Showing posts with label World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Representations of Gender in Advertising

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How ridiculous media portrays gender roles and stereotypes in advertising through presenting gender roll reversals.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

[Saatchi & Heckler] First Taste

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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

How Much Food Can You Buy For $5 Around The World?

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Monday, May 06, 2013

"ONLY FOR CHILDREN"

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Saturday, May 04, 2013

Stairwell Illusion

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

A Duck at Hong Kong...wait!

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I read that this is a work of a dutch artists. He put the duck to float around many cities in the world like Sydney, Auckland, Osaka and São Paulo (WHAT? Never heard about!!!).

The 16.5 metre-high Rubber Duck is floating now at Ocean Terimanl in Tsim Sha Tsui till June.







The duck at Japan:

Boston Bombers: The Dreadful Lesson for Terrorists

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I was wondering too much about some topic, first I was: "nah, forget it".
But damn. It was consuming my mind. So yeah, blogging to spit it out.

In this Boston Bombing all the conspiracy stuff came back with strength. In this information era, people are so full of fragments and TV series that they are full of half but absolute opinion. Is kinda like a friend told me about Kant. YEAH... I have a fragment information about Kant, but anyways: he is a guy that never get out his hometown, so he live in the world of ideas. Uh, ok. I can live with that.
That is no problem at all, but as Mark Twain state:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
Maybe Kant don't need it at all. But you and me dude, maybe we need shake our asses from internet.
In my opinion, Internet is a whole village of vegetating people. I imagine kinda like medieval villages where people were afraid of everything, and they was stupid enough to think a simple flu was something cast by god hate or stuff. Ok, with this picture in mind and comparing with some of the world reaction it frighten me one thing: the lesson that can be learnt.

I will not state who is wrong or right. Who is the victim or the culprit. On this case I will only say: yeah, strange! Two brothers, young guys, simple expression on the face, types that can be anywhere. As flu. A brother is killed while on a car chase throwing grenades around streets. Another one hurt the throat and cannot speak. Locked in a hospital room. Signed a confession. Pretty smooth, uh?

Some people say: not enough proofs. USA said: signed confession. So, now what?

In facebook people were like: "no, way" "lies" "look his face, he looks virgin". A lot of picture of the bombers smiles and casual life.
Meanwhile in the internet, they got some pictures of guys with large backpacks and serious expression: the perfect terrorists: ready to blow people with awfully disguises. But, yeah. Suspicious. Let the old friend fear take our hopes.

You are walking on your kitchen, at night. Some dark spot in the wall. Holy crap! If you are afraid of cockroaches, you will see a fat roach looking at you. If you are afraid of geckos, you gonna see a gecko. If you turn on the lights you may see a spot that always been there, but you never notice it at night yet. So, after a bombing, you see two serious guys with large backpacks?



They can be the bombers. Why not? They can even be bombers that were kinda of late. And some another group exploded first, and they were like "Oh, fuck". Holding the devices and calling it a day. Or they can even be something worse: guys with huge backpacks. Only.

Now there is a lot of guys saying USA is lying about it. Hiding the true bombers. That they exploded themselves to have a reason to invade Korea (?). Bla, bla, bla. Fuck Mc Donalds. Donald Trump sucks.
Yeah. If I were a terrorist I would have learnt a dreadful lesson on this episode.

Bearded man with angry face is no good. Yeah, they can explode things all right. But this will only raise a rage against the evil bearded and ugly man and official reprisals. So, no good. It should get young boys, with cute baby face. The maternal/paternal feeling will urge in peoples hearths around the world. The bomb effect per se is quite minimum than the mistrustfulness feeling it would cause in my victim neighbours. Pretty neat for a terror act, uh?

So, the problem is not the true guilty at all, but on how the fuck we are still thinking? We live in a moment where people are fighting for freedom. To be. To choose. Christian, Buddhist, Atheist, Homosexual, Tattooed, Indian, Retired Pope. _o_

In the end we fear what we do not know. Conspiracies. Dark spots on wall. Bearded man. So, a baby face may threat us not. And here lies the danger. You can spit on the bible, dude, but Lucifer is described as a beauty angel of Light. Ok, no religion, so...ok: the beauty queen transforms herself on a harmless (not the ugly witch disney version, for the sake of example) old woman to poison Snow White. ...yeah. ¬¬ You got the message.

The disney version with an ugly witch is just to teach (wrongly) children the notion of danger.
Do we still act like children nowadays? 


I worked on a store that was robbed by a sympathetic old woman and her down syndrome grandson. The security camera show it. No one would suspect. I not saying Dzhokhar Tsarneav "is guilty and period". But he can be! Why not? Since when human face is a determinant factor?

People have opinions on internet. Ok, no biggy. But these opinions are getting stronger and full of hate.  Discussions with friends and known people with tone as: ignorants fools!! Why? What is happening? Fear? Ostracism? Guys, chill up! Fuck.

IMHO, USA should forgive this boy. Hate is not cured by death. But love. Yeah, kinda hipster. But think about it. I know it is hard. You lost your children, your leg, your foot. But tomorrow it can be your city. Your country. Your world. All good medicine has bad taste and are hard to take. As Jamiroquai would say: Don't give hate a chance!



We can do this guys. Without opinions or fear.
Just put in mind that everything is fine. Lest move on. Together.

Portuguese Version extracted from my facebook:

Nessa história de Boston não sei exatamente quem possa ser culpado ou inocente. Realmente muita coisa estranha, mas ainda assim... o ponto que dá medo nisso tudo é outro: a lição aprendida. 

Na TV rola uma informação que o suspeito seria um guri x e ao olhar a imagem a reação rápida foi: "jamais! olhem para ele, moh virgem". ...

Na internet pegaram uma imagem duns caras com umas mochilas "aparentemente" uniformizados e a internet achou os suspeitos perfeitos. Tá, poderiam até ser os culpados mesmo, não tenho nada com isso. Ou poderiam até ser uma outra galera que tb queria explodir alguma coisa (com um péssimo disfarce por sinal), mas veio outro grupo que explodiu antes. Ou até simplemente caras com mochilas grandes.

O desconhecido é o melhor dos medos. É noite, vc vê um ponto escuro na cozinha. Pra quem tem medo de barata, é uma barata. Quem tem medo de lagartixa, vê lagartixa. Vc liga a luz e percebe que era uma mancha que sempre esteve lá, mas nunca reparou nela a noite.
No caso das mochilas e pose séria dos rapazes: terroristas com bombas. Ponto.

E uma galera pesou na visão contra os EUA e apoio aos "suspeitos"
http://g1.globo.com/mundo/noticia/2013/04/suspeito-de-atentado-em-boston-ganha-grupos-de-apoio-na-internet.html

A tal da lição aprendida: marketing pessoal terrorista.
Se eu fosse um terrorista "random" teria aprendido uma lição mto boa. Homens barbados e adultos não vingam. Tá. Podem até explodir um canto ou outro com sucesso. Mas o efeito seria apenas ódio contra o agressor barbado e feio.

O esquema é pegar guris novinhos com carinhas de inocente. Nomes complexos tipo Al-Qaeda? Nah: Backstreet Bombers!! O efeito da bomba seria pequeno perto do número de inimigos que um rostinho limpo causa na galera. Efeito "paterno" "materno"...sei lá. Seria rápido a desconfiança contra a própria "vítima". E sem essa de AMERICA CONSPIRACAOUNNN, SEM PROVAS, CHUPA MCDONALDS. Tô falando da lição aprendida e não do que "seria ou não" verdade no caso de Boston.

Pq nesse caso eu tb faço parte da galera que acha isso bizarro: dois guris suspeitos, um morre jogando granada numa perseguição, outro, que havia ido para uma festa, machuca a garganta e não pode falar. Internado fechado num hospital. "Confessa" tudo com uma caneta. Uau. O.o Ae aqui falam da falta de provas, ali falam de confissão assinada. Bah! Muito ativismo do mundo por um problema alheio na minha humilde opinião.

O problema que me grilou mesmo é o tanto que imagem ainda é um fator determinante num mundo onde as pessoas brigam por direito de ser o que bem quiser: exu, cristão, tatuado, barbado, homosexual, índio, john diaz.

No final todos nós temos medo do feio/estranho/que não podemos compreender.

Dá até para entender pq antigamente galera queimava um ao outro na fogueira. Ah, se na internet o fogo ardesse.... Isso me lembra esse vídeo:


Saturday, March 16, 2013

Porn Stars Before and After Makeup Makeover

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Allie Haze porn star
Allie Haze

Annika Albrite porn star
Anikka Albrite

Annika Amour porn star
Annika Amour

Ash Hollywood
Ash Hollywood

Brenda Moreno porn
Brenda Moreno

Alana Croft
Alana Croft

Dani Daniels
Dani Daniels

Daven Star
Daven Star

Elle Alexandra
Katja Kassin

Jessica Mor
Jessica Mor

Keira King
Keira King

Katja Kassin
Elle Alexandra


Liz ashley
Liz Ashley

Mariah Mars
Mariah Mars


Niki Lee Young
Niki Lee Young

Nina Dove
Nina Dove

Penny Pax
Penny Pax

Proxy Paige
Proxy Paige

Puma Swede
Puma Swede

Sally Sparrow
Sally Sparrow

Rilee Marks
Rilee Marks

Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels

Zarina Summers
Zarina Summers
for more, check it out the 93 pictures galley from [izismile]

[Alexa Meade] Canvas Painting? Nope, try again

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Man watching TV canvas photo

Man, you see this stuff and think that it is canvas painting, uh? But nope! It is photography. And I ain't talking about filters or stuff. It is skin painting, with place installation and photography. Hybridism as it best.

This work is done by Alexa Meade, 25 years old from Washington D.C.. Stunning art, uh?
alexa meade short dressed next to her painting

Alexa Meade taking pictures


Blue Man sad picturePainting Blue Man face

old man subway walkingOld Man subway train
old man work

Alexa Meade and her art

that is not a canvas painting


Real Live Paintings Photography by Alexa Meade

pink japanese

Real Live Paintings Photography by Alexa Meade half
Real Live Paintings Photography by Alexa Meade
alexa meade auto painting

[Alexa Meade]

Friday, March 15, 2013

Konami

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I love this enterprise. :~

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

[Food] Dragon Ball Z at Mini Stop

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sayan hair with fries potato batata frita goku dragon balls rolls

Thursday, February 28, 2013

END7: How to Shock a Celebrity

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

[Paul Hansen] Image that hurts

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funeral procession of kids at gaza strip
Awarded Photo
Gaza strip, November 2012

What most schools don't teach

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Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of US schools. Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi.
Directed by Lesley Chilcott.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

[Warning Signal] Giant Honey Bees

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Amazing what this insects do with its wings. :O
And damn, like a commenter said in YT: that moth can simply walk into Mordor. haha

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Harlem Reacts to 'Harlem Shake' Videos

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Street interviews with members of the Harlem community, and their views about the popular 'Harlem Skake' video trend.

Monday, February 18, 2013

[19**] Autochrome Paris

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The photos from the unknown author uses the technic developed by Lumière Brothers - the earliest filmmakers in History - the Autochrome. First step of color photography process.

Les numéros 8 et 10 de la rue du Montparnasse 1914
Les numéros 8 et 10 de la rue du Montparnasse 1914

La station de métro Auteuil, sur le boulevard Exelmans, gardée à l'occasion du 1er mai. 1920
La station de métro Auteuil, sur le boulevard Exelmans, gardée à l'occasion du 1er mai. 1920

Invalides - 1918
Invalides - 1918

VII° Arr - Jardin des Invalides
VII° Arr - Jardin des Invalides 1909

Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge
 La tour Eiffel et le Trocadéro 1912
 La tour Eiffel et le Trocadéro 1912

Samaritaine Noël - 1930
Samaritaine Noël - 1930

89 rue de Seine
89 rue de Seine 1914

de départ du dirigeable Zodiac III, Bétheny – 28 Août 1909
de départ du dirigeable Zodiac III, Bétheny – 28 Août 1909

Place de la Madeleine - Leon Gimpel Mars
Place de la Madeleine - Leon Gimpel Mars 

for mo [Paris1914]