discreet

this is my new film


plot:
Mrs. E. B. is recuperating from a stroke and confined in her big Knightsbridge apartment to have nice food and a new menu everyday prepared by well-know chef from Brazil. Mrs. E. B. obligation is to welcome ambassadors, celebrities, chancellors and perhaps the Queen with a big smile, nice stories and expensive Florentine biscuit, champagne, Belgian chocolate and, of course, Calli tea.

However, outside the flat, crossing the tidy and colourful garden from the building, there is a crazy woman who screams very loud when is too sunny, an unemployed rich man who spends his days watching all movies or TV series in the world, a couple of three men who struggle every night about who will be the one that will sleep on the living room.

On this film there are no murders, no suspicious of suicide, no sex…yet! The Mrs. E. B.'s helper girl is capturing those stories discreetly and persisting on her investigation…


watch on full screen and good sound equipment.

credits:
Miss C. L. is Mrs. E. B. helper.

eu nao tenho acento (no meu teclado). eu nao tenho acento.
I don't have accent (on my keyboard). I don't have accent.
aqui eh porque eh. e tem acento, le-se e, com acento.
eh tem aga, pra se ler: e. e e sem acento fica gaga, com acento.
ou gago, sem.

posso anunciar, mas vai ser mentira. a verdade eh que tenho que esperar e estou beem paciente.
posso contar uma historia, e nao vai ser mentira: passei quatro-cinco horas inconscientes quando um dia fui paciente.
e assim estou. assim, pacientemente, vivo um ingles, que, verdade, nao eh igual. na-o eh i-gual.
seja la como ingles divide as silabas, nao eh igual. pronto.
http://trombandonasola.blogspot.com/
eu aguardo. e guardo tudiiiinho... tudiiinho...
bjjjj na bunda e feijao no dente.
(ai que delicia q eh um brasileires)
deliiiicia, gostooso, buuunda como a gente fala, como a gente tem, aqui NA-O TE-M IGU-AL. seja la como ingles divide as silabas. nao tem igual. pronto.

Hiromi Uehara

marxism

I went last weekend to the Marxism conference here in London (go) and it was very interesting listen to philosophers and politics talking about the crises today and debating solutions and ideas of how this system can change and what we can do about it. The first step is start thinking (and that is not supposed to stop) and to realize that, in fact, this political system is not working thesedays..
Of course, this conference reminds me the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, where I used to live. (check the India Forum that happened few years later, because the Brazilian website is not working any more..)
Listening to those ideas here in Europe was very interesting to compare with Porto ALegre. The forum in Porto Alegre happened quite long ago and as the same time as World Economic Forum in Davos (eca!).
Being on Marxism conference this weekend I could realize that people are stimulating to think and to act for building up anew society with new values. Rich countries are facing the crisis (only) now, so is the moment to do something.
I must emphasize my position here (and I am trying to avoid opinions, completely); I am not radical, not socialist, not fanatic, not religious. I don't like to be part of any side, I am in the middle and that allows me to think sensibly. And I believe that to cut the balls (listen to Slavoj Zizek speech) the best solution is to do my part, which is a big thing and goes beyond my routine, is to reflect of everything we do that affect others. 'so suddenly they will realize that the balls aren't there any more..'
I don't buy stupidity (in a mental sense).
[I have to confess, is hard to explain in few words what I meant by that 'stupidity'.. so I will leave my words away now and I will let you enjoy those speeches]
attitude starts small and at home
ecocentro.org/


I started recording after few lectures I went to, so I will recommend those to looking for later:
lecture: Gabriel Garcia Marquez by Mike Gonzalez
an interesting relationship between Garcia Marquez's writings and the struggle of South America suffocating economical life.
lecture: Iran 30 years after the revolution by Peyman Jafari
lecture: Obama's rise to power - from segregation to White House by Gary Younge

lecture: Marx & Ecology by John Bellamy Foster (sorry, I started the recording after the beginning)
john bellamy.mp3

lecture: What does it mean to be a revolutionary today? by Slavoj Zizek & Alex Callinicos
zizek and callinicos.mp3
comments.mp3

lecture: The political crisis & the choices ahead by Tony Benn
tony benn.mp3
comments.mp3

lecture: From revolution to irrelevance? 21st Century classical music by Simon Berhrman
Simon Berhrman.mp3
comments.mp3

Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

BRAVO maestro!!

as Duchamp said of art, it can only be declared dead, when no one is talking about it.
in time of crisis, I heard everyone desperate screaming its death.
galleries and faculties of art are changing places or closing.
thus, are the artists the first to jump the boat?

so it seems like we are pumping its heart, in fact we don't want to see them dying; but we are watching them suffering (more) and expecting the artists come with more blood and passion!
If some of artists already use their passion to express themselves, now we will see them burning in order to achieve... nothing. Bravo!

and that is not matter of pleasure, but revolt! Things are wrong and boring, what I expect now is to tear (with) power and make it harder.

we will see.

just do (say) it

FED UP!!!

shit, I have been watched such crap work about it: ok, great! music can be made of uses of everything, that is not a new idea. We are free to take sound from things, people, landscapes, musical instruments, etc. That is, actually, obvious! But people tend to SAY IT, INSTEAD OF COMPOSING!
Bloody hell, I don't know if they thing that the audience are stupid or they, in fact, are the stupid (or lazy)...
Whatever it is, I got enough, I still think that is interesting, inspiring and rich, as we amplified our field of sound sources. However, is just that. We've got now, besides traditional notes from musical instruments, the rhythm and note of thousands of machines, thousands of objects, billions of people. Can you, please, compose something abstract and touching for me?? AND THROW WORDS OF EXPLANATIONS AWAY FROM THE SCREEN AND LET ME ENJOY THE SOUND... bloody hell... Thank you.



THINK MORE, DO LESS.


ps: you can blame me for this stupid (just say it) post.

concrete poetry

Improving the last post, I was reading last night the programme magazine from the current exhibition at ICA, which explored concrete poetry movement from the 60s till contemporaries artists who work with the intersection of the graphic and the poetic.
So reading the programme, I found this funny sentence "stupidity reduce language to words" by the Scottish artist and writer Ian Hamilton Finlay, who was a key figure in the Concrete Poetry movement in Britain.
haha, I just loved it!
And I loved the exhibition as well. I was looking for Brazilians artists (Augusto de Campos), but it wasn't there. However on the book they credited Concrete Poetry for had its roots in Brazil and Swiss movements; I actually didn't know how big it was and I am glad they recognized its value.
Can be downloaded the book by here!

by Augusto de Campos
Tensao, 1956



by Janice Kerbel
from her Remarkable series

by David Hockney
Two Boys Aged 23 or 24, 1966

imaginacao de como juntar o queijo com violao

ONE TUTORIAL:

I have been writing a lot lately.. researching to explain my ideas, learning English at same time, finding new ideas and understanding new concepts of music...
I had a tutorial today from my course and I was criticized for not being very very clear on my last essay... she said that she had to supposed and interpreted few passages of my text.
I said to her that I was afraid that if I explain every little issue very precisely it would sounds like a porno-film... she laugh, only..
and I am quite glad that she didn't answer, I don't really like explicit sex...