foto do dia (take #2)

foto do dia (take # 1)

Não é bem a foto do dia, é mais a boa surpresa do fim-de-semana: chegaram os rolos que eu encomendei pelo blog photo-film, agora é só começar a disparar :)

From the art director of Dexter’s Laboratory

Carlos Ramos’ “Natural History Museum Part I”

His sketchbook on his site

(via NotCot)

Lisboa, Junho de 2006

Editar fotografias tem os seus encantos... esta foto tinha ficado perdida entre as sombras da Rua da Rosa e a minha escolha de a tirar a sépia...

Yousuf Karsh

Winston Churchill, 1941

"My portrait of Winston Churchill changed my life. I knew after I had taken it that it was an important picture, but I could hardly have dreamed that it would become one of the most widely reproduced images in the history of photography. In 1941, Churchill visited first Washington and then Ottawa. The Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, invited me to be present. After the electrifying speech, I waited in the Speaker’s Chamber where, the evening before, I had set up my lights and camera. The Prime Minister, arm-in-arm with Churchill and followed by his entourage, started to lead him into the room. I switched on my floodlights; a surprised Churchill growled, “What’s this, what’s this?” No one had the courage to explain. I timorously stepped forward and said, “Sir, I hope I will be fortunate enough to make a portrait worthy of this historic occasion.” He glanced at me and demanded, “Why was I not told?” When his entourage began to laugh, this hardly helped matters for me. Churchill lit a fresh cigar, puffed at it with a mischievous air, and then magnanimously relented. “You may take one.” Churchill’s cigar was ever present. I held out an ashtray, but he would not dispose of it. I went back to my camera and made sure that everything was all right technically. I waited; he continued to chomp vigorously at his cigar. I waited. Then I stepped toward him and, without premeditation, but ever so respectfully, I said, “Forgive me, sir,” and plucked the cigar out of his mouth. By the time I got back to my camera, he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me. It was at that instant that I took the photograph."

Pablo Casals, 1954

"In the Abbey de Cuxa in Prades, I spent several glorious hours with the master of the cello. Our rapport was instantaneous - he trusted me to carry his cherished instrument. I was so moved on listening to him play Bach that I could not, for some moments, attend to photography. I have never photographed anyone, before or since, with his back turned to the camera, but it seemed to me just right. For me, the bare room conveys the loneliness of the artist, at the pinnacle of his art, and also the loneliness of exile.
Years later, when this portrait was on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, I was told that an elderly gentleman would come and stand in front of it for many minutes each day. When the curator, by this time full of curiosity, ventured to inquire gingerly, “Sir, why do you stand day after day in front of this portrait?” he was met with a withering glance and the admonition, “Hush, young man, hush - can’t you see, I am listening to the music!”"

Audrey Hepburn, 1956

"The French novelist Colette picked her out of a ballet lineup to play Gigi on stage, and her career was launched. When I photographed her in Hollywood and commented on her quality of sophisticated vulnerability, she told me of her harrowing experiences during the Second World War. Years later, in the Kremlin, Chairman Brezhnev agreed to sit for me only if I made him as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn."

(Via Yousuf Karsh)

Foto dos dias (take #1)

Atravessei Lisboa durante o jogo de Portugal, não tinha a máquina comigo... não fotografei os 20 e muitos homens engravatados de olhos vidrados no ecrã que partilhavam o espaço de um café minúsculo; nem a senhora no banco do passageiro - num dos poucos carros que vi circularem àquela hora - que ia a fazer figas com as duas mãos; nem o tritão da rotunda deserta que empunhava heroicamente uma bandeira de Portugal; nem os empregados que, na montra de uma loja de móveis viam o jogo através de uma televisão minúscula; nem os cafés e as esplanadas desertos por não terem televisão, nem as tascas apinhadas por terem um ecrã plasma; nem a senhora que parou quando se ouviram os festejos pelo segundo golo de Portugal, e que imediatamente sorriu e disse "temos de ver quem marcou"...

A foto destes dias representa o impasse permanente: acordar, sentir pelas frestas da janela que o verão chegou, olhar para a secretária e saber que tenho de escrever um número inacreditável de palavras, saber que fico sempre presa no que leio e que levo muito tempo a avançar para a primeira frase...

Richard Hammond - On The Edge

Para o Bernardo, para o Fred e para todos os fãs do Top Gear... ;)

foto do dia (take #2)

foto do dia (take #1)

insónias

Drawerment

Jaroslav Juřica for Demakersvan

Drawerment is a composition of drawers collected from old office furniture, set into MDF boxes and mounted on the wall. (visto em materialicious)

tentando encontrar a fotografia nas imagens do dia a dia...(take #2)

[a partir de hoje, vou tentar ter pelo menos uma foto por dia de imagens assim - pouco espectaculares, mas que reflictam as formas que o meu quotidiano toma.]

tentando encontrar a fotografia nas imagens do dia a dia...

boas ideias

"Once Discarded is a design concept by Claire Danthois of the UK. She believes that the sustainability movement is in the hands of the designers. Designers often have the power and skills necessary to recreate objects of value and use from refuse … a gifted and driven portion of the population that can offer greener options for those of us willing to seek them out. Reclaimed materials, like the Once a Gate shown above as a chair, can give great depth and character to simple fixtures by way of their markings and evidence of previous life. With such products as Once a Door and Once a Ladder in her portfolio Claire has taken reclaimed timber and added a personal and artistic touch creating value and meaning to her work." (visto em greenUPGRADER)

Bis

eu sei.... parece que andei a apontar para o céu.... e toda a acção ficou mais ou menos perdida naquele canto direito.... mas depois da desilusão geral, comecei a gostar cada vez mais desta foto.

Naquela noite, o bar e o passeio marítimo estavam mesmo minúsculos perante a imensidão do mar zangado...

Cidade abandonada

Jardim Constantino

Para casas pequeninas

INSTANT KITCHEN – JUST ADD WATER.

"Hansen Living won the kitchen- and bath award at the ICFF Exhibition 2004 in New York. This experience inspired the design of the Hansen Living Instant Kitchen. It’s a kitchen unit particularly suited for small, studio-type dwellings.

Place it anywhere, all you need is to hook it up to a water supply and connect the electricity. The kitchen unit contains everything you need: oven, gas jets, electric power, refrigerator and water. To find a suitable name for it was easy: Instant Kitchen."

(em Hansenliving)

Cat Power - He War

Já falta pouco... sem companhia, mas cheia de vontade de ir :)