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log entry: Teoria da Relatividade [a partir do Porto]

Dizem que há apenas meia dúzia de iluminados no mundo que conseguem perceber totalmente a Teoria da Relatividade. Sempre me intrigou porque raio é que esses rapazes - como o Stephen Hawking que é um bacano, mas que fala esquisito - são assim tão à frente para a perceber, mas não conseguem ser claros a explicar à malta? Tipo fazer uma versão de bolso, um resumo, uma coisa assim mais ligeirinha, que se podia chamar talvez “olha, eu sou assim muito esperto, percebi a Teoria da Relatividade e tenho a capacidade de fazer o mais fácil, que é explicar-te isto como se fossem contas de feijões”. Não o fazem e eu sempre pensei que era por puro egoísmo e para poder dizer aos amigos “Ah e tal isto é muito difícil que só eu, o Estevão, o Zé, o Machado, o Zé Machado e mais dois ou três é que percebemos”. Pois tenho a dizer-vos, não é preciso ser-se muito esperto para perceber a Teoria da Relatividade. É sim preciso ter-se sorte e eu tive. Acordei há pouco a meio da noite em sobressalto e a perceb...

log entry: helvetica

log entry: olha a lua partida ao meio

olha a lua partida ao meio de tao baixinha que está quase leva as copas das árvores e o cabelo dos homens altos. se eu fosse muito guloso comia esta lua em forma de queijo. olha a nuvem, a nuvem branca quer tapar o nosso queijo nuvem gorda e sem vergonha invejosa da luz da lua. tu ja viu que esta noite nao tem vento? olha a lua partida ao meio se eu pudesse sentava nela e ficava espiando a terra e me via olhando ela! A Lua da Maria e do Mário no tubo

log entry: caminho certo

log entry: gatos ao luar

log entry: mulher é todos os dias...

log entry: respiro o teu corpo

log entry: can i smoke in here?

Can I smoke in here? can I sit down? Am I bothering you? are you alone? Is my tie on straight? do you rate me polite? Do I need a shave? do I seem all right? Names don't matter mine's Kash Buk - no it's true Go ahead laugh it's good for you What's that you're drinking? I like your smile you know Hey mister bartender please don't be so slow I think we got a lot in common That's my brand wouldn't trade it for the World We're about the same age on the outside Inside I'm a thousand years old Is this your room? I can't do 60 like once I could Bet you didn't know I was that hot You didn't know I was that good You got nothing to fear can I smoke in here? Steel player friend of mine lived right down the hall These walls are thin nobody heard him fall Last of the best without a shadow a doubt Hi-Lo shag's the last thing he saw before it all faded out What's that you say 'life is like a low budget movie'? Slow down there hon...

log entry: stoned immaculate

I'll tell you this... No eternal reward will forgive us now For wasting the dawn. Back in those days everything was simpler and more confused One summer night, going to the pier I ran into two young girls The blonde one was called Freedom The dark one, Enterprise We talked and they told me this story Now listen to this... I'll tell you about Texas radio and the big beat Soft driven, slow and mad Like some new language Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god Wandering, wandering in hopless night Out here in the perimeter there are no stars Out here we is stoned Immaculate. Doors

log entry: clementine and joel

log entry: last day in town

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log entry: if you forget me

log entry: you never know...

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log entry: islands

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log entry: downstairs

há quem mereça alguns merecem de resto acho que o meu destino está traçado não faz mal porque prefiro mesmo o quentinho lá de baixo estou farto de frio e gosto de andar em pelota além do mais disseram-me que havia bar aberto e no céu nao se pode beber... nem fumar acho eu desde a nova lei

log entry: coisas da idade...

Pois é... Ser escorpião, esquerdino e ter nascido numa sexta feira 13... Até ao momento, desta minha terna idade, ainda não esclareci as implicações disto, mas até ver o meu rabo tem andado apontado para a Lua (coisa estranha de se dizer... gostava de conhecer e dar uma palavrinha aos autores originais de alguns provérbios populares). É sexta feira treze, está uma ventania assustadora (sou como os animais que ficam nervosos com o vento) e acordei com a clara sensação de que os meus joelhos estão mais fracos... coisas da idade certamente.

log entry: star wars vs architecture #03

Rem Koolhaas, Tunisia, and Sandcrawlers www.lifewithoutbuildings.net It would appear that the Star Wars Universe owes another debt to architecture. A reader sent in the above image with a note saying that the Hotel du Lac in Tunisia may have served as the inspiration for the Sandcrawlers used by the Jawas to travel across Tatooine. Another visit to Wookiepedia (an increasingly important Life Without Buildings resource) tells us that filming for A New Hope largely took place in Tunisia, so it’s entirely possible that this building did, in fact, have an influence on the production design. BONUS : a little tri via for you Extended Universe fans — “du Lac” was the origin of the “Dulok,” the natural enemies of the Ewoks. Obvs. But wait, there’s more! The form of the Sandcrawler also brought to mind a more contemporary building — the Casa da Musica . Admittedly, this one is a bit of a stretch, as the Rem Koolhaas-designed building, really only resembles the dessert-planet vehicle...

log entry: star wars vs architecture #02

Otto Wagner and the Millenium Falcon www.lifewithoutbuildings.net The Millennium Falcon . As Han Solo’s ship, it played a crucial role in the victory of The Rebellion over the Empire in the Star Wars films. Imagine my shock when that infamous smuggling vessel lept off the pages of an architecture book about… ba nks . A quick visit to “ Wookieepedia ” tells us that prop designer Ralph McQuarrie based the design of the Millennium Falcon on a “half-eaten hamburger next to an olive on a toothpick held by George Lucas.” However, I’m more inclined to believe he was flipping through the pages of an Otto Wagner book and came across his 1880 design for the central offices of the Vienna Giro und Kassenverein competition. Behold, the first and only piece of evidence to support this theory: On the left, Wagner’s plan and on the right, a line drawing of the Millennium Falcon. Sure, it could just be a coincidence that a prop designer, inspired by a random grouping of hamburger, olives, and George L...

log entry: star wars vs architecture #01

What’s Up Wit h All The Deat h Stars? www.lifewithoutbuildings.net It’s a case of life imitating art as Death Stars sprout around the globe and the inevitable looms as competing Galactic Empires will surely annihilate the planet. Rem Koolhaas strikes first with a new scheme for Dubai . It’s like Manhattan…but way more futuristic and in the desert: [Image via NYT ] The 44-story sphere is actually a “a self-contained three-dimensional urban neighborhood” containing smaller spheres joined together by a series o f tubes . As is their nature, OMA seem to be establishing a new intra-office archetype (quick, call the patent office!), as this scheme is not entirely dissimilar from the one they visited with the RAK Convention and Exhibition Centre… [Image via OMA ] The RAK is a scheme so original, it’s actually Original – as in primoridal. In the architect’s words: “the sphere and the bar explicitly abandon claims to formal invention or ‘originality’. (The sphere even existed before man...

log entry: gaivota

“Gaivota que se preza tem de sentir as estrelas, analisar paraísos, conquistar múltiplos espaços. ... Se o destino é o infinito, o caminho é nas alturas!” Fernão Capelo Gaivota – Richard Bach ainda não esqueci...

log entry: clip, stamp and fold

cataventos e bolas de sabão algodão doce jazz e vinho branco ao por-do-sol um cigarro por fumar esquecido entre dedos fumo azul que se mistura com três nuvens adoro caminhar descalço e dançar descalço também a pele começa a saber a verão diluo-me em sabor a sal...

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log entry: prepared for unemployment

log entry: I believe / jg ballard

.I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. .I believe in my own obsessions, in the beauty of the car crash, in the peace of the submerged forest, in the excitements of the deserted holiday beach, in the elegance of automobile graveyards, in the mystery of multi-storey car parks, in the poetry of abandoned hotels.I believe in the forgotten runways of Wake Island, pointing towards the Pacifics of our imaginations. .I believe in the mysterious beauty of Margaret Thatcher, in the arch of her nostrils and the sheen on her lower lip; in the melancholy of wounded Argentine conscripts; in the haunted smiles of filling station personnel; in my dream of Margaret Thatcher caressed by that young Argentine soldier in a forgotten motel watched by a tubercular filling station attendant. .I believe in the beauty of...