Quickies III January 15, 2008

 

 

Until 24th of March, an impressive fashion picture exposition is happening in the NRW Forum Düsseldorf: Mode: Bilder, a collection from F.C. Gundlach.

 

I was there last weekend to take a look: very interesting pictures, some very old ones, some modern and some shocking ones make the experience a nice journey through fashion in the last 160 years. They have one that I really like, in which John Lennon is naked hugging Yoko Ono, both laid in a bed. This picture was a cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 1981 and is worth seeing again.

 

Also worth to say: German Vogue did a special edition with some of the pictures in the exposition, which is being distributed for free in the museum.

 

Quickies II January 15, 2008

 

My first experience with the Jazz Schmiede here in Düsseldorf was worse than ever. I was very curious when I saw “von Carlos Gardel bis Piazzolla” in the program, awaiting a nice evening of quality Tango.

 

What was my surprise when suddenly a guy starts reading German poems accompanied by an Accordion and a Bassoon, really nothing to do with Tango at all!

 

People started going out, some were looking with disbelief…terrible! We drank a beer but couldn’t stay until the break, so you can imagine…

 

At least we got to know the place, which is very nice and worth giving another shot, but then for a real Jazz band!

 

Quickies January 15, 2008

Hiroshi Sugimoto’s exposition in NRW: K20 ended on the 6th but I got to see it on the last day and was impressed! He is not just a photographer, he is really a scientist, a great inventor! For each section, he wrote a story telling what the theme was about, what the experience was, and by each story I got more impressed. My favorite section was the theaters one, in which he did the experience of shooting a whole movie in a single frame.

You can check his website here.

Read it fast or you will miss it! January 10, 2008

Do you know these websites that require you to give an email address to send you a validation and then afterwards keep sending you these SPAM emails forever?

Your problems are o-ver!!! rsrsrsrsrs

I just found out in my friend Florian’s website, a coll site called 10 Minute Mail.

It generates you a temporary email address and every email you send to this address will show on the webpage, so you can read, reply, click on links…but after 10 minutes…this email address and the emails sent to it will no longer exist!!!

I loved the idea!

Another good website to use when you don’t want to register in a certain website and need user and password is BugMeNot.

You write the URL of the website and it gives you a list of usernames and passwords. And the best thing: if some don’t work, you can evaluate negatively so the website can remove them later.

Well, you never know, maybe these are usefull to you too!

Cheers!

Zeitgeist January 7, 2008

Hey folks!

I’m back after 3 wonderful weeks of vacation in Brazil, enjoying the summer!
It was so great to spend the festivities close to my family…and I also got married (hohoho) under the sunset, it was perfect!

Anyway, My first post for 2008 is to tell you about a movie I saw yesterday called Zeitgeist.

It’s a not profit and kind of a polemic movie and it was not so good to see it before going to bed, I couldn’t stop thinking about the messages it was passing untill 2AM!

It has 4 chapters, the first talking about religion (how the christian stories have actually no historical base and no proof at all of happening and how it is deeply related to the pagan religions in the world), and the others about the incident of September 11th, the banking interests in war (old subject for who saw Lord of War, but still worth remembering), the forged “attacks” and theories to manipulate the American people and the world, and also a lot of conspiracy theories, which have to be seen with critical but watching eyes.

The main message in my point of view is how religion and the media in general are largely and for ages used for population control, to control what you see and what you know, to pass messages to us that are in many cases very manipulated. And of course that the real information is the privilege of few, who have high interests that they remain unknown.
It also talks a lot about USA’s situation with the Central Bank and the wars they were/are in.

But if we think straight, we can realise some points that affect us (not Americans) directly as well. An example I could think of quickly is Google: what they don’t want us to see, we don’t see. How many of us only use Google for searches on the web?

I do.

So, if they don’t want me to see one or the other website, so sorry, they don’t exist for me.

They have also access to my emails (Gmail), my friends and interests (Orkut), my pictures (Picasa, Flickr), my university records, everything…so if we think with a “conspiratory” mind, we could imagine that if they want to erase us from the world…they almost could!

Anyway…I think its worth to pass the message, to make people think about what is going on and to hear and see with critical thought the things that are told and shown to us, not accepting everything just like that, sitting and doing nothing while things are happening out there.

The website from the movie is very complete, has many clarifying topics and sources, worth taking a look.

You can access it by clicking here.

It also allows you to download the movie and even organize a “movie time” in your community, supported with material they provide when you fill the form on the website.

Hope you all have a nice 2008, full of beautiful surprises, exciting challenges and health!

Cheers!