area

The gourmet

2012-01-05T13:07:00.001Z

Bruegel

2011-12-13T22:57:00.004Z

Conrad Schnitzler - RIP

2011-08-07T10:13:00.002+01:00

Topics

2011-08-02T10:26:00.001+01:00

Butterflies and flowers.
Acute psicadelism.

Topics for the holidays (not me I´m being punished):
a washing machine with a red flag on top.

José Órtiz Echagüe

2011-07-31T10:52:00.001+01:00

Sirocco - by José Ortiz Echagüe 1964

Sermón en la aldea - by José Ortiz Echagüe 1903

Pescador - by José Ortiz Echagüe

Penitentes en Cuenca - by José Ortiz Echagüe 1940

Cruceros de Roncesvalles - by José Órtiz Echagüe 1944

Angels

2011-07-31T10:09:00.002+01:00

Haunted George

2011-07-30T13:26:00.000+01:00

HAUNTED GEORGE - KXLU MOJAVE BROADCAST (PT 2)

Ghidrah - The Three Headed Monster

2011-07-01T13:19:00.000+01:00

Ex-Votos

2011-06-16T21:41:00.002+01:00

An Ex-Voto thanks God, the Virgin Marie ou any saint for a miracle.
Um ex-voto agradece a Deus, Virgem Maria ou santo o milagre acontecido.

Ex-voto mexicano:

La Casa Park

Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-votos

Unit#118

2011-06-09T11:06:00.009+01:00

Check the not so new photography wesite: Unit#118

English Gardens

2011-05-16T18:15:00.002+01:00

Manchester - Longsight

2011-05-04T18:55:00.001+01:00

Gothic

Manchester

2011-05-03T23:25:00.003+01:00

Levenshulme

Manchester - Levenshulme

2011-04-30T13:04:00.003+01:00

Levenshulme

Manchester

2011-04-29T13:10:00.001+01:00

Levenshulme

Longsight

Vision Topics

2011-04-22T23:34:00.000+01:00

#1 - Photography doesn't picture what we are seeing, or what we had in mind at the time that we were seeing. Are we seeeing the world differently than a camera does?
Maybe we don't understand what we're seeing.
Need to define what we see, make up some rules. What is it that we see or what do we want something to look like.
It doesn't match what I wanted it to look like, my mind was interpreteing it in a different way than it really is.
Define what I want. I want it to look like that.

Manchester - Birchfields

2011-04-22T23:25:00.001+01:00

Vintage

2011-04-03T09:48:00.001+01:00

Bean considerations

2011-03-15T23:10:00.000Z

Wrong, a Java bean has a constructor with no arguments !!!!
e.g.
public class PersonBean implements java.io.Serializable {
private String name;
private boolean deceased;
......
/** No-arg constructor (takes no arguments). */
public PersonBean() {
}

Question: Do we have to modify the code for a longer one for the sake of standards? Couldn't we use a "Hybrid bean"? a hybrid bean ...

ANTLR's plugin in Eclipse

2011-02-02T13:53:00.003Z

How to get Antlr working in Eclipse

From the ANTLR website, you must get eclipse's plugin:
- Go to WIKI (on top of the page)
ANTLR - WIKI
- Then click Integration with Development Environments (on the right side)
Integration with Development Environments

- Go to the Eclipse's section.
There are two choices under Eclipse: antlrDT and antlr IDE
- choose antlr IDE
- And click on the link to source forge
Source Forge

- In Eclipse go to help, install new software
- Choose Helios - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/helios from the list of Software Sites
- Uncheck Group Items by category
- In the search box type Dynamic Languages

- Check Dynamic Languages Toolkit - Core Frameworks.
- Then type GEF.
- Check Graphical Editing Framework.
- Type Zest.
- And check Graphical Editing Framework Zest Visualization Toolkit.

- Click next, the three chosen options should appear in the window
- Click next and complete the installation.

Go back to the source forge website Source Forge
- Click the Download/Install tab
- And copy the address at "via Update Manager" (http://antlrv3ide.sourceforge.net/updates)

In Eclipse, go to "help" then "install new software" and add a new location in the list of software sites:
e.g. Antlr IDE at http://antlrv3ide.sourceforge.net/updates
- Check ANTLR IDEv2.1.1.
- Click next twice, accept the licence and click finish That should start the installation of the plugin.
- Restart eclipse.

In the Window menu, go down to preferences.
- Click ANtlr in the menu on the left side.
- Then Builder.
- Click add and browse to the directory where we put the ANTLR jar.
- Next, select "Code Generator" and choose "Project relative folder" and input a name such as "antlr-generated" that will keep the grammars in a separated directory.
- Check "append java package to output folder".

For more complete detailed information, you should check Scott Stanchfield's page on Vimeo. ANTLR 3.x Tutorial

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

2011-01-22T14:26:00.002Z

LateX packages on Ubuntu

2011-01-11T16:29:00.001Z

To install LateX packages on Ubuntu:
- Download the package from CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
All files should be placed in the same directory, so it can be found by LateX. This will also allow to move everything in one go, if you want to build up a new system. To be found by LateX, the following directory tree must be respected.
- Create a folder in your home directory called texmf/tex/latex/packagefoldername (if you have multiple users on the same computer, you'll need to create a folder on every home directory):
e.g. texmf/tex/latex/listings
- If your package is a made of a single file with .sty extension, just place it in the folder and that's it. It will be accessed by LateX.
- If the package is made of several files, copy all files into the folder you've just created, or at least the file with the .ins extension, and run "latex filename.ins", this will create the filename.sty file. In my case, it was "latex listings.ins"
- Finally run "texhash ~/texmf" for LateX to recognise the new package.

You can now include your package in your .tex files in the preamble, such as:
\usepackage{listings}

link to documentation

Pinhole Photography

2011-01-06T13:34:00.003Z

First snapshots done with the body of a Soviet Zenith XP12 and a pinhole in a tin can. It's taking me back to the beginning of the camera obcura, at least conceptually. Was thinking of Niépce. What about back to developing in a cupboard?

Pinhole - English landscape #1 - Birchfields

Pinhole - English landscape #2 - Levenshulme

Japan

2010-12-21T14:43:00.001Z

Firefox Flash player Ubuntu 10.10 LTS 64bit

2010-12-21T13:43:00.000Z

In order to get the Flash player for Firefox under Ubuntu 10.10 64bit, it can easily be installed at the command prompt, typing:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer.
You can refer to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash#installation for more detailed information.

Installing Apache Tomcat on Windows7

2010-12-02T21:03:00.004Z

- Installing tomcat on Windows 7
- Download Apache Tomcat from the website http://tomcat.apache.org/index.html
- Unzip it
- Place the folder in a directory suitable for your system
e.g. C:\Program Files\Whatever
- If the classpath is correctly set, at the command prompt, navigate to the \bin folder of your apache-tomcat- (If not there's a previous post that will tell you how to do that).
- run startup.bat to start it up
- shutdown.bat to stop the server
- check with your browser if the server is correctly running, by typing in the address bar, http://localhost:8080
- Apache's Tomcat web page should load with no problem
- Now you're ready to develop your best web apps.

How to set the Java Classpath

2010-12-02T20:45:00.001Z

In Windows 7:
Control Panel->System->advanced system settings->environment variables->system variables:
Create new variables:
->click new
variable name: CLASSPATH, variable value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22
variable name: JAVA_HOME, variable value: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22
variable name: Path, variable value: ...;...;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_22\bin; (append it to the existing path, don't forget the semi-columns(;))

Google Maps in Android (emulator)

2010-11-06T21:18:00.021Z

In order to get google maps in your apps and so build location-based services, your must register with Google, and include a key that they'll provide against a MD5 string that you get from your own system. If you're like me, just developing and debugging without deploying your apps, you'll need one key called "debug.store", another one will be used to comercially deploy your apps.

I've done that using Eclipse, so here it goes. Locate your .android folder, on Ubuntu/Linux, that's in ~/.android, it's a hidden file, (hence the dot .android, type ls -a for hidden files), on Windows 7, its location is at C:\Users\\.android. This file contains a digital certificate that is going to be used to create the MD5 string. You need Keytool in Eclipse, Eclipse is the "does it all for you" and is getting really powerful so if you're concerned with efficiency in producing code, Eclipse is the main thing.
To install keytool, once again go to the Help menu, install new software (in Helios), click add for a new repository, add http://keytool.sourceforge.net/update, (check http://keytool.sourceforge.net/), then follow the usual procedure to install plugins in Eclipse.

Once installed, they'll be a menu called keystore, choose open keystore, browse to the "debug.store" in the .android folder, and type "android" as password. It took me a while to find the password ... In the lower part of eclipse, where the console usually is, select the keytool tab if it's not already, double click on "androiddebugkey", the certificate should open and the MD5 Fingerprint displayed. Copy it and go to Maps API Key Signup - http://code.google.com/android/add-ons/google-apis/maps-api-signup.html, you need a valid Google account for that, accept their terms and conditions, and paste the key where it says so. It should give you back the key to insert in your code. That's in your project folder in Eclipse, open main.xml located in the res then layout folder and where it says apiKey, insert it. Now theoretically, it should display a Google map in your app. And it does!

Your main.xml should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
>

<com.google.android.maps.MapView
android:id="@+id/mapview1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:enabled="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:apiKey="Your API Key" />
</LinearLayout>

Android SDK Intallation Log

2010-11-06T14:49:00.008Z

In order to run the Android SDK - Software Development Kit and start writing code in Eclipse, you must download the SDK at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html, android-sdk_r07-linux_x86.tgz for linux, i386, there's no 64 bit version as it seems. The file must be extracted from the .tgz file and placed in its due location, in my case that's /usr/local/bin/. Again, as with the Java JDK, add the location of the Android folder to the path.
Next, from within Eclipse, mine is Eclipse Helios, you must install the ADT plugin for Eclipse, so choose the help menu, then install new software, click then the add button to add a repository, something like Android plugin for the name and https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ for the location. Select the check box next to Developers tools and start with the installation.
Once it's installed, it needs to be configured. Select Window->Preferences then Android from the left panel. Update the location of your Android folder by clicking Browse. It should now know where to locate all the necessary class files to start developing.
Last thing to do, select the help menu, go to Android SDK and AVD Manager, then click on the available packages to get the Google APIs that you might need. Select the ones that are relevant for your work, in my case, I'll stick for now to the latest version of Google API, i.e. version 8, you should that in order to run on older versions of Android, your app should be tested on the previous APIs, and thus downloaded now. I haven't got to that part since I'm not comercialising my software (for now), so I'll skip for later on, I feel nonetheless, that it wont't be easy to make it work on all the previous platforms.
After installing the API, all should be ready now to code your first Android app.

Nota: To run it under Linux 64bit, you need to install the ia32-libs package using apt-get:
apt-get install ia32-libs (Ubuntu 10.10LTS 64bit)

Eclipse Installation Log

2010-11-05T18:04:00.003Z

I've downloaded eclipse-jee-helios-SR1-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz from the Eclipse website, that is Eclipse Helios last version up to date.
As I forgot to install the Java Devolopment Kit (JDK), I pointed to Sun's website (pardon me, Oracle's brand new machine) and got JDK 6 Update 22 (Java SE Development Kit 6u22), after chosing Linux 64 bits, which lead to jdk-6u22-linux-x64.bin.
I've moved the binary file to /usr/local/bin/, and eclipse's as well. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on Virtual Box.
As sudo, I've run the Java script, that's ./jdk-6u22-linux-x64.bin at the prompt. It started to decompress and finally created everything in a folder called jdk1.60.22. Next step the always tricky part of setting the path to the Java home in the PATH. So sudo (whatever editor you use, I might Vim), that's sudo vim ~/.bashrc (bashrc is a hidden file in your home directory and configure the shell environment, you need to type ls -a in order to see it). At the end of the file, I've inserted:


export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/bin/jdk1.6.0_22
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

When I type at the prompt, echo $PATH the JAVA_HOME is appended. I took me a while.
Problem: Eclipse wouldn't launch, it was giving a error saying no Java virtual machine found. After some digging, (online digging?!) I've come up to this site http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-jvm-settings-for-eclipse/1409590#1409590 and this one at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-jvm-settings-for-eclipse/3275659#3275659. Following instructions, I altered a file called Eclipse.ini in the Eclipse folder. I just added two lines:


-vm
/usr/local/bin/jdk1.6.0_22/bin/java
the whole file looks like this:
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.0.v20100507.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.1.R36x_v20100810
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vm
/usr/local/bin/jdk1.6.0_22/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms40m
-Xmx384m

Just added a launcher on my desktop and that it, it works. It sounds simple but almost got the whole afternoon. I'm actually suffering from time management problems, that means I STRESS!
Ok, next step, installing Android platform.

The Gories

2010-10-09T18:01:00.000+01:00

The Gories- Land of A Thousand Dances

The Gories "Nitroglycerine"

Bluetooth Marketing Software

2010-09-26T20:02:00.002+01:00

This is a video promo made for a university project about a proximity marketing software app for Bluetooth devices.

Typography

2010-09-20T18:23:00.002+01:00

"Helvetica"

The Cramps

2010-08-31T17:53:00.002+01:00

The Cramps - Hot Pearl Snatch

Kozure Ôkami - Lone Wolf and Cub

2010-08-01T12:10:00.000+01:00

Lone Wolf and Cub: Kozure Ôkami (1972)

Skip James

2010-07-10T18:05:00.000+01:00

Devil got my woman

Crow Jane

Space 1999

2010-07-07T22:43:00.003+01:00

Noir

2010-06-26T17:07:00.021+01:00

Blast of Silence
Blast of Silence is an American crime/thriller film released in 1961. It was written and directed by Allen Baron.

Call Northside 777
Call Northside 777 (1948) is a documentary-style film noir directed by Henry Hathaway

D.O.A.
D.O.A. (1950) a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté

Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Drifter (or The Tokyo Wanderer) (東京流れ者, Tōkyō nagaremono) is a 1966 yakuza action film directed by Seijun Suzuki

Bollywood

2010-06-17T18:02:00.002+01:00

Best Fight Scene EVER!

Bollywood: Matrix

Best fight scene of all time

Turkish Star Wars Part 2

Turkish Superman

Manchester

2010-05-26T12:54:00.006+01:00

Jimmy Hoffa

2010-05-22T14:01:00.002+01:00

5-10 In Search Of... Jimmy Hoffa (Part 1 of 2)

5-10 In Search Of... Jimmy Hoffa (Part 2 of 2)

Hoffa Murder KLAS Interview #1

Hoffa Murder KLAS Interview #2

Hoffa Murder KLAS Interview #3

Père Ubu

2010-05-15T17:49:00.005+01:00

"Song Of The Grocery Police" by Pere Ubu

March Of Greed Paris Sept 2009 by Pere Ubu

Mr Propre

2010-05-14T14:17:00.000+01:00

Manchester

2010-05-13T13:11:00.004+01:00

Beswick

Hulme

South Manchester

King Khan & The Shrines - The Fuzztones

2010-05-08T13:43:00.002+01:00

King Khan & The Shrines - Land of the Freak

The Fuzztones - Ward 81

John Lurie

2010-04-28T18:05:00.000+01:00

John Lurie's sax (Permanent Vacation)

Manchester - Hulme

2010-04-25T14:04:00.005+01:00

Hulme

April the 23rd

2010-04-23T18:35:00.001+01:00

Ocaso Épico

2010-04-21T18:24:00.001+01:00

The Great Rock n Roll Swindle

2010-04-12T17:54:00.000+01:00

The Cramps

2010-04-03T18:24:00.001+01:00

Bugs

2010-04-02T18:49:00.008+01:00

Spring is back once again. All the bugs are coming out!!

COLE_l013 - Image Copyright and Protected
Image Copyright 2000-2006 by Dexter Sear at IO Vision

J.G. Thirlwell

2010-03-31T18:45:00.004+01:00

Die Haut - Der Karibische Western

2010-03-24T23:06:00.000Z

Die Haut - Der Karibische Western (live 1982)

Rapeman

2010-03-24T23:04:00.000Z

Trouser Minnow
I swear I didn't say anything,
he just followed me in there.
It was like, "...what the?"
and he just took my shirt up...
And we just... right, right there on the sink.
I was so drunk I was dizzy,
and she was in the kitchen
while we were downstairs fucking and she called me a bitch, and
I tried to tell her it was nothing...

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they take advantage of me.
I want all men to use me
for their only satisfaction.

I'm really drunk...
There's nobody over...
Why don't you come by?
You'll like it...
You wanna stay up with me?
We can... buy a pizza.

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they just wanna bust a nut.
I hate it when they're on top and
they all have little dicks. I
think I'll get out of town wh-...
where a girl can find some peace of-...
Maybe move to another country wh-...
where men aren't all so sexist.
Maybe if I hide in the closet...
maybe with a bottle of wine...
I'll crack you on the noggin' -
we'll have a real wild time!

Remember what it used to be like when-...
when all we did was eat and fuck?
I let you shave my pussy;
you let me, paint your dick.
You were always late for work...
you said it didn't matter.
Then after a while,...
I guess it-... I guess it did start to matter.

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they take advantage of me...
and they'd all wanna use me,
but they're all satisfied now.

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they just wanna bust a nut.
I hate it when they use me;
they have such little dicks.

Shellac

2010-03-19T18:31:00.001Z

Shellac - My Black Ass

Shellac - Steady As She Goes

Buttons by jp

2010-02-26T12:43:00.001Z

buttons from jp on Vimeo.

Wish You Were There by JP

2010-02-03T20:15:00.002Z

A video from a rising star: JP. Check this out. More will follow.

wish you were there from jp on Vimeo.

Beeb! Beeb!

2010-02-03T20:02:00.000Z

Manchester - Rusholme

2010-01-30T19:03:00.007Z

Error no.1

2010-01-14T22:11:00.001Z

Rowland S Howard

2010-01-06T18:57:00.004Z

Dirty winter is taking its toll among our musicians.

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Inverno porco leva os nossos músicos todos.

Birthday Party - She's Hit

Rowland S. Howard recording Jennifer's Veil (1983)

PALAOA

2010-01-06T18:18:00.005Z

PALAOA - Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice

Here's a link to an interesting website that will certainly enrich your cold winter nights, with some of the best ambient music I've ever heard.
Resuming, they've got a microphone under the ice somewhere in the Antarctic Ocean, transmitting live.

Providing an acoustic live stream of the Antarctic underwater soundscape is a formidable challange. After all, more than 15000 km lie between Antarctica and our institute in Germany. Underwater sound is recorded by means of two hydrophones by PALAOA, an autonomous, wind and solar powered observatory located on the Ekström ice shelf (Boebel et al., 2006). The data stream is transmitted via wireless LAN from PALAOA to the German Neumayer Base. From there, a permanent satellite link transmits the data to the AWI in Germany.

MP3 audio stream - should work on any computer right off the box, otherwise please check your browser or default multimedia player settings.
OGG-Vorbis audio stream - provides better sound quality at a lower bitrate
. For a list of compatible players, please check out www.vorbis.com.

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Aqui vai um link para um site que con certeza irá enriquecer as suas gélidas noites de inverno, com alguma da melhor música ambiente que alguma vez se fez.
Basicamente, colocaram um microfone debaixo do gelo algures no Oceano Antártico, constantemente a transmitir o que capta.

The Alfred Wegener Institute

Lhasa de Sela

2010-01-04T12:43:00.002Z

Manchester - Hulme

2009-12-29T19:29:00.006Z

The Christmas movies

2009-12-23T18:40:00.003Z

Thee Christmas movie this year

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

La Sonora Matancera con Carlos Argentino - Ay Cosita

Gétatchèw Mèkurya

2009-12-18T15:56:00.005Z

Gétatchèw Mèkurya - Ethiopiques 14

Primal and shamanic, Mekurya's playing evokes something of saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler, with all their passion and in-the-moment invention (though none of Ayler's extended altissimo screeching), with a shot of honking tenor men Big Jay McNeely and Willis Jackson thrown in for added funk.

But the relationship is an illusory one: Mekurya's style developed in complete isolation from the US free jazz it distantly and tangentially resembles, and is entirely Ethiopian in origin and form. It's based on a specialised genre of traditional vocal music sung by warriors before going into battle—pumped up, epic, threatening and boastful, harsh and hoarse-voiced—with discursive modal improvisation at its core. Unlike its US resonances, it's mostly performed in 3/4 time, from slow and menacing through fast and furious. The instrumental variant developed in Addis Ababa dancehalls in the early to mid 1950s.

Mekurya was amongst the first musicians to play instrumental shellela, and he remains its most revered saxophonist.
in allaboutjazz.com

Ethiopiques & Badume's Band (featuring Getatchew Mekurya) - WOMAD 2009 @ Charlton Park

James White and the Blacks - Downtown 81

2009-12-11T18:53:00.001Z

James White and the Blacks - Downtown 81

Ferré - Brassens - Brel

2009-12-04T18:25:00.008Z

La Table Ronde: Interview de Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens et Léo Ferré

A gorgeous interview from three masters of the prose, the word and of other things as well.

Uma entrevista de três mestres da prosa, da palavra e de outras coisas também.

Interview de Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel et Léo Ferré
Trois hommes dans un salon : Brassens, Brel, Ferré

Metal Hurlant - 1975

2009-11-28T19:22:00.001Z

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart

2009-11-22T18:02:00.006Z

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous.
Got me?
That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous!
Also, a tin teardrop!
Bulbous, also tapered.

Egg City Radio - Captain Beefheart
The Captain Beefheart Radar Station

Captain Beefheart Documentary with John Peel

Captain Beefheart documentary (part 2 of 6)
Captain Beefheart documentary (part 3 of 6)
Captain Beefheart documentary (part 4 of 6)
Captain Beefheart documentary (part 5 of 6)
Captain Beefheart documentary (part 6 of 6)

Zappa

2009-11-15T19:53:00.001Z

Aynsley Dunbar - Happy Together (The Mothers of Invention)

So, you have a hit record in the charts with a bullet?
Please, play me your hit record in the charts and the bullet.

Nick Cave - Big Black

2009-10-03T17:23:00.000+01:00

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Saint Huck (Live, HQ)

Big Black - Steelworker ( Pigpile live )

Braga - Costa de Prata

2009-09-23T13:25:00.008+01:00

A few ones from the days of old. I've just found them on my hard drive but are nothing more than dodgy scans. They're dating from 93 and should deserve a better treatement.

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Algumas dos tempos do antigamente que encontrei no meu disco duro. Datam de 93 e podiam ser scaneadas com melhor qualidade. Merecem melhor de facto.

Minas do Borrageiro

Aveiro

Aveiro

Talking Heads

2009-09-17T18:25:00.001+01:00

This must be the place (naive melody)

Live in Rome 1980 - 10 Born Under Punches

Manchester - Rusholme

2009-09-16T13:10:00.004+01:00

Manchester

2009-09-08T13:22:00.006+01:00

Rusholme

Manchester

2009-09-07T13:02:00.005+01:00

Rusholme

The Fuzztones - The Sonics

2009-09-03T18:25:00.001+01:00

The Fuzztones - The Witch

The Sonics - Psycho a Go-Go

Single-use camera

2009-08-30T20:48:00.004+01:00

Single-use and with a flash.

The Dirtbombs

2009-08-27T20:10:00.001+01:00

The Dirtbombs - Stop

RTP Notícias

2009-08-22T13:15:00.018+01:00

Gostava de fazer uma referência aqui ao relativamente recente site da RTP Notícias, um dos meus preferidos, onde vejo as notícias de vez em quando, isto entre muitos outros. Ora quando a coisa foi para o ar, isto a poucos meses atrás, passei quase uma hora à procura do link que me levasse ao vídeo do telejornal. Eu era já um habituado do site anterior, e sabia onde as coisas estavam. A segunda vez, idem, até que, finalmente encontrei o dito link que permite visionar o jornal da noite passada. Agradecemos sem dúvida, a colocação do dito material informativo, agora não se percebe porquê que o novo site é uma aberração de tudo o que se criou em web design até agora. Se eu fosse um cidadão de terceira idade, já faltou mais para isso, que não percebesse muito de computadores e de internet, acho que nunca mais voltava ao site de tanto desespero.

O que acho impressionante é o número de links que se encontram na primeira página. Tem para começar duas barras no topo da página, onde aparecem em cada secção um menu com mais links a, em alguns casos, mais de dez outros que também se sub-dividem em mais secções, e isto só no topo. Multiplicando os primeiros, não tenho paciência para contá-los todos, chega-se muito rapidamente à centena, e por alto deve ter mais de mil. Só nos menus. Porque faltam os links directos que se encontram por debaixo que nos levam alegremente para outras secções, e mais sub-secções, e mais páginas, e mais actividades e passatempos para nos entreter como se não bastasse descobrir onde nos leva toda esta porcaria.

O que me assusta um bocado é que se paga para estas coisas, e não quero saber quanto porque ainda estamos em plena recessão. Ainda mais aterrorizado fico quando penso no trabalho que isto não deu, pelo menos podem-se gabar de ter alimentado três quartos dos web designers e dos técnicos de linguagens da Internet, da zona de Lisboa e talvez mais, durante seis ou sete meses. E há quem diga que não se trabalha em Portugal.

Vi várias vezes em vários sítios que os grandes Gurus da Net estipularam que um site não devia conter mais de sete links, e que era o limite que uma pessoa normal podia absorver sem ficar ultrapassada. Será essa um regra das mais básicas? Onde terá a RTP desencantados estes génios do web design e do planeamento de sites?

Fica um passatempo para vocês curtirem se disporem de várias horas livres: vejam lá se encontram o último telejornal, têm até ao Natal.

RTP Notícias

The Mummies

2009-08-19T21:38:00.004+01:00

The Mummies - The Fly

The Mummies "Jezebelle" live

Canço, I hate Rock'n'Roll
Digital Meltdown

Manchester

2009-08-17T13:20:00.006+01:00

Martin Hannett - Tony Wilson

2009-08-16T18:09:00.001+01:00

Martin Hannett and Tony Wilson at Strawberry Studios in July 1980

Industrial metal machine aka IMM

2009-08-15T17:12:00.001+01:00

Industrial metal machine . Braga Portugal Parque Exposições Braga 11/93 Parque Industrial Celeirós 95/96 Theatro Circo 95

Manchester

2009-08-13T13:26:00.007+01:00

Movimento do 31 da Armada

2009-08-10T20:03:00.004+01:00

Confirmando a vontade popular e de maneira espectacular, um grupo monárquico voltou a içar a bandeira há muito desaparecida.

Confirming the people´s will and in a spectacular way, a monarchic group has hoisted the long forgotten flag.

31 da Armada

Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky

2009-08-06T13:38:00.013+01:00

Stalker. Post-nuclear. A trip inside the Zone. Nobody knows exactly what it is. Only that the Room will fulfill your dearest wish.
Andrei Tarkovsky, Tolya Solonitsyn and Larisa Tarkovskaya would all die from cancer a few years later. All of them, involved in the shootings, would supposedly have been exposed to the poisonous toxic atmosphere of the location where the movie was shot.

As Vladimir Sharun, sound designer recalls:
We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Pirita with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris.

in Wikipedia, Nostalghia.com

The gourgeous soundtrack is from Eduard Artemyev, and is a memorable register of Russian analogue synths.

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Stalker. Pós-nuclear. Uma ida dentro da Zona. Ninguém sabe exactamente o que é. Apenas que a Sala fará com que o seu desejo mais íntimo seja realizado.
Andrei Tarkovski, Tolya Solonitsyn e Larisa Tarkovskaya iriam morrer de cancro, uns anos mais tarde. Todos eles, envolvidos nas filmagens, estiveram supostamente expostos à atmosfera envenenada e tóxica dos locais onde a película foi filmada.

Como o recorda Vladimir Sharun, designer sonoro:
Estávamos a filmar perto de Tallinn, na área à volta do pequeno rio Pirita, onde se encontra uma semi-funcional estação hidroeléctrica. Mais acima no rio, havia uma fábrica de produtos químicos e ela despejava líquidos envenenados pela corrente abaixo. Até existe este plano no Stalker: neve a cair no verão e espuma branca a flutuar pelo rio abaixo. Na verdade era algum veneno horrível. Muitas mulheres na nossa equipa tiveram reacções alérgicas na cara. Tarkovsky morreu de cancro do canal bronquial direito. E Tolya Solonitsyn também. Tornou-se evidente, que tudo estava conectado com o local onde filmámos o Stalker, quando Larisa Tarkovskaya morreu da mesma doença em Paris.

in Wikipedia, Nostalghia.com

A banda sonora é de Eduard Artemyev, e é um memorável registo de sintetizadores analógicos russos.

Stalker

Nostalghia.com
Orpheus Music

Manchester

2009-08-05T13:48:00.004+01:00

Upperbrook

Birchfields

Freak Out!

2009-08-01T21:38:00.002+01:00

Help you´re a rock!

The end of the film

2009-07-31T13:42:00.003+01:00

Miles away

2009-07-31T13:26:00.000+01:00

Miles Davis Quintet - So What (April 2, 1959) 1 of 4

Léo Ferré - Robert Wyatt

2009-07-31T11:45:00.002+01:00

Léo Ferré - Ne plus écrire (1975)

Robert Wyatt performing "Gharbadzegi"

Longsight - Rusholme

2009-07-28T12:53:00.003+01:00

Trees

2009-07-25T20:41:00.003+01:00

Longsight

2009-07-25T20:36:00.005+01:00

Mx:035/Interrupt 13h

2009-07-21T21:19:00.004+01:00

A new place for you to hang around, make a new link to it. Aren't you lucky?

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Mais um local de perdição para vocês apreciarem, façam um link e não o esqueçam. E vocês não são sortudos?

-> Mx:035/Interrupt 13h (MySpace)

À Sombra De Deus

2009-07-20T16:23:00.004+01:00

À Sombra De Deus - Braga 88 LP (Cámara Municipal De Braga, 1989)

I've just found this on the net today. As I don't have a copy of the album, it's just welcome. Rong Wrong is a surprise, I don't listen to that since 1931. Hail!

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Encontrei isto na net hoje. Como não tenho cópia do álbum, vem a calhar. Rong Wrong é uma surpresa, visto que não oiço isto de 1931. Alviceras!

1-1.Bateau Lavoir - Até Um Dia
1-2.Baile De Baden Baden - Chuva De Verão
1-3.Rua Do Gin - Rebeca
1-4.Mão Morta - 1º De Novembro
A-1.RongWrong - Estranho Prazer
A-2.Pai Melga - Protesto Do Diabo
A-3.Orfeu Rebelde - Através Dos Tempos
A-4.Os Gnomos - Destino

À Sombra De Deus - Braga 88 LP (Cámara Municipal De Braga, 1989)
Rong Wrong (MySpace)
A Rua do Gin (MySpace)
Mão Morta (MySpace)

Gothic

2009-07-19T15:33:00.004+01:00

These pictures were taken with an Agfa Silette I dating from the 60s. It's got Photoshop as well. The Silette has apertures and speeds but no light metre.

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Estas imagens foram tiradas com uma Agfa Silette I dos anos 60. Levaram com o Photoshop também. A Silette tem aberturas e velocidades mas não tem fotómetro.

Gothic 1