Ladra Alternativa...

Uma forma fantástica de passar o Sábado ou Domingo.

Para quem mora em Lisboa ou vem só a passeio, a Ladra Alternativa abre as portas a quem faz e a quem aprecia artesanato.

Lá estarei, a representar a marca da família - The Big Bag - e à espera de encontrar caras familiares!

:)

Tears...

Where do tears come from?!

(I wish the world was as poetic as this little explanation...)

Stop...

I can't stop writing...

... and I don't know why!

Art can flourish anyhow...

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Soneto de Fidelidade...

De tudo ao meu amor serei atento

Antes, e com tal zelo, e sempre, e tanto

Que mesmo em face do maior encanto

Dele se encante mais meu pensamento.

Quero vivê-lo em cada vão momento

E em seu louvor hei de espalhar meu canto

E rir meu riso e derramar meu pranto

Ao seu pesar ou seu contentamento

E assim, quando mais tarde me procure

Quem sabe a morte, angústia de quem vive

Quem sabe a solidão, fim de quem ama

Eu possa me dizer do amor (que tive):

Que não seja imortal, posto que é chama

Mas que seja infinito enquanto dure.

(Vinicius de Moraes - Soneto de Fidelidade)

August...

August in movies...

August in books...

Voodoo Girl...

Her skin is white cloth,

and she's all sewn apart

and she has many colored pins

sticking out of her heart.

She has many different zombies

who are deeply in her trance.

She even has a zombie

who was originally from France.

But she knows she has a curse on her,

a curse she cannot win.

For if someone gets

too close to her,

the pins stick farther in.

in The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton.

Life...

"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with is conventionalities and forseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes, A Case of Identity

Live Report...

I’m giving you the last update on my boring life!

Today I feel like being a hippie... don’t ask me why.

But maybe, just maybe, this sudden urge to become a free spirit it’s due to last night shopping spree.

Location

FIA – Feira Internacional de Artesanato, that means something like International Artisanship Fair.

Purpose

Buy as much as you can spending as little as you can!

Results

Items from four different continents!

Directly from the great American continent I bring you precious items from sunny Cuba!

Sea shell hair clip and ring!

Lovely earrings!

Funny toy turtle!

Amazing necklace!

I had to stop myself when I got to the African part of the fair.

With the big bill in mind I only got this beautiful hairstick with a cute giraffe on top!

And then I travelled to the great Russia (that it’s part of Europe and Asia) and I got this lovely and oh-so-cute Matrioshka!

The "Big Doll"

The "Little Doll"

So come on. Go on and envy me. That’s what I would do if I saw someone buying all this stuff!

Fuga ... *Runing away*

Porque todos têm de fugir para algum lugar... nós fugimos até chegarmos AQUI!

* Because everybody has to run away... we run until we reach THIS SPOT! *

Se...

"Se me esqueceres, só uma coisa, esquece-me bem devagarinho"

Mário Quintana

Jogo...

Eu, sabendo que te amo, 
e como as coisas do amor são difíceis, 
preparo em silêncio a mesa 
do jogo, estendo as peças 
sobre o tabuleiro, disponho os lugares 
necessários para que tudo 
comece: as cadeiras 
uma em frente da outra, embora saiba 
que as mãos não se podem tocar, 
e que para além das dificuldades, 
hesitações, recuos 
ou avanços possíveis, só os olhos 
transportam, talvez, uma hipótese 
de entendimento. 

É então que chegas, 
e como se um vento do norte 
entrasse por uma janela aberta, 
o jogo inteiro voa pelos ares, 
o frio enche-te os olhos de lágrimas, 
e empurras-me para dentro, onde 
o fogo consome o que resta 
do nosso quebra-cabeças. 

"Jogo" de Nuno Júdice, in "A Fonte da Vida"

Berardo...

Art that runs through your veins…

Raúl Perez – Painting and Drawing (Untitled Works)

Peter Kogler - Various Untitled works / details

… and makes you quiver and shiver at every glance. 

Here, at CCB - Lisbon

Art...

Maurice Denis"Degas et son modèle"
This painting = one lunch - at Mc Donalds - Bá's treat!And of course an "Auto-Five", Barney style!