(derradeiro retiro de verão, a soar assim e assim)

imgs. The Dear Zé
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Woody Gwyn

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a condição humana

book trailer de Matt Young para o livro

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

David Bellos

Penguin Books

"People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no world news, not much of a reading list in any subject at college, no repair manuals for cars or planes, and we wouldn't even be able to put together flat pack furniture. "Is That a Fish in Your Ear?" ranges across the whole of human experience, from foreign films to philosophy, to show why translation is at the heart of what we do and who we are. What's the difference between translating unprepared natural speech, and translating Madame Bovary? How do you translate a joke? What's the difference between a native tongue and a learned one? Can you translate between any pair of languages, or only between some? What really goes on when world leaders speak at the UN? Can machines ever replace human translators, and if not, why? And the biggest question is how do we ever really know that we've grasped what anybody else says - in our own language or in another? Surprising, witty and written with great joie de vivre, this book is all about us, and how we understand each other. "

aniversário

The mares go down for their evening feed

                                                              into the meadow grass.

Two pine trees sway the invisible wind

                                                          some sway, some don't sway.

The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight

For just a minute or so.

The mares have their heads on the ground,

                                 the trees have their heads on the blue sky.

Two ravens circle and twist.

              On the borders of heaven, the river flows clear a bit longer.

The Evening is Tranquil, and Dawn is a Thousand Miles Away by Charles Wright

img. Anna Castagnoli

a matéria do tempo

Waste Landscape

Elise Morin and Clémence Eliard

Halle d’Aubervilliers du Centquatre

 Paris

"A l’heure de la révolution numérique, ces CD usagés ou invendus sont des
supports de mémoire condamnés qui disparaissent peu à peu de notre quotidien
pour participer à l’édification d’immenses déchetteries toxiques à ciel ouvert,
flottantes ou enfouies.
A travers la couverture nuageuse planant sur Paris, les rayons du soleil ont
finalement réussi à se frayer un chemin, à travers la verrière de la Halle d’Aubervilliers,
pour enflammer et faire refléter le spectre lumineux multicolore des 60000 CD collectés, triés et cousus à la main  "

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lustro do dia

De Ricardo Cabral já conhecíamos Newborn -10 dias no Kosovo, lançado durante o 21º Amadora BD e Israel Scketchbook, cadernos de viagem, diários gráficos, onde o autor fixa (fotografa?) gentes e lugares de pertença. 
Em 2009 este ilustrador enviou alguns desenhos de viagem para o MyMoleskine e no início deste ano soube-se que um deles, de uma série que fez em Barcelona, tinha sido seleccionado para integrar a Cover Art Journals Collection. 
Com esta nova Moleskine, a cidade de Gaudi vai poder saltar-nos para o bolso.
Parabéns!

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bom Ferragosto!

 

(e ainda anda por aí o Gianni e as Mulheres, último filme de Gianni Di Gregório)

unputdownable

unputdownable. 

em promoção da leitura dos clássicos, há uns anos atrás a Saatchi & Saatchi Malaysia criou para a Penguin Books esta campanha absolutamente brilhante - as mãos dos leitores transformadas em livros como o The Railway Children de Edith Nesbit, Cannery Row de John Steinbeck e The Hound of the Baskervilles de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

impousáveis, os livros.

pois bem, agora é tempo gordo, o de férias e não tenho tempo para os deixar pousar!

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