Síntese de Novembro

♥ 06 de Novembro 2008
-> Estreia - Quantum of Solace - 22º Filme da Saga 007

07 de Novembro 2008
-> Nouvelle Vague - Concerto no Praça T. Campo Peq.

12 de Novembro 2008
-> Keane - Concerto no Coliseu de Lisboa

13 de Novembro 2008
-> Estreia - Blindness - Filme Baseado na Obra de J. Saramago

14-22 de Novembro 2008
-> Estoril Film Festival

17 de Novembro de 2008
-> Hollywood Mon Amour e Afrika Bambaataa no Casino Lisboa

20 de Novembro de 2008
-> Byblos "encerra as portas" sem completar o 1º Aniversário :(

21 de Novembro de 2008
-> Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra - Pavilhão Municipal de Gaia

28 de Novembro de 2008
-> Portugal quase vestido de Branco… (com temp. -8º C)

Travelling to… Atacama Desert

♥ Following the landscape of the last 007 movie, “Quantum of Solace”, this month we will travel along the Atacama Desert.

Located in Northern Chile, Atacama Desert is considered as a virtually rainless Plateau in South America, which covers 966 km strip of land on the Pacific Coast, west of the Andes Mountains. Occupies an area of 181.300 square kilometers of the Chilean North and is composed mostly of salt basin (Los Salares), sand and lava flows.

This Andean Desert has over 20 millions years old desert, and is one of the driest places on Earth (is fifty times drier than California’s Death Valley, and is the second driest desert in the world, after McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica). The average rainfall in Chilean Region of Antofagasta is just 1mm per year. Atacama is so arid that mountains that reach as high as 6.885 metres are free of glaciers, and the soil use to be compared with the soil of Mars.

Atacama Desert is, today, considered as region unique on Earth.
Have a nice journey again…

More Information:
Atacama Desert

"Blindness"

♥ Blindness arrive today to the Portuguese cinemas.
Directed by Fernando Meirelles, the Director of “The Constant Gardener” and “City of God”, this movie was based on the novel of the Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner, José Saramago.

As most of José Saramago novels, Blindness is not an easy story. In my opinion it’s a hard one, but a great story.
So, has his book, this movie has also everything to be a great movie too, including the actors, like the weell-known Julianne Moore (Doctor’s Wife), Mark Ruffallo (Doctor), or even Sandra Oh (Minister’s of Health).

Links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/
http://blogdeblindness.blogspot.com/

Nouvelle Vague in Portugal

♥ After they had recorded the last concert in Portugal into Aula Magna (on Dec. 7th, 2007), which they want to include on a new album, once more, the French Nouvelle Vague came back to Lisbon (Nov. 7th), to promote the 3rd album in another Concert, but this time in Campo Pequeno and Oporto into Sá da Bandeira Theater's (Nov. 8th).
If you want to buy this new album you must wait until March 2009, when it will be sold.

In this concert, the group also had the opportunity to introduce to their fans, two new vocalists, Nadeah e Jody Stenberg (Ex-Morcheeba).

It should be noted that every Nouvelle Vague show is unique, and with also a lot of (good)surprises.
I’ll be waiting for the new record.


Links:

http://www.myspace.com/nouvellevague (All Concerts)
http://nouvellevague.blogs.iol.pt/18677/ (With Music)

http://forum.g-sat.net/showthread.php?t=100854 (With vídeo)
http://diario.iol.pt/musica/nouvelle-vague-campo-pequeno-concerto-video-covers-iol-musica/1010995-4060.html

"Quantum Of Solace"

♥ Here I am again talking about the “Quantum of Solace”…

Finally, it’s today!!!
Today, the last 007 movie arrive to the Portugueses cinemas, and since March I've been very anxious to see the final result.
Not because I’m a great fan of Daniel Craig, I’m not, but specially for the beautiful places where the movie was filmed, like Latin America (Atacama – Chile and Panama) and Italy.

This will be the first time that I’m going to see a 007 movie into the cinema.
That landscape really must be seen in a big screen. Ok, and also because the 007 movies used to be great movies too.
So, I only can say… I’m going, and I’ll be there. :P

Obama – The New USA President

"I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to – it belongs to you." – Barack Obama, Election Night 2008

♥ Yesterday, whole World was concentrated in just one thing… the USA Elections.

The favourite of most, in the entire World (I think I can say it, like that), was definitely Barack Obama, but in the United States, until the last minute, everything would be possible…
And really was, even the obtaintion of votes on the "Republican" States.

So, since yesterday night, Barack Hussein Obama, born in August 4th, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawai, became the first African American to be electec President of the USA.

And of course, despite of my absence (on my blog), today I really have to come back and give my congratulations to Barack Obama and to all the ones who voted him…

"Hope" and "Change"…
Were the two magical words used by Obama during his campaign.
And most, believe that hope and change it will be possible with him. But for that, he will have a lot and a very hard work to do.

November’s Picture!

Photo: From Emma Hack

♥ Body Painting

A different way of seeing and making art…