Sarajevo roses

During the four-year siege of the Bosnian capital city of Sarajevo, hundreds of thousands of bombs rained upon the city from the surrounding hills. Every shell exploding on a road or paved area left an imprint resembling that of a flower. Today, some of these craters remain, their 'petals' painted red and referred to as 'Sarajevo roses' by its citizens, like scars on the heart, a reminder of the innocent blood that was spilled on these streets.

O cerco começou em 1992 na cidade que em 1984 acolheu os Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno. Frágil.

5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks

If you do what you love, and if you find other people that do what they love, you'll be successful, you'll do great work, chances are you'll actually make money (miraculously enough), and if you combine that with a bit of egotism and taste for the spotlight you could also become famous, but definitely, I promise, you'll be happy.

Michael Bierut

Mayakovsky, 4

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.

Frank O'Hara

Hoje, em Mad Men.

Walcott

#80.3 - VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Walcott / One
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Vampire Weekend, XL (2008).

The holy Roman empire roots for you

Mais disto

Where The Wild Things Are

Sou só eu, ou isto é delicioso?

- Did you make this?

- Yeah... it's gonna be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.

- We can totally build a place like that.

A place like that.

Badge value

There's some evidence, by the way, that some things, like social networking, help do that. Because they help people share news, they give badge value to everyday little trivial activities, so they actually reduce the need for expending great money on display and increase the third party enjoyment you can get from the smallest, simplest things in life.

Ou, de outra forma:

We are perishing for the want of wonder, not for the want of wonders.

Ensinado por Rory Sutherland, via TED.

How To Disappear Completely

Radiohead, Kid A (Parlophone, 2000).

Strobe lights and blown speakers
Fireworks and hurricanes

Wake Up

Arcade Fire, Funeral (Merge, 2004).

Children, wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.

The Arcade Fire's emotional debut [...] is brave, empowering, and dusted with something that many of the indie-rock genre's more contrived acts desperately lack: an element of real danger.

Exactamente.

Le Jardin des supplices

Rodin, 1902.

A means to give momentum to a set of causes

Good morning. Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective.

A Touch of Luck

As the Apollo 10 crew walks along a corridor on the way to Launch Complex 39B, mission commander Thomas P. Stafford pats the nose of Snoopy, the mission's mascot, held by Jamye Flowers, astronaut Gordon Coopers' secretary.

The Apollo 10 crew nicknamed the Lunar Module (LM) "Snoopy" and the Command/Service Module (CSM) "Charlie Brown" after characters in the Charles Schulz comic strip "Peanuts."

Engraçado, quando me lembro que o Charlie Brown nunca teve muito jeito para fazer voar um papagaio.

Falaram-me agora disto, de certa forma

Rain, Steam, and Speed - Turner (1844).

Candy Says

Candy says I hate the quiet places
that cause the smallest taste of what will be
Candy says I hate the big decisions
that cause endless revisions in my mind

Eu reconheci daqui.

via Clayton Cubitt

Enquanto esperava 10/15 minutos

"O artista que tem uma visão pessoal do mundo só tem valor se a comunicação visual, o suporte da imagem, tiver um valor objectivo; doutro modo, encontra-se no mundo dos códigos mais ou menos secretos, pelo que algumas mensagens são percebidas apenas por poucas pessoas; aliás, as mesmas que já conheciam a mensagem".

Bruno Munari, Design e Comunicação Visual (1968).

Afghanistan: chronotopia

Mikhail Bakhtin might have called this kind of landscape a "chronotope": a place that allows movement through space and time simultaneously, a place that displays the "layeredness" of time. The chronotopia of Afganistan is like a mirror, shattered and thrown into the mud of the past; the shards are glittering fragments, echoing previous civilizations and lost greatness.

Na foto, um homem vendedor de balões (proibidos durante o regime Taliban), junto do que já foi uma casa de chá no meio de um parque.

As fotografias do Afeganistão de Simon Norfolk são parte de um projecto abrangente a que ele chama Et in Arcadia ego, que pretende reflectir sobre a forma como a guerra (e a nossa necessidade de a travar) formou o nosso mundo:

What these landscape have in common - their basis in war - is fundamentally downplayed in our society. I was astounded to discover that the long, straight, bustling, commercial road that runs through my old neighborhood of London follows an old Roman road. [...] Crucially, the road system built by the Romans was their highest military technology, their equivalent of the stealth bomber [...] - a technology that allowed a huge empire to be maintained by a relatively small army. [...] It is extraordinary that London, a city that should be shaped by Tudor kings, the British Empire, Victorian engineers and modern international Finance, is a city fundamentally drawn, even to this day, by abandoned Roman military hardware.

Losing My Edge

LCD Soundsystem, Losing My Edge (DFA, 2002).

And to be honest I was afraid that this new found coolness was going to go away and that’s where ‘Losing My Edge’ comes from. It is about being horrified by my own silliness. And then it became a wider thing about people who grip onto other people’s creations like they are their own. There is a lot of pathos in that character though because it’s born out of inadequacy and love.