"Todos Dias" - Carlos Quitério

Carlos Quitério

If you happen to be on vacation in Lisbon later this week, I urge you to stroll down to Galeria Trema to check out the “Todos Dias” exhibition showcasing the work of Carlos Quitério.

I’ve been a big fan of his work for awhile now. He’s got a real dreamy sense of composition and still manages to be “down-to-earth” and real (which is essentially the same thing).

I really wish I could make the trip to Portugal in general, but this would be a serious cherry-on-top for me!

Boa sorte Carlos, parabéns!

date Posted on Monday, 11 Sep 2006
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Douglas Bowman's roulette

Douglas Bowman

I love Douglas Bowman’s big, bold, and web-colorful roulette page (as well as homepage). Each six-digit string is its own HTML color, refreshing the page will give you a different, I’m assuming random, color combination. Nice!

date Posted on Sunday, 10 Sep 2006
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Paula Scher, painted maps

Painted maps - Paula Scher
Africa, 2003, Acrylic on canvas, 120” x 104.5”

Chances are you’ve already seen Paula Scher’s work outside of a gallery. A principal at Pentagram, she’s built identity systems for Citibank, The New York Public Theater, and the American Museum of Natural History. She began her career designing album covers for CBS Recordings in the 1970s.

She showed a series of paintings at the Maya Stendhal Gallery in NYC earlier this year consisting of 12 large canvases, some spanning 5’ to 12’. She uses color in a bold fashion to communicate her opinions about a particular region. She does this quite elegantly, as a seasoned graphic designer could only pull it off. Despite having a lot of text all over the paintings, there’s an understated simplicity which is pleasing and fun to interact with. I also can’t help but to feel some sort of primal obsessive-compulsive angle to these works—like aboriginal art, for example.

Emu Dreaming - Tim Leura
Emu Dreaming, 1975, Acrylic on masonite, 12” x 20”

I really love these painted maps. I’m sure in person these behemoths are even more impressive, what a pity I missed this exhibit!

Read more about her here:

date Posted on Thursday, 07 Sep 2006
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Sympathique, 2000

Here goes my first foray into YouTube. I filmed and edited this for an end-of-the-year work party. Kevin selected the song which was the basis of the whole concept. If you’re interested in the song, it’s on the Pink Martini CD.

date Posted on Sunday, 03 Sep 2006
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Ms. Dirtay Dog's new album

I always take heat for liking stuff like this, but I’m too damn cool to care what anyone thinks—I love Christina Aguilera’s new album, Back to Basics! There I said it. And I still like Nelly Furtado’s first record to—WHAT?! heh.

Never having listened to Ms. Aguilera’s previous records in their entirety, I can’t really compare one thing to the other. I will say though that the first couple of tracks on this one are just solid as hell. In her class of bubblegum teenage diva wannabees, she’s been the only one who can actually sing. That said, I’m constantly annoyed with all the Whitney Houstonesque, holding a damn note for three minutes kinda crap.

There’s a real old school feel the much of the record, scratchy vinyl textures, familiar beats, funky Motown horn samples, and other little tricks that makes me feel like I’m rediscovering a jam from pops’ LP collection. About half of this 2 disc set is fulll of songs like this. The other half are slow ballads about how she’s constantly losing in love because her sesame seed diet tends to be a turn off for her boyfriends and needless to say I’m not a big fan of this whiny crap.

Lastly, I need to give a shout out to my girl Cristina Black. If it wasn’t for her review of this record as well as our previous conversations about the “the music we’re not supposed to like,” I would have never bought this disc from the record storeillegally downloaded these mp3s.

date Posted on Wednesday, 30 Aug 2006
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No junk in this trunk!

Tesla Motors

Holy I’m-not-using-gasoline Batman! The Tesla Roadster is 100% electric, 0 to 60 mph in 4 seconds, 1¢ a mile, 250 miles per charge sweetness!

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know jack about electric cars, but this appears to be the first true step in taking electric cars to consumers. Though the $100,000 price tag seems steep right now, I’d be willing to bet in the coming years this price will drop a bit. If I waited a few years to buy a CD player, DVD, etc.—I can wait a little while for this baby.

If you feel like “Burning rubber, not gasoline,” I urge you to quadruple click here to check out their smokin’ site!

date Posted on Wednesday, 30 Aug 2006
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Streets so nice, had to name it twice!

Rua Domingos Ferreira - Fernando Paiva
Foto: Fernando Paiva

Metroblogging writer Fernando Paiva takes a funny picture of an “imaginary corner” in Copacabana that no doubt has bewildered many a tourist. Full post (in portuguese) is here.

date Posted on Sunday, 27 Aug 2006
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Pope condems excessive working, takes vacation

Pope Benedict XVI

“…watch out for the dangers of an excessive activity, whatever… the job that you hold, because many jobs often lead to the ‘hardening of the heart’, as well as ‘suffering of the spirit, loss of intelligence’,” Benedict said, quoting St Bernard.

I’ve been preaching this since I got my first summer job as a lifeguard at 15 years old, but finally the Catholic Church’s main man is standing up for the evils of an excessive work life. Full article is here.

date Posted on Sunday, 27 Aug 2006
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Urban Forest Project

Design Times Square: The Urban Forest Project brings 185 banners created by the world’s most celebrated designers, artists, photographers and illustrators to New York’s Times Square. Each banner uses the form of the tree, or a metaphor for the tree, to make a powerful visual statement. Together they create a forest of thought-provoking images at one of the world’s busiest, most energetic, and emphatically urban intersections. Following their display, (September 1–October 31, 2006) the banners will be recycled into tote bags and sold at auction, with proceeds going to scholarship and mentoring programs that benefit students of the visual arts. Some banners embody visceral responses to pressing environmental, political and social issues. Others use the evocative power of nature to develop rich patterns and abstract forms that delight the viewer. All contain passion, thought, and energy—qualities that only emerge when the world’s finest creative minds apply themselves to a brief they truly believe in.

Check their site for the full scoop!

date Posted on Saturday, 26 Aug 2006
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I ❤ NY

IMG_6148.JPG An anonymous Gawker shit-talker bitchslaps NYC in this article while abusing the newest old explicative on the street—“douchebag.”

I have to say that I cracked up reading this article, because it’s for the most part true. New York City could very well be the worst “greatest city in the world” in the world.

date Posted on Saturday, 26 Aug 2006
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Node to node code

beemo.net visualization
beemo.net visualization

I’m such a sucker for visualizing data—I feel like it must be satisfying some weird primal urge for organizing things in our minds, I dunno. Anyhow, this site will graph your site based on this legend:

date Posted on Tuesday, 22 Aug 2006
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Hammer icon

hammer icon Ok, so I’m getting a little icon-crazy lately. I’ve been thinking about how the whole DIY “movement” has surfaced to mainstream media lately. I remember using that term for the first time back in my “skateboard-every-hour-of-the-day” period, referring to the duct tape ollie guard on the modified Airwalk hightops. Now there’s an entire network on cable dedicated to Doin’ It Yo’self. What kinda gets my goat is how selling DIY kits for various things are often just as expensive as a finished product.

date Posted on Sunday, 20 Aug 2006
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Dogs of War, Mr. Rand & Mr. Morris

beemo rand no shoot art by Brian Morris
Art: Brian Morris

“Don’t shoot!” I cried. “Don’t copy!” exclaimed Mr. Rand. Unfortunately, they kept shooting and copying because evolution is a very slow process, you will most likely never see the benefits of it.

date Posted on Sunday, 20 Aug 2006
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Self-portrait with a beard

Self-portrait with a beard
“Self-portrait with a beard” — Brian Morris

date Posted on Sunday, 20 Aug 2006
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Panorâmicos do Rio de Janeiro

Guanabara Bay panoramic
View of the Guanabara Bay from Forte São Luizando Pico

Guanabara Bay panoramic
View of Botafogo from Pão de Açúcar

Here’s a few makeshift panoramic shots I took a few years ago. I was setting up my desktop pattern today while it was set to “stretch to fit” and these super wide shots got smushed together, which I thought looked kinda cool.

date Posted on Monday, 14 Aug 2006

Fire replacement icon

Fire icon The majority of my friends in New York use AOL Instant Messenger, all my Dutch friends use MSN Messenger as well as my brother, a few amigos from Brazil are using ICQ, I have a few people on Yahoo! Messenger, then there’s wifey on the local network using Bonjour, and finally all my collegues on an internal Jabber server at work. Am I supposed to have six skinny yet tall windows littering my desktop? Get real!

Several years ago, I found this smokin’ application called Fire on Sourceforge (puns!). I’ve been a huge fan every since. The interface uses minimal desktop real estate, it’s very customizable, there’s even a tabbed chat window which keeps the window madness under control, and it’s a stable little program. There’s a ton of other features that I would encourage you to read about on their site. I will say that the one drawback is the poor performance of sending files or lack of audio and/or video chatting. But, pound for pound, if you’re typing text back and forth to you friends across multiple messaging platforms, this is the answer to all your dreams!

Since this app is free, I decided to make some sort of contribution and build a few additions to Fire. Feel free to download them both below.

date Posted on Monday, 07 Aug 2006
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