Lovely longs for the holiday! And of course, I had to put Devendra Banhart in this playlist. I’ve recently found him on Spotify. He is an amazing Venezuelan singer.
Adorable! ❤
What I’ve been reading – Three book tips
Recently, I’ve been reading a bit more than I was used to do. It is true that I also lose this habit more frequently than expected… anyway, there are some books that I keep in places where I always see so, it will be easier to take them when I want to read something. I’ve always had issues when reading a book because I can not do it in a regular order… I always read the following chapters, then I come back to the currently one. The three books that I am going to suggest here aren’t stories books, so it’s not necessary “follow an order”to read and understand it, this is why I like them so much.
Name: Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People
Author: Henry Carroll
About: The book has photographs of some artists like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt, Sebastião Salgado and many others. Through these photos, the author gives us tips for taking photographs of people (portraits), photography composition, environment, black and white and colour photographs etc. It’s a really simple book, nothing complicated or technical words. There are also some instructions like which camera to use and some manual configuration for the camera, keeping the simple speech through the pages. I always check the book before going out or keep it with me when I need to have ideas for taking photos.
Name: The Beatles’ London: A Guide to 467 Beatles Sites in and Around London
Author: Piet Schreuders, Mark Lewisohn, Adam Smith
About: This book was a birthday gift from a friend, while I was living in London last year. I never knew how to use a map properly. With this book, I learnt how to do it. The book is a guide of places where the Beatles have been in London and around. The book is full of maps and in its description there are the nearest tube stations and what happened there, like hotels where they stayed, buildings they’ve lived, places where they’ve played and how these places looks like nowadays. It’s a guide about The Beatles and a guide about London, this is why I love it! I know I am not living in London anymore, but this is not a reason to stop reading this book, once I practice english reading it.
Name: Clandestino – in search of Manu Chao
Author: Peter Culshaw
About: This book is not a Manu Chao’s biography… it is a book about him. My uncle gave me this book earlier this year and I absolutely LOVED it. The author is a jornalist who follows Manu and writes what people think about him, the places where Manu lives or the places they’ve been. He also writes the stories that Manu tells him, about his life, his thoughts, his parents and grandparens, where they’ve come from. Reading all these things it’s possible to understand why Manu Chao is Manu Chao and why he sings what he sings; what inspires him and his background and what matters to the Clandestino.
For now, this is what I have. They are not stories’ books, this is why I can write about them so easily… it’s really hard for me telling a story (from a book or from a film) and not mess up and speak about what happens in the end. When I learn how to do it, I write about the story book that I’ve been reading lately.
Mixtape #9
It’s not “Friday”, I am not “in love”, but this playlist is cool anyway!
An image says more than a thousand words
The problem is THE word that people say. And how they say it. And from which perspective the image has being seen.
Yesterday, the country went to the streets askinf for the Impeachment, for the end of the corruption, military intervention, etc etc etc. I stayed at home watching the brazilian version of The Voice Kids. And it was beautiful. While people were protesting, I’ve seen some stuff on Facebook… then, I saw this pic:
And about it, a thousand of words has been said, like:
- She (the nanny) is doing only her job (and this information was used as a kind of argumentation by the couple in the photo);
- The black woman is kept as a slave by the white people.
- The nanny is working and she is going to a protest lead by the right party, something that can be against her own ideology;
- “Rei do Mate” (or Mate’s King, a food chain) in Rio de Janeiro. Someday they will create “Barbecue King” in Bahia. (Mate, a kind of tea and Barbecue are things typically consumed in the South area of Brazil. In Bahia, the typical food is Acarajé, nothing to do with Barbecue. In my opinion, this is the BEST comment, just because it’s funny).
The thing is, the photo was taken during a protest where the most part of the people support the right party. The picture shows a white couple that has a black woman as their nanny; and the nanny is working on a Sunday. But… the Internet does not forgive anyone. People are posting huge texts speaking up for the nanny, speaking up for the couple, supporting one side and supporting the other side.
The only person who can say whether she’s happy or not, is the nanny.The only one who can say if she is acting against her own ideology, like going to a protest with the bosses, is the nanny. If a person consider himself against the smoking but this same person works for a company that produces cigarretes because this is the only job he could find in this very moment, his bosses deserve being crucified?
I know this example is completely different and can’t be compared to what happened to the woman portrayed in the photo; the black woman is underrated in labour market. And the fact of being black makes it much more complicated. I know it very very well. But las week I watched a video where the girl says something like “if you are chatting with a few people and someone makes a joke about (here, you think about some minority: ethnic, sexual or social) and if between these people, there are someone from this “minority”, the only person who can say if it was a bad joke, if any harm was caused, is the person who belongs to this “minority”. But we can always be supportive when such a thing happens, in other words, we can not close our eyes, but we can not raise our weapons if we don’t know how the person supposedly offended is feeling.
We don’t know if the nanny was offended by the actions of her bosses. Maybe so. Maybe no. Until now, she hasn’t said a word. And probably, will not say. This is why there are so many people being supportive. Unfortunately, our society is racist and misogynist. And things doesn’t get better, because Brazil has many troubles with a big economical crisis. So, unfortunately, we have to take the “this is what we have for today, because tomorrow, we don’t know if we are going to have the same chance” (related to job opportunities, school, food…).
In my opinion, it’s great when we have causes to support. Talk about it is very healthy and it’s amazing when we can learn new things with discussions, if we keep mind and heart open. The picture should be used as a starting point for biggest speeches like: what can we do to improve the women’s position in labour market? How can we improve our country? How can we live as a society, providing equal oportunities? Why someone takes kids and dogs to a protest, a place with so much noise, when kids and dogs have very sensible hearing? But healthy conversation are very rare nowadays while the hate speechs and virtual lynching are more commom.
The internet became big hustings. Judges and attorney from social networks. A big place for attacks and defenses, where, Power Point slides are shows, one after another, for the people express their opinion. But only for two or three days. Tomorrow, there will be a different slide. And nobody will remember of the slide from Yesterday, the Carnival one.
(The photo above is anothe example of what happened to the people on the first photo of this post. This family, dressed as Aladdin, Jasmine and Abu as acused of racism because they dressed their addopted son (who is black) as Abu, a monkey – therm usually used to offend black people).
An image says more than a thousand words
The problem is THE word that people say. And how they say it. And from which perspective the image has being seen.
Yesterday, the country went to the streets askinf for the Impeachment, for the end of the corruption, military intervention, etc etc etc. I stayed at home watching the brazilian version of The Voice Kids. And it was beautiful. While people were protesting, I’ve seen some stuff on Facebook… then, I saw this pic:
And about it, a thousand of words has been said, like:
- She (the nanny) is doing only her job (and this information was used as a kind of argumentation by the couple in the photo);
- The black woman is kept as a slave by the white people.
- The nanny is working and she is going to a protest lead by the right party, something that can be against her own ideology;
- “Rei do Mate” (or Mate’s King, a food chain) in Rio de Janeiro. Someday they will create “Barbecue King” in Bahia. (Mate, a kind of tea and Barbecue are things typically consumed in the South area of Brazil. In Bahia, the typical food is Acarajé, nothing to do with Barbecue. In my opinion, this is the BEST comment, just because it’s funny).
The thing is, the photo was taken during a protest where the most part of the people support the right party. The picture shows a white couple that has a black woman as their nanny; and the nanny is working on a Sunday. But… the Internet does not forgive anyone. People are posting huge texts speaking up for the nanny, speaking up for the couple, supporting one side and supporting the other side.
The only person who can say whether she’s happy or not, is the nanny.The only one who can say if she is acting against her own ideology, like going to a protest with the bosses, is the nanny. If a person consider himself against the smoking but this same person works for a company that produces cigarretes because this is the only job he could find in this very moment, his bosses deserve being crucified?
I know this example is completely different and can’t be compared to what happened to the woman portrayed in the photo; the black woman is underrated in labour market. And the fact of being black makes it much more complicated. I know it very very well. But las week I watched a video where the girl says something like “if you are chatting with a few people and someone makes a joke about (here, you think about some minority: ethnic, sexual or social) and if between these people, there are someone from this “minority”, the only person who can say if it was a bad joke, if any harm was caused, is the person who belongs to this “minority”. But we can always be supportive when such a thing happens, in other words, we can not close our eyes, but we can not raise our weapons if we don’t know how the person supposedly offended is feeling.
We don’t know if the nanny was offended by the actions of her bosses. Maybe so. Maybe no. Until now, she hasn’t said a word. And probably, will not say. This is why there are so many people being supportive. Unfortunately, our society is racist and misogynist. And things doesn’t get better, because Brazil has many troubles with a big economical crisis. So, unfortunately, we have to take the “this is what we have for today, because tomorrow, we don’t know if we are going to have the same chance” (related to job opportunities, school, food…).
In my opinion, it’s great when we have causes to support. Talk about it is very healthy and it’s amazing when we can learn new things with discussions, if we keep mind and heart open. The picture should be used as a starting point for biggest speeches like: what can we do to improve the women’s position in labour market? How can we improve our country? How can we live as a society, providing equal oportunities? Why someone takes kids and dogs to a protest, a place with so much noise, when kids and dogs have very sensible hearing? But healthy conversation are very rare nowadays while the hate speechs and virtual lynching are more commom.
The internet became big hustings. Judges and attorney from social networks. A big place for attacks and defenses, where, Power Point slides are shows, one after another, for the people express their opinion. But only for two or three days. Tomorrow, there will be a different slide. And nobody will remember of the slide from Yesterday, the Carnival one.
(The photo above is anothe example of what happened to the people on the first photo of this post. This family, dressed as Aladdin, Jasmine and Abu as acused of racism because they dressed their addopted son (who is black) as Abu, a monkey – therm usually used to offend black people).
Mixtape #8
Who mixes Beatles with Manu Chao? Nação Zumbi with Gabriel, o Pensaodor? Yes. I do it! And this is my selection for this couple of weeks!
Spotted #3 – Yoshiro Ishii
One more “Spotted” from Instagram. But I didn’t find Yoshiro from Instagramm search. I’ve seen him on Abduzeed website. And I’ve found it really great! I’ve been changing my mind about Japan indeed… and his pictures made me feel a bit more inclined to visit this country.
If you want to see more amazing shots, just click on this link: https://www.instagram.com/446i/
Mixtape #7
Anybody else is missing Carnival?
It was good while it lasted, but now is time to forget all the party, masks and tambourines and focus on another things.
And to keep mind busy with other kind of songs, I created this brand new playlist; there are chilean songs, north american songs and brazilian songs that are not the usual samba.
Um beijo!
xx
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