Saturday, July 30, 2011

...Web Gallery of Art

  Editors present the site as  a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries...The collection has some of the characteristics of a virtual museum. The experience of visitors is enhanced by guided tours helping to understand the artistic and historical relationship between different works and artists...
  It is amazing. And very well organized too. I'm actually doing the Tour #2 Overview of Sculptors from 1200 to 1800, which is full of enchantment. Highly recommend it.
  Web Gallery of Art

...Free Internet Radio Stations


  Besides last.fm and YouTube, that are huge communities of music lovers, these are the sites I go for listening music, lately. I do love Radio Paradise and AccuRadio.

Friday, July 29, 2011

...IrfanView

 
  This is such a great software! It's small, fast, free, with many tools, and works perfect. I use it a lot, specially for resizing files in group, all at once, with just few clicks. Here go my thanks to the author, Irfan Skiljan.
  www.irfanview.com

...Lace stenciled floor

 

  very beautiful, isn't it? It's painted with stencils on concrete floor. I have found it on Design Sponge, with references to Royal Design Studio.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

...Paper Clay

  paper clay is a mix of paper and ceramics, with some advantages: it's lighter than ceramics, but at the same time, stronger. It's said to be easy to work on it, and can be made at home, with nice results.

  these beautiful works are from Cynthia Gavião. You can see more on ateliercynthiagaviao.blogspot.com

...Madredeus


  in Lisbon Story, by Wim Wenders

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

...Gabriel Dawe



  Installation with thread, wood and nails
  gabrieldawe.com

...Marshall McLuhan

   

  2011 would be Marshall McLuhan's 100th birthday. Ahead of his time, he would anticipate a lot about the way we live today. We can watch he speaking and explaining his ideas in this site Marshall Mcluhan Speaks - Centennial 2011 

Monday, July 25, 2011

...Carlos Drummond de Andrade


  site muito bacana, onde se pode, inclusive, ouvir poesias na voz do próprio Drummond
  memoriaviva.com.br

...French Painters

  wonderful blog
  french-painters.blogspot.com

...Julian Kytasty

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Friday, July 22, 2011

Thursday, July 21, 2011

...Poetry

 
  I have seen it several days ago, but it's still in my mind...maybe not only cause it is a beautiful movie, but also for the way this south korean movie, directed by Chang-dong Lee, presents drama and characters in their full complexity, without colourful moral underlines or heroes, something very close to real human condition: devastation can't be avoided, searching for a lyrical dimension in life neither.

...Ipês Bloom


  in Rio de Janeiro

...National Galleries Scotland


  online collections
  www.nationalgalleries.org

...3D Virtual Tours Around the World


  AirPano is a noncommercial project focused on high resolution 3D aerial panoramas. Watching them is like flying over the places by helicopter. Lots of delightful tours to enjoy in their site.
  www.airpano.ru

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

...Friends Day


    hugs and much love to my friends, with special kisses for these two sweet ladies, my best friends ever.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

...Celestia



  WOW! amazing free software, that lets you to travel throughout the space, even beyond our galaxy. I was running it till few minutes ago, and I'm still very impressed. After installing it, you may click on help button and select "run the demonstration", for a start.
  www.shatters.net/celestia

Monday, July 18, 2011

...Instituto Antonio Carlos Jobim


  wonderful, with loads of stuff to enjoy
  www.jobim.org

...History Sites



...Happy Birthday, Mandela!

 
  and here a clip of "Invictus", great movie directed by Clint Eastwood and inspired on President Mandela determination to unify his country, through forgiveness and reconciliation. The movie's tittle was inspired in the poem by William Ernest Henley that Mandela has kept with him, written on a scrap of paper, during the long time he has been in prison.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

...Project Gutenberg


   A great project, with over 36,000 high quality free e-books to download, with titles available in many different languages. Also, more than 100,000 available through partners, affiliates and resources. No fee or registration is required, but if we wish to help the project, there are ways for doing that, as digitizing, reporting any errors, etc. 

...The Mighty

  
   Maybe i would have never seen The Mighty if it was not my friend Chris recommendation. As he says in his review on BC's Movie and Television Blog, the Mighty never really got the spotlight it deserved. I super recommend it too. 

Thursday, July 14, 2011

...Santana and Clapton

...Bird Mobile


  free pattern for this cute bird on Spool Sewing

...Abaixo o sigilo eterno!


   a petição pública pode ser assinada no site abaixosigiloeterno.wordpress.com

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

...Sunset in Santa Teresa


   *courtesy of Sonia Ewald Marques

...WordWeb

  Excellent program, with a free version, that includes dictionary, definitions, synonyms and pronunciations. Works off-line too.
      wordweb.info/free

...World Freedom Press Rankings

       by Colors Magazine
       www.colorsmagazine.com

Monday, July 11, 2011

...Candido Portinari

    War and Peace, Portinari's panels for the United Nations building in New York, have been brought to Rio for restoration and will be in tour world around till 2013, when they will be returned to UN. We can follow all the Portinari Project in a very beautiful site created by caos! design.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

...Roland Petit

     Asami Maki Ballet Tokio, performing Roland Petit choreography Pink Floyd Ballet, in Tokio, 2004.

...Ivan Smirnov Group

Saturday, July 9, 2011

...Wikimedia Commons

    a database of 10,497,312 freely usable media files


       wikimedia.org

...South Sudan

  and there It is! the newborn country South Sudan! my sympathy and congratulations for all people living there, specially for those who made this dream come true.

Friday, July 8, 2011

...june 2011 playlist

 Bénabar - Quatre Murs et Un Toit
           to play all:

...Synthetic Transplant Surgery

    Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant.
    ...the technique does not need a donor, and there is no risk of the organ being rejected.
    read more on bbc.co.uk/news/health

...HTML --> PDF


    This is a free online converter and works great. We may also bookmark it to our favourite's bar,
    leave it there as a button, and just click on it when we wish to convert a web page to a pdf file.