Julian Fałat

Śnieg, 1907. Galeria Obrazow, Lwów.

Julian Fałat was born on 30 July 1853 in Tuliglowy, Poland.

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

Disconnect from desire

Jonathan Eastman Johnson

The Old Stagecoach, 1871. Oil on canvas.

Jonathan Eastman Johnson was born at Lovell, Maine, U.S.A., on the 29th of July 1824.

ON AIR

Carla Bley's Reactionary Tango.

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

Question the heroic approach

Marcel Duchamp

Portrait of Chess Players/Portrait de joueurs d'echecs. 1911. Oil on canvas 108 x 101 cm. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887, in Blainville-Crevon, France.

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

Tidy up

Francis Luis Mora

Mardi Gras, 1936. Oil on board, 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm).

Francis Luis Mora was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 27, 1874.

Aldous Huxley

"I shall begin at the beginning," said the D.H.C. and the more zealous students recorded his intention in their notebooks: Begin at the beginning. "These," he waved his hand, "are the incubators." And opening an insulated door he showed them racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes. "The week's supply of ova. Kept," he explained, "at blood heat; whereas the male gametes," and here he opened another door, "they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven. Full blood heat sterilizes." Rams wrapped in theremogene beget no lambs.

Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction–"the operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary"; continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity; referred to the liquor in which the detached and ripened eggs were kept; and, leading his charges to the work tables, actually showed them how this liquor was drawn off from the test-tubes; how it was let out drop by drop onto the specially warmed slides of the microscopes; how the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle; how (and he now took them to watch the operation) this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa–at a minimum concentration of one hundred thousand per cubic centimetre, he insisted; and how, after ten minutes, the container was lifted out of the liquor and its contents re-examined; how, if any of the eggs remained unfertilized, it was again immersed, and, if necessary, yet again; how the fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky's Process.

"Bokanovsky's Process," repeated the Director, and the students underlined the words in their little notebooks.

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley ( b. 26/07/1894).

Texto integral aqui.

Stanley Kubrick

b. 26/07/1928

Summer reading

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

What would your closest friend do?

George Grosz

The Wanderer , 1943. Oil on canvas, 30 in. x 40 in. (76.2 cm x 101.6 cm).

George Grosz was born on July 26, 1893, in Berlin, Germany.

De quem é?...

De quem é o olhar
Que espreita por meus olhos ?
Quando penso que vejo,
Quem continua vendo
Enquanto estou pensando ?
Por que caminhos seguem,
Não os meus tristes passos,
Mas a realidade
De eu ter passos comigo ?

Às vezes, na penumbra
Do meu quarto, quando eu
Por mim próprio mesmo
Em alma mal existo,
Toma um outro sentido
Em mim o Universo -
É uma nódoa esbatida
De eu ser consciente sobre
Minha idéia das coisas.

Se acenderem as velas
E não houver apenas
A vaga luz de fora -
Não sei que candeeiro
Aceso onde na rua -
Terei foscos desejos
De nunca haver mais nada
No Universo e na Vida
De que o obscuro momento
Que é minha vida agora!

Um momento afluente
Dum rio sempre a ir
Esquecer-se de ser,
Espaço misterioso
Entre espaços desertos
Cujo sentido é nulo
E sem ser nada a nada.
E assim a hora passa
Metafisicamente.

Fernando Pessoa

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

Look closely at the most embarassing details and amplify them

Thomas Eakins

The Chess Players, 1876. Oil on wood, 11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (29.8 x 42.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was born on July 25, 1844, in Philadelphia, U.S.A.

New York, New York

Expedientes...

21 de Julho

BES aumenta participação na Media Capital

O Banco Espírito Santo (BES) aumentou a sua participação na empresa liderada por Pais do Amaral para 4,06% do capital social e igual valor de direitos de voto. Segundo um comunicado hoje emitido pela Media Capital, este aumento da participação detida de modo directo ou indirecto pelo BES deriva do facto deste ter passado três lotes de acções em bolsa, nomeadamente 300 000 acções no dia 18 de Julho, 827 000 acções em 19 de Julho e 731 430 acções em 20 de Julho.

22 de Julho

Acções disparam 6,88%
Prisa entra no capital da Media Capital

O grupo espanhol Prisa entrou na Media Capital (TVI), segundo um comunicado enviado à Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários. Ao abrigo do acordo, o grupo de comunicação social espanhol pode ficar com uma posição superior a 40% no capital do grupo liderado por Pais do Amaral. As acções da Media Capital dispararam um máximo de 6,88%, esta manhã.

22 de Julho

Analistas dizem oferta pode oscilar entre 7,03 e 8,41 euros
OPA da Prisa sobre Media Capital nas mãos da CMVM

Uma OPA da Prisa sobre a Media Capital vai depender da interpretação sobre a partir de que altura se vai considerar que a Prisa detém direitos de voto superiores a 33%. Segundo o BCP, o preço de uma eventual OPA pode oscilar entre 7,03 e 8,41 euros. O BPI diz que a RTL poderá ter ainda uma palavra a dizer.

O BES, comprando quase 2 milhões de acções a preços que rondam os €6,45, poderá realizar, no mínimo, uma mais valia de €3.000.000,00. E à vista de todos - incluindo a CMVM.

No prato

Un certain regard

25/03/2005

Alex Katz

Pas de Deux, 1994. Oil on canvas, 132" x 360".

Alex Katz was born on July 24, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York.

P.S. Krøyer

Sommeraften ved Skagens strand, 1899. Olie på lærred, 135 x 187 cm.

Peder Severin Krøyer blev født den 23. juli 1851 i Stavanger i Norge.

Al DiMeola

b. 22/07/1954

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

When is it for?

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas, 30 x 60 in. The Art Institute of Chicago.

Edward Hopper was born in Nyack, New York on July 22, 1882.

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

Be extravagant

Albert Edelfelt

Children playing on the shore, 1884. Oil on canvas, 89 x 106,5 cm.

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was born in Porvoo, Finland, on 21 July 1854.

Politics is the art of the possible

Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen

Bismark, 1867

ON AIR

ON AIR: Scriabin, Étude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, N.º 12, por Vladimir Horowitz.

Tao Te Ching (42)

The Tao gives birth to One.
One gives birth to Two.
Two gives birth to Three.
Three gives birth to all things.

All things have their backs to the female
and stand facing the male.
When male and female combine,
all things achieve harmony.

Ordinary men hate solitude.
But the Master makes use of it,
embracing his aloneness, realizing
he is one with the whole universe.

À cabeceira

Estratégia Oblíqua para hoje

Disciplined self-indulgence

Yes Minister

'It is a chance for the ordinary citizen to help us find ways to stop wasting public money, I (i.e., Jim Hacker - Ed.) reiterated.
'The public', said Sir Humphrey, 'do not know anything about wasting public money. We are the experts.'

László Moholy-Nagy

A II, 1924. Oil on canvas, 45 5/8 x 53 5/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

László Moholy-Nagy, born July 20 1895, Bacsbord, Hungary.

The Law of Inverse Relevance

The less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.

in Yes Minister

À cabeceira

To You

Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams,
I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands;
Even now, your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume,
crimes, dissipate away from you,
Your true Soul and Body appear before me,
They stand forth out of affairs—out of commerce, shops, law, science, work, forms,
clothes, the house, medicine, print, buying, selling, eating, drinking, suffering, dying.

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem;
I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

O I have been dilatory and dumb;
I should have made my way straight to you long ago;
I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.

I will leave all, and come and make the hymns of you;
None have understood you, but I understand you;
None have done justice to you—you have not done justice to yourself;
None but have found you imperfect—I only find no imperfection in you;
None but would subordinate you—I only am he who will never consent to subordinate
you;
I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God, beyond what waits
intrinsically
in yourself.

Painters have painted their swarming groups, and the centre figure of all;
From the head of the centre figure spreading a nimbus of gold-color’d light;
But I paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbus of gold-color’d
light;
From my hand, from the brain of every man and woman it streams, effulgently flowing
forever.

O I could sing such grandeurs and glories about you!
You have not known what you are—you have slumber’d upon yourself all your life;
Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time;
What you have done returns already in mockeries;
(Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their
return?)

The mockeries are not you;
Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk;
I pursue you where none else has pursued you;
Silence, the desk, the flippant expression, the night, the accustom’d routine, if
these
conceal you from others, or from yourself, they do not conceal you from me;
The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these balk others, they do
not
balk me,
The pert apparel, the deform’d attitude, drunkenness, greed, premature death, all
these I
part aside.

There is no endowment in man or woman that is not tallied in you;
There is no virtue, no beauty, in man or woman, but as good is in you;
No pluck, no endurance in others, but as good is in you;
No pleasure waiting for others, but an equal pleasure waits for you.

As for me, I give nothing to any one, except I give the like carefully to you;
I sing the songs of the glory of none, not God, sooner than I sing the songs of the glory
of
you.

Whoever you are! claim your own at any hazard!
These shows of the east and west are tame, compared to you;
These immense meadows—these interminable rivers—you are immense and interminable
as
they;
These furies, elements, storms, motions of Nature, throes of apparent dissolution—you
are
he or she who is master or mistress over them,
Master or mistress in your own right over Nature, elements, pain, passion, dissolution.

The hopples fall from your ankles—you find an unfailing sufficiency;
Old or young, male or female, rude, low, rejected by the rest, whatever you are promulges
itself;
Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided, nothing is scanted;
Through angers, losses, ambition, ignorance, ennui, what you are picks its way.

Walt Whitman

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

Still-Life of Flowers and Fruits, 1665. Oil on canvas, 146 x 190 cm. Musée Fabre, Montpellier.

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer was born at Lille in Northern France on 19th July 1634.

Giacomo Balla

Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912. Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 43 1/4 in. (89.9 x 109.9 cm). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

Giacomo Balla was born in Turin, Italy, on July 18, 1871.

A ler.

Viejas palabras que nadie enseña.

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» Free sample!

Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948)

Lyonel Feininger

The Steamer Odin, II, 1927. Oil on canvas, 26 ½ x 39 ½” (67.3 x 100.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger was born in New York City, on July 17, 1871.

A buon intenditore, poche parole.

Andrea del Sarto

Stories of Joseph, c.1520. Oil on panel, 38.58 x 53.15 inches [98 x 135 cm]. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.

Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di Luca di Paolo del Migliore, born in Florence, Italy, on July 16, 1486.

Jacek Malczewski

Melancholia, 1890-94. Olej na płótnie, 139 x 240 cm. Muzeum Narodowe, Poznań.

Jacek Malczewski was born on 15 July 1854 in Radom, Poland.

No prato

Gustav Klimt

Death and Life, 1916. Oil on canvas, 178 x 198 cm.

Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862, in Baumgarten, Austria.

Mordecai Ardon

Last Curtain Call of the Palettes, 1978. Oil on canvas, 51 3/16 x 63 3/4 in (130 x 162 cm).

Mordecai Eliezer Bronstein, born July 13 1896, in Tuchow, Poland.

Andrew Wyeth

Overflow, 1978. Oil on canvas, 60 x 77.4 cm (23¾" x 30½").

Andrew Newell Wyeth, born July 12, 1917, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Roger de la Fresnaye

Married Life, 1912. Oil on canvas, 38 15/16 x 46 3/4 in. (98.9 x 118.7 cm). The Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Roger de La Fresnaye was born July 11, 1885, Le Mans, France.

Bernard Buffet

Nus: Le volley-ball, 1967. (200 x 710 cm).

Bernard Buffet was born July 10, 1928, in Paris, France.

Un certain regard

10/06/05

David Hockney

A Bigger Splash, 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 in (243.8 x 243.8 cm). Tate Gallery, London.

David Hockney was born in Bradford, England, on 9 July 1937.

Un certain regard

01/05/05

Artemisia Gentileschi

Cleopatra, 1621-22. Oil on canvas, 1.18m by 1.81m.

Artemisia Gentileschi was born in Rome, Italy, on July 8, 1593.

Joe Zawinul

b. 07/07/32

Marc Chagall

Birthday, 1915. Oil on cardboard, 31 3/4 x 39 1/4" (80.6 x 99.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Marc Chagall was born July 7, 1887, in Vitsyebsk, Russia (now in Belarus).

Un certain regard

02/04/05

Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé

The Bay of Naples, 1840. Oil on canvas, 96.8 x 146 cm (38 1/8 x 57 1/2 in.). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé was born on 6 July 1782, in Paris, France.

And now for something completely different...

ON AIR: The Song That Goes Like This, from The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Spamalot.

For those of you who want to sing along:

The Song That Goes Like This

DENNIS
Once in every show
There comes a song like this
It starts off soft and low
And ends up with a kiss
Oh where is the song
That goes like this?
Where is it? Where? Where?

LADY
A sentimental song
That casts a magic spell
They all will hum along
We'll overact like hell
For this is the song that goes like this

BOTH
Yes it is! Yes it is!

DENNIS
Now we can go straight
Into the middle eight
A bridge that is too far for me

LADY
I'll sing it in your face
While we both embrace

BOTH
And then
We change
The key!

DENNIS
Now we're into E!
*hem* That's awfully high for me

LADY
But as everyone can see
We should have stayed in D

BOTH
For this is our song that goes like this!

DENNIS
I'm feeling very proud

LADY
You're singing far too loud

DENNIS
That's the way that this song goes

LADY
You're standing on my toes

BOTH
Singing our song that goes like this!

LADY
I can't believe there's more

DENNIS
It's far too long, I'm sure

LADY
That's the trouble with this song
It goes on and on and on

BOTH
For this is our song that is too long!

BOTH
Jesus Christ! Goddamit! (spoken)

LADY
We'll be singing this till dawn

DENNIS
You'll wish that you weren't born

LADY
Let's stop this damn refrain
Before we go insane

BOTH
The song always ends like this!

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#14 - Outra Cena

O santo a seca o sertão
O filho morto nas mãos
Família fome facão
A grana o gado o ladrão
O pau o podre o país
Amado o medo a matriz
Só não sofreu
Quem não viu
Não entendeu
Quem não quis.

Este é, seguramente, um dos discos - senão mesmo "O" disco - que há mais tempo estava na minha lista de compras. Inacessível durante muito tempo, chegou hoje no correio daqui.

André Lhote

L'Étude, 1940. Oil on canvas, 33 x 40.9 cm.

André Lhote was born on July 5, 1885, in Bordeaux, France.

Marcus Stone

A Passing Cloud, 1891. Oil on panel.

Marcus Stone, born 4 July 1840 in London, England, United Kingdom.

Theodor Rombouts

Allegory of the Five Senses. Oil on canvas, 207 x 288 cm. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent.

Theodor Rombouts, born on 02 July 1597, in Anvers, Belgium.