10 September 2010

recovering lazyholic


i got to know erin hanson's work through the great series "reminders". then i started digging through her portfolio (love the series "need to want less")and following her blog and i must say she's one of a kind. i adore her minimal incisive thoughts and the sarcastic humour. and best, it's for sale in printed version.


indulge yourself:
Website: www.recoveringlazyholic.com
Blog: www.recoveringlazyholic.blogspot.com
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/sock_puppet/
Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/erinsaidso


a word to erin (if you happen to read this): i don't think you're lazy at all!

09 September 2010

"the happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have."

change the ground beneath your feet

sand

grass

pool

frequently. summer edition.

07 September 2010

the august break - finito!

lá consegui as 31 fotografias e estou orgulhosa! não foi exactamente uma cada dia mas este exercício fez-me olhar com atenção para a minha vida durante este mês e perceber a sorte que tenho. é tão fácil perdermo-nos no lufa-lufa diário e começar a sentir que os dias são todos iguais e chatos. este pequeno projecto fez-me compreender que todos os dias há algo (mesmo que às vezes algo muito pequeno) que nos faz feliz e que devíamos valorizar!
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so i managed the 31 photos! good girl! not exactly one a day but still made me pay attention to my life during this month and to acknowledge how damn lucky i am. it's so easy to get lost in everyday rush and feel that the days are all the same and boring. this small project made realized that every day there is something (even if sometimes just a little something) that makes you smile and, well, we should be grateful for that!

02 September 2010

29 August 2010

i like... #29

#29

...small portuguese beaches. they are so beautiful and minimal!

28 August 2010

i like... #28

#28

... hotel breakfast! (any breakfast really but hotels do it better)

27 August 2010

i like... #27

#27

...music in my ears! specially while in motion, walking, driving, public transportation! music music all the time!

24 August 2010

i like... #24

#24

...dusk: the time of day when the light is dim, just before the sun sets. just add electricity towers for a beautiful composition.

23 August 2010

i like... #23

#23

...this summerhouse. my family has been staying here every summer for more than 20 years now, it's such a beautiful house! in this no-holiday-summer i visited every weekend!

22 August 2010

21 August 2010

i like... #20

#20

...out of the oven hot hot bread! just add some butter for delicious taste (and guilty fat!).

20 August 2010

what's that floating in the water?

me floating in the water

self portrait on b&w.

i like... #19

#19

...the darkroom. yesterday i developed my first film and today i printed my first b&w photo on my own. very appropriated for the world photography day.

i like... #18

#18

...half empty lisbon! when everybody leaves for the holidays at the beach i like to stay and enjoy the peacefulness.

19 August 2010

i like... #17

#17

...sleeping by his side (never thought could be this lovely).

18 August 2010

i like... #16

#16

...old analogue cameras. this pentax is older than me and one belongs to my mother and now i finally ventured to learn how to take pictures with it! i'm loving every moment!

i like... #15

#15

...daydreaming of future travels around the world.

16 August 2010

the japan photo project



pretty impressive this task that tina baguè and toru morimoto embraced: to cover the whole of japan in one year! they started January this year and are half through the project! incredible journey must be! ganbatte!

from the website:
The Japan Photo Project is a unique in-depth documentary photo project initiated by two photographers who plan to explore Japanese society through two different perspectives: the point of view of a Japanese native and the point of view of a Westerner. This collaboration between Toru Morimoto, documentary photographer from Kobe, and Tina Bagué, travel photographer from Barcelona, is an innovative approach that will result in an incredeible body of color and black and white images that will resonate with audiences world-wide. They want to show real Japan by ceating images that embody the true spirit of Japan, which foreigners often do not see and the natives often take for granted. They will travel all over Japan for one year, 2010, by a mortor home. Once the project is completed, the works will become a photography book, and the exhibition will travel as many cities as possible.

visit site here.

15 August 2010

14 August 2010

i like...#13

#13

...to get my feet on a swimming pool (and the rest of the body too!).

10 August 2010

i like... #8

#8

... refogado! the base of almost every portuguese recipe: onions, garlic and olive oil.

08 August 2010

i like... #6

#6

... carrinhos de choque! fun in bumper cars in summer fairs!

05 August 2010

04 August 2010

i like... #2

#2

...s. and his cute little baby hands. from a very bad situation inconditional love can be born. s. is now 2 months old and he is the most adorable baby!

i like... #1

#1

... rosemary smell. every morning on my way to the subway i get my hands in the rosemary bushes and feel happy with it's beautiful smell.

01 August 2010

the august break

so i have decided to take the challenge susannah conway proposed last month called the august break.
there are no rules but a photo (or more) a day, every day of august. THIS will be hard as i haven't been very present here in the blog but I wanna make it work.
I've been having many up and downs recently, some victories, some defeats but sometimes i fear that my so-so-melancholic side will take over my optimism. August is a very slow paced month here in portugal, i'ts too hot and everybody leaves in holidays. I'm staying in town and have decided for my august break to look only for things i like on my everyday life. It's easy to take your life for granted and not enjoy it any more so this will be an exercise of discover beauty in everyday life.
I hope you enjoy!

15 July 2010

em estágio...

... para o melhor cartaz de 2010 (este é a sério)



THE NATIONAL



VAMPIRE WEEKEND



BEACH HOUSE



THE TEMPER TRAP



CUT COPY



HOT CHIP



EMPIRE OF THE SUN



JULIAN CASABLANCAS

e eu e comunidade gay em ABSOLUTA HISTERIA!!!!!! para...



PET SHOP BOYS!!!!!!!!!

oh meus deus vai ser tão bom :)
espero que o vosso fim-de-semana também!

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best music festival this weekend! it's gonna be so great, so many great bands!
hope you have a wonderful weekend too!

13 July 2010

in the river

a máquina avariou e estou a ressacar. gosto da sensação de "precisar" de tirar fotografias. já recebi o horribilis orçamento e mais uns dias para voltar a disparar.
também gosto de atravessar o rio, principalmente ao entardecer. a imagem abaixo fez-me lembrar o trabalho desta japonesa, que conheci via iso50, excelente blog do scott hansen e companhia.

crossing the river

my camera is broken and i'm missing it so much. i'm enjoying this feeling of "needing" to take pictures. i got the *expensive* budget repair and i hope it will be a couple of days to start shooting again.


i also like to cross the river, specially at dawn. the image above reminded me of this photographer, whose work i got to know trough iso50, scott hansen & company excelent blog

04 July 2010

if it was my home


o desastre ecológico no golfo do méxico nem tem sido muito falado nas notícias aqui por portugal talvez porque pareça lá longe e um problema de outro país.
e é difícil entender a magnitude da questão, especialmente da área afecta.
ifitwasmyhome mostra uma sobreposição da dimensão actual da mancha de óleo no googlemaps com a localização desejada. se fosse em portugal, o país estaria praticamente coberto de petróleo, o que é uma imagem bastante assustadora.

espero que este terrível acidente nos faça pensar como estamos a viver as nossas vidas e no que devíamos fazer para proteger o planeta.
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the oil spill in the mexican gulf hasn't been much in the news here in portugal. i guess it's because its seems so far and another country's problem.
it is also difficult to understand the magnitude of the situation.
ifitwasmyhome shows a overlapping image of the size of the oil spill in googlemaps with any location. if it was in portugal, the country would be almost all covered in oil, which is a pretty frightening idea.


i really hope this disaster will make us reflect more on how are we living our lives and protecting the planet.


Lisboa:
http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/#loc=Lisbon%2C%20Lisboa%2C%20Portugal&lat=38.717&lng=-9.133&x=-9.133&y=38.717&z=6
Tóquio: http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/#loc=T%C3%B3quio%2C%20Jap%C3%A3o&lat=35.6894875&lng=139.6917064&x=137.48345444687496&y=37.323054723759626&z=6

via meia de leite.

26 June 2010

summer

summer

summer

revelei recentemente um filme da lomo que estava à espera há séculos e encontrei estas imagens de um verão de há uns anos. esta é a magia dos rolos, nem me lembro quando tirei estas fotos.

não me tenho sentido muito em "modo verão", talvez porque o tempo não esteja assim tão quente. o que é óptimo quando se tem que ficar na cidade e trabalhar. a verdade é que odeio os dias extremamente quentes do verão português por isso está muito bem assim!
também posso estar em negação porque não vou ter férias de verão, apesar de não me poder queixar muito visto que, este ano, já passei 3 semanas maravilhosas no final de verão do hemisfério sul....

este fim-de-semana promete ser excelente, espero que o aproveitem!
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i finally got a lomo film developed and this pictures from a summer a couple of years ago appeared. that's the magic of film, i don't even remember when this pictures where taken!

i haven't been feeling very summery lately, maybe because the weather isn't that incredibly hot. which is great when you must stay in town and go to work. i actually hate the *very* hot summer days of portugal (unless there's the ocean or a poll at my feet)
maybe i'm in a denial phase because i'm won't have any summer holidays, which i shouldn't complaint since i've been  indulging myself in the late summer of the south hemisphere for 3 lovely weeks a couple of months ago...


this weekend will be lovely, i hope you enjoy it!

20 June 2010

up in the air

up in the air

up in the air

up in the air

up in the air

i'm lucky enough to have a crazy friend who just bought a II world war airplane who invited a bunch of friends for a flight around santarém. i was really nervous before entering the plane but had promised myself i wouldn't miss this chance for nothing! well, i'm so glad i got on that plane. the moment we left the ground i was relaxed, it just felt so natural, like floating... i even got to pilot the beast for a tiny while! thank you so much carlos!

up in the air

18 June 2010

1922 - 2010

josé saramago 1922 - 2010

livros de josé saramago em buenos aires. com ele portugal foi a todos os cantos do mundo. a sua falta será sentida.
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books in buenos aires by nobel prize winner josé saramago who died today. he took portugal to every corner of the world. we will be missed.

13 June 2010

it's my party!

happy happy birthday to meeeeeeee!
today is party day, with family, friends and sun.

i'm a happy girl :D

09 June 2010

it feels like someone's missing

nunca quero ficar todo este tempo afastada do blog, só que todos os dias são demais.
deixei passar lamentavelmente o aniversário deste bloco de notas mas será assinalado muito em breve com uma prenda minha para vós que me lêem. 5 anos são 5 anos e afinal o meu lema é mais vale tarde que nunca. em jeito de consolação deixo-vos a minha mais recente obsessão musical, o novo album dos mgmt (tão bom tão bom).
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i never want to stay this long away from the blog but every day is just too much.
i didn't even celebrate my blog's anniversary but will very soon with a gift for you all that keep reading me. 5 years are 5 years and after all my motto is better late than never. so that i won't leave you with empty hands here's my latest musical obsession, the last album from mgmt (so good so good).



and how cool is this karaoke video? we can sing along!

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