Time for another lovely friend. One of these butterflies ♪ is Inês Pulido and she loves to paint! And to fly. Inês paints since… errr… I think she always painted :) and I love her work! It completely matches with her spirit: “always wearing a smile”! And the colors of her paintings can make me smile too - I just love everything and everyone who makes me smile =) life become so easier…
This photo was taken today, at her exhibition on Feira do Livro, in Braga and this is just one of more than 400 canvas she already painted! We’ve taken a lot of funny pictures today, but I’m sharing this one because it perfectly fits here (sorry for taking the colors away, but for the photo it was a must). Taken by me and post-processed by her cousin Mariana, who loves to draw but also coloring photos with her special touch. And she also loves to smile =)
p.s: don’t forget to listen to the music above, by my favorite musician ever! ;)
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 =)
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.
The last time I went out to shoot braga on my little 35mm film, what I really wanted was this photo, but I had no courage. This time, with a b&w film with manual develop I said to me that I needed to take the photo that I wanted! And I asked this sympathetic women to take the photo. It was nice when she (proudly) said to me “of course you can! This week I’ve already taken a photo to the newspaper too.” :) Her friend you say on the other photo was with her again on this moment, talking for hours and hours! Everytime I passed, there they were talking and talking…
I’m going to offer her this photo =)
P.S: of course I had to buy a dozen of chestnuts, but it is always a pleasure to walk on this city with a hot wrapped newspaper full of chestnuts!
This photo was taken at the basement of the Universidade do Minho’s library. I love the film colors and books :) I’m just sad about not having a person on the photo. It’s a must.
♫ “He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody
[...]
He’s as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?”
No manipulation made. Just optics :) Ideia by him, my brother Henrique. Good one!
“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way”
This clock (with calendar) was made in the XIX century at the Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. (New York) in 1870th (see original brochure). At that time, only 3 units were imported to Oporto. This one was bought in this city at the end of the XIX century (beginning of the XX), by my great-great-great-grandfather Roberto Alves de Sousa Ferreira (b.1854-d.1920). With a law degree and a PhD, he was a lawyer and the mayor of Vila da Feira, member of Parliament and Economics Full Professor of the “Universidade do Porto”. He was a founder and administrator of the “Companhia de Gás e Electricidade do Porto”.
The other two units still belong to its original buyers: one is at the Oporto’s court law (tribunal) and the second is located on the old commercial house “Casa Daniel Barbosa” lying at Rua dos Clérigos, Porto.
The clock had three owners:
- Roberto Alves (at his lawyer office at Rua da Restauração, Porto since 1900 to 1920).
- His daughter, my great-great-aunt Branca (b.1894-d.1989), who placed it on her two houses in Gaia (Miramar and Mafamude) between 1927 and 1945 and after in Oporto (Praça Mouzinho de Albuquerque / Rotunda da Boavista) since 1945 to 1989.
- Since my aunt died (1989) the clock is in our home, in Braga =)
Inside the clock, there are three stamps of three repairs made in Oporto. Later, it was cleaned and tuned at the “Relojoaria Maurício Queiroz”, Braga.
The house in the photo is “Casa da Quinta da Cruz”, Vila da Feira, and it belonged to José Alves de Sousa Ferreira, father of Roberto Alves. Beyond all his work, Roberto Alves was also a photographer and had a wonderful collection of cameras (now I know the origin of the photographer genes of the family! :)
Mário while visiting the Miguel Louro’s exhibition at "A Brasileira" (history explained on the previous photo). All the exposed photos were amazing, but I really enjoy the way how Mário, with his nice serious expression, composes with this two on the background!
To be honest, it was taken really fast (almost like a point & shoot) and it is one of my favorite photos ever.
“Pretty woman, walking down the street Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet
Pretty woman
I don’t believe you, you’re not the truth
No one could look as good as you”
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