Quem és tu que me olhas desse lado?

E se um dia te olhasses ao espelho e não reconhecesses o teu próprio reflexo?
Que raio de mundo seria este onde nem no teu próprio reflexo encontras o que esperavas?

Seria um mundo de incertezas onde as coisas mais básicas da vida humana seriam postas em causa certamente. Se não consegues confiar naquela imagem que aparentemente imita todos os teus movimentos e expressões então em quem podes confiar?

Tudo isto parece uma mixórdia filosófia sem nexo nenhum mas na realidade é mesmo aquilo que aparenta. Num mundo sem nexo nem reflexo frases que começam por se contradizer acabam por dizer o mesmo. Se não percebeste o que eu tentei dizer então é porque não entendeste o que eu te disse. Sem reflexo o fenómeno causa-efeito torna-se num acontecimento causa-causa ou efeito-efeito e nesse preciso instante, saberemos então que mais um segundo da nossa vida terá passado.
O tempo avança, quer queiramos quer não. Se achas que o tempo passa sempre de forma igual então é porque não acreditas que ele possa ser um ser estranho e com vontade própria cuja única função é irritar-te. Acelerar tudo quando te estás a divertir e meter em câmara lenta quando cada segundo passa como uma dor agoniante é aquilo que ele faz. Num mundo onde as tuas perguntas não são iguais às respostas que o teu reflexo te dá é isto que acontece. O tempo deixa de fazer sentido.

De repente olhas para ti e é como se te estivesses a ver pela primeira vez. Como se aquele tipo atrás do espelho fosse um desconhecido qualquer. Subitamente vês-te a entrar num estranho universo onde nada faz sentido. Ainda que por breves instantes, parece que toda a tua vida até então foi um sonho e que acabaste de acordar. Sentes um aperto no estômago. O coração palpita. Não entendes.

E depois, tal como nos últimos momentos da vida de alguém, toda a tua existência passa pelos olhos do teu reflexo. Tudo volta ao normal. Tu és tu e o teu reflexo é o teu reflexo.

Tudo isto se passa num simples piscar de olhos. O tempo não permite que tal aventura pelo desconhecido se prolongue por mais do que isso.

Another Way To Die

White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

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Alicia Keys - Fallin'

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Alicia Keys & Jack White (White Stripes) - Another Way To Die

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Este blog (ou blogue?) tem andado um bocado morto ultimamente...

Ninguém tem estado particularmente ocupado aqui deste lado mas pronto, no séc. XXI a preguiça atinge novos patamares. Para além disso os blogues deixaram de ser fashion...

Agora o que está na onda é ter um "Espaço Meu".

Pra quem não percebeu, tudo isto foi um simulacro.

Aqui está o nosso momento Zen

Num dia de passeio pela zona histórica de Lisboa, um guitarrista tocava no Miradouro de Santa Luzia.
Um vídeo de deixar a cabeça de lado, literalmente.

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements exemplifying Bruce Mau’s beliefs, strategies and motivations. Collectively, they are how we approach every project.

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. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.


4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.


5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.


6. 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.


7. Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.


8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.


9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.


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


11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.


12. Keep moving. The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.


13. Slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.


14. Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.


15. 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.


16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.


17. ____________________. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.


18. 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.


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


20. Be careful to take risks. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.


21. Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.


22. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.


23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.


24. Avoid software. The problem with software is that everyone has it.


25. Don’t clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.


26. Don’t enter awards competitions. Just don’t. It’s not good for you.


27. Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle."


28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.


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


30. Organization = Liberty. Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.'


31. Don’t borrow money. Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.


32. Listen carefully. Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.


33. Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.


34. Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.


35. Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.


36. Scat. When you forget the words, do what Ella (Fitzgerald) did: make up something else ... but not words.


37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.


38. Explore the other edge. Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.


39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.


40. 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.


41. Laugh. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.


42. Remember. Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.


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

by Bruce Mau, in Bruce Mau Design

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IT'S ALIVE!!

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Pet Rocks

Em 1975 um publicitário teve
uma ideia genial.
Um "animal de estimação" que desse pouco trabalho, não sujasse e fosse muito econónico.
Destas premissas nasceram as
Pet Rocks.

Cada Pet Rock vinha embalada, e acompanhada de manual de instruções. Transcrevem-se algumas das indicações encontradas no site Pet Rock Net

"A small home should be provided for your pet rock with a shelter to hide in, a bed and food or water. Pet rocks can be trained although it is difficult but all pet rocks should be house trained."

"Most rocks are solitary creatures but many are wild party rocks and should be treated with a firm hand but should be allowed to occasionally have friends over for sleepovers"

Importadas de Rosarito Beach no Mexico e vendidas a $3,95 cada esta genial criação tornou o seu inventor, Gary Dahl, milionário no curto espaço de tempo em que a febre durou (6 meses).

"To", "Cc", "Bcc"

To significa "Para"
Cc significa "Carbon Copy"
Bcc significa "Blind Carbon Copy"

"Carbon Copy" deriva do "Carbon Paper"
E "Carbon Paper" é o que nós chamamos de papel químico

Chissa Penico!

O blog esteve em coma durante uns tempos mas agora voltou!
Para já vamos só refrescar e acrescentar músicas à banda sonora do Vamos Falar! com 3 grandes música de 3 grandes artistas!

Em primeiro lugar e no top das preferências, Burial com "Archangel".
(não tem videoclip)



Em segundo lugar, apenas porque sim, Marc Ronson com uma versão melhorada (e muito!) do hit "Toxic" originalmente cantado por Britney Spears. Atenção que este tipo tem uma série de músicas muito boas! Geralmente versões de músicas já existentes.



Por último, mas não porque sim, os grande Justice com uma das muitas músicas deles que eu adoro. Neste caso "D.A.N.C.E". Escolhi esta porque é a única que tem videoclip e até está bastante engraçado.



E pronto, aqui ficam as sugestões do dia. Já agora, tanto o álbum de Justice como o de Burial foram considerados os melhores de 2006 (ou talvez 2007, não sei bem) pela imprensa especializada.

Um bem haja a todos e até daqui a 7 meses e 9 dias (só porque sim).
Tou a brincar, até amanhã... ou não. UÁÁÁÁÁÁ (riso maléfico)