"São hoje 14 de maio de 1866. Vivo na cidade de Porto Alegre, capital da Província de S. Pedro do Sul; e para muitos, — Império do Brasil... Já se vê pois que é isto uma verdadeira comédia!"
Qorpo-Santo
"... num país onde tudo o que fazemos diz da profunda servidão a que nos obrigam o isolamento geográfico, a sociedade imatura, a vida mental esgarçada, sem grande tradição e ampare: como vivemos em solidão, a dialogar com os nossos fantasmas..."
Guilhermino Cesar (História da Literatura...)
"... em Porto Alegre, o Sol está mal colocado, sempre nos ofusca a visão, como o reflexo de um espelho!"
Iberê Camargo, Gaveta dos Guardados
"... tomamos o Bentyl e eu tava viajando na região das boutiques chiques da Independência, perto da Avenida Mostardeiro..."
"... a nossa conexão é outra, adoramos aquela ladeira... subimos e descemos sem parar, com aquela ventania, um sem saber do outro."
Júpiter Maçã, A Odisséia
"Je me dirigeai en compagnie de Jules, qui lui état à la recherche de babioles pour ses enfants, vers la seconde église que j'avais repérée... l'église de Saint-Roc, dont je parcourus un à un les autels, jusqu'à ce que le bedeau, qui éteignait derrière moi leurs illuminations, me chassait de l'église."
Hervé Guibert
"Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants, to want all the leftover things."
Andy Warhol
"Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants, to want all the leftover things."
Andy Warhol
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Pictures of trees were taken mostly in parks (Parque Moinhos de Vento & Parque Farroupilha). Pictures of buildings were tanken mostly in down town.
Pictures of buildings and street art were taken mostly in Odivelas, Alfama, Chiado and Bairro Alto; they were taken also near the Mosteiro dos Jerônimos, the Museu de Arte Antiga, Cais do Sodré and Museu do Azulejo. There are a few pictures from Setúbal.
[This is an old post. Originally there were several photographs I took in Lisbon and Porto Alegre here. They are not available anymore in this page, because it was difficult to organize all them in a way that worked permanently with this blog layout updates. I choose then to embed at the top of it a single photograph that is now available at Fine Art America, together with other of my photographs and also my drawings.]
I thank Maria Estela Guedes for letting me stay at her apartment in Odivelas (for the sencond time), and also Ana Luisa Janeira, whith whom I walked through Alfama and other places.
Places interesting to go in Lisbon are also the Igreja de São Roque (and its museum), and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. There is a good bookstore inside the building of the Biblioteca Nacional. Fnac Chiado is a good place to buy books and Dvds.
I used to go to the cinema at El Corte Inglés. Lisbon has some nice municipal swimming pools. While there, I used to swim at the Piscina Municipal do Rego.
See also:
RGS Rock;
A Vida por 1 Traço;
Elements of Musical Language (Bruno Kiefer);
Caxias do Sul and Galópolis;