segunda-feira, 18 de fevereiro de 2008

Eames Plywood Elephant Prototype, 1945

Insanity

"I don´t suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it"
Unknown, 2007

Storage Case QUAD - Design Nauris Kalinauskas 2006


Pleasure or not

"Poor is the Men whose the pleasure depends on the permission of another"
Madonna, from the song "Justify my love"

Design and Privacy


Bath, Jaime Hayon para ArtQuitect

Showtime multi-leg cabinet, Jaime Hayon para a BD

Smoke Chair by Maarten Baas

Por que algumas são tão ricas e outras são tão pobres

"Nenhum esclarecimento foi oferecido até hoje para explicar por que os países pobres são pobres e os países ricos são ricos"
Paul Samuelson, em 1976


"Em suma, a riqueza é um íman irresistível; e a pobreza um agente de contaminação potencialmente violento; não pode ser segregada, e a nossa paz e prosperidade dependem, a longo prazo, do bem-estar de outros."
David S. Landes, "Riqueza e a Pobreza das Nações"

As Cidades Ocultas. 2.

"Não é feliz, a vida em Raissa. Pelas ruas a gente caminha torcendo as mãos, ralha com as crianças que choram, apoia-se aos parapeitos sobre o rio de cabeça nas mãos, de manhã acorda de um mau sonho e começa logo outro. Entre as bigornas onde toda a hora se esmaga os dedos com o martelo ou se pica com a agulha, ou nas colunas de números todos tortos dos registos dos negociantes e dos banqueiros, ou diante das filas de copos sobre o zinco dos balcões das tabernas, ainda bem que as cabeças baixas nos poupam a olhares turvos. Dentro das casas é pior, e nem é preciso entrar lá para sabê-lo: de Verão as janelas ressoam de brigas e de pratos quebrados.
E no entanto, em Raissa, a cada momento há uma criança que de uma janela ri a um cão que saltou sobre um alpendre para morder um bocado de massa que caiu a um pedreiro que do alto do andaime exclamou: - Alegria minha, deixa-me pintar-te! - a uma jovem taberneira que atravessa a pérgula com um prato de carne nas mãos, contente por servi-lo ao fabricante de chapéus de chuva que festeja um bom negócio..."

de "As Cidades Invisíveis", Italo Calvino

The Beginning - "Prophecy"



"Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy
And blessed are those who hear
And who keep what is written therein
For the time is near
He is coming with the clouds
And every eye will see him
Everyone who pierced him
And all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him
Those of you who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan
I know your works, I know your toil, and your patient endurance
And how you cannot hear evil men
But have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not.
And found them to be false
I know that you are enduring patiently
And you have not grown weary
but I have this against you
that you have abandoned the love you had
And I saw a beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads
And a blasphemous name upon its head
And the beast that I saw was like a leopard
Its feet were like a bear's
And its mouth was like a lion's mouth
And to it the dragon gave his power
And the whole earth followed the beast with wonder
And they worshipped the beast saying
"Who is like the beast and who can fight against the beast?"
And It opened its mouth to utter blasphemous words against God.
It was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer
And authority was given it over every tribe
And a people and tongue and nation
And all who dwell on earth could worship it in vain
If anyone has an ear let him hear
If anyone who slays with the sword.
Then, I saw a new heaven and a new earth
And I heard a great voice from the throne saying:
Behold the dwelling of God is with men
He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people
And God himself will be with them
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes
And death shall be no more
Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore
For these things will have passed away
To the thirsty I will give water without price
From the fountain of the water of life
He who conquers shall have this heritage
And I will be his God and he shall be my son
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted
As for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolators, and all liars
Their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire"
And he said to me, he said to me:
"Do not seal up the words of the prophecy, for the time is near
Behold, I am coming soon"”


From "The Book of Revelation"