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BANDA DESENHADA AMADORA
An International Cartoon Festival is taking place until the next weekend, in Amadora. Usually I would wait until the last day, but this year I decided to go early. So, on Saturday there we were. Some pretty cool stuff, the classics, the newcomers, the internationally acclaimed and the not so internationally acclaimed portuguese illustrators. There…
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LISBON TYPOGRAPHY
Lisbon has beautiful examples of typography all around the city, and it’s been a long time overdue project of mine to try to capture some of them. So the other day I decided it was time, and started to post them on Flickr. You can check them out in here. This particular photo is from…
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PRAÇA DA FIGUEIRA SKATE PARK
Praça da Figueira is one of the skater’s favorite places in Lisbon. At least, it’s always pretty crowded. And now, it seems that they’re building a real skate park. Maybe something is going to happen there.
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FORUM ALGARVE FOUR OCEANS
Coming this weekend, the Forum Algarve Four Oceans – European Longboard Tour 2008. It will take place in Faro, and seems to include a Retro surfboards competition and Stand Up Paddle demonstrations. Who’s coming? More info at Conquilha . (One thing I can’t understand is the lack of information, particularly in English)
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SUNDAY @ SÃO PEDRO
Perfect waves at São Pedro. If I wasn’t so tired, and so out of shape it would have been a beautiful morning. But it was nice, though. A special note to the number of surfers in the water. There were less than ten when I arrived. There were more than fifty a few hours later.…
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SATURDAY @ ERICEIRA
Saturday we went surfing to Ericeira. Nice waves at praia do Sul, and big ones all over the place. The winter is coming.
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GOOGLE EARTH CHALLENGE II
Skeleton Bay, Africa – A Google Earth Challenge II discovery An amazing wave. I didn’t had to time to search more information about this spot, but this is amazing. This guy, Cory Lopez, on his first wave of the day, surfs for 1min and 21 sec. I’m still drooling. I can believe that after a…
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OUT THERE, ON THE WEB
_ Jean Shin Work’s «Records were melted and sculpted to form a cascading wave, dotted with bursts of colorful labels.» www.jeanshin.com _ How safe is your city? Put it to the bicycle test «How long will an unchained bicycle last on a city street before someone steals it?» Reuters _ notcalifornia «notcalifornia is a portrait…
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BOOKS | READING…
I’m currently reading “Caos Calmo” (Quiet chaos) by Sandro Veronesi. A gift from my girlfriend. I must say I’m really into it. The book is about a man who starts living his day on a bench, in front of his daughter’s school. Obviously, has nothing to do with surf, but it starts with a surfing…
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SHIFT | YMYI
“YMYI – You Move You Interact” is an interesting project developed by João Martinho Moura and Jorge Sousa for their master course in Technology and Digital Arts in the University of Minho.
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SHIFT | MANUEL LIMA
On Shift‘s last day, Manuel Lima brought us a excellent presentation on “VisualComplexity: A visual exploration on mapping complex networks”. Manuel is a interaction designer working for Nokia Design in London, as a Senior User Experience Designer. He is also the founder of VisualComplexity.com, a great site which I have already referenced here, in an…
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“SIEGFRIED”, BY WAGNER
Last week, São Carlos theatre was broadcasting live, the Richard Wagner’s “Siegfried” opera to the square. For free, obviously. It was pretty cool, but it didn’t got the audience I expected. Many empty chairs. The statue you see there represents Fernando Pessoa, a portuguese poet.
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MUSIC IN THE STREET
A few hours ago I was passing through Rua do Alecrim, when I started noticing some music in the air. The music was coming from Rua de São Paulo, a street that goes under Rua do Alecrim. A band was playing on the street, and they were recording the concert for a music clip or…
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IF THE WORLD COULD VOTE
The results are amazing. No surprise, but… it’s a little blue, isn’t it? Another interesting fact, is that (at this moment) Portugal is the 3rd country with more people voting. 1. (66,936) United States 2. (17,076) Finland 3. (14,907) Portugal 4. (12,151) Canada 5. (9,276) United Kingdom
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A NEW BLOG IN TOWN
A friend of mine just started his new blog. You can check it out his amazing illustrations in xolitos.blogspot.com. I also recommend a visit to his other blog, Infografia 24H where he posts his professional works.