visual love

There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored kins," 'thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"

and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).”
 

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

4ª feira - 21h

Storytelling is a powerful human drive. We spend our existence living the story of our lives, reshaping and telling it to ourselves and others. We read and write stories to create and remember. We paint and film them, bringing to life the most beautiful and singular details of the human experience. Sometimes, we even cover our bodies with them. But what are stories for? Why do we tell them? Why is storytelling such an integral part of our brains? 

The event will start with presentations by all three speakers above, and will be followed by a set of activities outside the auditorium, including book-crossing, storytelling sessions and interventions by projects involved in storytelling in the field.

Entrance is free and subject to availability.
Live streaming will be available during the event.

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travessia

"A viagem não começa quando se percorrem distâncias, mas quando se atravessam as nossas fronteiras interiores. A viagem acontece quando acordamos fora do corpo, longe do último lugar onde podemos ter casa."

Mia Couto in O Outro Pé da Sereia

img. Adolfo Serra 

mother's day

( for both of us ♥ )

flying paper

all here.

storytelling

22 de Maio, às 21h, na Fundação Champalimaud.

Conferência Internacional | Valuing Baby and Family Passion

A conferência Internacional "Valuing Baby and Family Passion Towards a Science of Happiness" é organizada pela Fundação Brazelton/Gomes-Pedro Para as Ciências do Bebé e da Família. Acontece nos dias 7 e 8 de Maio, no Auditório 2 da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. 

A entrada é livre, mas sujeita a inscrição prévia.

 

seduced by art

  No âmbito da magnifica exposição "Seduced by Art" que tive a sorte de poder ver duas vezes nas suas adaptadas versões (Londres e Barcelona), uma obra em vídeo muito curiosa, com a transformação de uma modelo em Lady Eastlake (1809-1893), escritora e crítica de arte britânica. A intenção foi pois colocar o vídeo junto a uma foto original que os pioneiros do retrato Hill y Adamson fizeram em 1844 desta mulher, no primeiro estudio fotográfico da Escócia. Como refere o jornal espanhol 20 minutos, é uma espécie de máquina do tempo para trás.

XI caminhos de leitura

programa aqui.

phenomenal storytelling

 22 regras para fazer uma história

( baseado nos tweets de Emma Coats, autora de storyboards para a Pixar )

a infografia pode ser comprada impressa ou descarregada em alta resolução aqui 

fonte: huff post books  

#1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.

#2: You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.

#3: Trying for theme is important, but you won't see what the story is actually about til you're at the end of it. Now rewrite.

#4: Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.

#5: Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You'll feel like you're losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.

#6: What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?

#7: Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.

#8: Finish your story, let go even if it's not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.

#9: When you're stuck, make a list of what WOULDN'T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.

#10: Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you've got to recognize it before you can use it.

#11: Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you'll never share it with anyone.

#12: Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.

#13: Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it's poison to the audience.

#14: Why must you tell THIS story? What's the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That's the heart of it.

#15: If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.

#16: What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don't succeed? Stack the odds against.

#17: No work is ever wasted. If it's not working, let go and move on - it'll come back around to be useful later.

#18: You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.

#19: Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.

#20: Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d'you rearrange them into what you DO like?

#21: You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can't just write ‘cool'. What would make YOU act that way?

#22: What's the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.

celebrar em laranja

E porque é dia internacional do livro infantil é dia Planeta Tangerina. Bi-vencedor este ano em Bolonha, com o prémio bop e uma menção especial com o livro A Ilha. 
Sempre soubemos que eram vencedores. É muito bom e feliz acontecimento que o mundo inteiro o sublinhe.

O público e o dn contextualizam estas distinções e as páginas da Feira de Bolonha também: bop e opera prima. 
Parabéns a todos nesta editora, para além do mais, feita de gente.
 

real isn't how you are made...

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit. 'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.' 

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?' 

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.” ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit .

This classic book is beautifully read aloud by Xe Sands, here:

beautiful nikki mcclure

to instantly fall in love with this artist:

a generous self-guided tour. worth watching every minute of this long lecture.

from her website:" Her work depicts the virtues of hard labor and patience, which is inherent in her process as well as in the images themselves: weathered hands washing dishes, people sweeping, mothers caring for their babies, and farmers working the land. But there is also a large element of celebration, of taking the time to roll around in the grass and get wet from the early morning dew. The need for all of us to lay down on the ground, grab hold of the earth, look at the stars and dream. She magnifies the importance of simple things, like the change of seasons, slowing down the world for a moment so we can actually taste it."

um amor perfeito

Um livro, poema, jogo. São cubos de brincar ao amor, com as sempre belas ilustrações da Maria João Worm.

Novo em folha, como a flor ( ou como o amor deve ser ). Comprei aqui, a chegar perfeito pelo correio, num dos próximos dias.

les poings sur les îles

 
Um belíssimo filme a partir do livro (aqui, aqui e aqui) escrito por Elise Fontenaille e ilustrado por Violeta Lopiz.
( obrigada ana ventura, tem a tua cara, sim )

identity and subversion in contemporary women artists

Aqui todas as informações.

babar is back

O Babar não é do meu tempo, ou melhor, eu não sou do tempo do Babar. Refiro-me aos livros e a tudo que lhe diz respeito. Nem na sua origem, nem no tempo do seu revivalismo. Confessando mesmo, nunca simpatizei por ai além com este elefante de fatiota verde, mais homem que bicho.... até ao dia que o conheci, de verdade elefante, em corpo de homem.

Um pequeno espéctaculo, sensível e muito belo, absolutamente a não perder, em reposição na Escola de Música do Conservatório. Sábados e Domingos, sem idade.

Informações aqui

all books were of divination

" Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are entertained, we may modify some views we already hold, but we are more likely to find in books merely a confirmation of what is in our minds already: as in a love affair, it is our own features that we see reflected flatteringly back. 

But in childhood all books are books of divination, telling us about the future, and like the fortune-teller who sees a long journey in the cards or death by water, they influence the future." 

Graham Greene from "Lost Childhood" in The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951)

img. noemi villamuza

manifesto para 2013 ( yes, i do !)

Peter Pan (2003) by P.J. Hogan