IMITATION OF NATURE

MUTANTE

4 December 2009

HEY STELLA!!

2 December 2009

TERRIBLE BEAUTY...


Back to Casa de Neiva to some vintage Karl L Steidl editions, Elizabeth Peyton's portrait of the artist and Steidl 09/10 catalogue

30 November 2009

LOVE MY LITTLE PRINCE


23 November 2009

KAÇKARS - KAÇKAR MOUNTAINS

the 10 th century monastery of the "four churches", Dört Kilise near the village of Tekkale in the Çoruh Valley



ÇEVRELY YAYALA' FESTIVAL.

In the "karakucak", or "dark embrace", boys grapple, twist and fight to pin an opponent's shoulders to the ground.

Please, learn more at CORNUCOPIA, here: www.cornucopia.net


17 November 2009

LOVE SLEEPY





tonight i will sleep this way

10 November 2009

THE ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE'S STOMACHACHE


Strong candidate of best 2009 Art Book

MAPPLETHORPE, Perfection in Form, Franca Falleti and Johnathan Nelson, teNeus, 2009



"...


Especially with men?


That's one of the reasons i got into the sex stuff. I'm always obsessed with the idea of doing something that hasn't been done. I remember the first time i saw one of those photographs. It was a number of years ago and i was living in New York. I wasn't naive, and i didn't get an erection. But i got a stomachache; i got a funny feeling inside me. It gave me a whole new thing to work with.


..."


From a unpublished interview with Robert Mapplethorpe recently edited by the editors of Mapplethorpe Perfection in Form, based on a typescript in the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Here: http://www.mapplethorpe.org/


5 November 2009

LOVE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Werner_Fassbinder


CLICK HERE PLEASE:
http://www.fassbinderfoundation.de/node.php/en/home


I WAS A HAPPIER NICE AND ENTHUSIASTIC PERSON WITH FASSBINDER

WE GOT THE SAME TASTES

JEAN GENET FOR INSTANCE


sorry, i am not able to transfer videos.


JEAN GENET HERE:


http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp10042f50&sp_q=GENET&sp_p=all&sp_f=UTF-8


Un chant d'Amour

click
http://www.ubu.com/film/genet.html








2 November 2009

about STYLE...

What is STYLE? Elizabeth Peyton has STYLE.

video

I love Gak Sato and Charles Bukowsky. Both have STYLE...

video

LOVE LOVE HER. PLUS SHE'S GOT INCREDIBLE STYLE







LIVE FOREVER

was the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's work in an American institution. The survey included more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years.
I can't get enough of the way New Museum works. The link below to the exhition provides all the information about the artist and her work and above all offers an interview in wich one can hear Elizabeth Peyton on herself. Gorgeous. I wonder why this can't be done in Portugal .
For the interview, essay and other information on LIVE FOREVER, please click here:

"And people change every second. It's not even about leaving you or dying or anything like that - people just change." Elizabeth Peyton

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29 October 2009

LOVE THE THREE DIRTY BOYS





13 October 2009

THE STATE OF THE WORLD - 16



Did you say the Peace Nobel Prize?!

"Since President Barack Obama took office in January the State Department has contracted with Blackwater for more than $174 million in 'security services' alone in Iraq and Afghanistan and tens of millions more in "aviation services." Much of this money stems from existing contracts from the Bush era that have been continued by the Obama administration."--Jeremy Scahill




"[Sen. Russ] Feingold said he is increasingly disturbed by the war in Afghanistan, where troop levels are escalating by the month, US casualties are mounting and the insurgency is expanding. 'It appears that no one even asked the president about [Afghanistan] at his [July 22] press conference after apparently thirty or thirty-one Americans were killed in Afghanistan last month. How is that possible?' Feingold asks. 'People have to wake up to what's going on in Afghanistan, and my vote is a request that people wake up to what's happening, which is we are getting deeper and deeper into this situation in a way that I don't think necessarily makes sense at all and may actually be counterproductive.'"--Jeremy Scahill






If Obama wants his national conversation on youth violence to be more than platitudes and hype, he would do well to revisit these words delivered by fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous "Beyond Vietnam" speech:



We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them 8,000 miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would hardly live on the same block in Chicago...



I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.


http://socialistworker.org/2009/10/13/truly-nobel-worthy-effort



http://www.elconfidencial.com/ultima-hora/viuda-sajarov-considera-renida-normas-concesion-20091010.html



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9 October 2009

LOVE MY PENN

Dandelion, 1973
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Woody Allen as Chaplin, 1972
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photos Irving Penn, 1917 - 2009
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7 October 2009

THE STATE OF THE WORLD - 15

Bridget Riley


EVERYTHING GOES GENTLEMEN...




Link to the video showing evidence of vote fraud in the Irish referendum for the Lisbon Treaty:



Link to the petition to declare null and void the so mentioned referendum:

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29 September 2009

THE STATE OF THE WORLD - 14




METAPHORS FOR THE SOCIETY WE LIVE IN:



1 - TO BLAME "ME"



"How not to feel compassion for France Telecom employees who complain about moral harassment, a management of terror, an obsession for results? We have all experienced it, and often blame it on the American way, or more generally on globalisation. But isn't it a collective responsibility? Europe doesn't have to go the same way, does it? Being the biggest market with 495 million inhabitants with a greater GDP than that of the US, Europe could reverse the trend. France Telecom's past blindness and very slow realisation is but a metaphor for the society we live in. It's time we all woke up."


Agnès Poirier












"I can't accept the new reorganisation in my department. I'm getting a new boss and I'd rather die. I'm leaving my handbag with my mobiles and keys in the office, but I'll take my donor card with me, you never know," she wrote."


From a letter by a suicidal worker





AND THE OTHER KIND OF RESPONSE



2 - TO FIGHT THEM



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28 September 2009

THE STATE OF THE WORLD - 13




Honduras: VERY BAD situation in Brasil embassy and in civil population atacked with gas and quimicals
People in the embassy of Brasil and in a 5 km ray are beeing sprayed from planes and helicopters by the dictatorial army with quimical weapons.


please follow thw links below:







"In 2009, a constitutional crisis culminated in a transfer of power from the president to the head of Congress.[16] Countries all over the world condemned the action and refused to recognize the new government."




22 September 2009

HEROES -3

1854 - 1891
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2 September 2009

LOVE THE NEW GUESTS OF THE COUNTESS

The Countess of Neiva returned from Benares with him

and him


For those who don´t know the most antique city of the world, I and the Countess recommend this fine book:

FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR. A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD by Mark Twain

The author dedicates it to a friend in the following terms:

"THIS BOOK Is affectionately inscribed to MY YOUNG FRIEND HARRY ROGERS WITH RECOGNITION OF WHAT HE IS, AND APPREHENSION OF WHAT HE MAY BECOME, UNLESS HE FORM HIMSELF A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY UPON THE MODEL OF THE AUTHOR."

"THE PUDD'NHEAD MAXIMS. THESE WISDOMS ARE FOR THE LURING OF YOUTH TOWARD HIGH MORAL ALTITUDES. THE AUTHOR DID NOT GATHER THEM FROM PRACTICE, BUT FROM OBSERVATION. TO BE GOOD IS NOBLE; BUT TO SHOW OTHERS HOW TO BE GOOD IS NOBLER AND NO TROUBLE."

Read Following the Equator, here:

http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/twain/following-equator/1/

And last but not the least to a insight, poetic, sensitive and powerful vision of India don't miss Steve McCurry´s Blog, here:

http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/

or here:

http://stevemccurryworkshops.com/

10 August 2009

LOVE THE BANDITS



For a litlle cinema, click the link below:

http://www.gramercygallery.net/

Further:


4 August 2009

music, wear, smell and travel





the Countess of Neiva travel suitcases ready to go on a trip to Benares, India


"Saboaria Portugueza" verbena scented candle

favourite vintage costumised XDYE jeans "an original trademark made for all kinds of outstanding people"; vintage DKNY stainless steel watch; SALSA leather bracelet

STEFANEL Est. 1959 "in t-shirts we trust enjoy it everywhere it´s so awesome" SS09; STEFANEL crocodile and leather belt; old wood painted greek/byzantine cross

"Vétiver" cologne from CARVEN, Paris; AMBAR leather Filofax.

CARVEN ici:
I am listen to:

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THE FIELD

good summer hollidays... hope!

3 August 2009

GOOD MORNING WORLD







Demode! Demode! Demode!

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