Obama's 100 Days

Obama's 100 Days: Behind-the-Scenes Photos por Callie Shell para a TIME.

Acho piada a quem documenta os momentos comuns de rotinas que imaginamos extraordinárias.

(Ela já tinha feito um pouco disto - como a Scout Tufankjian, de que falamos há uns tempos).

Traumnovelle

Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick, 1999.
Warner Bros.



Waltz 2, Suite for Variety Stage Orquestra de Dmitri Shostakovich, c. 1950.
Banda Sinfónica Universitaria de La Laguna.
Maestro: Felipe Neri Gil Marrero.

A maior contribuição do cinema são estas colagens emocionais, que quase nos fazem acreditar que as nossas vidas têm banda sonora e todas as emoções já foram orquestradas.

Liberdade é

Random Graphicz de Jorge Amador.

Isto é o que ele diz que eu não tenho estrutura hepatocitária para tais aventuras.

Iran: Beyond the Veil

Fatima says her midday prayers. A poster of her uncle, who is a wedding-dj, on the wall.

de Olivia Arthur, Magnum nominee desde 2008.

Emotion Is Not A Luxury

...emotion is not a luxury: it is an expression of basic mechanisms of life regulation developed in evolution, and is indispensable for survival. It plays a critical role in virtually all aspects of learning, reasoning, and creativity. Somewhat surprisingly, it may play a role in the construction of consciousness.

in Emotion and Feelings: A Neurobiological Perspective de António Damásio

Isto foi retirado de um artigo simples e interessante no A List Apart sobre o valor do "Eye Candy", ou, na forma como eu o vejo, o bonito pelo bonito.

Houve uma parte que me fez sorrir:
Attention to design details implies that the same care and attention has been spent on the other (less visible) parts of the product—which implies that this is a trustworthy product.

Myxomatosis (From the Basement)

Radiohead, Hail to the Thief (Parlophone, 2003).

Aqui, numa versão From the Basement.

(a cave em questão é do Nigel Godrich)

Letter f

It is a long bone, curved somewhat like the italic letter f, and placed nearly horizontally at the upper and anterior part of the thorax, immediately above the first rib. It articulates medially with the manubrium sterni, and laterally with the acromion of the scapula. It presents a double curvature, the convexity being directed forward at the sternal end, and the concavity at the scapular end. Its lateral third is flattened from above downward, while its medial two-thirds is of a rounded or prismatic form.

Simple X

Armchair Apocrypha, Andrew Bird (Fat Possum, 2007).

before your neurons declare a crisis
before your trace Serotonin rises
before you're reading your coffee grounds
and before a pundit can make a sound
and before you're reading your list of vices
perform the simplest exercises

Disorders of the heart

E agora não consigo dormir

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Uniform

Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City (V2, 2007).

I've gotten so good at lying to myself.

Sobre este preciso momento, em que há silêncio sem desculpas.

Em pausa