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<title><![CDATA[Me - Video Art]]></title>
<link>http://tripnburn.wordpress.com/?p=313</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Me, My Eye -and- My Video&#8230;
Enjoy a fresh &#8216;Film Still&#8217; from my new Video Art Instal]]></description>
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<p>Enjoy a fresh 'Film Still' from my new Video Art Installation: "SEXhibition".<br />
Ti's about a combination of Video ART and Sex...<br />
The Eye acts as a powerful Sexual Symbol.<br />
Have you ever read <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bataille">Georges Bataille</a>'s "Story of the Eye" (<font size="1"> <a href="http://">Histoire de l'oeil</a> </font>) ???</p>
<p><a href="http://tripnburn.wordpress.com/featured-burning-man-videos/" title="Click for more Video Art"><img src="http://tripnburn.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/me-video-art.jpg" /></a><br />
<font size="1">Trip N' Burn presents : " Me -and- My Eye " © </font></p>
<h2>Video Art Performances can sometimes be Good Shit -<br />
This is one's an example of how bad can it get as well...</h2>
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<title><![CDATA[Across the Universe, un musical psichedelico!]]></title>
<link>http://lary1984.wordpress.com/?p=171</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lary1984</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lary1984.wordpress.com/?p=171</guid>
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Ieri sera, grazie all&#8217;iniziativa &#8220;All that Musical&#8221; promossa dal Comune di Reggio]]></description>
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Ieri sera, grazie all'iniziativa "All that Musical" promossa dal Comune di Reggio Emilia, ho avuto la possibilità di assistere gratuitamente alla proiezione del nuovissimo film - musical "Across the Universe" in Piazza Prampolini. Premetto che non amo il genere cinematografico in questione, ma devo ammettere che questo film mi ha piacevolmente stupito. Per questo voglio parlarne qui sul mio blog personale.</p>
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<p>"Across the Universe" è un film musicale del 2007, diretto da Julie Taymor, realizzato su 33 componimenti dei Beatles. Una vera e propria immersione nella cultura degli anni '60 con numerosi riferimenti hippies e psichedelici. Si parla anche di storia, della guerra del Vietnam, dei movimenti pacifisti dell'epoca. Il ritratto di un'epoca straordinaria e dannata in forma di videoclip. Bono ha partecipato come attore nel film.</p>
<p>Sito web ufficiale: <a href="http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/acrosstheuniverse/">http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/acrosstheuniverse/</a> </p>
<p>Ho trovato questo musical di grande impatto sia per i contenuti storico-sociali, sia per le citazioni e i riferimenti all'epoca hippies e alla psichedelia, sia naturalmente per le splendide colonne sonore firmate Beatles e interpretate da diversi artisti. Molto importante il ruolo del montaggio che rende il film per niente noioso (sebbene le due ore di durata) e molto moderno. Bravissimo l'attore protagonista, già famoso grazie al film 21. Credo sia un film che meriti senza dubbio la visione anche per il pubblico rock.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[One Of Those Pictures.....]]></title>
<link>http://fidosplace.wordpress.com/?p=516</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[1968 - 2008: From Vietnam to Concordia]]></title>
<link>http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=1151</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Maximilian Forte</dc:creator>
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For many of those who are 40 and older, 1968 stands out as an emblematic year for the transnational]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">For many of those who are 40 and older, 1968 stands out as an emblematic year for the transnational politics of dissent, for the development of countercultures and various avant gardes, for the emergence of non-class social movements, and the appearance of what some call the "revolution of the forgotten peoples" in the social sciences which turned more of their attention to African Americans, native peoples, women, gays, and a host of non-state actors. In almost every continent something happened that was tumultuous: Black Power, Red Power, Flower Power, and the anti-war movement in the United States; the Tet Offensive in Vietnam that marked a turnaround and the impending defeat of a superpower, falling into economic disarray and a hard bitten view of itself thereafter. At my university, Concordia, there were so-called "Black power riots" in the very building in which my office is located, which had international consequences that led to the Black Power Revolution of 1970 in Trinidad and Tobago, and one of the Concordia leaders, Rosie Douglas, would end up becoming the Prime Minister of Dominica. Admittedly, most of the discussions of 1968 focus almost exclusively on movements in Europe.<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Previously I had commented on this blog that we seem to be living through a rewind of 1968, which in many ways misses out on what is distinctive about where we are 40 years later, what the alignment of social forces looks like, and what matters most on both orthodox and heterodox political agendas. A number of recent articles, books, and symposia have appeared seeking to assess the legacies of 1968, from a 2008 standpoint, and the assessments are, as can be expected, mixed. The points that are raised are very interesting nonetheless. This post comes in three parts below.<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>1. THE CUNNING OF HISTORY?</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Fred Halliday, writing in Open Democracy in an article titled "<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/1968-the-global-legacy" target="_blank">1968: the global legacy</a>" (13 June, 2008), presents us with the perspective of someone who was active and inspired by the global movements of protest and new movements in art, music, and public debate, but was nevertheless a failure in transformational terms. He notes that in no western European country, which in many analyses is the centre of what Wallerstein called the World Revolution of 1968, were the politics modified. Not only that, there was a right wing shift in Britain and France. If anything, the legacy of 1968 was an ambiguous one, he argues. Halliday is not militating against the ideas, perspectives and movements that marked 1968, rather he wishes to see more sober evaluations of its consequences: "The events were indeed extraordinary, and remain indelible. What is wrong in the memorialisation is the fetishism of the moment, and associated loss of perspective and overall judgment, which leads to three kinds of distortion of focus."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">The first of these distortions caused by celebrations of 1968 was what he claims was the absence of feminism, coming only with second-generation feminism of 1969. When Halliday says 1968, he means to be very precise and calendrical about it, whereas others might see it as more of an emblematic, umbrella-like period that encompasses 1969 for certain. Nor is it universally true that feminism was absent from the movements of 1968. Halliday sees the second distortion coming in the indulgence of violence by certain sectors, whether urban guerrilla warfare or what would later be called terrorism. Finally, the third distortion in his view is the absence of "political realism" -- "the ability to match aspiration and imagination with a cool assessment of the balance of existing political forces."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Rather than a "world revolution," Halliday argues, 1968 ought to be seen as the start of an international/ "tricontinental" counterrevolution (I am not sure why these two cannot go together, since the latter seems to be premised on the former). Halliday takes us through a series of deadly anti-revolutionary transformations that occurred across the globe in the period, especially in the Soviet bloc and in China, and notes that the results led to the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">It is clear in retrospect that 1968 did not bury European capitalist democracy or American imperialism. It did, however, set in train the death and burial of the Russian and Chinese revolutions and of communism in western Europe. A fine example, indeed, of the cunning of history.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Unfortunately, what Halliday does not do is to present us with reasons why others instead celebrate 1968, and the transformations that they can point to. Moreover, many even on the left would not mourn the passing of either Soviet socialism or China's last serious attempt to claim that its revolution was a communist one.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>•••••••</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>2. THE FUTURE OF 1968</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">A book edited by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, <a href="http://1968ineurope.sneakpeek.de/index.php/home" target="_blank"><em>1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977</em></a> (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) presents a range of assessments that, while not the opposite of Halliday's, certainly present different angles of understanding. As the subtitle of the book suggests, 1968 stands not for a year of events but for two decades of events.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">In the <a href="http://1968ineurope.sneakpeek.de/index.php/home/showSite//0/9" target="_blank">introduction</a>, the editors begin by highlighting the degree to which students were focused on by the mass media as agents of protest, some even referring to a "student class" emerging that echoed the emergence of the nineteenth century working class in Europe</span><span style="color:#000000;">. The protesters emphasized what they rightly saw as the lack of participatory democracy in their societies and their growing alienation from their societies. Capitalism was the target of critiques of authoritarianism and technocracy. Universities were to become the centres of revolutionary protest -- indeed, in my own memories of the transformation of the University of Rome's campus, into professor-less open air classes, mural paintings, and wine fueled meetings of communist youth, these were not the kind of shopping mall environments of today. The Vietnam war weighed heavily worldwide, and inspired revolutionary movements across the globe, not to mention celebratory songs, poems, novels, paintings, etc. Interestingly, while today's Iraq war has been protested across the globe, in virtually every country, there seems to be far less of the romance surrounding these insurgents -- no Jane Fondas ready to pose in photographs with them. Dictatorship was also clearly within the sights of protesters, whether Soviet-aligned regimes in the eastern half of the continent, or the military dictatorships of Portugal, Spain, and Greece.<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">For the editors of this volume one of the most outstanding features of "1968" (which they place in quotes), was that, "</span><span style="color:#000000;">it transgressed the ideological fronts of the Cold War." The focus of their volume is on the transnational dimensions of "1968."<br />
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The roots of the movements associated with 1968 are to be found in what the editors calls the "long 1960s." As they say, "1968" stands as a metaphor (whereas for Halliday, it was a single year) for a history beginning with the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and the climax of political violence in Germany and Italy in 1977. Part of this transformation has to do with the emergence of the transnational New Left and the international peace movement. There was a departure from Marxist orthodoxy and its focus on the working class. Nonetheless, capitalism, materialism, and apathy were still targeted by these new movements.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Also of especial interest is the volume's discussion of counterculture. As the editors encapsulate it:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">The youths' belief that they were more sentient than their parents' generation, and the hope of building a new society founded on tenderness met with the search for the "new man" in psychedelic music and drug experiences, in "free" sexuality, and in new forms of living and communication. The synaesthetic nature of rock music served as the colorful display and global transmitter of these new symbolic forms of living and communication. Portraits of musicians like Jimi Hendrix promised the same freedom as the images of Che Guevara or Ho Chi Minh, the only difference being that their freedom could be gained in the here and now. Meanwhile, these new symbolic forms of living and communication often provoked conflicts with both conservative elements in societies and state authorities and thus acquired a political dimension. Concerts by the Rolling Stones or Jimmie Hendrix often ended in outbreaks of violence. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">The editors assert that, "nobody </span><span style="color:#000000;">today seriously doubts that European societies were fundamentally transformed as a result of the events of 1968" -- even if we just finished reading Halliday to the contrary. As they argue, 1968 has had many afterlives and has been virtually canonized in popular memory, at least in Europe if not elsewhere. Let's not forget that a sizable portion of our current population lived through, and often took part in the events of 1968. Finally, as the editors remind us, Hannah Arendt (whose work will also be discussed on this blog) once wrote that "</span><span style="color:#000000;">the children of the next century will once learn about 1968 the way we learned about 1848."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">One of those youth was Tom Hayden. In a chapter titled, </span><span style="color:#000000;">"<a href="http://1968ineurope.sneakpeek.de/index.php/home/showSite//0/8" target="_blank">The Future of 1968's 'Restless Youth'</a>"</span><span style="color:#000000;"> recounts how he came to be involved:<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">I was 27 years old as the year 1968 unfolded. When the decade began, I was the first in my family to attend a university, and my non-conformist instincts led me to the campus paper and the sociology department at the University of Michigan. While pursuing an institutional career, I was a follower of Jack Kerouac as well, whose <em>On The Road</em> was published in my senior year, 1957. During that same year, black high school students integrated a high school in Bill Clinton's Little Rock, Arkansas, amidst beatings, insults and federal military protection. Two years later, after I directly encountered black students risking their lives in the South, I became a committed activist.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Incidentally, he also outlines the extent to which the Johnson administration was worried by student protest movements and plans for spying on American students. Tom Hayden wonders why the CIA should have concerned itself -- when he helped draft the 1962 manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society, he says it was "hardly the Communist Manifesto" and more of a "statement of middle class anxiety." The main foci of his concern were racism and the nuclear arms race. As he says in the piece, their prophets were not Marx and Lenin, but </span><span style="color:#000000;">John Dewey, C. Wright Mills, and J.D. Salinger.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hayden is not euphoric, even when he highlights the energy, hope and promise of 1968. As he himself writes:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Then, as it reached its peak of frenzy, about 1969-70, one could feel the tide begin to turn. The movements themselves were convulsed by division. The Marxist sectarians were not dead at all, merely hatching in the garbage we left unattended. After factions ripped its body apart, SDS was closed down as "too bourgeois." No one could transcend the inevitability of the women's movement as it shredded the male hierarchies. The counterculture was shocked by Altamont and Manson. Drug euphoria devolved into the dark trips of paranoia, depression, and schizophrenia. Thousands of veterans came home with bad papers and strung out. Richard Nixon - wasn't he the man we thought we dumped in 1960, the year it all began? - soon became president of the United States.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">And yet, he emphasizes, there were lasting transformations and immediate changes that occurred as a result of the long 1960s. Hayden lists these as follows:<br />
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<li><span style="color:#000000;">The Vietnam War began to end in 1969 and imploded in the years 1973-75; Nixon and his vice president, Spiro Agnew, were driven from office;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">The compulsory military draft was ended;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">The War Powers Act was passed as a curb on the imperial presidency;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">The Democratic Party and national election rules were radically reformed;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">Earth Day arose apparently from nowhere, historical environmental laws were passed, and the planet Earth was seen in a photo for the very first time;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">After 25 years of failing passage, the 18-year-old vote became law;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Black studies, Latino studies, women's studies, and environmental studies were integrated into the curriculum of high schools and universities</strong>;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">Everyone was humming The Yellow Submarine and quoting Allen Ginsberg;</span></li>
<li><span style="color:#000000;">Several national blue-ribbon commissions (the Kerner report on the ghettos, the Scranton report on the campuses, the Walker report on Chicago) seemed to vindicate the New Left analysis of causes and solutions.</span></li>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">This does not mean that the 1968 protests were not eventually appropriated by the state, for as Hayden notes, "when order was reformed, order was restored."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hayden also argues that the 1960s are "far from over." He cites Bill Clinton as the one to outline the basic dividing line in American politics being "</span><span style="color:#000000;">between those with a generally favorable view of the Sixties phenomenon (who tend to be Democrats) and those who are still attempting to erase the achievements of the Sixties altogether (the neo-conservatives, for example)." Hillary Clinton was also at least an observer at the Chicago protests of 1968. It is ironic then that one side of 1968, the rise of African Americans in the national political panorama, should clash head on with another side, women's rights, in 2008.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Nonetheless, he is hopeful, and notes that one of the main blocs of anti-war supporters today are those ranging from the late 40s to the late 60s in age. Che Guevara has achieved a kind of global martyrdom. And as Hayden believes, "sooner or </span><span style="color:#000000;">later, the new generations will question and resist the programmed future of counter-terrorism, economic privatization, environmental chaos, and sordid alliances justified in the name of this War [on Terror]." </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hayden hopes for a peaceful transition away from imperialism and empire, and that there can be an improved quality of life after empire. Unfortunately, he thinks Canadians may be among those to show Americans the way -- perhaps Hayden has been down so long that it all looks like <em>up</em> to him.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>•••••••</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>3. 1968, SOCIETIES IN CRISIS: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE)</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">This last item brings us right here to Montreal, to Concordia University, and I am very much looking forward to this and will try to present a report after the event has concluded. An international conference, In English and French, is to be held at Concordia on November 3, 2008, titled "<a href="http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=160174" target="_blank">1968, Societies in Crisis: A Global Perspective</a>."</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">The conference description is as follows:<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">1968-2008: forty years later, the crisis of 1968 are still a source of nostalgia, pride or resentment to those who took part in them. By virtue of their impact and their scope, they continue to attract the attention of scholars. The ongoing interest in the events of "1968" may be explained by their many dimensions: they may be seen as periods of challenge to political power and authority, and as movements of student and trade union revolt. The ‘crisis of 68' represent the apogee of the aspiration to freedom and change in societies exasperated by the status quo and respect for social and ethical codes considered obsolete. These general protest movements also found an echo because of their global dimension: they swept Quebec, the United States, Europe, Africa and Latin America. In the framework of the fortieth anniversary of the events of 1968, the Lucienne Cnockaert Chair in the history of Europe and Africa (Université de Sherbrooke and Bishop's University), the Concordia University Chair in the study of Quebec (Sociology and Anthropology department of Concordia University), the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur le Québec et ses relations internationales (GRIQUERE) (Interuniversity research group on Quebec and its international relations) and the Groupement interuniversitaire sur l'histoire des relations internationales contemporaines (GIHRIC) (Interuniversity group for the history of contemporary international relations) are organizing a conference entitled 1968, Societies in Crisis : a global perspective. The conference will seek, on the one hand, to analyze the interconnections, influences or distinctive characteristics of the crisis associated with 1968 and on the other, to compare these crisis by placing them in the sociopolitical perspective of the Sixties (decolonization in Africa, thaw in the Cold War, Vietnam War and, in Quebec, Quiet Revolution, among other factors). The object is to undertake a comprehensive, comparative and interlinked rereading of the ‘springtimes' of 1968 in order to understand the social, economic and political origins of the different movements, observe the issues involved as well as the development and outcome of the crisis, and finally, determine the significance and impact of the events of 1968 and their place in the collective memories of Europeans, Africans and Americans.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">What is noteworthy is not just that my colleague, <a href="http://socianth.concordia.ca/WarrenJP.htm" target="_blank">Jean-Philippe Warren</a> is one of the organizers (a prolific writer who publishes a book a year, and if he blogged would probably blog me right off the Internet), but that unlike the first two items in this post, this conference promises a less Eurocentric focus on 1968.<br />
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<link>http://davidrheins.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/flower-power/</link>
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<dc:creator>David Rheins</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Finally, Something Else To Use My Mint For Besides Mojitos To Get Drunk This Summer]]></title>
<link>http://guiltynoodles.wordpress.com/?p=63</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>allylamon</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I stopped by Bloom 3 to pick up a replacement ceramic bird votive holder I had sen]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Over the weekend, I stopped by <a href="http://www.bloom3.com">Bloom 3</a> to pick up a replacement ceramic bird votive holder I had sent to a friend, but failed to package it properly for the mail. It arrived to her in pieces. Since she was in town, I decided to drop the replacement off to her. While I was at the floral shop, I couldn't resist. I asked the florist to whip up an arrangement for her. Honestly, it was really for me to watch her work her magic, as I've ordered several arrangements and had them delivered through the shop, but never had the opportunity to see them. I've only received gushing phone calls over how marvelous the flowers were. </p>
<p>I got to go through the fridge and pick out what I wanted. Not only that, but I peppered the florist with a gazillion questions. She must've been really irritated with me. The color palette was amazing, just these deep purples that verged on black. We added a ti leaf in the glass vase, a number of pods, a few white mini cala lilies and most importantly, mint! It made the arrangement smell lovely and look amazing.</p>
<p>Again, I was at Jewel tonight and spotted these mini orange roses. I am not a rose fan, mind you, but something about the color just caught me off guard. Of course, I couldn't pass up a batch of cala lilies and came home to find I didn't buy enough roses to fit my vase. Good news! I have a massive patch of mint growing in my yard, specifically for my famous homemade mojitos. I snipped a bunch to fill in the vase and what a fantastic smell it is to have in your kitchen:</p>
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<p>I think I'm beginning to get over my flower issues. I'm having a blast putting arrangements together and am even keeping flowers in my home until they die.</p>
<p>I'm on a new drug, Cymbalta, for my migraines. Perhaps I should read the enclosed literature to see if it says, "May help with overcoming personal disorders, such as, 'floral issues'."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Girly Girl Photo Invitations]]></title>
<link>http://aimeeaustin.wordpress.com/?p=70</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aimee</dc:creator>
<guid>http://aimeeaustin.wordpress.com/?p=70</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some super cute invites for the girls!
Flower Power!

Butterflies &amp; Flowers

Please visit Prince]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some super cute invites for the girls!</p>
<p>Flower Power!</p>
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<p>Butterflies &#38; Flowers</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l244/princessandthepeas/PATP%20Invitations/AAPC32.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Please visit <a href="http://www.princessandthepeas.com/category_13/Invitations.php" target="_blank">Princess &#38; The Peas</a> for more details!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Death is not the end...]]></title>
<link>http://folkblog.wordpress.com/?p=56</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alina Ioana Deac</dc:creator>
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&#8230;Din contră. Uneori, în mod paradoxal, poate sa fie chiar un imbold spre un nou inceput. D]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">...Din contră. Uneori, în mod paradoxal, poate sa fie chiar un imbold spre un nou inceput. Dacă v-aş spune că spaţiul virtual în care tocmai aţi intrat (şi în care sper că veţi reveni cât mai des :) ) nu s-ar fi născut niciodată dacă un om nu ar fi plecat dintre noi, veţi spune poate că exagerez şi că sunt, cu siguranţă, o persoană căreia îi plac poveştile cu iz de melodramă. Cine ştie? Poate că aşa şi sunt, deşi cei care mă cunosc m-ar descrie mai degrabă ca pe o fiinţă rece şi uneori exagerat de raţională. Şi totuşi, ceea ce am afirmat mai sus este adevărat. E bine? E rău? E frumos? E trist? Nu ştiu sigur. Poate putin din fiecare. Am să vă spun povestea şi veţi judeca singuri.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;"> Pe cînd eram doar o puştoaică de liceu care se credea specială şi diferită de ceilalţi (bieţi muritori de rând traşi la indigo şi schimbători după cum bate vântul modei, cum îi consideram eu pe cei care nu îmi împărtăşeau gusturile şi pasiunile) nu aş fi crezut, nici în ruptul capului, că un om ar putea vreodată să se piardă pe el însuşi. Un om, oricare, darămite eu! Eu care nici nu mă sinchiseam de glumiţele răutăcioase pe care fetele de vîrsta mea, cochete şi trendy (nu ştiu dacă termenul ăsta se folosea pe atunci) le făceau  pe seama iei mele cu mâneci evazate sau a fustelor înflorate împrumutate din garderoba mamei mele (pe care le purtam cu acea mândrie a adolescentului rebel care  vrea neapărat să fie altfel decât ceilalţi), eu care care ascultam  Pasărea Colibri, Phoenix, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin şi Pink Floyd pe vremea când era <em>cool </em>să asculţi Andre si 3 Sud Est, nu mi-aş fi imaginat că aş putea vreodată să mă conformez, să mă pierd pe mine şi mai ales să îmi pierd muzica. Şi cum era să îmi imaginez aşa ceva în vremuri în care activităţile mele principale erau cântările pe malul bătrânului Someş alături de o gaşcă de băieţi cu plete, înarmaţi cu o chitară şi cu nelipsita sticlă de vin ieftin şi mult <span style="font-family:Wingdings;"></span> În nopţile târzii, în care mă simţeam nemuritoare îmbrăţişând din priviri Clujul meu mult prea drag, de sus, de pe dealul Cetăţuia, sau pe vremea când, bătând pe jos drumul de la Facultatea de Litere spre Biblioteca Centrală simţeam cum „paşii lui Blaga de departe se aud” în oraşul meu cu hohotiri de clopote, nu puteam crede, nici măcar pentru o clipă, că toate comorile, toate minunile pe care le purtam în mine şi care uneori aproape că mă sufocau, ar putea vreodată să dispară de parcă nici n-ar fi fost vreodată.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">Şi totuşi se poate. Ba chiar nu e greu deloc! Se ia o hippioată întârziată, cu tot cu cele două codiţe răsucite cu elastice şi pamblici colorate, se unge cu toate alifiile, se spală pe creier cu învăţăminte înţelepte din colecţia „Viaţa e grea, nu e aşa cum visezi tu! În viaţă nu poţi face doar ce îţi place!” se adaugă praf magic din cutia pe care scrie cu litere de o schioapa „E CAZUL SĂ TE MATURIZEZI, DRAGĂ!”, se tunde frumos, se vopseşte blondă, se îmbracă la costum, se mai fierbe puţin într-o cratiţă cu probleme existenţiale, se lasă la răcit şi se aşează într-o instituţie de stat. Ca să fii sigur că nu o apucă din nou vechile damblale de <em>pierde-vară</em>, se îngroapă în dosare cu procese verbale, rapoarte şi decizii oficiale. Şi gata! În câteva luni de zile, micuţa şi nonconformista <em>Nimeni-în-drum</em> de altă dată, cu tot cu visele şi iluziile ei copilăreşti şi neproductive, s-a transformat într-o veritabilă şi distinsă domişoară funcţionar la o importantă instituţie de stat, cu aspiraţii serioase, demne de un om matur, cu scaun la cap. Poţi oare să nu o admiri pentru felul în care duce ea la bun sfârşit fiecare sarcină importantă, pentru felul în care execută, în cel mai scurt timp, fiecare ordin primit de sus, pentru promtitudinea cu care întocmeşte atât de clar şi de legal fiecare act oficial şi, mai ales, pentru dedicaţiunea deosebită  faţă de instituţie, de care dă dovadă muncind ore în şir peste program? Ei bine, poţi! Dacă eşti inteligent, dacă te pricepi la oameni, dacă eşti puternic şi uns cu toate alifiile, nici nu ai de ce să o admiri când poţi, atât de uşor, să o foloseşti pe post de sclav cuminte şi supus. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">Ei bine, da! Mi s-a întâmplat şi mie ceea ce nici prin gând nu mi-ar fi trecut că ar putea vreodată să mi se întâmple. Pe vremea când mă autointitulasem „o nostalgică a unor vremuri în care nici măcar nu existam”, pe vremea când visam la o maşină a timpului care să mă teleporteze direct la Woodstock, în serile acelea minunate în care purtam discuţii aprinse şi pătimaşe despre rockul şi folkul protestatar, pe vremea când, undeva sus de tot, pe piedestalul meu de valori, statea liber, frumos, purtându-şi pleata bogată cu demnitate în semn de nesupunere, Florian Pittiş, modelul meu de libertate şi vocea de care m-am îndrăgostit în copilărie definitiv şi iremediabil, în astfel de vremuri frumoase şi inocente  eram convinsă că, pe mine, niciodată, nimeni şi nimic, nu va reuşi să mă supună, că societatea, oricum ar fi ea, nu are cum să facă vreodată din mine un sclav. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">Eram însă doar un biet copil visător, lipsit de griji şi liber ca pasărea cerului. Crescusem în libertate şi mi se părea la fel de firească precum aerul pe care îl respiram. Era uşor să mă cred hippioată fără să înţeleg, de fapt, adevărata esenţă a spiritului hippie. Maturizarea m-a luat prin surpindere, problemele de om mare m-au acaparat, frica de a nu rămâne un om fără căpătâi, fără un rost în viaţă m-a cuprins. Şi m-am lăsat dusă de val. Încet dar sigur.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">Îmi amintesc şi acum prima porţie de rahat pe care a trebuit să o înghit. Puteam să o refuz dar m-am temut. A fost rea, a durut, am simţit cum totul începe să se clatine dar mi-am spus că e o porţie mică şi mi-am promis că e prima şi ultima din viaţa mea. Simţeam, însă, în adâncul sufletului, că nu e aşa. Şi nici nu a fost aşa. Au urmat altele şi altele, mai mari, mai greţoase şi mai dureroase. Apoi, încet, încet, m-am obişnuit cu gustul şi am devenit imună la durere. Ajunsesem nu doar să înghit zilnic, ci chiar să îi sfătuiesc şi pe alţii să o facă, chipurile <em>spre binele lor</em>.<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">M-am descoperit goală şi singură dar nu am vrut să accept evidenţa.  Iar lucrul cel  mai grav era că îmi pierdusem muzica. În playlist-ul din Winap ea mergea în continuare, aceeaşi ca odinioară, înregistrată doar pe alt suport, dar nu mai spunea nimic sau, mai bine zis, urechilor mele înfundate ea nu  mai putea să le spună nimic. Am mers mai departe, în virtutea inerţiei, dând vina pe alţii pentru suferinţele mele, blestemându-mi soarta şi Dumnezeul. Şi aş fi continuat aşa până când fie mă transformam într-o acritură scorţoasă şi frustrată, fie ajungeam la casa de nebuni, fie îmi puneam capăt zilelor, dacă nu s-ar fi întâmplat un lucru care a reuşit să ajunga până la acea mică bucăţică de mine însămi care mai rămăsese ascunsă înlăuntrul meu: <strong>mi-a murit un idol</strong>. Şi nu oricare ci chiar el, modelul meu de libertate şi vocea de care m-am îndrăgostit în copilărie definitiv şi iremediabil. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">Da, ştiu, sună ciudat, dar e adevărat: A trebuit să plece Florian Pittiş pentru ca eu să mă pot trezi la realitate, pentru ca eu să mă regăsesc pe mine. A trebuit să moară unul dintre cei mai frumoşi oameni pentru ca o biată fiinţă instabilă emoţional, să poată să ia o decizie care să o scoată din rahat. M-a durut, l-am plâns cum nu îmi imaginam că voi plânge vreodată un om pe care nici măcar nu l-am cunoscut personal. Dar apoi, brusc, am simţit, dintr-o dată, cum devin mai puternică, am simţit că ceva, în mine, începe să fiarbă cu putere, cu hotărâre şi cu dor. Mă simţeam din nou, eram acolo, în mine. Credeam că nu-mi mai rămasese nimic. Dar uite că mai era o bucăţică, mică de tot dar era de ajuns. Precum grăuntele de nisip care mai rămăsese din Fantazia, minunata lume a viselor, a poveştilor, distrusă de Nimicul nimicitor, grăunte care a fost de ajuns pentru reconstruirea unui tărâm de basm chiar mai fantastic decât primul. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">M-am trezit apoi, (în timp ce alergam cu veşnicele-mi dosare  pe coridoarele reci şi sobre ale instituţiei în care îmi câştigam cu silă existenţa), fredonând, în cap, cu hotărâre şi cu bucurie: „Vinovaţii fără vină”. Mi-am amintit atunci de libertatea pe care o propovăduiam în adolescenţă şi am înţeles, în sfârşit, ce înseamnă ea cu adevărat. Am înţeles că e un lucru fragil ce-ţi poate scăpa printre degete fără să bagi măcar de seamă, că e un lucru ce trebuie mereu câştigat şi recâştigat, şi păzit cu preţul oricărui sacrificiu. Am înţeles abia atunci că <strong>NU poţi să fii liber dacă faci lucruri care nu îţi plac, dacă nu îţi urmezi propriile vise şi pasiuni cu orice preţ, dacă faci compromisuri peste compromisuri </strong>doar pentru bani sau pentru o amărâtă de funcţie. Am înţeles că un om ca Moţu Pittiş a trăit şi murit frumos şi cu demnitate pentru că a ştiut toate lucrurile astea şi pentru că le-a urmat cu sfinţenie întraga lui viaţă. Mi-am dat seama că, dacă voi continua aşa, dacă nu voi pune piciorul în prag, indiferent de consecinţe, ma voi transforma într-un om urît care va trăi şi va muri într-un mod lamentabil, singur şi gol pe dinauntru. A fost de ajuns să imi dau seama de toate lucrurile acestea şi să iau o hotărâre, pentru ca lanţurile nevăzute care mă ţineau încătuşată  să cadă. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">A trecut de atunci mai bine de o jumătate de an iar lucrurile, în viaţa mea, au mers din bine în mai bine. Nu, nu va imaginaţi că m-a lovit vreun noroc chior, că nu  îmi mai lipseşte nimic, material vorbind, ca nu mai am stresuri, că nu am probleme pământeşti, ca tot omu'. Doar că, toate acestea, sunt mult mai uşor de dus atunci când ai învăţat că<strong> nimeni şi nimic nu are voie să te oblige să faci lucruri care îţi provoacă silă</strong>, atunci când realizezi că <strong>singurele lucruri care îţi pot aduce împliniri şi satisfacţii, pe toate planurile, sunt doar acelea pe care le faci cu pasiune,</strong> atunci când ştii că ţi-ai regăsit muzica şi că nimic de acum înainte nu va mai putea să ţi-o răpească, atunci când ţi-ai regăsit libertatea şi eşti pregătit să ţii cu dinţii de ea indiferent de consecinţe.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mi-am recreat propria-mi Fantazie  punându-mi dorinţă după dorinţă  şi muncind  pentru împlinirea fiecăreia dintre ele. Este de ajuns să îţi doreşti, este de ajuns să vrei să faci un lucru şi vei reuşi! Ştiu, luată de una singură, fraza asta e un clişeu uriaş, cât se poate de gol şi de sterp. Dar cred că nu sunt singura care a observat că, există situaţii în viaţă, când astfel de clişee, puerile şi cu iz de film american de spălat creierii în dupamieze plicticoase de duminică, pot căpăta o asemenea încărcătură încât ajungi să te miri de felul în care o frază, pe care până nu demult o considerai stupidă şi plină de vorbe goale, devine, dintr-o dată, un adevăr absolut şi incontestabil.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Aşadar, bucată cu bucată, cărămidă peste cărămidă, vis peste vis, dorinţă peste dorinţă, am început să îmi reconstruiesc lumea. Nu ştiu dacă am mai fost vreodată atât de plină de idei, de planuri şi de proiecte, atât de dorinică să fac o mulţime de lucruri, absolut voluntar şi fără să aştept vreo clipă o recompensă materială. Unul dintre aceste proiecte se naşte acum, literă cu literă, frază cu frază, în timp ce degete-le-mi aleargă pe tastatură. Un blog, o revistă, un spaţiu virtual cu şi despre folk. Spuneţi-i cum vreţi. Important este să vă placă, să găsiţi aici ceea ce căutaţi şi să ne vizitaţi astfel cât mai des.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Chiar dacă fac parte dintr-o generaţie care a crescut in epoca internetului, tot vizionarul care a fost Florian Pittiş a trebuit să îmi deschidă ochii asupra unui lucru important: <em>universul www</em> este o zonă fascinantă, nemărginită şi necenzurată în care te poţi exprima liber<span lang="RO">,</span><span lang="RO"> </span>este un spaţiu al libertăţii<span lang="RO">. Iar </span>dacă ştii să <span lang="RO">te</span> foloseşti <span lang="RO">de</span> această <span> </span>libertate, poţi face lucruri incredibile. <span lang="RO">Sper aşadar că, împreună cu deocamdată mica dar entuziasta echipă care se află în spatele acestui proiect, vom reuşi să facem ceea ce ne-am propus: un spaţiu virtual cu muzică bună, gânduri frumoase şi informaţii utile pentru toţi iubitorii muzicii folk din România şi nu numai.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Şi acum, pentru că nu contează cât de lung avem părul şi pentru că tot el <strong>a rămas cel mai frumos din oraşul acesta:<br />
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<title><![CDATA[George Bush and Flower Power project]]></title>
<link>http://borutpeterlin.wordpress.com/?p=2893</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Borut Peterlin</dc:creator>
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Here are few images from EU - USA summit with George Bush, Janez Janša and Jose Manuel Barroso. As]]></description>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61306980@N00/2569853852/" title="George Bush and Flower - Power project by Borut Peterlin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3270/2569853852_06bb2bc6cb.jpg" alt="George Bush and Flower - Power project" height="333" width="500"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61306980@N00/2569853612/" title="Flower - Power project with George Bush by Borut Peterlin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3097/2569853612_44978e7c7c.jpg" alt="Flower - Power project with George Bush" height="500" width="333"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61306980@N00/2569853452/" title="Flower - Power project with George Bush, Janez Janša and jose Manuel Barroso by Borut Peterlin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3079/2569853452_4ab12f92c0.jpg" alt="Flower - Power project with George Bush, Janez Janša and jose Manuel Barroso" height="333" width="500"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61306980@N00/2569853114/" title="Flower - Power project, about flower bouquets in daily news events. by Borut Peterlin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3096/2569853114_a7192d6769.jpg" alt="Flower - Power project, about flower bouquets in daily news events." height="333" width="500"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61306980@N00/2569026721/" title="Flower - Power project, about flower bouquets in daily news events. by Borut Peterlin, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2569026721_11e0ab9b5d.jpg" alt="Flower - Power project, about flower bouquets in daily news events." height="333" width="500"/></a>Here are few images from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">EU</a> - <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0333333333&#38;spn=10.0,10.0&#38;q=38.8833333333,-77.0333333333&#38;t=h" title="United States" rel="geolocation" class="zem_slink">USA</a> summit with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush">George Bush</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janez_Jan%C5%A1a">Janez Janša</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso">Jose Manuel Barroso</a>. As a photojournalist I'm covering many boring news events, where I have to make the same kind of images all the time. I decided that beside those images I have to make something that will challenging me, be innovative and that nobody sees. I was banging my head what is on all those events covered by so many photographers and cameraman's but yet nobody take notice. It was a revelation when I realize that nobody notice Flower bouquets on this events, so about two years ago I started a project <a href="http://www.digitalrailroad.net/borutpeterlin/gpgs.aspx?pgid=9871183&#38;e=0&#38;p=0">FLOWER POWER.</a></p>
<p>Which one from the first two do you prefer? The scenery is best on the second one, but Bush is better on the first picture. </p>
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<link>http://guiltynoodles.wordpress.com/?p=7</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>allylamon</dc:creator>
<guid>http://guiltynoodles.wordpress.com/?p=7</guid>
<description><![CDATA[With the school year drawing to an end, there has been a fury of gift giving and celebrations. Our d]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With the school year drawing to an end, there has been a fury of gift giving and celebrations. Our dining room has been turned into the gift wrapping station and every shopping trip I make, whether it's grocery or a quick trip to the pharmacy to hoard my medication, I'm constantly picking up extra items to give as hostess gifts and what not (are you crazy? I don't give any of my special meds as hostess gifts. Those are saved for myself, especially for the private after party). </p>
<p>Last Saturday night, I was grocery shopping (yes, that's how glamorous it gets as a suburban mom) at<a href="http://www.jewelosco.com"> Jewel</a>. I generally don't shop at Jewel, I'm a bit of a snob when it comes to grocery stores, but with all our extra bills lately, our budget is much tighter. On my way out, I spotted these gorgeous purple mums in the floral section. I needed a hostess gift for the BBQ potluck the following day and was planning on giving the typical bottle of wine which I imagined a sea of upon entering their home. </p>
<p>Here's a little background on my relationship with flowers. It's very bittersweet. I love them, seeing them, receiving them, buying them, but the second I get them in a vase and in my home, I can't stand to keep them in the house. Clayton knows to NEVER give me flowers because:</p>
<p>1. He'd be greeted with, "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU FUCKING?"</p>
<p>2. He wouldn't even begin to know what to get me. I imagine him picking up a bouquet of blue gerber daisies and thinking, <em>Ally loves blue. These are PERFECT! </em> </p>
<p>What's up with those blue gerber daisies and why do they creep me out so much? Who buys those? I almost want to linger in the floral section until some freaky lady covered in cat hair shows up to purchase five bunches of them and then come leaping out shouting, "I knew it!!! I knew it was people LIKE YOU who purchased those horrendous flowers!"</p>
<p>Anyway, on with my point (can you tell I haven't taken my morning pills yet?). I picked up the purple mums (which I must add, I'm not a fan of mums, but this purple was just lovely) and was trying to decide what else it went with. I found these lime green fillers that complimented the mums very nicely and some white cala lilys to break up the color palette. Voila! </p>
<p>I raced home, leaving all my groceries to melt on the kitchen floor, to put together my floral arrangement and was so proud of myself, I even took a picture. You have to understand, I've poured tons of dough down the drain towards florists due to my inability to put together flowers. So, here it is:</p>
<p><a href="http://guiltynoodles.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_0643.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9" src="http://guiltynoodles.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/img_0643.jpg?w=270" alt="" width="270" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>The hostess loved receiving them or at least she pretended to. I'm sure you think it's super mediocre, but I'm damn proud of myself. So, you can suck it and I'm going to go take my happy pills now.</p>
<p>There is absolutely nothing you can say that can bring me down from my floral high. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dora, cyber-néo-bab.]]></title>
<link>http://manettes.wordpress.com/?p=95</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>manettes</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[links may 2008]]></title>
<link>http://borutpeterlin.wordpress.com/?p=2890</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Borut Peterlin</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Next week a cycling race Tour de Slovenie will be going on. Their site sucks but more about it is on]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next week a cycling race <a href="http://posloveniji.si/si/">Tour de Slovenie </a>will be going on. Their site sucks but more about it is on <a href="http://www.siol.net/sportal/kolesarstvo/po_sloveniji.aspx">Siol Sportal</a>. I'm tempted to cover one day of the event. Not because pictures like <a href="http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/06/photographer-ca.html#comments">THAT</a>, but because of work <a href="http://www.chrisdebode.com/">Chris de Bode</a> and his project <a href="http://www.kunsthal.nl/en-22-594-pers-Tour_du_Monde.html">Tour de Monde</a>. </p>
<p>I like Daryl Lang's video posts from PDN New York Photo festival of photography in New York<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/_nVl5wPh2k0'></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/_nVl5wPh2k0&rel=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' height='350'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>There is also interesting blog <a href="http://www.wonderfulmachine.com/blog/?p=117">Wonderful Machine</a> of Photo rep, who's photographers won some awards on the NY festival. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.fotopub.com/">Fotopub festival 2008</a> is at final stage of preparation. Please don't miss the <a href="http://www.fotopub.com/objave/2008/jun/04/thursday-award-call-entries/">Thursday Award</a> application! It's open for everybody. This years Fotopub will rock!!! So many <a href="http://www.fotopub.com/objave/workshop/mentors/">great mentors</a> + great guests! Also Tiziana Faraoni a picture of <a href="http://espresso.repubblica.it/">L'espresso</a> will come and some really important people from the industry expressed their wish to visit, Jon the editor from <a href="http://www.foto8.com/">Foto8</a> said to make a review of Fotopub, like he did for <a href="http://www.foto8.com/home/content/blogcategory/0/446/">Foto Espana</a>. </p>
<p>There are some interesting portals that I need to sign up and expose my work. I recommend you to do the same. Please let me know for more sites like this.<br />
<a href="http://photolucida.org/default.aspx">Photo Lucida</a> portfolio reviews<br />
 <a href="http://viiphoto.com/association.html">The Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Grant</a> sounds very interesting. I'll send my <a href="http://www.digitalrailroad.net/borutpeterlin/gpgs.aspx?pgid=9871183&#38;e=0&#38;p=0">Flower Power project</a> proposal to expanded worldwide<br />
<a href="http://join.fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org/us">Fondazione Claudio Buziol</a> is a portal promoting creative authors. Main man is Renzo di Renzo former chief of <a href="http://www.fabrica.it">Fabrica</a>. </p>
<p>Very good portals for Photography<br />
<a href="http://www.photography-now.com/">Photography now</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lightstalkers.org/">Lightstalkers</a> have so much information I almost drown. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogres.si/">Blogres 2008</a>, congress of bloggers will happen in two weeks</p>
<p>Last but not least... fun photography at<br />
<a href="http://colorwar2008.com/submissions/youngnow">Color Wars 2008</a><br />
PS: <a href="http://www.photo-levallois.org/">Levallois–Epson Photography Award</a> deadline 31.7.
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<title><![CDATA[Flower Power]]></title>
<link>http://goodfruit.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/flower-power/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>goodfruit</dc:creator>
<guid>http://goodfruit.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/flower-power/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[

The Little Pink Fairy shows us her Flower Power.
Wham, Shazaam, Pow, errrr,  What do they say????
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<p><span style="font-size:0.9em;margin-top:0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodfruit/2542847175/"></a></span></p>
<p>The Little Pink Fairy shows us her Flower Power.</p>
<p>Wham, Shazaam, Pow, errrr,  What do they say????</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Save the Internet: Take Action]]></title>
<link>http://bjflanagan.wordpress.com/?p=139</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bjflanagan</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bjflanagan.wordpress.com/?p=139</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Look at it this way: If the fat cats take over the Net, it will start to look like prime time TV ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look at it this way: If the fat cats take over the Net, it will start to look like prime time TV -- full of vacuous "reality" programs featuring no-talent buffoons fattening the wallets of brain-dead producers.</p>
<p>Noooooooo! It's too horrible to contemplate. Act now, before it's too late!</p>
<p><a href="https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?page=ActionAlertTakenPage&#38;id=241">Save the Internet: Take Action:</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mum You Are ...]]></title>
<link>http://riihele.wordpress.com/?p=264</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 17:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riihele</dc:creator>
<guid>http://riihele.wordpress.com/?p=264</guid>
<description><![CDATA[MUM YOU ARE...

Someone who cares
when others care less,
Someone who encourages
when others ridicule]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><code>MUM YOU ARE...</code></strong></p>
<p><img class="reflect" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/1136777736_0b65cdafe3.jpg?v=1210263469" alt="" width="500" height="387" /></p>
<p>Someone who cares<br />
when others care less,</p>
<p>Someone who encourages<br />
when others ridicule,</p>
<p><img class="reflect" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1359/1135937637_42da03ea96.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="500" height="378" /></p>
<p>Someone who defends<br />
when others condemn,</p>
<p>Someone with patience<br />
when others are impatient,</p>
<p><img class="reflect" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1314/1135940781_13c1f52b3e.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="500" height="376" /></p>
<p>Someone who appreciates<br />
when others fail to notice,</p>
<p>Someone who gives security<br />
in a world of insecurity,</p>
<p><img class="reflect" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1151/1135941537_a8b445c3b7.jpg?v=1210261433" alt="" width="500" height="376" /></p>
<p>You are a friend<br />
for all time,<br />
to cherish<br />
and<br />
protect,<br />
and your achievements<br />
will linger<br />
for generations.</p>
<p>I LOVE YOU.</p>
<p><img class="reflect" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1209/1186846712_f7ff12686c.jpg?v=0" alt="" width="426" height="422" /></p>
<p><span class="license"><span style="font-size:12px;">©</span> All Photos: Riihele. All rights reserved.</span></p>
<p>These very moving and so poignant words are taken from a card Becki gave me one year for the Mothers Day in Ireland. I have kept it in my wallet ever since through all these years, through all the countries and places it has travelled with me. Heli gave me a most beautifully worded handwritten letter and a note which have also been doing the same 'travelling'.</p>
<p>It is one of the greatest privileges in life to be a mum.</p>
<p>NOTICE THIS:  that in the wide world there is a mother dying every few seconds - the Unicef article of 2003 states that 1400 mothers die every day because of the complications of the pregnancy and the birth. Here is what <a href="http://www.unicef.org/media/media_7594.html" target="_blank">the UNICEF</a> says about it all. It is nigh impossible to fathom for us in the west and in the parts of the world where the antenatal and the postnatal care are taken for granted.</p>
<p>That to me is the Pandemic Catastrophe of giant proportions and not the other things at the moment that are marketed for us as such worldwide.</p>
<p>I do feel very strongly for these mothers who die each day, for these babies and other children of these mothers who are left orphans for it was most, most difficult and dangerous for me to have children. Each time I faced the more than the likelihood of a miscarriage during the entire nine months. There was no certainty at all - will there or will there not to be a baby at the end of the pregnancy. It was nerve-racking to the hilt! Then the births - they were the riskiest of all, every time, I and the babies were at each birth face to face with death for both of us.</p>
<p>So, for the mothers - all the mothers in the world -</p>
<p><strong>HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!</strong></p>
<p>Tis for now. Riihele xx.</p>
<p>Tomorrow will be my Mothers Day Take 2 for in Ireland it was already celebrated in March and tomorrow it is the Finnish one. Double the prezzies and double the blessings of being an international mum!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[In today's news...]]></title>
<link>http://poetwithadayjob.wordpress.com/?p=831</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Poet With a Day Job</dc:creator>
<guid>http://poetwithadayjob.wordpress.com/?p=831</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Looks like we might have to start calling ourselves Gayelle after all. Recently, citizens of the Isl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like we might have to start calling ourselves <a href="http://poetwithadayjob.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/no-no-no/">Gayelle</a> after all. Recently, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7376919.stm" target="_blank">citizens of the Isle of Lesbos, Greece, have begun taking action to sue the nation of Greece to put a ban on Gays' use of the term lesbian to mean a homosexual woman</a>. Here's a snippet:</p>
<blockquote><p>The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, claims that international dominance of the word in its sexual context violates the human rights of the islanders, and disgraces them around the world...He says it causes daily problems to the social life of Lesbos's inhabitants.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, I can totally understand this. Homophobia is rampant and dykes and gays are constantly victims of hate crimes, whether they be verbal, physical, outright or subtle. But taking action to ban Gays' use of the term is buying into the homophobe hype that it is, indeed, disgraceful to be, and/or to call yourself, a lesbian. What you should be working toward is a sea change in public opinion about gays worldwide: we are here, and we are just trying to live our lives.</p>
<p>The article goes on to prove its point that dykes should stop calling themselves lesbians by saying that contrary to popular belief, Sappho was not even a dyke. While this may be true, their <em>proof</em> tickles me a quite bit:</p>
<blockquote><p>The term lesbian originated from the poet Sappho, who was a native of Lesbos. Sappho expressed her love of other women in poetry written during the 7th Century BC. But according to Mr Lambrou, new historical research has discovered that Sappho had a family, and committed suicide for the love of a man.</p></blockquote>
<p>First of all, everyone knows lesbians never have families. Never. And as for the suicide: perhaps if she had STAYED ALIVE for a man, then I might believe you...</p>
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<p>And rich people are doing stupid, wasteful shit again! <a href="http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/124560?src=newsletter">Chops sent me this link to a blurb about the "A Diamond is Forever" campaign</a> (scroll down). Apparently, they plan to hand out 1,000 red roses in Grand Central Terminal next week, all of which will have a number attached for a drawing to win a $5,000 diamond necklace. This new initiative is to celebrate...well, raping and pillaging Africa, I guess. As if <a href="http://www.un.org/peace/africa/Diamond.html">the diamond issue</a> isn't enough, <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/emeraldcity/2008/02/roses-are-red-a.html">now they're doing roses</a>. What's next? I'm sorry, but Bill Gates and Bono can throw as much money at Africa they want to "promote economic development" but if the "economies" revolve around the US's whims, ain't nothing gonna change. US out of AFRICA! But if you are handed a rose...I hope you win. For reals.</p>
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<link>http://riwer.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/crimson-and-clover/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riwer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://riwer.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/crimson-and-clover/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Vorhin habe ich einige Sätze zu LSD geschrieben. Dabei kam mir die Zeit um 1970 wieder in die Erinn]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vorhin habe ich einige Sätze zu <a href="http://www.riwer.de/?p=128" target="_blank"><strong>LSD</strong></a> geschrieben. Dabei kam mir die Zeit um <strong>1970</strong> wieder in die Erinnerung, die Zeit der <strong>Hippies</strong>, des <strong>Flower Power</strong>s und die der <strong>Blumenkinder</strong>. Dabei dachte ich auch an den nachfolgenden Song, den ich dann prompt auf <a href="http://de.youtube.com/" target="_blank"><strong>YouTube</strong></a> gefunden habe. Die Musik gibt ein klein wenig das Zeitgefühl, die Bewusstseinsveränderung durch Drogen wieder, dieses "<strong><em>Good Vibration</em></strong>". Übrigens hieß die Gruppe  <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_James" target="_blank"><strong>Tommy James &#38; The Shondells</strong></a> .<br />
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<div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:36033a58-6189-491d-afcb-e5969c050f1a" class="wlWriterSmartContent" style="display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;">Technorati-Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/Blumenkinder">Blumenkinder</a>,<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/Crimson%20and%20Clover">Crimson and Clover</a>,<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/Flower%20Power">Flower Power</a>,<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/Hippies">Hippies</a>,<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/LSD">LSD</a>,<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tommy%20James%20&#38;amp">Tommy James &#38;</a>,<a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tags/The%20Sondells">The Sondells</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[LSD]]></title>
<link>http://riwer.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/lsd/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>riwer</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Im Alter von 102 Jahren starb der Entdecker der Halluzinationsdroge LSD Albert Hofmann. LSD war Ende]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="margin-top:10px;float:left;margin-bottom:10px;max-width:800px;margin-right:10px;" height="98" alt="" src="http://www.riwer.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/hofmann.jpg" width="134">Im Alter von 102 Jahren starb der Entdecker der Halluzinationsdroge <strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergs%C3%A4urediethylamid" target="_blank">LSD</a> <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann" target="_blank">Albert Hofmann</a></strong>. <strong>LSD</strong> war Ende der 60er Jahre, Anfang der 70er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts der Einstieg in die harte Droge, wenn <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haschisch" target="_blank"><strong>Haschisch</strong></a> oder <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana"><strong>Marihuana</strong></a> nicht mehr den erhofften <strong>Kick</strong> gaben. Ihr Konsum war in der Zeit der <strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippies" target="_blank">Hippies</a>, <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power" target="_blank">Flower Power</a></strong> und <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blumenkinder" target="_blank"><strong>Blumenkinder</strong></a> ein Highlight und für viele war es der Übergang zu stärkeren Drogen, den <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiat" target="_blank"><strong>Opiaten</strong></a>.<br><strong>Hofmann</strong> war beim Pharmakonzern <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandoz" target="_blank"><strong>Sandoz</strong></a> beschäftigt und entdeckte die hallizinogene Wirkung bereit 1943. Sicherlich hat er Selbstversuche vorgenommen und vielleicht ist&#160; sein hohes Lebensalter auf den Konsum von <strong>LSD</strong> zurückzuführen. Aber das ist eine reine Spekulation.<br><strong>LSD</strong> hat sicherlich auch positive Effekte vorzuweisen. Heute ist die Droge wieder Forschungsziel bei Ärzten und Psychotherapeuten. Auch die Schweizer Regierung hat Mittel zur Verfügung gestellt, um die Auswirkungen der Substanz bei schwer kranken Patienten(Innen) zu erforschen. Nach wie vor unterliegt <strong>LSD</strong> einem weltweiten Verbot.<br>Nun bin ich auch ein Kind der 68er-Bewegung und ich gestehe, auch ich habe <strong>LSD</strong> probiert. Strafrechtliche Konsequenzen brauche ich wohl nicht mehr zu befürchten, deshalb kann ich zugeben, dass ich auch ein einziges Mal die Droge aus Neugier probiert habe. Auch <strong>Haschisch</strong> hatte ich probiert, konnte aber außer starkem Herzklopfen keine Bewusstseinsveränderungen feststellen. Bei <strong>LSD</strong> war es anders. Hier traten nach einiger Zeit sehr angenehme Glücksgefühle auf. Moralische Bedenken traten in den Hintergrund, man fühlte sich frei und ungebunden. Man war von einer inneren freudigen Erregung erfüllt und fand alles toll und schön. Dieser Zustand hielt etwa 10 bis 12 Stunden an. Soweit die positive Seite. Als negativen Effekt hatte ich zwei Tage fürchterliche Kopfschmerzen, was auch der entscheidende Grund war, "<em>das Zeug</em>" nicht mehr anzufassen.<br><strong>LSD</strong> ist meiner Meinung nach ein Mittel, das man unter ärztlicher Kontrolle bei depressiven Menschen anwenden sollte. Bei ihnen ist der positive Effekt durchaus erwünscht. Alle anderen, die nur den "<strong>Kick</strong>" erfahren wollen, und das gilt auch für alle anderen Drogen, rate ich, die Finger von den Psychopharmaka´s zu lassen. Nicht nur, dass man mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt kommt, viel schlimmer ist auf Dauer die Zerstörung der eigenen Gesundheit. Leider machen sich vor allen Dingen die jungen Leute zu wenig Gedanken über die Auswirkungen von Drogen.</p>
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Harpoon the whalers! A little butter, a dash of pepper &#8230; Mm-mm good!

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<p style="text-align:center;">Harpoon the whalers! A little butter, a dash of pepper ... Mm-mm good!</p>
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<p class="first"><strong>The <a title="Save the whales" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7470353.stm">annual meeting</a> of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has opened in Santiago without the usual war of words between pro- and anti-whaling nations. </strong></p>
<p>Some campaigners in Chile's capital complain dissent is being suppressed.</p>
<p>But Japan says anti-whaling countries will be able to pursue conservation goals more effectively if they accept that whaling can be sustainable.</p>
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<p><em>“Tú es que eres muy hippie”</em>. <em>¿Yoooo?</em>, contestaba en la facultad. Los auténticos son los que he visto esta mañana en la playa. Aunque la pelambrera de ella chocaba bastante. Sería francesa, o <strong>portuguesa</strong>.<br />
De las vacaciones de este verano descarto tajantemente los <strong>macrofestivales</strong> de música. This is the end a la etapa de fakir en tiendas de campaña descubriendo nuevas piedras cada noche. Un par de años fuimos a uno en <strong>Zambujeira do Mar</strong>, el <em>Musica no coraçao</em>.<br />
La primera vez fue la mejor. Estábamos como en casa. Nada más llegar, nuestros vecinos en el camping eran de Cádiz, y tenían una mascota, una piedra atada a una cuerda, donde apagaban los porros. Grandes amigos de tres días. Lo de <strong>ligar</strong> lo llevábamos descartado por el <a href="http://noticiasdelmundoblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/las-portuguesas-las-ms-feas-de-europa.html" target="_blank">tópico de las portuguesas</a>, feas y con bigote, pero una vez allí vimos que la fama no era para tanto. En peores trincheras ha estado uno. Y me dije, españolas no, <strong>buitre no come alpiste</strong>, pero portuguesas…<br />
Me vi bien con dos hippies, una de Lisboa y otra de Angola. Llegaba de los conciertos, ya de madrugada, y las pobres estaban intentando poner la caseta al lado de la mía. <strong>Caballero español</strong>, solícito ante la desesperación femenina en el bricolaje, me ofrecí a echarles un cable. Tres horas me dieron clavando piquetas y montando la tiendecita, que tenía todos los complementos. Hasta hall con ventanas. ¿Cómo me lo agradecieron? Unas galletitas, de las secas que también hay aquí.<br />
Los inconvenientes matutinos de no encontrar <em>gelito</em> por ningún lado y del idioma nativo, <strong>“obradoiro”</strong> dábamos las gracias, se difuminaban en la comuna gaditana ante la esperanza de cazar fauna local, ya bien difundido mi encuentro nocturno.<br />
<em>“¿Están buenas?” “No sé, era de noche, una era rubia y otra morena”. “Para mí la rubia”. “Pero si no las visto”. “Da igual”</em>. Carlos lo tenía claro. Aparte de cantar en las duchas, mixtas, el <strong>o sole mio</strong> y salir chupando cámara en la tele portuguesa cuando le preguntaron <em>"¿Cómo está esto”</em> y él dijo <em>“esto está maravilloooozo”</em>, Carlos tenía claro su objetivo en la expedición. <em>“La música la escucho en casa cuando llegue"</em>.<br />
Por la noche, invitamos a las hippies a tomar unos cubatas calientes, no habían bebido whisky en su vida, y Carlos las convenció para ir los cuatro a los conciertos. Y todo parecía ir bien, muy bien, cuando nada más pasar la puerta de control del festival, donde las pulseritas, las <em>raparigas</em> vieron algo que les hizo saltar un motor interno y salir corriendo: eran unos notas disfrazados con sirenas en la cabeza que repartían algo gratis. ¿Qué eran? <strong>Condones</strong>. <em>“Pero tio, pero tio”</em>, me contagié de Carlos. <em>“Eah, po vamo pa la tienda”</em>, dijeron algo así las niñas, en portugués.<br />
El amor, universal y libre. El Carlos, más ancho que alto y quemado de la playa que iluminaba como un <strong>fosforecente</strong>, no se había visto en otra igual. Qué coño, yo tampoco. Así que camino de vuelta otra vez para el camping, ellas delante y nosotros detrás en plan comandita, diciéndonos <em>“macho, aquí sí que van rápido, ¿cómo dices que se llamaban?”</em> mientras el Carlos me decía <em>“para mi la rubia, eh, que ya me la pedí ayer”</em>.<br />
Hoy podría decir que yo ya sospechaba algo por el camino y no las tenía todas conmigo, pero no sería un relato fiel. Me comí enterita la película. Así que no pude hacer otra cosa que abrazar a Carlos y <strong>consolarnos</strong> cuando las niñas abrieron los candados de su tienda, montada con todo mi esfuerzo, y tras un rato dentro, no hubo comunicación con el exterior. Las carreras como posesas hacia los <strong>cachirulos</strong> no tenían por fin aquello de los ideales <strong>"paz, amor y libertad"</strong>, sino una explicación más mundana, cuanto que era únicamente económica.<br />
¿Qué pasó con woodstok, el flower-power y, sobre todo, con el <strong>verano del amor</strong>? Sólo tenían en sus mentes el ahorro de pelas y pillar todos los preservativos que pudieran para cuando vieran a sus novios.<br />
<strong>I-lusos</strong>, se nos llamaría en portugués.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nos últimos dois dias, a informação do meu <em>back-office</em> tem-me indicado que muita gente chega a este <em>blog </em>procurando por -"filmes de ficção científica japoneses". O que é curioso, pois não se conhecem propriamente bons exemplos do género dentro da cinematografia daquele país mais virado para dezenas de <em>Godzillas</em> e variações de <em>Power Rangers</em>.<br />
Tirando algumas excepções como por exemplo o muito bom "<em><a title="Review - 4 tigelas de noodles" href="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/fukkatsu-no-hi-virus-kinji-fukasaku-1980-japao/" target="_blank">Virus</a></em>" e os excelentes "<em><a title="Review - 4.5 tigelas de noodles" href="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/natural-city/" target="_blank">Natural City</a></em>", "<em><a title="Review - 4 tigelas de noodles" href="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/2009-lost-memories-2009-lost-memories-lee-sih-myong-2002-coreia-do-sul/" target="_blank">2009 - Lost Memories</a></em>" ou "<em><a title="Review - 4 tigelas de noodles" href="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/ritana-returner-takashi-yamazaki-2002-japao/" target="_blank">Returner</a></em>", raramente se encontram produções asiáticas de ficção científica que tratem os ambientes e os temas da mesma forma séria que o cinema ocidental até costuma abordar bem.</p>
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<p>No entanto na época em que surgiram os primeiros <em>Star Wars</em> no final dos anos 70, inicios de 80, parece que os Japoneses tentaram produzir alguns titulos que inclusivamente tiveram sucesso internacional suficiente para chegarem até a ser exibidos no cinema em Portugal, como por exemplo "<em><a title="Review - 3.5 tigelas de noodles" href="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/uchu-kara-no-messeji-message-from-space-kinji-fukasaku-1978-japao/" target="_blank">Message from Space</a></em>" ou o esquecido "<em>War in Space</em>" intitulado em Portugal - "Guerra no Espaço".<br />
O filme de que vos vou falar a seguir é precisamente dos mesmos produtores do segundo título e tem o estranho titulo de ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], conhecido em inglés como "<strong>Bye Bye Júpiter</strong>".<br />
O que diga-se de passagem não será propriamente um título muito entusiasmante e como tal deve ter sido responsável por este filme não ser propriamente um dos exemplos mais populares no género.<br />
Embora merecesse, pois é realmente um filme com características muito especiais.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter14.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Este deve ser um dos mais estranhos e originais filmes de ficção científica que me passaram pelas mãos nos últimos anos. E dos mais divertidos também.<br />
É surpreendente a mistura entre coisas absolutamente extraordinárias com outras completamente inacreditáveis de tão más que são. Não há meio termo neste filme.<br />
Ou nos maravilhamos com o que vemos no ecrã ou apetece-nos partir a cara a quem fez este incrível filme.<br />
Como tal, ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"] é um daqueles filmes que não conseguimos deixar de odiar e adorar ao mesmo tempo. Não pode haver dois campos opostos, pois os seus aspectos positivos são tão fascinantes quanto detestável é o que tem de negativo e por isso estaria a mentir se disesse aqui que adorei ou detestei este filme, pois realmente neste caso, aconteceu-me sentir as duas coisas ao mesmo tempo. Só vocês vendo mesmo.<br />
E vale a pena ser visto.</p>
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<p>Para começar os efeitos especiais são mágnificos, especialmente tendo em conta que o filme foi produzido em 1983 e ainda não havia cá <em>CGI</em>s.<br />
Para todos aqueles que ainda preferem uma boa maqueta bem filmada a uma nave animada em computador, vão encontrar em ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"] um verdadeiro tesouro perdido.<br />
As cenas espaciais são absolutamente extraordinárias com uma atmosfera verdadeiramente espacial como não encontrava há muito muito tempo num filme. É dificil de explicar isto, mas sente-se não só a existência de uma técnologia como principalmente a vastidão do espaço ganha um contorno quase romântico na forma como é constantemente filmada.<br />
Tal como em "<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank">2001 Odisseia no Espaço</a>", ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"] conta com dezenas de sequências que são verdadeiros bailados espaciais com naves deslizando em gravidade zero e onde quase por vezes parece que vão roçar o plágio estético do filme de Kubrick mas no entanto conseguem não só ter uma identidade muito própria como ainda por cima técnicamente em efeitos visuais este é um daqueles grandes filmes que não envergonha ninguém, muito pelo contrário.</p>
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<p>Nota-se claramente que tanto estéticamente no design das naves como em termos de realização das cenas do espaço tudo foi muito inspirado em "<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank">2001 Odisseia no Espaço</a>" mas ainda bem que o foi, pois tudo funciona tão bem que assistir a este filme nessas sequências é um verdadeiro prazer para quem como eu,  já há muito procurava um filme que respirasse de uma realistica atmosfera astronautica depois de ver tanto gráfico feito em computador nos ultimos quinze anos.<br />
A primeira cena de acostagem na estação espacial é simplesmente perfeita e para isso contribui também muito uma banda sonora que não poderia ter sido melhor, pois com o seu ambiente quase náutico é uma das coisas que mais contribui para neste filme se sinta verdadeiramente que o universo é não só muito vasto, como também pode ser misterioso e romântico. <br />
No entanto, tal como o próprio filme, a banda sonora apesar de mágnifica nas cenas espaciais de repente espalha-se ao comprido noutras partes de que já falarei mais adiante e que que quase arruinam tudo o que é muito bom em ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"].</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter08.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Portanto, resumindo esta parte; técnicamente o filme não poderia ter sido melhor e na minha opinião, em efeitos especiais é um dos melhores trabalhos que vi num produto do início dos anos 80. Tudo muito bem feito e atmosférico, onde além das naves também podemos contemplar algumas mas mais inspiradas paisagens espaciais do nosso sistema solar que me lembro de ter encontrado criadas através de efeitos tradicionais e onde podemos até fazer uma imaginativa viagem ao interior das núvens do planeta Júpiter.</p>
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<p>Também uma nota extremamente positiva para os efeitos de gravidade zero com personagens humanos. Ainda muita gente que discute o filme na net, está a tentar perceber como conseguiram os autores de ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"] criar um par de breves sequências flutuantes muito bem sucedidas numa altura em que ainda não existiam computadores para removerem digitalmente os cabos que seguravam adereços e actores mas a verdade é que chegam realmente a impressionar pela sua naturalidade.</p>
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<p>Mas como nem tudo é positivo e já que falamos de actores...<br />
Mais uma vez estamos perante uma estranha mega produção japonesa cheia de actores internacionais.<br />
E cada um pior que o outro.<br />
Os americanos então é de um gajo ficar parvo a olhar para o ecran de cada vez que abrem a boca.<br />
E os restantes também não vão muito longe, excepto, os japoneses que soam naturalmente (acho eu) e salvam a situação.<br />
Em ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], durante este filme fala-se não só japonês, como inglés, francês, alemão e mais qualquer outra coisa que agora nem me recordo, talvez espanhol ... ou se calhar seria português. E depois há cenas em que os diálogos são em linguas diferentes. Eu explico...<br />
Temos sequências em que um personagem está a falar com outro em japonês, só que o segundo depois responde-lhe em Alemão e subitamente entra mais um na conversa a falar em Francês e assim por diante, o que cria um tipo de filme que não estamos propriamente habituados a ver. Isto para não dizer também que os americanos depois também falam japonês e os japoneses falam inglés, etc, etc, etc.<br />
E não são dobragens, pois são actores que realmente viviam e trabalhavam no Japão da altura e portanto conheciam a lingua do país.<br />
Não que isto resulte mal, mas é muito estranho.<br />
Ainda mais estranho que as camisas do heroi.</p>
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<p>Agora, mau, mas mesmo mau...<br />
Mesmo, mesmo, mesmo muito mau...são as cenas com os <em><a title="Wikipedia - " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippies" target="_blank">Hippies</a></em> internacionais.<br />
Confusos ? You will be, you will be...<br />
Se calhar é melhor contar um pouco da história disto.<br />
Em ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], entre uma outra quantidade enorme de histórias paralelas com <em>sub-plots</em> e <em>sub-sub-plots</em>, conta-se também a história de um grupo de cientístas que basicamente querem explodir com o planeta Júpiter de modo a criar um segundo sol no sistema solar para servir as luas interiores que entretanto foram colonizadas pela humanidade e precisam da luz e calor que não podem obter naturalmente pela distância a que estão do centro do sistema solar.<br />
Ora isto não agrada nada a uma seita religiosa chamada "<em>Church of Júpiter</em>" que basicamente é composta por uma cambada de <em>Hippies</em> do mundo inteiro (que aparentemente vivem todos no mesmo lugar no Japão) mas não fazem mais nada na vida a não ser passar o dia na praia num ambiente estilo <em>Baywatch</em> enquanto idolatram um gajo que é uma mistura entre Jesus Cristo, <em>Elvis Presley</em> (na sua fase Havaiana), <em>John Lennon</em> e <em><a title="Wikipedia - " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden" target="_blank">Bin Ladden</a></em>.<br />
A sério !<br />
De ver para crer.</p>
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<p>Ora mesmo parecendo que estes gajos não fazem mais nada a não ser ouvir o seu messias a cantar as mais atrozes canções <em>hippies</em> que vocês possam imaginar, têm no entanto dinheiro para pagar uma viagem até Júpiter e protestar contrar a destruição do planeta colocando bombas e sabotando toda a experiência sempre que podem.<br />
Não perguntem que eu também não sei responder... deixem-se levar pela história, pois garanto-vos que a coisa tem toda a lógica dentro do conceito do filme.<br />
Bom, no entanto são precisamente estas partes com os hippies que quase (quase?), arruinam ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], pois vocês nem fazem ideia de como este <em>sub-plot</em> é mau.<br />
Não só é mau e ridículo como perfeitamente desnecessário pois o filme já tem histórias de outro estilo por todo o lado e não precisava disto para o tornar ainda mais desconjuntado.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter03.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Na verdade, se isto quase que torna ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], intragável por momentos, por outro lado este filme não seria o mesmo sem estas cenas.<br />
O que torna esta produção em algo único, pois é uma verdadeira mistura entre a excelência técnica de "<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank">2001 Odisseia no Espaço</a>",  o divertimento <em>campy</em> de "<em>Star Wars</em>" e o puro lixo de um "<em><a title="Wikipedia - " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_outer_space" target="_blank">Plan 9 from Outer Space</a></em>" se este no entanto tivesse sido um filme musical com banda sonora de Joan Baez na sua fase <em>flower power </em>contestatária<em>.</em><br />
E como se ainda não bastasse, a narrativa interessante do filme, é interrompida pelo menos durante quatro vezes para levarmos com um <em>videoclip</em> de <em>peace &#38; love</em> que fará vomitar até o maior fã de "<em>Woodstock</em>". Sim, porque o chefe do bando de Hippies terroristas, espalha a sua palavra a cantar.<br />
Mal !<br />
E como uma desgraça nunca vem só, o tipo ainda consegue tocar guitarra sem fazer qualquer acorde.<br />
Tudo isto seria muito divertido se não fossemos obrigados a assistir a vários teledíscos do mais piroso que interrompem algumas das partes mais interessantes do filme para levarmos com o <em>Bin Laden</em> entoando canções do <em>peace</em> ao pior estilo - salvem as baleias, a natureza e matem os infieis.<br />
Ainda tenho que confirmar se estas músicas atrozes, foram compostas pela mesma pessoa que criou a excelente e ambiental banda sonora deste filme, pois recuso-me a acreditar que tenha sido capaz do melhor e do pior.<br />
É nesta altura que irão poder ver uma das cenas mais gamadas de sempre ao filme do "Tubarão".<br />
Nem digo mais para que vocês vejam a sequência, pois é genial na forma como até vai roubar os enquadramentos de <em>Spielberg</em>.<br />
O que me leva a outra coisa curiosa neste filme.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter06.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Mesmo sendo uma obra extremamente levezinha e divertida, de vez em quando entra por momentos <em>gore</em> totalmente inesperados. Não será propriamente um filme com baldes de sangue, nem com cenas nojentas, mas ainda contém alguns bocados de corpos ocasionais que parecem deslocados do tom geral do filme. O que lhe dá ainda uma identidade ainda mais estranha mas apelativa, pois nunca sabemos bem o que poderá acontecer a seguir na história ou que caminho o argumento irá seguir pois a partir de certa altura tudo é possível.<br />
E já lhes falei nas gajas nuas ?<br />
Pois, bem me parecia.<br />
Este filme também mete miudas sem roupa o que ainda é mais estranho, pois na realidade não tem motivo algum para incluir as cenas de nú que inclui. Não que me esteja a queixar, até porque são supreendentemente reveladoras e até funcionam bem dentro da sequência de efeitos especiais que ilustram.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter02.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Na verdade ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], merece ser visto nem que seja uma vez.<br />
Se conseguirem não vomitar durante as partes <em>hippies</em> completamente imbecis e gostarem de boas cenas espaciais vão gostar certamente do filme apesar das suas inúmeras falhas.<br />
Afinal este não só é um grande filme em termos técnicos, como acima de tudo é um filme grande, pois tem 140 minutos onde irão encontrar certamente muita coisa para apreciar. Por mim tirava-se a meia hora com o <em>freaks </em>cantantes e o filme ficaria bem mais afinado, mas não se pode ter tudo.<br />
Mas se gostam de filmes espaciais pouco conhecidos, têm aqui uma boa opção que merece ser descoberta. Afinal no meio de tudo ainda têm as partes de pura <a title="Wikipédia - " href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_opera" target="_blank"><em>space-opera</em> </a>ao melhor estilo "<em>Star Wars</em>" com batalhas laser em corredores de estações espaciais e embora aqui não entrem <em>R2-D2</em> ou <em>Chewbaccas</em> as cenas de acção deste estílo são sempre divertidas. E neste caso algo inesperadas, pois faz com que ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], de repente pareça uma espécie de "<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank">2001 Odisseia no Espaço</a>",  se este tivesse sido um filme de porrada. Embora também não tenha muita e se calhar devia ter pois esforça-se demasiado para tentar ser ficção-científica séria quando todo esse esforço acaba deitado por terra mal o <em>Bin Ladden</em> dos <em>Hippies</em> saca da guitarra e começa a cantar o amor pelo seu golfinho favorito chamado precisamente, <em>Júpiter</em>.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter19.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Outra coisa muito negativa em ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], é o facto de por momentos parece que vamos ter uma história cheia de mistério envolvendo uma enigmática raça extra terrestre que deixou artefactos em Marte e foi responsável também pelas linhas de Nazca na Terra mas depois todo esse angulo nem sequer é explorado ao longo do filme. Parece que tal descoberta causou menos impacto na humanidade do que o impacto nos neurónios do espectador de cada vez que temos que ver outro teledísco <em>hippie</em> por razão absolutamente nenhuma a meio do filme.<br />
Este angulo extra-terrestre tinha tudo para ser um dos pontos fortes do filme, e a criatura/nave-espacial que habita a alta atmosfera de Júpiter é uma criação perfeita tanto em conceito como no que toca a efeitos especiais. E no entanto, os produtores do filme parece que não se importaram e deitaram por terra todas as mágnifcas possibilidades que este caminho da história poderia ter seguido e nunca segue sabe-se lá porquê.<br />
A temática só volta a entrar em cena, nas sequências finais quando estão a tentar explodir Júpiter e mesmo assim nem se percebe bem para quê ou o que a ideia com o contacto extra-terrestre está a fazer neste filme pois não serve absolutamente para nada nem tem qualquer interferência na história central á volta das sabotagens dos <em>Hippies</em> espaciais.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter18.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Tivessem esquecido os Hippies do espaço e desenvolvido o fantástico conceito da ligação Terra-Júpiter-Marte e a sua relação com a critatura que habita nas núvens jupiterianas e ["<strong>Sayonara Júpiter</strong>"], teria sido um filme de ficção científica fantástico, pois técnicamente tinha tudo para ser um marco dentro do cinema de aventuras espacias com uma base muito ao estilo do filme de Kubrick e uma pitada de leveza ao estilo "<a title="IMDB - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/" target="_blank"><em>2010</em></a>" de Peter Hyams com o qual este filme tem inúmeras semelhanças (apesar de ter sido produzido ao mesmo tempo no outro lado do mundo).</p>
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<p>CLASSIFICAÇÃO:</p>
<p>Um excelente filme espacial que resulta num cruzamento estranho entre  “<em><a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#006699;">Starwars</span></a></em>” e "<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank">2001 Odisseia no Espaço</a>". Mas tudo o que tem de muito bom, é quase destruído por um par de cenas absolutamente ridiculas envolvendo <em>Hippies</em> espaciais que não contribuiem em absoluto para o filme e impede-o de ser a verdadeira obra prima que merecia ter sido.<br />
No entanto, é mesmo muito divertido e as cenas espaciais são absolutamente fantásticas.<br />
Quatro tigelas de noodles e embora se calhar até mereça mais, aqueles <em>hippies</em> do espaço são verdadeiramente enervantes por isso...</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/noodle2.jpg" alt="noodle2.jpg" />   <img src="http://cinemasiatico.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/noodle2.jpg" alt="noodle2.jpg" />   <img src="http://cinemasiatico.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/noodle2.jpg" alt="noodle2.jpg" />   <img src="http://cinemasiatico.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/noodle2.jpg" alt="noodle2.jpg" />  </p>
<p><strong>A favor: </strong>é um excelente clone original do estilo “<em><a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#006699;">Starwars</span></a></em>” com um estilo visual fabuloso retirado directamente do melhor de "<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/" target="_blank">2001 Odisseia no Espaço</a>", os efeitos especiais são incriveis com cenas espaciais muito atmosféricas e excelentes sequências em gravidade zero, o design de produção é mesmo muito bom e tem grande imaginação no conceito das naves e cenários de mundos do sistema solar, usa muito bem os cenários naturais e consegue integra-los bastante bem dentro do estilo gráfico do próprio filme, as maquetas das naves são fascinantes, os actores americanos são do piorio o que dá uma aura <em>kitsh</em> muito divertida á obra, tem uma identidade completamente japonesa, as cenas de porrada espacial em corredores são divertidas, tenta ser ficção científica séria em alguns momentos e quase que o consegue, a banda sonora ambiental para as cenas do espaço é absolutamente perfeita.</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter16.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong>Contra:</strong> tem pelo menos meia hora de sequências inacreditávelmente más e absolutamente ridiculas envolvendo <em>hippies</em> espaciais, o chefe dos <em>Hippies</em> que é uma espécie de <em>Bin Ladden</em> saído do <em><a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/" target="_blank">Woodstock</a></em> canta algumas das mais atrozes canções ao estilo <em>flower power</em> que jamais ouviram num filme de ficção científica e só comparáveis <a title="A pior musica de FC do mundo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkF05D-NJMU" target="_blank">á horrorosa e deslocada musica de<em> Joan Baez</em> </a>no clássico americano <em>"<a title="Imdb - " href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/" target="_blank">Silent Running</a>",</em> tem um puto génio que é a cara do <em>Harry Potter</em> e que nos dá cabo dos nervos de tão mau actor que é, e já agora vocês nunca viram uma colecção tão grande de maus actores reunidos num só filme espacial, como resultado os personagens não têm um pingo de interesse pois os que não são ridículos também nem têm muito tempo de vida no ecran.<br />
E se pensam que os actores originais são absolutamente maus, vocês não podem perder também a versão semi-dobrada que vem incluida no dvd e do qual fica aqui <a title="Actores do piorio" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0yUtJlVYg&#38;feature=related" target="_blank">um extracto</a> de segundos (o actor japonês está dobrado, o outro não).</p>
<p><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter17.jpg" alt="" /></p>
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<p>NOTAS ADICIONAIS</p>
<p><strong>Trailer</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVJb349t3g" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVJb349t3g</a></p>
<p><strong><img src="http://cinemasiatico.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sayonara-jupiter01.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Comprar<br />
</strong>Esta edição R1 é excelente. E não estou apenas a falar da qualidade geral do som e imagem, mas sim porque além de uma boa transcrição do filme, contém óptimos extras embora curtos.<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sayonara-Jupiter-Tomokazu-Miura/dp/B000KHX7KI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=dvd&#38;qid=1213787206&#38;sr=1-1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Sayonara-Jupiter-Tomokazu-Miura/dp/B000KHX7KI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=dvd&#38;qid=1213787206&#38;sr=1-1</a><br />
Essencialmente tem um pequeno documentário de menos de meia hora sobre o making of que é absolutamente indispensável para quem quer ver como se faziam os efeitos especiais antes de existirem animações de CGI.<br />
Além desse excelente documentário sobre as filmagens, tem uma secção de texto que é uma verdadeira enciclopédia sobre a produção do filme. Contém artigos, biografias e páginas e páginas de informação sempre muito interessantes sobre o processo de criação desta obra. Inclusive na parte final ainda tem uma espécie de catálogo de designs de naves espaciais. E isto para não falar das habituais galerias de fotos e design de produção que aqui também estão bem representadas.<br />
O único senão desta area de texto é a péssima navegação para o utilizador, pois se nos enganmos no botão por exemplo na página 30, voltamos ao inicio e temos de voltar a "desfolhar" tudo outra vez para chegarmos onde estavamos antes. Mas, se tiverem cuidado, vale a pena ler todos os textos depois de verem o filme pois são realmente muito informativos e pelo menos uma vez na vida vale a pena ler uma area de texto contida nos extras de um filme ! Perfeito, teria sido se em vez disto, tivessem editado um pequeno livro para vir com o dvd, mas não se pode ter tudo.<br />
<strong><br />
IMDB<br />
</strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086247/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086247/</a></p>
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<p>*Não tenho ainda nenhum filme semelhante que possa recomendar*</p>
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<p><b>Best Romantic Getaways in the U.S.A:</b></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.tripcart.com//usa-regions/Alaska-Panhandle,Romantic-Vacations-Getaways.aspx">Romantic Vacations in Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Skagway, and the Alaska Panhandle</a></li>
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Isragirl Presents : Oren Cohen Ninyo Chair, Photo by Walla! 
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<span style="font-size:xx-small;font-family:arial;">Isragirl Presents : Oren Cohen Ninyo Chair, Photo by <a title="Walla!" target="_blank">Walla!</a> </span></p>
<p>Some twenty four artists, writers and celebrities joined together for a special street art exhibition taking place at Rabin's square, <a title="Tel Aviv travel guide on travel israel" href="http://www.aguide2israel.com/index.php/fuseaction/destination.home/a/1676" target="_blank">Tel Aviv</a>, in support of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. If in <a title="Israel Travel Guide - Tips and Photos" href="http://www.aguide2israel.com/index.php/fuseaction/destination.home" target="_blank">Israel</a> for business or pleasure, make sure you don't miss this unique event organized by <strong>ONeVoice</strong> - an NGO active both in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The name of this exhibition is best translated: "<strong>Until smoke comes out the peace pipe</strong>" and it calls for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to resume the peace talks and to stay at the negotiation table until peace prevails in the region.</p>
<p>The joint-installation will include 24 chairs, 2 meters high each, designed by famous artists, poets, chefs and other famous Israeli personas. The chairs will be placed around an enormous table symbolizing the peace negotiations table. OneVoice aspires to expose and empower the wide - but sometimes silent -majority of Israelis and Palestinians who support the idea of two countries - Israel and Palestine - living in peace side by side. The design of each chair reflects the personal interpretations of the artists to the tricky process of bringing peace to a region afflicted with mistrust on the one hand and hope on the other.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Where and when</strong></span>: Rabin's Square, Tel Aviv, April 25-28</p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#c10000;">Isragirl Tip</span></strong>: While visiting the square look up to the roof of Tel Aviv city hall building...You will see a gigantic ballooned Duck, known to Israelis as "<strong>HaBarvaz</strong>" (the duck) - a famous cartoon character created by cartoonist <strong>Dudu Geva</strong> who died 3 years ago. The duck was loved by many Tel-Avivians and the city decided to help Geva's children commemorate their father's vision for Tel Aviv by allowing the huge duck to sit on the roof for two weeks...</p>
<h2>OneVoice is calling for Israelis and Palestinians to give peace a chance - Street art exhibition in the center of Tel Aviv</h2>
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