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Vintage Photographs - Today’s Adventure: Ingrid Bergman is captured by Gordon Parks while making Stromboli (1949)

Turner prize

The Back that used to be The Front, 2008
Photograph: George Shaw/Courtesy Wilkinson Gallery, London

Check out more, here :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/13/art-george-shaw-in-pictures#/?picture=371659398&index=9

sketch

Eugène Delacroix. Sketch for the Death of Sardanapalus

home is where you lay your heart...

power issue

“The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don’t have any.”

~ Alice Walker
Quote shown at the beginning of “Miss Representation”

you have to be practical

"Yeah. I go to my subconsciousness. I have to go into that chaos. But the act of going and coming back is kind of routine. You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed." He laughs again. "They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical."

Murakami on writing novels
found here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/14/haruki-murakami-1q84?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

Fire Graffiti

Fire Graffiti

Throughout those dismal months my life was only sparked alight
when I made love to you.
As the firefly ignites and fades, ignites and fades, we follow the flashes
of its flight in the dark among the olive trees.


Throughout those dismal months, my soul sat slumped and lifeless
but my body walked to yours.
The night sky was lowing.
We milked the cosmos secretly, and survived.

Tomas Tranströmer

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Georgia O’ Keeffe and Orville Cox - Ansel Adams, 1937


The Blog :

http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/

the moon, the moon

Love is the seventh wave

Pequenos dias passam cheios de grandes dramas

expectante no mar, esperas a onda
o momento certo de ganhares o impulso
e de te ergueres, deslizando vertiginoso
triunfante, como a espuma ou o vento
a gaivota que grita sobre a praia

Venetian Horses

"One of the most famous features of the church is the Triumphal Guadriga, or Horses of St. Mark. You can see them above the central door and largest arch in the picture above, 4 huge bronze horses. (Today, the ones you see are copies, and the real ones are protected inside the church.) They were brought here from Constantinople in 1204 after Venetian soldiers in the 4th crusade sacked the city. They are old, and were part of a huge Roman complex there since ancient times. Debate rages on if they were made in ancient Greece or as a Roman copy, but either way, they are some of the only ancient bronze statues to survive to today. Napoleon liked them so much that he took them to Paris in 1797, but they were returned years later."

the gift

AntiCrise

o amor é uma conspiração

uma teia bem urdida que agarra o verão

impede as folhas das árvores de amarelecerem

os dias de encolherem

o amor é uma conspiração

para trazer a felicidade ás ruas

levar as flores a todo o lado

sur les pavés...

Júlio Pomar - Maio de 1968 (CRS - SS) II, 1968 - Acrílico sobre tela, 97 x 130 - Coleção de Jorge de Brito (Cascais - Portugal)

Dizzy

Dizzy

sometimes I feel so dizzy
Things go so fast, light shifts and colors mix

I walk the streets trying to make sense of things
Look for meanings on scribbles covering walls
Noise, meaningless, void.
Trash passing for currency.

A pretty woman in a TV show
Doesn’t know where Africa is,
Doesn’t know anything different from the price of things
or where to get the next euro, the next kick.
Lost all is lost
and this feeling makes our bones soft, our wills melt
No judgment, no reason, no purpose.


Our ancient name is Europa
Our old rule is Democracia.
It flows, it flows where it goes
Nobody knows, nobody knows.

Why don't you touch me ?

"...
She's a lady, she's got time
Brush back your hair
And let me get to know your face

She's a lady, she is mine
Brush back your hair
And let me get to know your flesh

I've been waiting here for so long
And all the time that passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now

You stand there with your
fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Why don't you touch me, touch me
Touch me now, now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now, now
Now, now, now, now, now ..."

Genesis, The Musical Box

todo o mundo é um palco...

imagem de Jorge Molder


http://www.spq.pt/boletim/docs/boletimSPQ_102_045_07.pdf

http://www.mnhn.ul.pt/portal/page?_pageid=418,1391237&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

madames et monsieurs...la valse

Vallotton, Félix (1861 - 1925)

The Waltz
Date: 1893

women rule the world

Woman 1949

once de Kooning was a stowaway in a boat to America...

A Tree in Naples

Willem de Kooning (American, born the Netherlands. 1904-1997)

1960. Oil on canvas, 6' 8 1/4" x 70 1/8" (203.7 x 178.1 cm). The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. © 2011 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

"This work belongs to a group of abstractions inspired by the landscape. In them de Kooning simplified his visual vocabulary to a few powerful, expansive brushstrokes that evoke the vistas of color found in the natural world. He described the experience that inspired these works: “Just coming around roads, some place, and having the sensation of a piece of it, a piece of nature, like a fence, something on the road. … And I really get very elated by again looking, by again seeing that the sky is blue, that the grass is green.”"