Uma foto feliz

A ideia que tenho das Polaroids é de pequenas fotos condenadas à felicidade, porque foram feitas para ser comentadas, trocadas de mão em mão. Nunca imagino alguém a tirar Polaroids sozinho: para mim a parte mais importante que aquelas coisinhas têm é a espera ansiosa, de cabeças encostadas, enquanto o vomitado acinzentado se transforma aos poucos numa fotografia. Como nunca se sabe muito bem quando o processo acaba realmente, há ali uma suspensão conjunta, enquanto se observa o nascimento de um momento. Por isso esta é uma foto feliz.

How Will You Love Me

Nina Nastasia - How Will You Love Me from playgrrround on Vimeo.

de Nina Nastasia, You Follow Me (Fat Cat, 2007).

O vídeo é produzido por uns tais de playGRRound.

(tudo isto, porque no outro dia alguém me convenceu que uma outra música da mesma artista era sobre varandas).

No trânsito

A proibição de uso de telemóveis durante a condução não contempla este uso (espero).

Sobre o dia de hoje

"Imagery of extinction"

Hiroshima, photographer unknown, 1945, International Center of Photography
via Design Observer

The lack of visual evidence of the atom bomb’s effect has helped us to forget its devastating impact. To see is to remember. Up until now, there have been few publicly available images of what happened on the ground when the first atomic bomb exploded. As a result, Hiroshima has become, as the novelist Mary McCarthy wrote in 1946, “a kind of hole in human history.”

Forografias "novas" de Hiroshima, após a bomba - via Design Observer

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Não estava à espera de uma coisa tão bonita e comovente.

Richard Kalvar

Richard Kalvar

"A picture looks like reality but is completely abstracted from it: it’s frozen in time, flat, silent, and ignorant of everything outside of the frame. The odor is gone, and sometimes even the color. The choice of the moment eliminates the continuity before and after, which is present in real reality. And of course only appearances can be photographed."

via In-Public

This Is Love

PJ Harvey, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea (Island, 2000).

Embora ache que neste vídeo a artista tem um aspecto assustador, a realização (de Sophie Muller da Oil Factory) é fantástica. Um dos meus favoritos de sempre.

I can't believe life's so complex
When I just wanna' sit here and watch you undress
(de facto...)

Andrea Galvani

Andrea Galvani (2005/2007). N-1 #1

A fotografia de Andrea Galvani tem qualquer coisa de bizarro.

via Design You Trust

Dwight Eisenhower

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

A 20 de Janeiro de 1953, na sua tomada de posse.

Don't Vote

Things Are Fine.org

Vejamos se este novo Messias não nos dá uma de Jesus Cristo.
Ficaria um pouco desiludido.

Hoje

Christopher Anderson on objectivity

"I don't believe in objectivity. I am subjective. It is my responsability to have a point of view, and to tell you my point to view."

via Magnum Blog

Rasmus Norlander

Gosto muito destas imagens de mundos construídos mas vazios, como os de Rasmus Norlander.

via Build's Blog

The Same Person

"I think that all the trouble in this field comes from someone's assumption that they are, maybe, the same person. I think the fine artist makes a personal statement about his world and his reactions to his world. He makes it to a limited audience or to a big audience—but it's all his. The advertising designer has a completely different function. He may be someone who thought he wanted to be a painter—but wasn't. If (the designer) is honest enough, he becomes a professional who can do something that is not his own. I think the trouble comes when he tries to make it a work of art, too. I think a lot of designers who are talented and intelligent don't find this very satisfying. But they're not going to find it more satisfying by pretending it's something it isn't."

William Golden

via AIGA