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Estamos fechados para balanço. Voltaremos 1 de janeiro. Boas...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:45:17 -0400

Estamos fechados para balanço.

Voltaremos 1 de janeiro.

Boas festas!!

July 11 2003 Noon I love June Carter, I do. I love June...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:06:00 -0400

July 11 2003

Noon

I love June Carter, I do. I love June Carter I do. And she loves me.

But now she’s an angel and I’m not. Now she’s an angel and I’m not.

Josh Cash and June Carter remained together for 35 years. This note was written shortly after her death. And he passed away four months after her.

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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:19:00 -0400

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I’m too sad to tell you - Bas Jan Ader

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:01:40 -0400

I’m too sad to tell you - Bas Jan Ader

Time for 2013 Trend Reports. 18 categories ranging from Art to...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:01:32 -0400

Time for 2013 Trend Reports. 18 categories ranging from Art to Internet Culture. Now, Next and Future (2015 and beyond). Nice to learn new words and impress your friends.

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The Syria Issue. Read it!

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:01:00 -0400

The Syria Issue. Read it!

explore-blog: Did you know you’re not legally allowed to sing...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:01:30 -0400

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Did you know you’re not legally allowed to sing “Happy Birthday” in public? PBS takes a look at the original ethos and aberrations of copyright law. Also see Kirby Ferguson on copyright and how remix culture fuels creativity.

Tattoo Age. Thom deVitta. He started tattooing in NY when it was...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 07:01:19 -0400

Tattoo Age. Thom deVitta. He started tattooing in NY when it was illegal in the city. He influenced a lot of artists. His hands shake today. It’s Parkinson’s and it’s sad. But he keeps doing art and it’s cool.

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Spike Jonze shot this using his phone camera more than one year...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:00:43 -0400

Spike Jonze shot this using his phone camera more than one year ago. A collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and a young dancer called Lil Buck. The music, “The Swan” by Camille Saint-Saens, is more than 100 years-old. The dance is very modern and new. The past meets the present.

"…I think you need to be a little in love — not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps..."

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:08:33 -0400

““…I think you need to be a little in love — not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps — but to be in love with the reality of your own life in order to produce beautiful and meaningful and intelligent things creatively.””

- Maria Popova - highly recommended interview on Great Discontent.

Fiona Apple has an ill dog. And she writes beautiful and...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:14:00 -0400

Fiona Apple has an ill dog. And she writes beautiful and heartbreaking letters.

It’s 6pm on Friday, and I’m writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I’m writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here’s the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she’s been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She’s almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She’s almost 14 and I’ve never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She’s a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We’ve lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it’s always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she’s used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison’s Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she’s effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she’s the one who taught me what love is.

I can’t come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn’t even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she’s not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can’t leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I’m afraid she’ll die and I won’t have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.

Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable & comforted & safe & important.

Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life that keeps us feeling terrified & alone. I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time. I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I’ve ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I’m asking for your blessing.

I’ll be seeing you.

Love,

Fiona

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“Let Miles Davis call his next album whatever he...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:00:50 -0400

“Let Miles Davis call his next album whatever he wants” was the advice. And “Bitches Brew” was released in April 1970 and is now considered one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

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Don’t let good stuff behind. Highly recommended. -> via

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 07:01:08 -0400

Don’t let good stuff behind.

Highly recommended.

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"If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?"

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:26:30 -0400

“If my art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?”

- Ai Weiwei

They say that all creative work builds on what came before. And...

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:01:06 -0400

They say that all creative work builds on what came before. And that copyright controls the audience, not the work.

What do you think? Is everything a remix?

Photographed and animated by Nina Paley.

Planes performing a very complicated choreography. Beautifully...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:00:59 -0400

Planes performing a very complicated choreography. Beautifully in sync…

Time lapse video from London Heathrow Airport.

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“It is really amazing that art cannot be political, since...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:00:00 -0300

“It is really amazing that art cannot be political, since art raises the same questions: the problems of society, of people, of culture. These are political questions. Art is integral to a political citizen. We aren’t talking about powerful elitist politics but rather citizen politics.”

Pussy Riot’s Yekaterina Samutsevich - Interview to Echo of Moscow, two days after her release.

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"Dividing the number of atoms in the entire atmosphere by those in one breath shows that about 1 in..."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:58:44 -0300

“Dividing the number of atoms in the entire atmosphere by those in one breath shows that about 1 in every 2 x 1021 atoms we breathe in the air right here is from Cleopatra’s dying exhalation (assuming, reasonably enough, that winds over two millennia have done a thorough worldwide mixing job). This, in turn, means that each of us inhales about 40 atoms — say 20 molecules — from her last gasp with every breath we take.”

- Cleopatra’s Last Breath – fascinating read on how, on a strictly scientific basis, human breath is the bonding glue of civilization across space and time.

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I think those technology (the internet and social media)...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:01:00 -0300

I think those technology (the internet and social media) constantly put the government on trial. And every event, every policy they make, people will laugh about it, and they will make fun about it. This is amazing for the younger generation.

- Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is one of the most important contemporary artist in the world. As a political activist, he has been highly critical of the Chinese Government.

A few days ago he released a parody/protest video of Gangnan Style that was immediately blocked by Chinese authorities.

We love you, Ai Weiwei.

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The 20 most-watched TED Talks

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:01:06 -0300

Sir Ken Robinsonsays schools kill creativity (2006): 13,409,417 views

Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight (2008): 10,409,851

Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense (2009): 9,223,263

David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments (2007): 7,879,541

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (2009): 7,467,580

Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do (2006): 6,879,488

Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action (2010): 6,050,294

Steve Jobs on how to live before you die (2005): 5,444,022

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006): 4,966,643

Brene Brown talks about the power of vulnerability (2010): 4,763,038

Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009): 4,706,241

Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic (2005): 4,658,425

Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius (2009): 4,538,037

Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy? (2004): 4,269,082

Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe (2008): 4,153,105

Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen (2006): 3,891,251

Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators (2008): 3,869,417

Keith Barry does brain magic (2004): 3,847,893

Mary Roach10 things you didn’t know about orgasm (2009): 3,810,630

Vijay Kumar demos robots that fly like birds (2012): 3,535,340

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