Quote of the day #52

"Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos" *

— Julio Cortázar (Rayuela) 

*We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.

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Quote of the day #51

Distortions in perception

✶✶ Fantastic! ✶✶

"In this enlightening TEDx talk, Cognitive researcher Professor Daniel Simons shows us some surprising examples of how people can be unaware of information that is right in front of their eyes."

Source:  ImaginaryFoundation    

Stardate -312254.8873985286

So, life has been all kinds of hectic lately, with friends coming over, PT extraordinaire driving me nuts, working hours dragging for no good reason, etc etc.. yet I've been able to steal time from my awaken hours to read.. a lot...

I've been granted a "librarian status" at Goodreads today so in honor of this joyful occasion I would like to share what I've been reading lately.. My hipster intellectual side have been enjoining the refined prose of  Atonement by Ian McEwan... there's nothing like McEwans' narrative when it comes to elegance and sensuality and if the movie was good, the book is simply wonderful. I promise.

My darker side in the other hand, the I-don't-care-this-didn't-won-a-Nobel-Prize-and-I-so-happen-to-love-me-some-vampires side was absolutely thrill to read the whole 9 books of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward in less than a month. These vampires aren't for kids.. they are powerful and sexy, and they are not afraid of kicking ass! So if, like me, you like bloodsuckers, please do yourself a favor and go read the books. Oh and buy the originals because the translations suck big time!

By the way, I so LOOOOVE Goodreads! It is such an amazing site for book readers. Check it out if you like to read and get good suggestions on your favorite genres.

See you all soon my lovelies.

Quote of the day #50

Poéticas verdades...

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Marisol Ferreira Simoes @marysoul (twitter)

Pase V.I.P.

Cuantas vezes deve uno entrar en una cave de vino d oporto hasta q le den a una un pass V.I.P.?

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Por los caminos de Portugal....

Paseandito...

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Quote of the day #49

"E quando à tua frente se abrirem muitas estradas e não souberes a que hás-de escolher, não metas por uma ao acaso, senta-te e espera. Respira com a mesma profundidade confiante com que respiraste no dia em que vieste ao mundo, e sem deixares que te distraia, espera e volta a esperar. Fica quieta, em silêncio, e ouve o teu coração. Quando ele te falar, levanta-te, e vai para onde ele te levar.” - S. Tamaro.

Q calorrrrrrr....

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Ok ok...

Bonito.

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Boa vida!

Relaxing....

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Chillin'

Marcia y yo dejamos a los machos en casa y nos fugamos a Algarve! ;)

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Many The Miles, Sara Bareilles (Acoustic)

There's too many things that I haven't done yet; too many sunsets....

Great atmosphere, great voice.

Raining?

You would think, I'll mind the rain.. but no.. I think it is beautiful still...¦)

 

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According to the Holy Bible...

Quote of the day #48

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom".

- Anais Nin.

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Quote of the day #47 (book)

"There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness."
— Ian McEwan (Saturday)

Beautiful light.

The Light of Life by Daihei Shibata || Music: Debussy - Clair de lune

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Quote of the day #46

"The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves."

— Audre Lorde

Quote of the day #45 (movie)

"There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt."

Troy Dyer (Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites, 1995)

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As seen in:Jesus Of Suburbia

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Quote of the day #43 (movie)

 

"Oh, it was nobody's fault but my own.
I was looking up.  It was the nearest
thing to heaven.  You were there."

- TERRY McKAY/ Deborah Kerr 

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Twentieth Century Fox, 1957

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Not flesh of my flesh

I was reading a book for the community yesterday and found this. 

Loved this poem and the spirit of it. 

It is anonymous and is often given to children by their adoptive parents. 

It is called The Answer. 

Not flesh of my flesh, 
Not bone of my bone,
But you are the child
I will call my own.
Never forget for a minute - 
You grew not under my heart
But in it.

Not flesh of my flesh,
Nor bone of my bone,
But still miraculously my own.
Don't forget for a single minute, 
You grew not under my heart 
But in it.

Not flesh of my flesh,
Nor bone of my bone.
But still undeniably my own.
Never forget, for even a minute,
You grew not under my heart,
But in it.

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"It's better to help people than garden gnomes."

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Quote of the day #43

“I am no longer afraid of becoming lost,

because the journey back always reveals

something new and that is ultimately

good for the soul.”

— Billy Joel

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Heady Confession

I'm going to molest my trainerward as soon as I get out of the house.. 

and when asked, why? I'll answer: "it's all Lanina's fault!"... You hear me woman? :) 

Esta onda?

Reggae em espinho até está muito bem.. oh yeah.. boa companhia.. tasse....

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Boa viagem

A descida desta serra, deve ser uma das minhas actividades favoritas no mundo...

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"See our friends, see the sights, feel alright..."

Quote of the day #42

“I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.” 

— Cicely Tyson

Errata: This is strictly true and exclusively applied to those 
situations that are worth the effort. Nothing more, nothing less.

Enjoy.

Cy's Sunrise Lefts from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

This sequence was taken from my recent trip to S. America. My girl's been studying abroad down there for a few months so I headed down for some lovin' and long lefts. I purposefully didn't bring any camera equipment except for a little HD Go Pro camera. The morning of what was supposedly the swell of the season, my girlfriend and I woke up before dawn and navigated the rocks to empty spinning lefts. For forty-five minutes we shared sunrise lefts. Eventually the pack paddled out and the camera fogged up, so I ditched the head rig and shared perfect waves with the locals all day. I'm surfboard ridden- 5'8" quad-fin fish handshaped by jake moss.

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Words of wisdom as seen in Decadent Lifestyle

Apoiar.

Vamos apoiar os nossos não? Eles andãm a dar que falar!! :)

A semana passada no Paragliding International Open o Nuno e o Claudio ficaram em 2º e 1º lugar respectivamente, cool huh? Esta semana é The Paragliding World Cup e eles andam na Serra da Estrela a batalhar! Merecem o nosso apoio? Obviamente que sim! Pelo menos que se saiba que ficamos orgulhosos por eles levarem o nome português a voar tão alto.... literalmente! :) 

Parabéns pelos sucessos passados e boa sorte para os próximos!

The Paragliding World Cup 2010 - Event 7

Serra da Estrela, Portugal.

| Official Paragliding World Cup website

High tide.

Waiting on the high tide... and everything is good in the (my) world..¦)
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(Thom Yorke)

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Cute surfer :)

(1964)

"Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like californ-I-A
You'd see 'em wearin' their baggies
Huarachi sandals, too
A bushy bushy blonde hairdo
Surfin' U.S.A" 

I think it might be the time for me to buy myself a Channel Islands Flyer surfboard and get on with it, right Sunshine? :) 

Now I just need a lil dubbie :)

Thanks to the ever poetic Krzysztof for pointing out Takeshi Murata's work on FB.

Those were the times.

For all the good folk out there that knows what this moment is all about.. :)

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stilled movement

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

‎"We were but stones, your light made us stars" || 2/8

This song, along with "given to fly", has a very special place in my heart.. do please enjoy.

Ed dedicates 'Light Years' to Diane Muus from Sony Music. (She died in 1997 at an age of 33 and knew the band very well.) 

"So that was about a friend who is fucking up and there is nothing you can do about it! And you just watch'em go down down down. And then, other times you have got friends that don't fuck up at all and are great people. And then you just lose them for some reason. They are off the planet and you never had a chance to say goodbye. I only mention this because there was a person we used to know here and that was Diane and ah, we never got a chance to say goodbye. This is goodbye! And if you've got good friends love 'em while they are here."

Poetic Education #19

Words swirling out just from the tip, of your tongue,

which I so - possessively - like to lick.

"i like my body when it is with your

body. It is so quite a new thing.

Muscles better and nerves more.

i like your body. i like what it does,

i like its hows. i like to feel the spine

of your body and its bones, and the trembling

-firm-smooth ness and which i will

again and again and again

kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,

i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz

of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes

over parting flesh . . . . And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you quite so new"

— E. E. Cummings.

OH.MY.GOD. That's one mother of a wave...

I'm trying really hard to decide if Laird Hamilton is completely out of his mind or simply brilliant.. It is a very thin line...

That's the spirit!! :)

Thank you Samuel for this, it really made my day! :)

Quote of the day #41

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard

Source: X1

La relatividad de los años.

Yo sé, que esto a ti, te da todo igual, pero a mi no! :)

Así que, Hombre de Lata, Feliz Cumpleaños & Rock On!!

La dama y la muerte

Cortometraje español 'La dama y la muerte', un excelente trabajo de animación realizado por Javier Recio Gracia y Kandor Moon.

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Taking conscience. 

(GreenPeace Add)

Source: Szymon Błaszczyk's inspiration log.

Sentiment

"When the rain is blowing in your face

And the whole world is on your case

I would offer you a warm embrace

To make you feel my love"

Cenandito...

Buen vino, buena comida y excelente compañia. Life is good!

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Poetic Education #18

MIRÁNDONOS《Cruz Salmerón》


“Entre tus ojos de esmeraldas vivas
te miro el alma, de ilusiones llena,
como entre dos cisternas pensativas
se ve del cielo la extensión serena.

[....]

Porque cuando me miras y te miro
sale volando tu alma en un suspiro
y embriagada de amor cae en la mía.”

lomography?

Beautiful examples of lomography.

Volar alto.

Volando.... como decia el otro? "pero no les perdono q no sepan volar"? Muy cierto.

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