Showing posts with label mix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mix. Show all posts

4.4.07



According to the latest studies, Britain has a staggering 4.2million CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people in the country - and 20 per cent of cameras globally. It has been calculated that each person is caught on camera an average of 300 times daily.

One of my reasons to leave England by the end of this year...

27.2.07


notes: last talk with V. Love her. Bangkok before Phnom Pehn. Emptiness...feeling a bit strange at the moment. More personal notes on "on going project".

23.2.07



notes:Snowing heavily; traffic disruption; but snow is a calming sight. Even if the spring should by around!
My sweet friend V is leaving to Cambodia; i will miss her for some months,until I visit her in July!
image: shaly, other beautiful animal from Petra.

21.2.07



note: north again. my passport gives me always trouble whenever I go. I guess is my photograph and the fact that is a Portuguese passport issued in London. I should never get stamped in European borders, but I do!
picture: the young donkey of my friend Petra training to carry weights.

13.2.07


Apenas um ponto e vírgula.
No azul algo que bate forte
em cinzento de rocha.
Ser capaz é incenso
uma mistura de poder e lágrimas.
Algo linear que sarcásticamente
envolve o doce arredor.
Azul e castanho as cores
azul a cor que domina
mas não conquista;
essa capacidade da impossibilidade
do amor.
Castanho sobreviverá imerso numa
perspectiva com pontos azuis.

O dia nasce na proporção da noite
da fúria e do prazer
de não controlar ser controlado
redondo apenas interiorizo
a tua força.

Gigantes ondas transversando
as paisagens...

sincopado
image
Anne K
Hagesaether

8.2.07

notes: the words drying, slow direction to
Angkor Wat, silence growing.


When I go to sleep at night my mind
hides parts of my body
in different rooms of the house
so I wake up in the morning
wondering where I am
and how to go about finding myself
Sometimes I decide to do without
an arm or a spine and once
I just left my head
hidden in a box of old letters
on the top shelf
of the bedroom closet
because I never look there

A.Boy
both image and poem

23.1.07

I am now a teacher without teams or students
I am now a teacher for myself and the others
who want to hear me
who want to read me
who want to talk with me
and that is wonderful,
i can celebrate life every day!
SONG TO A NEW MORNING

There are teachers who say that the world is a gas.
There are others who think it's a pain in the ass;
There are some who insist that we never will know,
and those who reply that we'll know if we grow.

There are teachers who preach that we all must be celibate,
but others say sex is divine as THEY tell of it;
some say have orgasms, others say "no,
turn the energy inward and feel how you glow."

There's karma and dharma and chanting and prayer
and yoga and acid and "Christ-ian care.

There are teachers who preach that we'll reap what we sow
while others insist that we let go and flow.
There are some who hold out for us pie-in-the-sky
with spirits to guide us around when we die.

Some say we're doomed to eternal damnation
unless we wear hair shirts "and love flagellation.

The physicists give us a relative space
with particles bouncing all over the place.
They tell us we never can know what is true
because seeing it changes the whole point of view.

There's tantra and mantra and teachings like honey.
Some give it away and some charge lots of money.

Elizabeth Gips

22.1.07



the dilemma is that each side demands what the other cannot give

a. a couple splitting
b. Israel and Palestine
c. me and you

notes
image Shonagh Rae

17.1.07

sim, estou casado contigo
és o meu céu e eu teu filho
embalo-me em ti e tu feiticeira envolves-me
"haja o que ouver espero por ti"

lugar sagrado, lugar mágico
image Anna Coulter

3.1.07

Back in England...
Time to plan again, time to budgeting, time to move fast, before travelling next weeks.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

I like this chinese proverb, by the end of the day it expresses myself.



image from
fotolog.com

1.1.07

The lover transforms

«The lover transforms into the thing loved» with his
savage smile, his teeth,
his hands that flash in the dark. He brings sound
and silence. He brings the noise of the cold waves
and burning stones which rage within him.
And he covers this primordial sound with the staggered
silence of his last life.
The lover transforms from moment to moment,
and it's the moment of the immortal spirit of love
creating flesh in extreme atmospheres, wafting
over all death things.


The lover transforms. He cuts through forms to the core.
And the thing loved is an enclosed bay,
the space of a candlestick,
the backbone and spirit
of women sitting.
He transforms into extinguishing night.
Because the lover is everything, and the thing loved
is a curtain
battered by the wind of the lover on the heights
of an open window. The lover enters
through every open windows and
batters, batters, batters.
The lover is smashing hammer.
that transforms the thing loved.


He enters through her ears,and the woman
who listens
holds that shout forever in her mind
burning like the first day of summer.She hears
and slowly transforms, while sleeping, into that shout
of the lover.
She awakens, and goes, and gives herself to the lover,
she gives him his own shout.
And the lover and the thing loved are a single shout
preceding love.


And they shout and batter. He batters her with his lover
spirit. And she is battered and batters him
with her spirit of the beloved.
Then the world transforms into this harsh noise
of love.While overhead
the silence of the lover and the beloved feed
the surprising silence of the world and of love.

The lover transforms
Herberto Helder


Tríptico

«Transforma-se o amador na coisa amada», com seu
feroz sorriso, os dentes,
as mãos que relampejam no escuro. Traz ruído
e silêncio. Traz o barulho das ondas frias
e das ardentes pedras que tem dentro de si.
E cobre esse ruído rudimentar com o assombrado
silêncio da sua última vida.
O amador transforma-se de instante para instante,
e sente-se o espírito imortal do amor
criando a carne em extremas atmosferas, acima
de todas as coisas mortas.


Transforma-se o amador. Corre pelas formas dentro.
E a coisa amada é uma baía estanque.
É o espaço de um castiçal,
a coluna vertebral e o espírito
das mulheres sentadas.
Transforma-se em noite extintora.
Porque o amador é tudo, e a coisa amada
é uma cortina
onde o vento do amador bate no alto da janela
aberta. O amador entra
por todas as janelas abertas. Ele bate, bate, bate.
O amador é um martelo que esmaga.
Que transforma a coisa amada.


Ele entra pelos ouvidos, e depois a mulher
que escuta
fica com aquele grito para sempre na cabeça
a arder como o primeiro dia do verão. Ela ouve
e vai-se transformando, enquanto dorme, naquele grito
do amador.
Depois acorda, e vai, e dá-se ao amador,
dá-lhe o grito dele.
E o amador e a coisa amada são um único grito
anterior de amor.


E gritam e batem. Ele bate-lhe com o seu espírito
de amador. E ela é batida, e bate-lhe
com o seu espírito de amada.
Então o mundo transforma-se neste ruído áspero
do amor. Enquanto em cima
o silêncio do amador e da amada alimentam
o imprevisto silêncio do mundo e do amor.

30.12.06


I've just finished to see a 53 minutes warm and happy film:
"the Power of Community
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"

good lessons that we should at least take notice;

You can obtain it directely from the source or through Amazon

a poem
notes on peace

peace is a connection of thoughts

peace is

a myth

a legend

a prayer

a divine story

a phantasy

a faith

a dream

a vision

a fata morgana

a __________

a __________

a __________

a __________

a __________

a __________

a aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

peace

is the silence

that lets you hear

the heartbeat

of your loved ones


susanne toth

25.12.06


collages

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."

"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."


Anais Nin, Henry Miller and Kirill
With the help of my unique and crazy friend V

20.12.06


We can call our notes
calls
sos
or
hellos...


each of them around
an image
a thought
a feeling
love
and friendship,


all moments and projects i want to share








Illustrations by
Francois Supiot
Delphine Durand
and other...

18.12.06


Days are we prefer to escape/seasons are where we hide in the bush/no shopping, no rush/quiet smiles after a better meal/
painting
lost the source

15.12.06

few unconnected things
probably I am cured from my disease, fantastic…final answer will be May 2007!

My Christmas will be again far away from Portugal, I got used to it…working and staying together with others that are also far away from home! I will divide myself by two countries.

I’m reading again books…these last months my capacities only allowed to read in connection to my work…
… all that depressing facts and news about poverty, exploitation and dead!

I am reading again and again about history…Africa history and history of the world…good books with many new facts and information.

Again I turned to an author I like for his humor, Tony Hawks, the book “Playing the Moldovans at Tennis”.

But the book I’m enjoying the most for its short stories is a first book, received by the critics with enthusiasm: “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers”, of Yiyun Li.


A very small extract taken from the Guardian:
“There is always a road when you get into a mountain,” Auntie Wang, Granny Lin’s neighbour, says to her upon being informed of Granny Lin’s situation.
“And there is a Toyota wherever there is a road.” The second line of Toyota’s commercial slips out before Granny realizes it.
“There you go, Granny Lin. I know you are an optimistic person. Stay positive and you will find your Toyota.”

Her short stories tell us about the “imperial centuries of feudalism, Mao’s communism and cultural revolution, Tiananmen Square and the plunge into capitalism.”

13.12.06



Outono, lembra de ti
siempre
e de ti
sempre
uma voz outra voz
a minha toda voz!

12.12.06

Some exercises around words
(before the meeting)


Some times
you enlight me

sometimes
the light expresses you

the apple art de vivre
without

song of streets
song of the dog crying

some time
a past of laugh

on time
still time

time for you
saviour
Because today is Tuesday
and
your Christmas honey cookies
are the ones
that transfer some kind of warm...
because
the distance is not measured in mountains
or in Khmers...
i smile
your expression tunneling
this direction!


***

The street was empty when with a gloomy laughter
I stopped the progression of transience and mortar,
a different picture of love seeping from it.
Sleigh bells of vanity and the unarmed symmetry
were fading like new fragrances and biblical nostalgia.

At the same place I met the warmth
of her long fingers, among them,
lurking shyly, the ancient danger of arson
and that mathematically clear feeling
of similarity everyone finds so very dear.

Millions of trampled steps
on the damp and muddy sidewalk
bear witness to the only genuine past, inscribed
in the dull rock of the street, then a stereotype
shaped by every whiteness of my incidental sentence.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF NEARNESS

yves sent me a message: a girl from italy watches me under water for the third day, and i watch her. we are there, naked and alone. above we do not know each other. i replied, using our slang transcription: bi kul! stej vel! after that, his next message said he had dived again, “for it's quiet and uniquely nice down there.” i understood his cry of suffering at another, distant shore. next i dived into marguerite yourcenar's oriental stories, went to china, kotor, dubrovnik, came up again, melancholically, though now that's way out of fashion. i saw several italian, four czech, and seven pudgy hungarian girls. i saw a sunshade restless like someone’s body. i saw a pair of blue, anxious, deep-set eyes. i wanted to suppress my passion for diving, but couldn't look away, or put on my sunglasses, not at all: unable to move, i was sinking, steadily and silently, in the sand.
Holding-breath diving
Branko Čegec

8.12.06


I
Deixada, seu nome "sure", lá atrás.
E, assim de repente, voilá, desaparecida! Apenas eu aqui, redondo e ido. Simples nas botarras coloridas e quentes. Pedem-me atençã0. E eu presto-a.
Azul e vermelho, lá fora a Lua crescendo, dentro o movimento outro, tão diferente dos dias próximos idos. Sorrio e olho pela ultima vez os arredores que respirei tanto.
Montanhas, nevoeiro, castelos e rios, vinho e peixe, uma torrente de palavras libertadas pelo rush do momento. Gosto-a, apenas.
Talvez que seja uma impressão amarela, uns malmequeres coloridos e tão viçosos.
Ui, digo no abraço, "poderia ser por toda a noite!", verdade, poderia ser por toda uma eternidade, quereria eu. Sure, she knows that!
E vem à lembrança uma cantiga que fala da preciosidade de ter/fazer um amigo. Simples, porque no mundo coisa mais preciosa não há. E rio outra vez, o sorriso dela.
Il y a peut etre des choses que nous ne oblions jamais. Ela é uma delas, entrada em sopete, saída em planura de lagoa fresca e apetecida.

II
Rodopio, falas para te convencer.
Roda em vinho de Modra, premiado e caro - podemos exercitar excessos.
Subo, trepo as escadas que me levam a ela; as coisas clarificam-se, os sentidos alinham-se.
O discurso arredonda-se e espraiando-se a distância encurta-se. Palavras mil, os olhos nos olhos.

III
No azul o amarelo e o cinzento das paredes altas. Altivos redondos atravessando cumes e sobraçando os burgos agradecidos.
E o que tem de história eles; o teu sorriso, o teu riso tão de dentro, numa projecção sem vergonha.
Projecto-me e tu amparas e retribuis com as palavras projectadas. "Sure", dizes e esse poderia ser o teu nome. Simples, claro e límpido como tu toda.

IV
Tantas as cores como os redondéis que és; fantástico, limpo, uno e solo.
"Poderias ter-me perguntado como seria e eu ter-te-ia dito!", sure.
No doubt about it! Mas tudo reside na surpresa que desejamos; que surpresa, que ritmo, que segurança, que olhos, que pureza, que luta, que diálogo!
Around the castle iniciou-se o mercado das virtudes; paredes meias um corpo que não resiste. Um corpo ainda uno, um corpo ainda todo, um corpo esperando paciente e preparado.
Ueeé, a exclamação que reside no espaço que agora circula todo ainda mais junto.

V
(variantes poucas duma valsa sem final)
E depois tão de repente tudo colapsa.
Realizamos que fantasticamente o realismo desaba em nossas cabeças. Ainda em choque restamos num silencio machucado.
A Lua engorda devagar; o dia ainda longo trará lembranças do tempo passado junto. Um tempo que existia natural e que aqui escassa e dói.
E então pensamos que tudo é aparências; a portas fechadas dizemos transparência; na impossibilidade agarramos uma realidade mágica. Marcas no pavimento caminhado em pesadas e constantes caminhadas.
Azul torna a metálica lembrança em redutório espaço livre.

em V, siempre!