Trip to Tiradentes - Minas Gerais

Hi Everyone,

These are some pictures of a trip I made to Tiradentes.

Tiradentes is a cute historical city from Minas Gerais, a realy rustic State.

It is filled with art and history.  Tiradentes was an important figure that proclamed the State indenpendency back in the years.

Now, the city hosts big events and fairs like the gastronomic fair, the harley davidson encounter, and the book fair. My parents have being there during the gastronomic fair. Imagine, the best chefs, a cold weather, cooking classes and eating eating eating all day long without any rest!

So, let me show you some stuff..

Below it is a really cute wooden dog I found in the most chic hotel called Os Inconfidentes. I wish I could take him home!



The city has thousands of white flower trees. Look at our car!

It seems like a "just married" car!

Ok, when I loaded this picture, I thought it was me, but thats my sister.

Check out this store and the sculpture!

The sculpture below is a huge lion made of wood - ONE WOOD STALK!

Getting in the main part of the city! Its lovely!

A nice thing to do is to take a poney or a horse ride!

The poney is so cute and tiny!!

You can notice that NO HIGH HILL is needed. Please, tennis shoes are the best! Look at those little stones. It drove me crazy!

You can see that the architecture is really original and unique! All streets and houses are like the ones in the photo.

I stayed in a lovely and rustic hotel. This is my bathroom..

Check out the bathroom´s view!

I guess someone has made her dress dirty before the wedding! 

Here is a really artistc burrow in an art gallery

Check out these flowers with the white stripes.

Miniature dresses hanging sculptures.

Did you notice? That's a real iron!

Typicall food from Minas Gerais = Okra + chicken!

Minas Gerais is known for its food...cheese, milk sweets, cheese bread, guava sweet (goiabada) and the plate above!

As the houses' windows had a straight view to the streets. The ladies used to pass long times on the window flirting with the passengers! ;)

The position above reflects the most famous sculptures from Tiradentes - as Namoradeiras (the flirters)!

Above is the old prision. Tiradentes was confined in this prision.

Now, it is a museum. Its interesting to notice how small and simple it is.

Seems that the prisioners also could flirt to teh passengers!

Joking...

Typicall food and drinks store. Here you could buy anything you want form alcoohol drinks and sweets.

Taking a walk..downtwon..

Tiradentes

Main square with the horse rides on the side.

Art made out of offscourings. Interesting and disturbing store...

Check its interior below:

So, you think this is a free-nudity?

No way!

This black lady below is actually a alcoohol bottle if you take her head off..and her boobs are not free-nudity, they are just more space for drinks....

clever!

Here they are..the NAMORADEIRAS flirting!

I really liked the painintg above!

I just had to stand next to him...to show how tiny he is!

The city has a rail that takes tourists to visit the places and also takes people from one city to another! Bummer...I got there and the last train was alreday gone!!!

The cutest namoradeira I found!

If I had a house, I would buy and put in my window..

Chec out this interetsng house...flowers growing on the ruff..

Can you see that next to the church Matriz there are a little open cemetery. Every priest of this church was burried there!

This is a family portrait for remembrance!

I hope you liked.

This is a really interesting little city from Brazil. Small, really hot during the day, REALLY cold at night, filled with history and good food!

Holidays

I am about to take my holidays. Tomorrow is my father´s b-fay, 12th is Children´s Day in Brazil and on Wednesday my HOLIDAYSSSS start!!! I have thousands of plan for it...exersicing, blogging, taking care of my eating habits, growing stonger nails, finishing my thesis, walking by the beach, going to beach bars to see the sunset. Also, Erica, a friend from work gave me more than 15 movies..so I will be busy with that.

One thing I know, I will have fun, relax and take a ddep dive in arts.

Count on great ánd interesting posts coming up soon!

XX

Ellection Day!

Yeah, Saturday again! Tomorrow is ellection day in Brazil. As you know, in Brazil:

1. Every citizen 18 years old and higher is obliged to vote;
2. No drinks can be sold or consumed during the ellection day. Yeap, no open bars!
3. No political advertisement can be done during the ellection day.
4. We need to vote to: president, vice president, governor, senator, federal congressman and state congressman.

I have no idea yet in which one I will vote! I guess there is a lack of options!

Let's see!

My Sunday walks by the beach

My beach walks in the weekend are always fun and definetly funny! Its unbelievable what you bump into in those walks...haha!

Last weekend, I walked by Copacabana Beach. If you dont know, Brazil is passing through an ellection time. Dilma (Lula´s protegé) X Serra X Marina!! People are crazy walking in the streets with numbers clued to their chest, flags, colours, screaming political things, and poluting the floor.

In the middle of that mess, I found a really cute old lady band singing old samba and bossa nova songs in a kioski at the beach. I made I video for you to see.

I hope you like!

Those are really old ladies with all problems that this great tie of life can bring you..some are even blind. It is so rewarding to see them overcoming their limits and reality and making art!

No art, no reward ...

Seth Godin´s yesterday´s e-mail also talks about art...I guess he always thinks about marketing and art in his analysis. Here it is: 

"The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out.

The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better.

Not much of a choice, I think. No risk, no art. No art, no reward."

Wait it up!

I dont know if I have ever said this here, but I work at IBM and I am an artist on the free time (every free time). Its really hard to have a double shift, but really reawarding when I see the results and the comcretization of some projects.

Right now I have some projects going on and I have that feeling that I bet all producers and artists have to feel like you are useless. Sometimes you want it so much to happen (and fast) that you can not wait for the burocracy stuff. I am on that spot, where waiting and waiting started to feel like a default sittuation.

My friends know about my projects and always ask. My family knows about my projects and always ask. I know about my projects and I always have to ask: when will it ship?

This is not good to feel. I just wanted time to pass...months later...to the release, to the autographs, to the reactions, to the critics... For now, I am in default mode ... waiting.

So, I am trying at least to be actively waiting for some to happen. I a doing more and more, thinking more and more...producing more and more...calling and not getting answers, trying and not getting anywhere, contacting and networking and nothing concrete happening...but...at least I lfeel alive in the meanwhile.

Cest la vie!

Have a nice weekend. Wait!

Have a nice wait.

Hugh McLeod

Get off your phone, you backberry-evil, your computer, your twitter, you facebook, Ipod, Ipad, and come to life!

Its time! We are here...alive and next by!

I need you to see things my way - Seth Godin

I always subscribe to Seth Godin´s daily blog posts. The insights are related to marketing and business, but sometimes he talks about life, art, theories and all. Today´s post applies to our blog and I wanted to share with you all. He talked about the need that every artist has to make his audience see things his way.

You always want the message or argument stated in your art to be understood by everyone, but that does not happen often. Lots of people do not get it and thousands of others more get it wrong. Seth´s advise is to ignore it. Just focus on your public, the tiny prtion that gets it, and let the other come along later.

Check his argument:

"And that's the frustration of the artist who hasn't figured out how to navigate critics and the marketplace.

If you need the validation and acceptance and patronage of everyone you meet, you'll get stuck, and soon. Everyone isn't going to get it. Everyone isn't even going to get you, never mind what you sell.


Experienced artists and those that make change understand that the new is not for everyone. In fact, it's not even for most people. Pass them by. They can catch up later.


It's not a referendum, and you don't need a unanimous vote of acclamation. No, you merely need enough to stay in business, to keep moving, to make a dent. And then your idea can spread.

If the kids in the back of the bus/audience/store don't get it (or don't get you) it's their loss. Focus on those that want to celebrate the work you do instead."

Unrealized Potential by Hugh McLeod

As per the one cartoonist I like a lot: "This cartoon is a bit of a self-portrait of myself, just after leaving college. Young, kinda goofy, full of dreams and unarticulated ideas.

But it was that dissatisfaction with "unrealized potential" that kept me going. Even back then I knew, potential isn't enough. It never is."

For my sister

This is a post dedicated to my sister´s peculiar adoration for Hippos.

At the age of three, she got her first (wine color) hippo from my godmother and since then she has being collecting everything with hippos in it. The collection got wild when everyone one got to know this hobby of hers and started to buy her hippo goodies. Hippo pillow, hippo pencil, hippo magnetics, hippo candle, hippo painting (ok, that was me! I painted it), hippo books, hippo heart shapped butt stuffed animal, so on...

It got to the point that she even adores watching hippos pooping at Discovery Channel.

So, for my sister, Daniela Lanna, the fashion columnist of this blog, this post is dedicated to your hippos (my nephews) and you!

Hope you like!

And a funny one: when a hippo can make the zoo visit funnier with a private watery poop show!

Creative Bags!

                                              ASPE Crime Stories Bag

Ann Summers - Kinky Whip

Shumensko Beer Crate

Volkswagen Golf GTI Bag

MERALCO: UNPLUG TO SAVE

Greenpeace - Give Me Your Hand



Children with Autism

Stop'n grow: Nailbiter

Panadol 

Daihatsu 

ReVital 

Yulia Tymoshenko

Fitness

 

Floating Magic-I Bag

 

 

Blush Lingerie: X-Ray Bag

Karl Lagerfeld Shopping Bag

Tom of Finland Shopping Bag

 

Mr. Nobody

Tonight I watched a movie I intended to watch for a little while now. A friend from work gave it to me and said it was really good. as she has good taste and loves movies, I trusted her opinon.

I have never hear about MR NOBODY before as it never hit the cinemas in Brazil. I have a great discovery. The funny is intriguing, the plot is well developed. It is wierd and non-sens for a while and, by the time you pick it up, you can not stop thinking about your own life and choices.

The movie shows possible lives of Mr Nobody based on possible life choices he makes or is is put in to. The film message is that we cant go back, thats why it is hard to choose. So, you´ve got to make the right choice. As long as you don't choose, everything remains possible. But each of these lives is the right one! Every path is the right path. Everything could have been everything else and it will have just as much meaning.

A good passage from the movie is the following phrase said by Nemo: I am not afraid to die. I am afraid I havent been alive enough.

You can see all quotes form the movie here!

Check the movie trailler here!

Description: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence at his wife's side, Elise, and their 3 children, until the day when reality skids and he wakes up as an old man in the year 2092. At 120, Mr. Nobody is both the oldest man in the world and the last mortal of a new mankind where nobody dies anymore. But that doesn't seem to interest or bother him very much. The only questions that preoccupy him in the present is whether he lived the right life for himself, loved the woman whom he was supposed to love, and had the children whom he was meant to have... now his purpose is to find the right answer.

It is worth watching it. It makes you rethink your choices and your life path...
Its never too late to WAKE UP.

Afternoon at URCA

Yesterday, I spent the whole day at Urca - one of the most beautiful Rio´s neighborhood - 

doing nothing but talking, talking, talking and biking.

I found out a great bar called Bar Urca, which is a dirty feet bar in front of the bay. People grab their food and driks and sit on the bleacher to enjoy the view and the talk. A friend and I had sardine and a shrimp + cheese croquette. It was great!

The talk and the view are the best source of inspiration. Whenever you want to be filled up with ideas and wishes to read, to make art, to be pro-active and you are blessed to have this sceneary 15 minutes from your home...explore it! No white canvas, white papers, random chords can frighten you.

View from the Garota da Urca´s restaurant! The mountains align perfectly.