as minhas coisas favoritas, e outras que não o são, pois nem sempre se tem o que se quer
my favourite things, and others that are not, as we don't ever get what we want

2007/08/28

Kill! Kill!

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acabado de vir do "death proof" do tarantino lembrei-me de tura satana e amigas

fresh from tarantino "death proof" i remember tura satana and friends


"faster, pussycat! kill! kill!"
russ meyer, 1965

Go, baby! Go! Go! Go!...

2007/08/20

and now for something completely different

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passando uns dias de férias na terceira, é apropriado colocar aqui algo assim
spending my holiday week in terceira island, azores (a cow paradise) it's appropriate to post something like this (english version here)

2007/08/19

summer work in progress #2

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urna em faiança negra "black basalt"
urn in black basalt stoneware
Wedgwood, 1771-80

nós também temos/we also have

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Viscondessa de Meneses (Viscountess of)
pintado por/painted by Visconde de Meneses (Viscount of)
1862
Museu do Chiado, Lisboa

2007/08/18

porque não eram só mulheres/because they weren't only women

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aliás como o primeiro amplo bigode apresentado
as the first ample moustache presented

mais/more
Franz Xaver Winterhalter


comte Alfred Émilien de Nieuwerkerke, 1852

William Douglas, 12th Duke of Hamilton, 1863

Maharadscha Duleep Singh, 1854

falando em Winterhalter/speaking of Winterhalter

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Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873)
provavelmente o mais prolífico e lustroso retratista da realeza europeis de oitocentos
probably the most prolific and glossiest portraitist of the european royalty of 1800's


Leonilla Bariatinskaia, Princess of Sayn Wittgenstein Sayn, 1843

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna, 1857

Queen Victoria with Prince Arthur

Madame of Jurjewicz, 1860

Maria Hendrika of Belgium

2007/08/14

summer work in progress #1

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"...um amplo bigode..."

"...an ample moustache..."

Léopold I, Roi des Belges (1790-1865)
cópia segundo original de/ copy of an original
Franz Xaver Winterhalter

descartáveis #2/disposables #2

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ver/see
descartáveis #1/disposables #1




o seu papel é o de uma manicure com "problemas", profissão que sempre achei combinar-se na perfeição com ela

her role is of a manicure girl with some "problems", a job that i always think was perfect for her


catherine deneuve
repulsion, 1965
roman polanski

2007/08/08

70's

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houve um tempo quando nudez masculina não era problema em hollywood
there was a time when male nudity wasn't a problem in hollywood

burt reynolds, 70's

2007/08/01

hoje/today

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que seria ele hoje em dia?
um modelo?
um actor?
um artista?
o matthew barney?
casaria com a björk?

what would he be today?

a model?
an actor?
an artist?
matthew barney?
would he marry björk?


Albrecht Dürer
Autoretrato cm 26 anos/Self-Portrait at 26
1498
óleo sobre painel/oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Autoretrato com Casaco com Gola de Pele/Self-Portrait in a Fur-Collared Robe
1500
óleo sobre painel/oil on panel, 67,1 x 48,7 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich