Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Tô de recesso porque o mundo é careta!


Odeio provas e compartilho a opiniao do meu professor de italiano, Emmanuele. Prova nao prova nada. A vida já é uma grande prova, para que avacalhar mais ainda?!

Achei que numa escola de arte o método convencional de avaliacao, completamente ultrapassado e careta fosse abolido. Mero engano. Aqui estou eu, mergulhada em uma semana completamente cheia de provas. Eu gosto de ler (muito e sempre) e de estudar. Mas o lance de tentar adivinhar o que a pessoa está querendo com aquela pergunta, nao é a minha. Sempre interpretei o mundo de forma um tanto esquisita.

Enfim, semana de recesso para terminar 1001 trabalhos e provas chatinhas de semiologia, pesquisa academica, patterns...


Dica: amei! lindo. Chorei já no prefácio... e estou prologando cada linha para que o livro nao termine logo. Tem-que-ler:

"Florence Broadhurst- her secrets and extraordinary lives" por Helen O'Neil.

Comprei na Amazon por um preco bem acessível. Após assistir o documentário sobre a vida da Florence no festival de cinema do ano passado, finalmente lancaram o livro! Que livro... faz bem para os olhos e para vida!

Kyi, querido, amo seus comentários... quero um blog seu também! quero ver suas obras, seu trabalho, saber de sua vida na Noruega. Tudo! Tenho certeza que voce arrasa! Bjks

Inté semana que vem! Tô de recesso, tá?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Minha favorita no curso P&B


Kolaportid, originally uploaded by aline g..

Eu adoro essa foto. Primeiro, porque a missao era tirar foto de uma pessoa desconhecida. Segundo, porque eu participei de todo processo, desde o ato de tirar a foto, revelar o filme a imprimir.

É um processo mágico que faz da fotografia tradicional, arte; e da digital, lugar comum!!!

Mercado das Pulgas em Rvk


Kolaportið, originally uploaded by aline g..

Harbour at Reykjavik


Harbour at Reykjavik, originally uploaded by aline g..

Photo Class B&W


101 Rvk, originally uploaded by aline g..

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Realismo de Gregory Credwson


Passei o dia escrevendo um texto sobre mito (segundo o texto "The Structural Study of Myth" de Claude Levi-Strauss). Ficou um texto super complexo que levou pelo menos dois dias (inteiros!)para eu conseguir argumentar como essa foto aí de cima (Untitled, 2001- da série "Ophelia from Twilight"- Gregory Crewdson) poe por água a baixo os argumentos de Levi-Strauss sobre mito. É o realismo psicológico de Gregory Crewdson. Acho que fui um tanto pretenciosa.
Eu adoro essa foto. A primeira vez que a vi foi em uma propaganda de uma galeria de arte, numa dessa mil revistas que fico folheando nas livrarias, mas nunca compro. Me recuso a pagar o preco que eles cobram aqui em Rekjavik. Enfim, quando recebi a missao de analisar o texto de Levi-Strauss com um exemplo contemporaneo, decidi: é ele! Li muito sobre ambos. Complexos e curiosos. Esses foram dias de análise e muita confunsao mental. Nem adianta eu postar o texto, que ainda nao sei se eu mesmo me entendo. Mas no fim adorei escrever sobre eles e a minha conclusao ficou bem picante: tipo- ou está muito correta ou foi uma viagem total. Semiótica é sempre assim, é aprender a construir um "corpo sem orgaos"-"a body without organs" (se é que me entendem!).
Quentinhas: inauguracao do Miss Tanaka foi um sucesso! Vi as fotos e ficou muito lindo. Estou esperando as fotos oficiais do Humberto para eu postar aqui! Aninha e Graca, muita forca e sucesso para voces, amigas! Elas merecem!!!

At home with Sigur Rós




The Icelandic word “heima” means at home in English and it is also the title of the Sigur Rós film/documentary, world premiered at Reykjavik International Film Festival 2007. No word is more appropriate for the title, since the film brings up the feeling of being back home after an extensive world tour of their acclaimed fourth album “Takk”. In the summer of 2006, the Icelandic quartet (Jón Þór Birgisson, Georg Hólm, Kjartan Sveinsson and Orri Páll Dýrason) marked the return to their homeland with seven unannounced free concerts at various remote corners of the country, culminating with a concert in Reykjavik attended by one tenth of Iceland’s population - the biggest concert in Icelandic history.[1]
The Oscar-nominated director for Lilo & Stich, Dean DeBlois was responsible for bringing to the screen all the feelings of those concerts, music numbers done only for the camera and interviews with the members of the band and their co-performers and close friends Amiina (Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan, Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir). According to DeBlois: "Their ambitious gesture of playing free, unannounced concerts in every corner of Iceland struck me as noble and beautifully strange - something unheard of in our jaded world. I wanted to present an intimate view of the band and their country from my own wonder-filled, foreign eyes."[2] To record the band at work, the director was in command of a crew of over forty people at fifteen inspiring places.
The cinema photography of Heima deserves attention, taken in high resolution and capturing the colours of Iceland. Although it is known that the Icelandic dramatic landscape looks good on the big screen, the way the frames were put together is very special and unique, showing not only the group on stage, but also various aspects of Icelandic culture. As a result, the look of the scenes and its content flows like an extension of Sigur Rós music. The quartet chose to play in different and exotic places, like the abandoned fish processing plant at Djúpavík, in the northwest , that was built in the big herring boom during the fifties but lasted only two years and hasn’t been used since ; a cave and a protest camp where they played an acoustic set because the people in the camp were protesting the building of a dam in Kárahnjúkar, the “grand canyon” of Iceland, that’s going to produce electricity for ALCOA aluminum smelter. In the film, the musicians clearly care about nature and its preservation without taking it to a political discussion about Icelandic environmental and development policies .
The intention of Sigur Rós to have concerts in the country side of Iceland was to demonstrate their gratitude for the local support and bring life to areas that there isn’t much activity on a regular basis. As a foreigner living in Reykjavik, the film gave to me an opportunity to understand better the Icelandic culture, looking back to traditions and the life at these remote and desolate areas. The scenes in the film were full of nostalgia.
On the other hand, while the film is an ode to Iceland, Sigur Rós and their friends speak in English with Icelandic accent, which, in my point of view, breaks the mood of the film. For me, the language is the strongest aspect of Icelandic culture and should be in the documentary as the main language. It was clearly difficult for them to express themselves in a foreign language, although they were very comfortable in front of the camera. Another aspect concerning the language is that the songs in Icelandic were without subtitle, which is unacceptable for an English- Icelandic production. But probably they were more concerned about not distracting the attention of the public from the breathtaking images.
For a quartet known across the globe[3], Jónsi, Goggi, Kjarri and Orri are definitely unassumed and not arrogant. In Heima they show that they are not only great musicians, but also in touch with other realities. The film is about this Sigur Rós, that most people don’t know, and about Iceland- its nature, its people and their children. An Iceland that I didn’t know, the modest “Iceland of Sigur Rós”.
Technical Information:[4]
A Klikk Film (Iceland)/EMI Records (U.K.) production, in association with the Icelandic Film Center, Truenorth Prods.

Produced by John Best, Dean O'Connor.

Executive producers: Jon Thor Birgisson, Orri Pall Dyrason, Georg Holm, Kjartan Sveinsson, Kari Sturluson, Terry Felgate, Paul Baines, Stefan Demetriou.

Directed by Dean DeBlois.

With: Jon Thor Birgisson, Orri Pall Dyrason, Georg Holm, Kjartan Sveinsson, Hildur Arsaelsdottir, Maria Huld Markan, Edda Run Olafsdottir, Solrun Sumarlioadottir.

Camera (color, HD): Alan Calzatti
Editor: Nick Fenton;
Music: Sigur Rós
Sound (Dolby Digital): Birgir Jon Birgisson, Ken Thomas
Assistant director: Hjorthur Gretarsson.
Reviewed on DVD, Chicago, Sept. 27, 2007. (In Reykjavik Film Festival -- opener; Rome, Athens film festivals.)
Running time: 97 MIN.


[1] Sigur Rós Official Web Page. (http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/media/press/heima.php ) Consulted at 06. oct. 2007.
[2] COLOTHAN, Scoth. Sigur Ros: 'Heima' - A film by Dean DeBlois. http://gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=36563 Consulted at 08. oct.2007.
[3] Sigur Rós Official Web Page. (http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/) Consulted at 08. oct. 2007.
[4] SIMON, Alissa. Sigur Rós: Heima. Variety Web Page. (http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117934930.html?categoryid=31&cs=1) Consulted at 06.10.2007.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Babado!!!!

Meu amigo fashion do coracao já viu!
Nem precisei anunciar e Kyoshi Yamamoto (o Kyki) já viu, já comentou... mais antenado que ele, só ele... direto da Noruega!
Tudo porque fiz uma colaboracao como leitora no site da Erika Palomino , sobre o filme Heima do Sigur Rós. Babado! Adoro o site deles. Leio sempre e baixo os Phodecasts todas as semanas. Me divirto, mato saudade da língua, fico por dentro do que rola e rio muito!
Eles, Sérgio e Ju, foram fofíssimos e atenciosos.
Tanto que tá lá! : )
To correndo de um canto pro outro por conta do festival de cinema e tenho que fazer a capa para uma revista até sexta como trabalho da facu e parte de um concurso. Já viu, né? Isso porque anunciaram só ontem! Básico!