missing when you reach out to touch it. Sometimes you see how beautiful something is when it steps back into the light. And sometimes you miss a love you almost didn't lose. But when you want beauty, dream!”

" e quando não está lá alguém que se ama, não é ela que nos acompanha,
é o amor que se lhe tem."

simone

“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. In 'The Second Sex,' Simone de Beauvoir says that as they approach 50, a lot of women are set free from the anxiety and the mortification and the humiliation of intimate relationships with men - the opposite sex. For some reason, you are suddenly free from it. And thank God for that. It's the upside of sticking around this long.”

Diane Keaton



...só me faltam 20.. e poucos..

To you, Rob.

"and i mean it from the bottom of my heart"

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Meu querido amigo, minha referência, meu guia, homem do coração, minha companhia.
"Que insensatez que você fez, coração mais sem cuidado"















































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"stay hungry, stay foolish."

today they say

"love makes hostages".

mr. bojangles

India

See you later, George!

"You'll never find peace of mind 'till you listen to your heart."

George Michael

hoje acordei assim..

"The gods too are fond of a joke."

Aristotle

valsinha

Um dia ele chegou tão diferente do seu jeito de sempre chegar
Olhou-a dum jeito muito mais quente do que sempre costumava olhar
E não maldisse a vida tanto quanto era seu jeito de sempre falar
E nem deixou-a só num canto, pra seu grande espanto convidou-a pra rodar

Então ela se fez bonita como há muito tempo não queria ousar
Com seu vestido decotado cheirando a guardado de tanto esperar
Depois os dois deram-se os braços como há muito tempo não se usava dar
E cheios de ternura e graça foram para a praça e começaram a se abraçar

E ali dançaram tanta dança que a vizinhança toda despertou
E foi tanta felicidade que toda a cidade enfim se iluminou
E foram tantos beijos loucos
Tantos gritos roucos como não se ouvia mais
Que o mundo compreendeu
E o dia amanheceu
Em paz

Chico Buarque e Vinicius de Morais

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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

woody

Mary: I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius.
Isaac: Oh really, he was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.

In Manhattan

love of my life

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filthy gorgeous

filthy frrench revisited

"Quando saíres da tempestade já não serás a mesma pessoa. Só assim as tempestades fazem sentido."

Haruki Murakami

beart

Here comes the sun..

i'm your man

"I don't think that a writer needs to have anything to say, it's the appetite to say something that's important (..) it's the urge, it's the necessity"

(...)

If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear my leather mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I'm your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
I'm your man

(...)

The shackles are undone
The bullet's quit the gun
The heat that's in the sun
Will keep us when it's done
The rule has been disproved
The stone, it has been moved
The grain is now a grove
All debts are removed

Oh, can't you see what love has done
Oh, can't you see what love has done
Oh, can't you see what love has done
What it's doing to me

Love makes strange enemies
Makes love where love may please
Soul in its striptease
Hate brought to its knees
The sky over our head
We can reach it from our bed
If you let me in your heart
And out of my head

Oh, can't you see what love has done
Oh, can't you see what love has done
Oh, can't you see what love has done
What it's doing to me

Please don't ever let me out of here
I've got no shame
Oh no, oh no

Oh, can't you see what love has done
Oh, can't you see
Oh, can't you see what love has done
What it's doing to me

Oh, can't you see what love has done
I know I hurt you and I made you cry
Oh, can't you see what love has done
Did everything but murder you and I
Oh, can't you see what love has done
But love left a window in the skies
Oh, can't you see what love has done
And to love I raphsodize

Oh, can't you see what love has done
To every broken heart
Oh, can't you see what love has done
For every heart that cries
Oh, can't you see what love has done
Love left a window in the skies
Oh, can't you see what love has done
And to love I raphsodize

Oh, can't you see

"Window in the skies" by U2

fistfull of love

I was lying in my bed last night
Staring at a ceiling full of stars
When it suddenly hit me
I just have to let you know how I feel

We live together in a photograph of time
I look into your eyes
And the seas open up to me
I tell you I love you
And I always will

And I know that you can't tell me
And I know that you can't tell me

So I'm left to pick up
The hints, the little symbols of your devotion
So I'm left to pick up
The hints, the little symbols of your devotion

I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart

It's out of love
It's out of love

I accept and I collect upon my body
The memories of your devotion

I accept and I collect upon my body
The memories of your devotion

I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart

It's out of love
It's out of love


Anthony and the Johnsons

“I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.”

Clint Eastwood

happy "w" day

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