Last saturday we (me and more 229) have done the funniest movie of the year :) A lip dub at Velha-a-Branca. All the people was spread around the house singing and dancing at the sound of three generations of music from Braga: António Variações, Mão Morta and Smix Smox Smux. It was a wonderful afternoon! You can see the full set of photos here, on Facebook.
A nice detail about how I developed this film: these days are so so hot that I needed to cool the quemicals instead of warming! And I couldn’t get the target of 20ºC, so it was the first time I developed at 21ºC (with less a minute of exposure). How I love hot sunny days =)
…João Araújo! The prize of the best musician of the year goes to him. My choice =) Since I’ve met him I knew we shared the same passion about music.. playing and listening. But he never said me he also used to compose! I’ve found his (hidden) facet this week and I liked =) take a look at João’s MySpace. Do you believe that he does all of this wonderful music alone, only with his MacBook and GarageBand? Even the microphone is the internal from the laptop. I think this gives a special touch to his music. So, João: you should keep doing it, just like this :)
My favorite song is “Antes fazer?”. I’m just curious to know if those who don’t understand portuguese also likes it :)
My conlcusion: this world is amazing! We have an entire orchestra, infinite canvas and ink, a full photographic laboratory and a full cinema studio inside our houses. This is available to everyone. So, no one have an excuse not to create art xD
♫ Indiferença, from the album Alice of Bernardo Sassetti
This is definitely a moment for Sassetti’s music. A portuguese jazz musician I always loved since the first time I listened - live - here in Braga, a few years ago. Since there, he became one my favorite pianists. Many people doesn’t like to call him a jazz guy. But he is! For sure! It is a different kind of Jazz, his own.
He is a very nice person and is always encouraging people to play more music. Many times I remember what he said to me that time “até breve… e sempre a tocar” - “see you next time… always playing”. And you know what? He’s right. Life becomes different =)
(view big on black and listen to the music is mandatory!)
He’s João Pulido, a friend I admire very very much. Working with him is always funny and productive at the same time. He’s so full of ideas! Fortunately, he can put them in practice most of the time :) I really needed to have a photo of him on my blog. We share the same passion about photography and manually developing the films!
About the photo it was a pity cutting his cane, on the left.
As the previous roll was "pull developed" , the next one needed to be "push developed". The result was obviously a lot grainy. They were doing a check sound for a concert at night and I liked the composition. I don’t know anything about this band from my hometown - Coimbra - but I’ll try to search for their work.
This was my first experience with "pulling developing"… to be honnest, it was an accident :$ Developing an Ilford Delta 3200 on Ilford ID-11 takes 10m30s, but I read the incorrect time and used 9m30s, so it was developed as a 1600 ASA. In the photo the problem is not noticed, but with low light they’re really bad :( and I needed to use another ones to a contest, so it is a pitty. But ok, it was a good lesson.
Oh, and I tried another lab to scan my negative but the result was (obviously) bad agan! It have stains and I just HATE the way they crop the photos -.- They always do it incorrectly, grrrr. This is a serious problem to me because I love the black margin. So, I’m learning another thing: I need to invest on my own scanner! It is the *only way* to get a good work.
Camera: Canon AE-1
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.8
Film: Ilford Delta 3200 self developed at 1600
It is so dangerous to get in a book store… you always get out with at least a book. Yesterday I found a wonderful book of Annie Leibovitz called “A Photographer’s Life”. On the Internet it is so hard to find her best works (you can only find his banal works), but when I opened her book it was love at the first sight.
I’ve choose three photos of her to post here. Not they best ones, but the best I’ve found on the Internet. The first because Louise’s expression, the second because the composition and the third because it turned on the most iconic photo from the 80’s - specially because it was taken on the the last hours of life of John Lennon (an artist that I love).
These are my good friends Camilo Silva, José Miguel Braga and Ruben. For the last 8 years I’ve been working (and having a lot of fun) with them (and a lot more of good friends) at Produções Ilimitadas Fora D’Horas making theatre. This year was the first one that I’m watching the PIF’H shows from the outside because I needed to dedicate some time to me and to my master thesis. It is nice too because I see the shows from a different perspective, but I’m becoming nostalgic and feeling that something is missing on my life… I need to get back really really soon! They’re a part of my life =)
The reason for the reflections is not a double exposure. The photo was just taken is just through a glass.
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