Agora que estamos perto do fim, heis alguns dos sítios especiais de Oslo, mapeados:

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Rjd2 - Work it Out

Post hip-hop troubadour RJD2 teamed with dance and media artist Bill Shannon for the 'Work It Out' video. Shannon, born with a degenerative hip condition, developed a way to express himself through dance (and even skateboarding) on crutches. Director Joey Garfield took to the streets of New York and captured one continuous shot of Shannon, injecting RJD2 into random roles throughout the video. Winner of the 2008 Saatchi New Director's Award. Check out RJ's website and listen to the Magnificent City LP.

E eis que a FAUP se mexe. Duma assentada cinema e fotografia de/em arquitectura.

CinemArchitecture

Cinemarchitecture will bring together in April 2008 at the Faculty of Architecture of Oporto University students, scholars, architects and filmmakers with the aim to reflect on the connections, intersections and contaminations between architecture and cinema.

Cinemarchitecture is a partnership between Faculty of Architecture of Oporto University, Department of Architecture of Cambridge University, School of Architecture of Liverpool University and the Faculty of Architecture of Estonian Academy of Arts.

Cinemarchitecture will start with an International Seminar on the 7th and 8th of April open to everyone interested on the study of relations between architecture and film. [ver mais]

Concurso de Fotografia de Arquitectura – FAUP 2008

No âmbito do “Ciclo Fotografia na Arquitectura” que conta com as conferências dos arquitectos Fernando Guerra, Carlos Machado e Eduardo Souto de Moura, sobre fotografia de arquitectura, a Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto e a Olympus criam um concurso de fotografia, aberto à participação de todos.


"Se o arquitecto observa e desenha, induzindo mudanças na forma, o fotógrafo analisa e reconstrói esse espaço, restituindo uma imagem. Como o arquitecto que observa o contexto no qual deve referenciar a sua intervenção, o fotógrafo vê, pesa e procura o olhar nesse mesmo lugar, como se estivesse também ele prestes a agir sobre a envolvente. O seu olhar é significativo, não tanto enquanto compositor da circunstância de uma cena urbana, mas enquanto visão crítica que selecciona atentamente, filtrando interferências, equacionando tensões, procurando tornar inteligíveis situações específicas para além da forma imediata. O fotógrafo olha como quem constrói."

Gabriele Basílico, in Arquitectura em Portugal"

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Prémios porreiros. Só pena começarem a mexer-se quando lá não estamos.

...in Las Vegas.

An interview to Terry Gilliam the director of one of the best movies in the century.

See it here

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Uma entrevista a Terry Gillian, o realizador de um dos melhores filmes do século. A ler aqui.

Smite

A fantastic word. When used in the King James Bible sense, it means to kill, to beat, to incinerate, to maim, to strike repeatedly with lightning bolts, to fold, spindle, and mutilate all at once. The (modern) object of a smiting is usually a younger sibling, although cats and roommates are common victims as well. Perfect to use because threatening to smite someone means that they're definitely going to be dead, or wish that they were, but the exact means by which this will be carried out is unspecified.

Examples of proper usage:

• "Oh, and Chris? If you even think about opening my bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups while I'm gone, I'm going to smite you into next week, okay?"
• "I'm going to smite that little troll and the 486 he rode in on if I ever see him in here again."

Also has lots of really cool past tenses, including (according to Webster 1913) smit, smote, smoth, smitten, smoten, and smut.

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Smite (?), v. t. [imp. Smoth (?), rarely Smit (); p. p. Smitten (?), rarely Smit, or Smote; p. pr. & vb. n. Smiting (?).] [AS. smitan to smite, to soil, pollute; akin to OFries. smita to smite, LG. smiten, D. smijten, G. schmeissen, OHG. smiezan to smear, stroke, OSw. & dial. Sw. smita to smite, Dan. smiide to throw, Goth. bismeitan, to anoint, besmear; cf. Skr. md to be fat. The original sense seems to have been, to daub on, to smear. Cf. Smut.]

1.

To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39.

And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead. 1 Sam. xvii. 49.

2.

To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.

Profpesy, and smite thine hands together. Ezek. xxi. 14.

Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall. 1 Sam. xix. 10.

3.

To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.

4.

To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.

5.

To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.

The flax and the barley was smitten. Ex. ix. 31.

6.

To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him. Wake.

7.

To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.

The charms that smite the simple heart. Pope.

Smith with the love of sister arts we came. Pope.

To smite off, to cut off. -- To smite out, to knock out, as a tooth. Exod,xxi.27. -- To smite with the tongue, to reproach or upbarid; to revile. [Obs.]

Jer. xviii. 18.

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