Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
21 February 2015
"excesso de natureza"
O Doiro sublimado. O prodígio de uma paisagem que deixa de o ser à força de se desmedir. Não é um panorama que os olhos contemplam: é um excesso de natureza. Socalcos que são passados de homens titânicos a subir as encostas, volumes, cores e modulações que nenhum escultor pintou ou músico podem traduzir, horizontes dilatados para além dos limiares plausíveis de visão. Um universo virginal, como se tivesse acabado de nascer, e já eterno pela harmonia, pela serenidade, pelo silêncio que nem o rio se atreve a quebrar, ora a sumir-se furtivo por detrás dos montes, ora pasmado lá no fundo a reflectir o seu próprio assombro. Um poema geológico. A beleza absoluta.
Miguel Torga, in Diário XII
Peso da Régua.
G Porter addiction
All I have to say, is that I've been listening to his albums all day, everyday. It's been awhile since "something" addicted me this much.
Gregory Porter - Illusion
19 February 2015
16 February 2015
Carnevale a Venezia
Clichés aside, this was probably the only Carnival worth registering and celebrating in a life time, which is particularly easy I guess for someone who usually doesn't really care about these celebrations! Throwback to Venice, 2013.
Photos by my friend Ola Kosawska
13 February 2015
11 February 2015
True that, for me at least
Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don’t think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.
When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won’t. I like that - to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they’re more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that’s really interesting, how people relate to those languages.
Francois Arnaud
9 February 2015
