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.
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!
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!
A good tip for the people that want to discover the nightlife in Düsseldorf:
Nacht der Düsseldorfer Bars!
Next friday starting at 20h, some of the best bars of the city will be open for this event. With the combi-ticket (€ 18 or €15 if you receive the Nachtagenten newsletter), you can change from bar to bar using the Limousine shuttle service (every 20min) and enter the bars for free receving a welcome drink!
The participating bars between Medienhafen and Altstadt are:
Monkeys East, Monkeys West, Jase, Peaches & Cream, Mojitos, op de eck, Lounge59, Bar Alexandra & Bogarts.
If you want more details and speak german, click here.
…and how to fight it!
Just totally cool slideshow about how YOU CAN make your PowerPoint presentations better. Believe me, YOU CAN! hahaha
http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint
A lovely weekend to all!!
I’m soooo excited!!!!
I am wanting a nice sport shoe for a longe time now. My old one is terrible and I need a good one since I have some troubles with my knees (like half of the population) but I can never find a nice and feminine one! I looked in plenty of shops but they’re always rude, black, blue (like my old one) and I was not able to find nice Nike Shox ones here in Germany…but now,
this problem is OVER!!
I found out today that you can personalyse your Nike shoes here and make it the way you always wanted!! You can even write your name on it (which I don’t think that I will do, but it’s nice to have the choice, isn’t it?).
The only thing that I have to do now is decide which one!! Nobody said it would be easy, hohohohoho
One of the last and BEST books I read (I almost always read 2 or 3 books at once) was The Historian.
I was for a while already looking for a book that made me crazy about reading again, these books that catch you in a way that you can’t leave it aside! And I found it, casually when spending my usual 2 hours wondering in some bookstore in Brazil. I just love to look for and find new books and even more to buy them, I can’t help it!
Well, I was always fascinated with the legend of Vampires and Dracula and this book is based in the story of Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler in which the legend of Dracula is based. In a very different perspective, with historical facts, the story goes from medieval into present times with rich details and through an amazing narrative. She uses also a lot of letters to tell the story, which makes it even more interesting since it is seeing the story in another perspective inside the same book!
It tells the story of a 16 year old girl who lives in Amsterdam with her father and discovers in the library of her father a very old book and a lot of very old letters. The book is blank, except for the middle pages, where a very detailed figure of a dragon was drawn.
As she asks her father about the book and the letters, he starts telling her the stories of his youth in the University and how his teacher Bartholomew Rossi found out that Vlad Tepes a.k.a Dracula was still alive and how Rossi disappeared short after telling him about it.
After that, a search begins and the story travels to many different countries: From USA to Romania, from the Netherlands to Bulgaria, Hungary…it really makes you want to travel and meet the amazing buildings and ancient libraries the author describes.
It’s great great great!
So, last week I got two tickets from Amazing Düsseldorf for the opening from the International Dance Weeks in Neuss.
The presentation was a great program performed by Alsonzo King’s Lines Ballet, from San Francisco, USA. The first part with this barroque music soundtrack (Vivaldi) was a little too much, but the second part with this Indian Drums and oriental music was awsome.
The only “delta” thing I can say is that the Stadthalle in Neuss is not a really good place for presentations since the first 10 or 12 lines of people are in the same level, so you have to keep moving your head to see some spots of the stage ground. Besides that, great!
It had been a while since I’ve seen modern dance and I loved it, made me really regret not be doing anything related to art anymore…
Anyway, the Dance Weeks continues next month, on Dec 12th the Companía María Pagés from Madrid will be performing at 20h in the Stadthalle Neuss.
I highly recommend!
Well, seems that I just lost my project during the first kickoff meeting!
As I’m not an EU citizen, I cannot work in Switzerland without a proper VISA, and this VISA takes 4 weeks to approve, so…no deal.
We brazilians have a sentence that fits perfectly to the ocation: “The happiness of the poor lasts shorter.” (Brazilian visitors, please help me with the translation!)
Well, if we consider that it is cold and rainy it might get a little depressing today…but I don’t know, I think I’m ok. Maybe the reality will kick in later but for now, it’s a pitty but I might be with my thoughts already in Brazil, in the sun, with my friends and family so I am not sooooooo sad.
Let’s see what the future holds!
…that I totally forgot to comment about Milchbar last Thursday!!
It’s a party that happens every Thursday in Club 3001, which is located in my favourite place in Düsseldorf: Hafen!
I didn’t believe that they would indeed sell milk there but they did!! Milk for free and flavoured milk (strawberry and vanilla) for € 2. And people were drinking it, like beer (for these things that I like to live in Germany, I would never see these things in Brazil!!). And speaking of beer, also another good thing about this bar, really cheap beer (for a party): € 1,50!
Music was ok too, some flashback when we got in but afterwards some good house to shake the bones! I deffinitelly recommend!
It was not my first party with the company folks but indeed with Torsten, Angela and Narcise. It was great fun, although we didn’t stay so long, next day I had to come early into the office (8:30, practically sleeptime!). We deffinitelly have to do this again, right guys?
Cheers!
