[update] G20 - Climate Camp

Disgusting.

At the City of Money, the city of midia and closed circuit televisions, the city of empty people and streets. Where idiots wave £10 notes from their windows and find fun in everything going on down there. Where the police fights againts protesters of a cause they've no idea about.

"shame on me!", the crowd shouted.
Couldn't be a better way to express what we felt.

[ following, update from http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/943 ]

01:50 ClimateCamp Twitter reports "Street empty. They beat us out and squashed our tents. But oh what a world we created! Shame on the powers that be."

01:50: Police report 87 arrests.

01:20 Reports that Climate Camp has been evicted by police - people pushed back and beaten, wondering how to retrieve their belongings.

01:10 - Police pulling people out of Climate Camp from southern perimeter.

00:30 - Climate Camp participants have been making speeches to the police about why they have been taking action today.

00:20 - Reports from Climate Camp of police using boltcutters to dismantle the bike barricade whilst there is now nothing to stop them coming in from the North. People just sang Happy Birthday en masse to a girl despite police at either end.

Earlier reports of riot police beating peaceful people at Southern end of Climate Camp, following fun Celidh dance at southern perimiter. People thinking the police will let them leave if they wish.

23:55 Climate Camp - Police are now moving from south to north pushing people out of the space occupied by the climate camp, and it's clearing out fast.  About 500 people are left at this point.

23:45 - Peole are still being pursued and were last seen turning in Shoreditch High Street towards Hackney.

23:28 - Climate Camp: Crowd pushed past Liverpool Street as a group are chased at speed pursued by police dogs and vans. At least one arrest.

23:20 - Reports from Climate Camp of police beating people back away from Southern perimiter towards Liverpool Street.

23:18 - Climate Camp: Letting people out from South side opposite Liverpool St. Lots of police charging, Bottles being thrown from outside camp towards charging cops

22:48 - About 2000 people in Climate Camp Kettle, police want to impose a section 14 and ID everyone. They're looking to force people out through the North two at a time. There are police massing at the South End, Due to the amount of campers that does currently not seem feasible.

22:36 - Mainstream Media report that a man collapsed and died at the protest. We have not yet been able to confirm this.

22:20 - Climate Camp: Up to a thousand people remain inside the besiged camp. The police have said that they will allow people to leave, but will take names and addresses of everyone who does so. There's been a camp meeting but no consensus has been reached on what to do. Generally there is still a positive atmosphere amonst the peaceful demonstrators.

21:35 - Climate Camp: A photographer was taken to one side by police and threatened under anti-terror legislation that he was not allowed to take pictures of police "engaged in their duty." Police confiscated his camera and attempted to delete all the photographs he'd taken.  The photographer pulled out another camera to film them doing this, and was threatened again, but police then returned the first camera.

21:27 - Climate Camp: the riot police have marched through the sit-down protest without attacking and reinforced the cop cordon on the north side of the climate camp.  There are now 3 lines of cops there.

21:19 - Climate Camp: on the north side of the climate camp, outside the kettle, 100 riot police are lining up and looking as if they will attack/evict the peaceful demonstrators.

G20 - [Report first day] Ingles/Portugues

My Point of view based on things that I saw during this day of protests.

I have to admit that it was my first time in an important movement like this.
Amazing, I would say...
Been there in the middle of the crowd, screaming, and facing the power of the police against me, and they feeling like catching me or even punch me, there is no words to explain how I felt.
I wasn`t there fighting for an ideology, or even against the capitalism or whatever it is... I was there because as communication worker I really care about the future of nations, environmental issues, natural resources and economy decisions. I was there because I believe that some important decisions are going to be decided. So, with the high numbers of manifestation around London I think somebody and somehow they gonna listen us... and they main idea that everybody is trying to say is: Put the People first.
And I think that if we have somebody to represent us as "Brazilians" in the G20, I had to, at least, scream one: Vai toma no cu tranquilo to them. And I did!
I went to 2 big events and walked around Bank and Trafalgar square. I realize that lots of people were there just to take pictures, others just to drink beers and other two mustache guys just to release them young spirit of revolutionary. I am not but, when we are child we dream a bit. Whatever, the situation in bank, the place wich has the tube station closed was a little tense. The police was building a oppressive against the people who was in the square and making them separate from the rest of the crowd around. this was the reach of the peak of the stress In there. The most yelled verse was against the stupid police force, and if that people had something to say, they were silent by the power.
The second one were peaceful and it was about Gaza stripe and it was in Trafalgar square, known as a point of freedom of speaking. People in there were not violent as they were talking about waste of money in war instead of education and setting work for refugees and people from that place wich is complete destroyed. I think it gonna be discussed in the G20`s meeting.
Tomorrow we will cover the situation again… Ok, today… I’m on the TV now and I will stay here till late in the night. And I really want to thanks Filipe and Coxa by the supporting in earth and Lucca by the supporting in the war.

O meu ponto de vista baseado em coisas que eu vi durante este dia de protestos.

Tenho que admitir que foi a minha primeira vez, em um movimento importante como este. Surpreendente, eu diria
Estando la no meio da multidão, gritando, e enfrentando o poder da polícia, e eles querendo bater , não há palavras para explicar como me senti.
Não estava lá lutando por uma ideologia, ou mesmo contra o capitalismo, ou seja o que for ... Eu estava lá porque eu como um profissional da comunicacao se preocupa com o futuro das nações, questões ambientais, recursos naturais e decisões economicas. Eu estava lá porque eu acredito que algumas importantes decisões vão ser decididas. Então, com o elevado número de manifestações em redor de Londres e acho que alguém de alguma maneira vai nos ouvir ... e eles principal ideia que todo mundo tenta dizer é: Coloque o povo em primeiro lugar.
E acho que, se temos alguém para nos representar como "brasileiros" no G20, eu tenho, pelo menos, gritar um: Vai toma nenhuma cu tranquilo para eles. E eu fiz!
Eu fui a 2 grandes eventos em Bank e Trafalgar Square. Sei que muitas pessoas estavam lá só para tirar fotos, outros apenas para beber cervejas e outros dois malucos de bigode apenas para libertar o espirito de jovem revolucionário. Eu não sou, mas, quando somos crianças sonhamos um pouco. Seja como for, a situação em Bank, o lugar que teve a estação de metro fechado foi um pouco tensa. A polícia estava construindo uma opressão contra o povo que estava na praça a um modo de separadas do resto da multidão ao redor. este foi o pico do estresse lá. O que mais se gritava era contra a estupidez da polícia, e se as pessoas tinham algo a dizer, eles foram calados pelo poder da porrada.
O segundo foi pacífico e que era sobre Faixa de Gaza e foi em Trafalgar Square, conhecida como um ponto de liberdade de expressão. As pessoas lá não eram violentas. Falando do desperdício de dinheiro na guerra em vez de educação e trabalho para refugiados pessoas com a vida destruida pela guerra. Acho que vai ser discutido isso tambem na reunião do G20.
Amanhã vamos cobrir a situação de novo ... Bom, hoje ... Eu estou na TV agora e vou ficar aqui até tarde da noite. E eu quero agradecer ao Filipe e ao Coxa e pelo apoio em terra e Lucca e Thulio pelo apoio na guerra.

(pelo incrivel que pareca esse texto eu escrevi primeiro em ingles) por isso que ta uma merda! hehehe

Last update

As coisas ficaram relativamente pacificas no Climate Camp, com os acampados cercados pela policia mas dispostos a ficar por ali a noite inteira ate 12:30 amanha.

Things were left in relative peace at the Climate Camp, with the camped people surrounded by the police but still willing to spend the night there and leave tomorrow at 12:30.



Amanha a gente volta com a cobertura por aqui e tambem pelo twitter

Tomorrow we resume our coverage here and also through twitter

PHOTO UP DATE.

-Onde vc ta porra?
-On Apr 1, 2009 7:22 PM, "Filipe Moura" <fmoura@gmail.com>
wrote:Tamo aqui no meio da treta O centro sentou no chao.
Sent from iPhone

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Pau comendo em Bishopsgate. 19:22.

[update] G2 - Live!

A manifestant shouting to the police:

"Excuse me, but aren't you a Community Service Officer?"

What`s on in Brazil now? [UpDate]

Greenpeace G20

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — We've got a message for the leaders of the richest nations in the world who are gathering in London for the G20 meeting to discuss the global economic crisis.
Fifteen activists unfurled this 50 meter (164 feet) x 30 meter (98 feet) banner from the bridge at the Guanabara bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
We decided to send this message from the birthplace of two of the most important UN Conventions of modern times, addressing climate change and biodiversity. The huge wave of hope created by the World Summit ECO-92 (better known as the Earth Summit) in Rio -- that all countries would work together to save life on Earth -- has vanished. After 17 years without serious action by the world's leaders to change the pattern of carbon-based development, the planet is close to reaching the point where runaway climate change cannot be averted unless we act now.

[update] G20 - Live!

At Trafalgar Square right now, a pacific manifestation about Palestine and the end of violence at Gaza Stripe.

[BBC] Q&A: The G20 summit

Just in case you have no idea of what's going on:

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7921385.stm

and some groups protesting there (link in portuguese)

      http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/bbc/ult272u542698.shtml

and some websites texting from there:

      http://twitter.com/g20ft

      http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/943

      http://londonist.com/

[update] G20 - Live!

Tocando pra la no fim da tarde.

(Let's get together there early evening, around 6:00-6:30 pm)

15:20 - Climate Camp: Still going Strong, over 2000 people and 150 tents, described as a hugely impressive infrastructure. There are theatre performances, compost toilets, a medical tent, a couple of working kitchens, with many people picnicing there. The camp has been attracting passers by and city workers. There are police lines on iether side of the camp but people are allowed in and out. Plenty of dancing and banners across the street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=climate+camp&sll=52.072754,-0.126343&sspn=0.76983,4.883423&g=london&ie=UTF8&ll=51.515526,-0.08038&spn=0.003045,0.019076&t=h&z=16&iwloc=C

check their website: http://climatecamp.org.uk/?q=node/468

G20 - Live!

Flat 1209 tambem eh jornalismo. Temos nossos correspondentes no meio da regiao de Bank, onde protestos contra a reuniao do Grupo dos 20 ocorrem nesse exato momento. Diga la Marcellao:

"Agora temos a situacao controlada pelos porcos. Mas antes tava animal.Lucca tomou um Chute na perna de um policial. Ao tomar o chute ele replicou ao policial: Viu esse eh o unico jeito de termos violencia por aqui... a que vem da parte de voces. O problema foi que com a opressao da policia nos perdemos o foco, pq tivemos que lutar contra eles para depois lutar contra o poder maior. Paramos neles. Mas ainda tem mais!".

by pimpo

Seguimos na luta e na cobertura a qualquer momento. Voce tambem pode ver um mapa com audio, video e textos sobre a situacao por aqui.

"all flowers in time bend towards the sum"
and if not, who cares?





A Felicidade Ajinomoto,
do porre e da ressaca,
do charme do cinismo,
da saudade da mentira.

Do riso do palhaco cansado,
do segundo lugar,
do adeus "para o seu bem",
do abraço ao invéz do beijo,
do sexo ao invéz do abraço.

Da batata sem sal,
com ajinomoto.

O artista conhece o seu povo

O bixô... o detalhe do aperto de mão...

CORTA

Sexta-feira 12:38 porraa...

imagina na faria lima nego correndo metendo a cabeça nos problemas das duplicatas que não sairam.

Bank os nego cobrando juros calculando fexando fatura... nego grita puto com o outro porra ma me entrega isso ae po...

to vendo que eu vou ficar aqui até 10h da noite...

da os documentos pq eu vou tem que mandar o currier entregar e os caralho... e eu ainda quero ir pro Guarujá... minha sogra ta me esperando!



Sexta-feira 12:38 porraa...

3 caras em casa... um de cartola!!!

fumando um... deitado no sofa...

um globo de espelho como apoio de braço...

dsicutindo photoshop na bunda da carla perez na playboy de 98...

e assistindo sabadão sertanejo no youtube...

RecomendoBlog

Familia Schurmann

outro, parecido, mas com um estilo que eu (Pimpo) prefiro:

www.wanderingbear.info

Target Train

Back to the point!

This time we are back to speak about cards and evolution…
I brought you guys the new advert campaign from Visa. Do you remember the last one, talking about life is now and things like this… Oh ye! They didn’t change! Heheheh Actually they did, this time using “Go”, like a expression to encourage people to expend… YEH GO for it… Beautiful!

And this advert I show you, brings to this a nice concept. Some people believes that in terms of creation it’s unnecessary the off voice speaking in the back ground, I do as well. It explains twice. The old story of the 1+1=1.



Bye my Friend... Marcellão.

Ah... Record Reino Unido, a gente fala a sua lingua.

Mates its a pleasure to be part of this flat.

http://www.deezer.com/track/817954

15 vallance road, summer 2007

Tanti agure a te!

Just to let you guys know....
Filipes Birthday is about to be served!

Up dating
Flats Cup is runing::

Dionys Pruckner - album art

Pimpo

Let's do it!

This is something that has been circulating in e-mails, blogs and everything else for some time now, so let's join the idea: It's the random album cover generator. To make your own very cool album cover just follow the steps:

1 - Get a band name
Simply use the title of a randomly-generated Wikipedia article.

2 - Get an album title!
Use the last four or five words from the last quote on a page of random quotations.

3 - Get some album art!
Use the image thrown up using this Flickr tool, which generates random images without copyright restrictions.

4 - Make it look nice!
Using Photoshop, Paint, or whatever graphics software you have, fiddle your band logo and album title into some kind of visually-pleasing assemblage.

After that send it to us (flat1209@gmail.com) and we'll put it up here! Here's mine:

"happiness is only true when shared."

se eu tivesse um Projetor

If I'd a projector...

What would I use it for? What would you watch?

1. SHAMU !!!

The Shamu Cam is located in SeaWorld San Diego and runs between 9am - 5:30pm Pacific Standard Time daily. Starting at Midnight, we will replay the footage so you can see all of the fun from the previous day. Thank you for visiting!

Veja as acrobacias da orca Shamu no SeaWorld de San Diego, nos Estados Unidos. Incidentalmente, Shamu é uma marca registrada e batiza diversas orcas dos SeaWorlds espalhados pelo mundo - como Mickey Mouse ou Ronald McDonald. A Shamu de San Diego pode ser vista pela webcam, ao vivo, das 4h às 12h30, com reprise começando às 17h (horário de Brasília).

[ shamu cam: http://seaworld.com/sitepage.aspx?PageID=375 ] 

QuickCheck

The last week movie

The last week movie was a reference about our weekend and also our world issue!!!

Arido Movie


Director: Lírio Ferreira.

Main Awards and indications.

Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil

* It'd recieved twelve indication to best Film, Director,best Actor (José Dumont), supporting actor (Selton Mello e Aramis Trindade), female supporting actor (Mariana Lima), best script Original, better fashion magazine, Better Soundtrack, best art director, photograph and sound.


Cine PE - Pernambuco Awards

* won six awards in best movie, best director, photograph, edition, supporting actor (Selton Mello).

Festival de Cinema Brasileiro de Miami

* Lente de Cristal, best director.

What is Sustainability?

A simple and general overview of sustainability.

remember not to forget

As musicas não param na minha cabeça, e sei o que significa.

Falo pra mim. Pra me lembrar de minhas palavras, que de certo vão mudar. Enquanto as musicas tocarem dentro da minha cabeça, sem que eu as escolha, sem que peçam licença, sei que ainda hei de mudar.

Me lembro de uma noite em especial. Uma noite fria, húmida e quase silenciosa, não fossem as musicas em mim.
A noite veio, e com ela o fogo, o frio, os barulhos e por fim, o fim das musicas, e o silencio. Elas pararam.

Ao reler meu caderno, encontrei por ali "e as musicas começam a parar na minha cabeça". Registrei isso, naquele momento. Da mesma forma que registro isso agora.
Muito barulho e arruaça se passa. As imagens gritam e cantam vivas com sons. Curtas metragens invadem o resto do espaço.
Trilhas sonoras.

Essa mistura toda que reciclo, registro e, provavelmente, encravo em mim.

A situação eh outra, o ambiente, a rotina e os desejos. Os caminhos.
Me ofereço possibilidades e ofertas. Estrago e rasgo algumas, cultivo outras. Mas de fato enfrento uma transição.

Personagens se espalham por ai, mas muitos morrem.
Outro dia mesmo, nas palavras de uma amiga, encontrei um sujeito, que não via a 10 anos. Seu jeito moleque ainda vive e sempre viveu dentro dela. Que brinca com brincadeiras de patos, com pessoas e ri de tudo. Que escreve coisas inesquecíveis em seu diário. Que gravou cenas em sua cabeça que jamais serão esquecidas. Um sujeito, certamente, fantástico. Um sujeito que da nome a um jeito de ser.

E quantos tantos não passaram por ai? Pra onde foi os que vieram depois? E certamente vieram.
Vivem por ai, nas cabeças e memorias de uns poucos.

Tenho que agradecer a ela. Talvez tenha sido ai, que sem nem mesmo perceber, tudo começou a mudar. Talvez.

Não ambiciono nada alem de mim. E não chame isto de egoísmo, mas muito pelo contrario.
Ser a própria ambição eh a busca que poucos se arriscam a enfrentar.

Um quarto vazio. Uma vista la fora. Um lugar que de fato existe.

Um zunido constante, que há de parar.

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1209 press-ups

How many days will Pimpo takes to get 1029 press-ups donne?!

Make your beats as "comments"!! Starting tonight!

I'll try to perform all the different variations, including the malthese and hindu ones!

(I know... I'll replace this pic with one of me...)

[ press-up  push-up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push-up ]

Target Train

Starts here when the mobile company T-Mobile decided to make a viral video in the Liverpool Street Station 11:00 in the morning on 15th January, with a dance which looks like improvisation but the choreography was practiced before. The action was advertised on indoors palate in the principals station all over London, had success and very fast it was spread on the internet. Such simple and fast idea couldn't be better done. 3.586.157 views in 1 month or less then these. Fantastic!

People from the Facebook inspired in the T-mobiles video decide to make another “flashmob” which was planed on-line, but now it became into a little problem. The Liver Pool St. station is tight for 14.000 dancers and it was closed for a wile because of the high number of curious. Whatever, nobody was arrested and no crimes were noticed. Another meeting is planning to be happen on Friday 13 on Trafalgal Square and these time we, form the Twelve0nine, are going to be there.

VIdeo T-mobile


Pics from the croud.


Thanx Guys!
MarcelloP_

2 for 1

This is a sort of buy 1 get one for free post. I can start with a literary tip, recommending the book I've been reading for the past few weeks and than move on to another new wonder from the internet.

The book is "Franny and Zooey", by J.D. Salinger, which grabbed my interest after I read a review in a blog somewhere I don't remember now. Anyway, a long time ago I read "The Catcher in the Rye" and it instantly became one of my all-time favorite classics and I had always thought of reading something else by Salinger and now I've started doing so.

And now comes the second advice: I'm still in the middle of the book, but I'm already curious to understand a little bit more about it, so while browsing Wikipedia I stumbled upon this http://academicearth.org/ which is a site that provides videos from lecturers in some of the world's best universities teaching several subjects, from literature to physics, all for free and available anytime, anywhere. The video about "Franny and Zooey" is here.

Cheers,

Coxa

Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical sciences, under the patronage of King William IV. It absorbed the 'Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa'--also known as the African Association--(founded by Sir Joseph Banks in 1788), the Raleigh Club and the Palestine Association. It was given a Royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1859.

...

Founding members of the Society include Sir John Barrow, Sir John Franklin and Francis Beaufort. It has been a key associate and supporter of many famous explorers and expeditions, including those of:

• Charles Darwin
• Ernest Shackleton
• James Kingston Tuckey
• David Livingstone
• William Ogilvie
• Scott of the Antarctic
• Richard Francis Burton
• John Hanning Speke
• George W. Hayward
• Henry Morton Stanley
• Sir Edmund Hillary
• Filipe Moura

[ http://www.rgs.org/ ][ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society ]

O cheiro da mochila

de capim molhada

no tapete

la do quarto

do sonho

de liberdade

do caminho

da descoberta

do frio na barriga

da conquista

de mim.

Flat 1210 !!!

Yep! That's it! The Flat 1210 is available!!

I've just received a call from the rent agency, offering us the flat just besides ours!!

So, if you're interested, give me a shout NOW!!

The guy is calling me back late today.

Important communication.

If you see a woman or a man laying asleep on the pavement or on any floor please wake her/him up, perhaps she/he wants to go home but just doesn’t realize it until awake.

I’ve been sleeping on many trains & buses till the last stop but at least on comfortable seats;

I woke up in unknown places and experienced something new each time.

But laying beside a wall in a cold train station or bus stop in the middle of a crowded street is not a good rest and not at all an interesting experience.

I’m glad of having been woken up by strangers, and here I want to thank them.

Thank you all for letting me realize of being exposed in the cold and possibly being in danger but mostly thank you for having taken away from the pavement a man who just wanted to sleep and not be wasted.

Faithfully Yours

Luca Fredianelli Anywhere Anytime

reflexões de um preguiçoso

morrow  (môr, mr)

n.

1. The following day: resolved to set out on the morrow.

2. The time immediately subsequent to a particular event.

3. Archaic The morning.

[Middle English morwe, morow, variant of morwen, from Old English morgen, morning (!!!!).]

(to morrow: para a manha! pra amanha!)

yester

a. 1. Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

to day.  (para o dia. para hoje. to day)

[Middle English to dai, from Old English t dæge : t, to; see to + dæge, dative of dæg, day; see agh- in Indo-European roots.]

(could be when the day turns into a verb...)

from the land down under

Just to remember you that things always have another point of view.

tower bridge - london

56 years of reflections

Without any apologies, but about the meaning in itself.

 

March on Washington - 1963

Obama inauguration - 2009

Me, Ananias, the Guardian

At the sound of the Rolling Stones...

"Don't play with me cause you're playing with fire!!"

the guardian.

target train

In life, we got many points of view to follow. You should choose one to be your main thinking line, based in references that you had, during the construction of your own character. Or not.

I came to show you two adds from Fiat, one in Italian and the other one in French. I’ve been questioning with Lucca and Filipe, about the essence of the information behind the emotional feelings that they pass. And we conclude that they made a mistake because the French video has another sort of images, words and final message but in the same context, which breaks the whole intimacy that we already developed with the first Fiat Italian’s add. They proved that it’s all about money, when they could cover this true having another idea. Or something like this.

Watch the Italian one first, so then go to the French one later.      

And i want to congratulate my friends for starting to write.

Cheers MarcelloP_

(please don't look my english mistakes)

Sem rima nem choro

POESIA

Sem rima nem choro,

o retrato gramatical

de um drama instantâneo.

Vivo, 

da angustia e do afago

da iminência.

PLUTÃO

Sol maior

La e' menor.

`As vésperas de Prog. Lin.

Entre a semi-reta e o semi-espaco,

la estou eu,

semi-nu.

GYM 1209

Welcome to the GYM 1209!!!

s p i r i t i n v i g o r a t i n g e x e r c i s e s

healty Times at the 12 09!!
(temporary timetable... changes to apply, keep an eye on it)

	segunda	terca	quarta	quinta	sexta
6:30 am	streching	aerobics	relax	abdms & flex.	streching
11:30pm	streching music session	youtube alongation	The healthy Dinner	ninguem e' de ferro: samba	Never StopQuestioning

ATTENTION PLEASE
What is here written is something I found in the net, is not 'flour from my sack'(I mean is not plagiarism)but the fact of 'ME' founding it, is demostration of my concern.

Luca F.C. forencunt

“The important thing is to never stop questioning.” That quote is often attributed to Einstein. I cannot confirm that he ever actually said this. But I doubt I would hear many arguments if I suggested he was one of the greatest thinkers in history.

Is “questioning” really all that important? I guess it depends on how you interpret “important”. At some point in my life I decided to take that path. “Questioning” … “knowing” … is very important to me.

It’s even more important to me than “happiness”.

I also read a study once of a conjectural connection between intelligence, depression and a “sense of reality”: they tested people who identified themselves as “happy, content” and people who identified themselves as “unhappy, depressed” and gave them a test to assess their knowledge of history and current events. The “happy” people had no idea what went on or what was going on, whereas the “unhappy” people did. Whether they knew these things because they were depressed type people or were depressed because they knew these things is hard to guess.

neverstopquestioning

Luca Fredianelli

Super Heróis Modernos

O Homem Invisível.

Trabalha duro todo dia. Das 6 as 6, quando não mais.

Acorda cedo, pega ônibus lotado, metro entupido, multidão na calcada, escritório movimentado, dia cheio, fim de tarde vazio.

Limpa. Varre. Esvazia o lixo e pede licença. 

A sujeira que ninguém vê.

Olha pra baixo, enquanto todos olham pra cima.

Fica e se esconde debaixo do tapete e nos cantos, quando jogam ele por la.

O homem invisível: Passa por ai, e ninguém vê.

The Invisible Man.

Works hard every day. From 6 to 6, sometimes even more.

Wake up early, get crowded buses, packed tubes, people (crowd) on the sidewalk, busy office, full day, empty late afternoon.

Cleans. Brush. Empty the trash cans and ask for permission.

Dirt that no one sees.

Looks down, while everybody looks up.

Stay and hide under the carpet or at the corners, when throwed there.

The invisible man: Passes by, and nobody sees.

I had a dream (and I still have)

50 years ago, in USA, a black person, by law, should give his place for a white one.

Yesterday the same nation gave it's most important place for a black.

Two days ago the nation stopped to celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday. 

Yesterday the world stopped to celebrate the birth of a symbol to a new era.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Hope and respect, materialized into a man. That's what Obama means. But hope can't be confused with dream. He's, definitely, huge challenges to face. If he will succeed, or not, is a matter of time. Changes take time, but at some point they must start. Obama doesn't need to "save the world", but point a direction.

As the most powerful man in the world, Obama is a step that can start a long walk through a more respectful, fair and better world.

My only concerns, somehow, can be explained quoting our ex-pop-star-Minister, Gilberto Gil: 

“Quando o homem chegou à lua, fiquei preocupado de que ela perdesse parte de seu encanto, já que passou a estar ao nosso alcance.”

Overall, I'm still with a NY reporter that wrote: 

"Not a right or left wing radical, but a radical. Cause this is a radical moment."

O Grande Irmão, ou o tal do Big Brother

Eu que sempre achei que o BBB fosse palhaçada... agora tenho certeza. NOSSO AMIGO TA LA!!!

Sim, o Flavio do BBB, o ruivo, eh brother nosso. 

Eh amigo de infancia e um dos melhores amigo do João aqui do flat!

Ele mesmo, o Flavio, passou o mês de Outubro quase inteiro morando aqui em casa!

Pooor isso que escrevo. Nunca assisti Big Brother antes, mas agora eh diferente. 

Ajudem a divulgar o cara ai. Vamos fazer barulho! O negocio eh chamar a atenção da galera pra ele. O cara vai ficando popular, ganhando o publico, ganhando votação, e pah!!!

Ganha a parada!!

Boa?!

Existe um site oficial: www.flaviobbb.com.br

e uma comunidade no Orkut: http://www.orkut.com/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=80057265

Target Train

Nesse ano novo voltando com a minha coluna semanal...
trazendo um pouco de alegria, ou seja: Coca-Cola.



I come this year with some happyness in our lovely colum. I brought Coca-Cola, to ilustrate it a little bit!

Cheers Mate

MarcelloP_

Porque aqui a gente sabe comer!

Estou fazendo o teaser da nova coluna do blog onde o João vai estrear sua atuação semanal dando toques pessoais, se é que as mulheres me entendem, de uma boa comida... Claro que sugestões de todos tbm são relevantes.


Cuzz here, we know how to eat!

I'm doing the teaser of the brand new semanal post, with João. Here he's gonna give you, girls, some special secrets... if you know what i mean!

I hope you enjoy your fooood!

Conto um caso

Desta vez eu venho pra contar uma outra história, verídica e muito bonita.

A historia de um homem misterioso, que nasceu em algum lugar do mundo na região da Mongolia, morou na China por um tempo e de alguma forma se mudou para o Brasil acredito que já em sua ultima empreitada pela vida. No Brasil onde conheceu ou reecontrou um grande amor antigo que havia se desencontrado quando numa tentativa de fugir da guerra na China o Amor partiu.
O Amor que no Brasil criou uma vida, criou uma familia e desencantado com um falso casamento o desfez na tentaiva de ser feliz, após anos e anos reecontrou o homem que a fez brilhar os olhos na adolescencia.
Casaram-se e reviveram um amor jovem, duas vidas unidas como eles ja deveriam ser, pois no fim dela como de surpresa, ninguém sabia que um precisaria do outro para que a vida de um podesse ser continuada.
O Amor ficou ao lado do homem até em seus supostos deslizes com a lei, até que tudo fora provado o contrário, e assim se fez até o fim.
Até o dia que o Amor adoeceu, e beirada a morte do amor, o homem doou todas as suas energias, economias e noites e lagrimas e sofrimento que sentia calado mas que ao lado da familia que ele adotou, causou tamanha comoção e enfim um milagre, a volta a vida do Amor.
E sempre ao seu lado durante o resto do tratamento, e com todas as atenções que os seus sentidos poderiam dar, e com todo desgaste e com todo aperto financeiro que a doença os fizeram passar.
O homem adoeceu, menos que um quarto do tempo do sofrimento do seu amor, o homem faleceu.
O homem gastou toda sua energia para deixar a mulher amada viva, que não teve forças para salvar a sua.

Esse homem era o Vova, que foi o marido da minha avó, que de tão misterioso eu não sei o nome completo. Morreu no final do ano entre o natal e o ano novo.

*English version is coming.

MarcelloP_

Fantastic

http://abduzeedo.com/

He we go-ooo

Who?!

Pimpo, Joao, Marcello, Lucas, Sarah, Locao, James (from Berlin), Dario (till Amsterdam)

Where?!

London - Amsterdam 

depart.: 22/12/2008 - 6:00 am

arrival: 22/12/2008 - 6:00 pm

Amsterdam - Berlin 

depart.: 26/12 - 20:45 am

arrival: 27/12 - 06:55 am

Berlin - Prague

depart.: 29/12 - 07:15 am

arrival: 27/12 - 12:15 am

Prague - Frankfurt

depart.: 01/01 - ?

arrivel: 02/01 - ?

Frankfurt - London

depart.: 03/01 - 6:20 am

arrival: 03/01 - 6:35 am

Fantastico - Musica

de: Felipe Moura
para: Babi Rodrigues
data: 02/03/2007, 22:18
assunto: Re: personagem
enviado por: gmail.com

E nesse mesmo mundo as musgas literalmente pairam pelo ar. Acordes e partituras inteiras entrepassam as pessoas nas ruas e avenidas, leves, como plumas. As pessoas, claro, as ouvem, quase sempre, quando cruzam seus caminhos ou entram em suas cabeças. Vez ou outra elas se encontram, se misturam e se transformam! Samba-Rock, Bossanova, Foreggae e muitos outros, filhos de encontros e desencontros barulhentos e avoados. Outras porem, nascem da vontade e de momentos. Dizem por ai que ate um beijo já virou musica!
No ritmo delas que o mundo leva a vida. Uns mais rápidos, os que vivem cada segundo como se fosse o ultimo segundo, cantando, correndo e acompanhando suas partituras "pegada". Outros tranqüilos, os que ainda lembram de ter todo o tempo do mundo, caminham lado a lado com as lentas.

E essa musica ai? Peguei no ar.

flickr

Yahoooo!!! he ...

Now you can find us in flickr as well! Expect many many weird pictures there!

[  http://www.flickr.com/photos/33379397@N03/  ]

For all of you that post here, the username is:

flat1209

and the password is the same!

stage 1209

Fantastico - Porta

Em um mundo fantastico, talvez nao tao mais fantastico do que nosso fantastico mundo, ha um sujeito normal. Como eu ou voce, um sujeito qualquer. Trabalha, estuda, mora e namora. Sempre alegre e feliz, mas constantemente frustrado. Esse cara, tirando tudo de normal que ele tem, jamais conseguiu, nem uma unica vez em toda sua vida, abrir uma porta. Nenhuma. De sua casa, carro, escritorio, lojas, nenhuma. Ninguem consegue explicar, e ate ele mesmo ja desistiu de entender. As portas simplesmente abrem ou nao para ele. Algumas emperram, outras alguem abre pelo outro lado, outras simplesmente abrem sem querer! Nao, nao da pra entender... 

Odeia elevadores, portas giratorias, porta-luvas e portas automaticas de shoppings e aeroportos.

Por tempos pensou em ser porteiro, ou ate mesmo ladrao. 

Dia apos dia sonha com um momento em camera lenta, sua mao, uma macaneta, girando-a, empurrando, uma musica de fundo, uma luz brilhante do outro lado, um som. Cleck. A porta rangindo... e abrindo. Ele, triunfante, sob holofotes, estufando o peito e olhando o horizonte!! Finalmente, uma porta aberta!!! 

Sempre acorda, sem saber o que havia do outro lado e, mais uma vez, frustrado, por ter sido apenas um sonho.

Uns dizem que eh sorte. Que ele jamais precisara abrir portas em suas vidas e sempre as portas simplesmente se abrirao, por onde quer que ele ande, por onde quer que ele passe.

Outros ja nao. Veem nisso a eterna e incompleta busca pela auto-suficiencia. Jamais ele sera capaz de abrir suas proprias portas.

Ele, porem, nao sabe mais. 

Desiste de pensar nisso tudo, se levanta, elevador, cumprimenta o porteiro com uma inveja retraida, porta giratoria, e vai embora.

Eles e o dia de amanha

Melhor postar hoje do que deixar para amanha!
I'd rather post it today than leave it for tomorrow!

Em volta da mesa
Longe do quintal
A vida começa
No ponto final
Eles têm certeza
Do bem e do mal
Falam com franqueza do bem e do mal
Crêem na existência do bem e do mal
O porão da América
O bem e o mal
Só dizem o que dizem
O bem e o mal
Alegres ou tristes
São todos felizes durante o Natal
O bem e o mal
Têm medo da maçã
A sombra do arvoredo
O dia de amanhã
Eis que eles sabem o dia de amanhã
Eles sempre falam num dia de amanhã
Eles têm cuidado com o dia de amanhã
Eles cantam os hinos no dia de amanhã
Eles tomam bonde no dia de amanhã
Eles amam os filhos no dia de amanhã
Tomam táxi no dia de amanhã
É que eles têm medo do dia de amanhã
Eles aconselham o dia de amanhã
Eles desde já querem ter guardado
Todo o seu passado no dia de amanhã
Não preferem São Paulo, nem o Rio de Janeiro
Apenas tem medo de morrer sem dinheiro
Eles choram sábados pelo ano inteiro
E há só um galo em cada galinheiro
E mais vale aquele que acorda cedo
E farinha pouca, meu pirão primeiro
E na mesma boca senti o mesmo beijo
E não há amor como o primeiro amor
Como primeiro amor
Que é puro e verdadeiro
E não há segredo
E a vida é assim mesmo
E pior a emenda que o soneto
Está sempre à esquerda a porta do banheiro
E certa gente se conhece no cheiro
Em volta da mesa
Longe da maçã
Durante o natal
Eles guardam dinheiro
O bem e o mal

Eles - Caetano Veloso [http://vagalume.uol.com.br/caetano-veloso/eles.html]

From Portugal

Há perguntas que tem que ser feitas...

BOSSA AC - QUE DEUS?

Guinness Time

Watching movies could be the perfect time to dink Guinness, and this has been what they want to show in this short movies.

They call people who works behind the cameras to be the main star of the campaing.

The editor of “Sexy Beast”, the "settup maker" of “The Queen”, the duble of “Batman: The Dark Knight”, the supervisor of special efects of “Black Hawk Down”, the animation director of “Wallace & Gromit” and the sound mixer of “The Shining”.

Many thanks.
MarcelloP_

To read and see

Comic stories area a major source of distraction for me on the internet. I always find some time during my day to drop by my favourite artists' sites and have a look at what's new. Here are some of them, I'll try to keep the internationalist purpose of this blog and share 3 of them.

Perry Bible Fellowship (USA)


Allan Sieber (Brasil)


Liniers (Argentina)


Cheers!

Coxa

albalaba

Just imagine... you're about 18 years old. How much did you live? How many different things you learned and experienced... Come on, at the end it's 18 years. Ok?
So, suddenly, you listen a new word. A completely new word. A word that you had never listened before. Never.
Initially it sounds as something nonsense. Just a new sound. A new "albalaba" that someone said. No meaning related to that at all.

albalaba albalaba albalaba

Eventually you even think: "Hey, it's sound nice! albalaba!!"
But it's simply a sound. A noise. You can pronounce it without any worries. Try: albalaba, albalaba.
Remember, all your childhood is gone. You're almost an "adult".
albalaba. A new sound. A new word. Nothing else. Can you imagine it happening to you right now?! Try...



My friend, Andrea, born in Czech Republic, heard, for the first time in her life, at her 18's, the word 'religion'.