Stereo Mood

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Love the site and love the selections.

Then this song reminded me of another song, bang bang.
I think it's the clarity and the lyrics that got me. I just had to put this down... why? Beats me. :)

Artist(Band): CIBELLE
Song: Green Grass
Album: The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves
Release: 2006-5-2

Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me

Come closer don't be shy
Stand beneath a rainy sky
The moon is over the rise
Think of me as a train goes by

Clear the thistles and brambles
Whistle 'Didn't He Ramble'
Now there's a bubble of me
And it's floating in thee

Stand in the shade of me
Things are now made of me
The weather vane will say
It smells like rain today

God took the stars and he tossed them
Can't tell the birds from the blossoms
You'll never be free of me
He'll make a tree from me

Don't say good bye to me
Describe the sky to me
And if the sky falls, mark my words
We'll catch mocking birds

Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
Remember when you loved me
Remember when you loved me

Idle Time

Following a comment from prof on our interesting talks haha... It left me to think about how I come in everyday to work and do the things I do.
Even in a lull between projects, the team is not idle in so far as just sitting around doing nothing. We are all actively stimulated in the form of internet browsing, chatting, playing yes (yes, facebook and the like). Always learning, always developing new concepts and different innovations in a small scale.

There is always something new out there, something to learn from. Don't waste your day with an idle mind... that's a sure fire recipe to burn yourself out. I'm a fan of routine with its guise of certainty and reliability. We all need that. is there such a thing as a varying routine? haha

Anyway... just to share the things I was surprised to learn today:

Trend--
I credit this link to Joem as it was shown to him by a friend of his. It's a good watch, if you don't mind too much romping scenes.

"We All Want to Be Young"
Quoting the site: "The movie "We All Want to Be Young" is the outcome of several studies developed by BOX1824 in the past 5 years. BOX1824 is a Brazilian research company specialized in behavioral sciences and consumer trends.
This movie has an open license by Creative Commons.
Written and directed by Lena Maciel, Lucas Liedke and Rony Rodrigues.
Zeppelin Films
box1824.com.br

I like that it targets the future trends in the way that the older 40 and up people have been just trying to grasp the idea of information sharing. Something as facebook and twitter now would never have been a jargon that I would describe to my yaya. Nevertheless, I do talk to her about people I haven't seen for a long time and just reconnected through facebook. I get my sister to show her pictures, video and such about my dog Yoji. It's interesting to see that all this information is just accepted without having to know how, why this kind of info is suddenly available through computers. Another item of appliance that can't be described, really, and going back further, the TV and so on.
From the video you can see where things are headed for the kid demography of today. Now to develop that idea to toys and concepts that go beyond yoyo's.

Angola Essay by Contra Mestre Pererê

A Primer for beginner students

I found this one from the Capoeira forum. Actually the intro in the forum just wanted some traffic to their site... check it out and learn a little bit more of Angola. To be honest with you it's a long read with that font and background color. Just sayin'. I haven't finished reading it myself. This is partly why I decided to post this here, as I've since decided to stuff things like this in one place.

Inspiration:

A few weeks ago someone tagged this lady's art: Cristina María Gandaia Fazzito, I just had to add her just to hit the LIKE button. Here's her work with Capoeira Art.
Amazing. Stuff I only wish I had the time and materials to do. Pure capture, I really love the details she put with minute details as gestures, and the expression on the body. As such, with great respect to her drawings as well :) I will always find it a happier art world with more girls who draw rather than the surprising stereotype that only guys can draw and make it to the professional art world. I've seen girls draw, and it's a privilege to draw really well.

An ongoing facebook experiment is going long with having your childhood's favorite cartoon character as your profile picture. This led to someone showing a picture of the cartoon "Fire and Ice". I know I've seen this... but for the life of me I can't remember what the story was, what happened, who the characters are and whatnot. Oh yes, will do download of course haha. It's just fun to know that one of the artists involved in the production is a favorite: Frank Frazetta. :)

Another thing I learned today, random: my 100 peso Divisoria ruffle scarfie looks good on the trenchcoat hahaha. I'm using it like a necktie :P

Hit List

BBC Book list
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [currently reading]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (except psalms. Those were reserved for CLE class or mass. zzz)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Others from the list I flipped through:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (zzz)
Complete Works of Shakespeare (hello, cribnotes)
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (my brother had the audiobook to this. I can't seem to enjoy audiobooks. zzz)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (it was so screwy I put it down)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (first 3 paragraphs zzz)
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (simply never finished it cause I just borrowed it, and it doesn't mean that I'll be spending money on the book just to finish it.)
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (have the books, flipped through it and liked the name Rhyndweir for my imaginary Husky)
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

... remembering most of it is the thing hahaha. Perhaps BBC believes this for their region only. Interesting list however someone begs to argue that this wasn't the correct list. Still, it was entertaining to find a higher number in the demography of 6 our of 100. Where's Madeline L'engle? Why is that the Enid Blyton book? I suppose that if you list The Hardy Boys, it would have been too easy?

I keep on forgetting to rewrite what Mestre Roxinho said as per translated by Andorinha. :)
Here:

Look for you to describe Capoeira Angola, not necessarily to say it is slow because in truth, the movements of Capoeira Angola are used in accordance of need in the game and is also necessary to keep pace with the bateria. So at some point the game can be slow and not another. Otherwise it is easy to describe Capoeira Angola and only say that it is the tradition of Capoeira as ancient/old. Game he can be the whole time low as may also be on top. (I hope I answered your questions and feel free to question what you have doubts.)

Emo-no.

Good vibes is in.
Keep your heart open and your mind free.

I too believe that there is only ONE capoeira. The roda is where capoeira is, and in the roda you are one family, seeking one goal: a beautiful game.

"Rhythm, Ritual, Respect" - Mestre Ousado

"Olha para voce discrever a Capoeira Angola, nao e necessario de dizer que e lenta pois na verdade os movimentos da Capoeira Angola sao usados de acordo com a necessidade dentro do jogo e tambem e necessario acompanhar o ritmo da Bateria. Entao em algum momento o jogo pode ser lento e outro nao. De outra de facil de descrever a Capoeira Angola e so dizer que trata-se da Capoeira de tradicao a mais ANTIGA. Jogo ele pode ser o tempo todo em baixo como tambem pode ser em cima. Espero ter respondido suas perguntas e fique a vontade em pergunta o que voce tiver duvida.

Um abraco
Mestre Roxinho"

from google translator:

Look at you discrever Capoeira Angola, not necessary to say that because in fact, slow movements of Capoeira Angola are used according to need in the game and is also necessary to keep pace with the battery. So at some point the game can be slow and not another. Otherwise easy to describe Capoeira Angola and only say that it is the tradition of Capoeira to the oldest. Game he can be the whole time low as may also be on top. I hope I answered your questions and feel free to question what you have doubts.

A hug
Master Roxinho

~~~

Keep Your Head On

Mestre Roxinho hugged me and grabbed my head with gritty hands hahaha

This means so many things for my angola.

The heart beats; the weapon unsheathed.

Sometimes it's heavy... a tool, a weapon. It's unfamiliar. It's not yours. To play it you must claim it, own the instrument, to use it.
Yet sometimes it's so easy to get along with. The rhythm, the beat is natural... this is your song, this is your music.

Focus.

M.-Andorinha shares.

Brainju digests.

A team is only as strong as it's weakest link. Even [the village idiot] will take one for the team, so you won't turn that person away because he'll take it and will keep coming back for more.

On the other hand, do you really need the team if the axe in the roda makes us one group... sharing one game. If the axe is good, you wouldn't care if one is Angola, Regional, Senzala, Contemporanea because we're all playing one game and the axe unites us.

"I am here, I will stay. I may not be the best of them, but I am still here. And that's the important thing."

The day will come when we all have to decide our paths... to be a player, an acrobat, a teacher. That day I think is still far along, but each day we take another step ... it becomes closer.

Berimbau

a readable, shareable.

read and share

Angola

Obviously it was much clearer this morning, if that can be said of dreams... since dreams are so wispy.
Problem is I can't understand my scribbles at the moment.

Let me try to remember ... we were in my room looking out that window again.
It was a factory of eva hats.
The girl with white hair (Christie from DOA) looked up and saw us so we have to run.
We reached the small broomcloset above the stairs and Joyce pulled down the old ceiling hatch with relief. A small plastic hello kitty dangler marked how long ago we've played there. I stuck my arm in... no way we could all fit... it wasn't even deep enough. We can't hide there.
"I used to fit in there" Joyce kythed.
We split up.
The Legion were after us. The Legion of kids or something. Five of them. They were all in the violet Wonder Twins costume (with cape). I was on the other side of the poolside and I could see them through the holes on the wall *location: ica poolside*
They can't cross the pool of course. They can however run to the far side together to where we were.

Cameron was in a grey suit. (Alan Ruck, google, Ferris Bueler)he heaved off a wooden door and slammed it over another. He opened the door. We walked through.
We passed by Daphne. She was very pregnant with very stick-thin legs. Velma was useless. She was helping her into the yellow VW. Fred should have been there waving goodbye.

We were in a narrow dark alleyway with doors one after another at the right side of the building. Cameron unhinged one easily. It had a decorative glass window, very pretty. It must be his power to use doors as portals. He put this one over a boring gate looking door and I'm glad the glass didn't shatter. He ran away without using the door. Perhaps to make our pursuers think that he used that door. I went the other way.

Passed an old car in the dark driveway. I wondered what would happen if he put a door over the car door. Would it work?

There are a few people by the walls. It is dark and so are they. There is a man on the street by the pavement with a boombox.

I heard the berimbau. This was Mestre. He was playing alone. The dark man with a knitted muslim white cap was playing the berimbau by the wall. I asked to play with the Mestre. My legs were stiff from running and my ankle hurt but I did not feel nervous, excited or anything. I just wished to play with him.

I hate my game, I kythed. He merely smiled, he was old, wrinkled, crooked and very brown. He turned me to negativa and to role. Helped my stiff legs turn. Au cabeca role, high then low. He was just grinning like a fool. Ponte. I want to show him my better game.

Thank you for the game we kythed each other, I woke up.

I played with the Mestre. He went along with my thread of thought even if it was me who asked to join in his solo game.

Link Share

Inquirer takes a look at Capoeira in the Philippines.
Clickity
IE! Lealdade E Fidelidade!

Elitism

When I was in High School, I was the artist girl drawing anime and "japanese cartoon" drawings. While everyone else was into dot-eyed Calvin and Hobbes, Archie-esque, Heathcliff illustrations, I was already drawing big, starry-eyed faces. Of course, the school paper didn't have space for the unconventional so it took a few more years for the manga look to catch on.
Now it's everywhere. The Animanga culture has reached a point that Cosplay is buried into the minds of fanatics as something Japanesey and cool and a must-do whenever there is any geek-o convention of that niche.

How is that? A DC-Comic convention receives cosplay of game characters, anime-and-other, forgetting-- Hullo, it's a DC comic convention, can't tell the difference? I expected to see a cornucopia of poseurs topping each other off with the better costume (hero or villain) to be in. Call me a "big bang theory" fan but we need real geeks, not the wannabe's who recycled last year's hard work to represent a community that didn't belong there. One might even accept a Marvel character in the scene borrowing the vibe of a 'cross-over'. Wouldn't you sooner beat up an anime Cosplayer than your favorite DC nemesis in a DC comic convention? It's fun to see however that Amerimanga is at least a little more tolerable to look at now than 10 years ago.
I respect the illustration style that Warner brought on when they showed Batman Squarejaw. It's too bad that eventually they caved and allowed Teen Titans to have the Samurai-X superderformed cutesy humor. I loved it, but 'tsk-d' at their having to follow a trend. No excuses, the character development team were influenced by anime and manga from the start.

Saturation my friends. Too much of too much.
Me and my inner Gemini were having this train of thought that which Capoeira is starting to receive certain hype and attention as the 'sport to do to look cool'. Soon this might be a familiar scene:







Yea I know, super fast forward much. We hardly have any Martial Arts Conventions going around. I suppose all the testosterone in one Conference Room would be too much to contain... what with um sponsors of like mind... possibly free-flowing fountains of Gatorade, Pocari and powerbars galore.
Gee wouldn't it be fun to step in there in your favorite superman outfit?

Little Rock Stars

Deviant
Unique
Special
Different
Self-expression

Have you ever thought of just being yourself instead of being a self-proclaimed deviation to the norm? Be gothy, be emo, be something that makes people raise an eyebrow. Use Neon dye, use heavy eyeliner. Exaggerate. Walk naked.

If you are TRUE to yourself, why would you want to be just like everyone else who is calling attention for their uniqueness?

Everyone is different in their own way.
Be different by being you.

Be true!
Be honest.
Stand for what you believe in.
Be REAL.

Only Lady Gaga can do Lady Gaga. =)

Marshal of Art

Art has purpose.

Whether to present a feeling or to describe... it will always stand for something. Thoughtless mishmash of beautiful yet meaningless images and color are in the end still thoughtless. It's my thing on "abstract art". Tell me what is abstract art, if your art has nothing behind it... it's trash. Not art. Even an elephant with a paintbrush can create a kind of art.

Trash art is in fact a kind of art. There was meaning behind it-- yes a description of what is 'trashy', or evolved from trash. So come on. Don't use 'abstract' as an excuse for art. Artists are allowed their own form of expression, always. However if you can't express yourself in a way that people understand (for example, the response is a cartoony HUH?!?) how is that art?

A Stingray's Tail

The best part about having lazy June afternoons is reading a manga.
At around this time, clouds getting heavy with rain.
Distant thunder.
And the smell of water in the air.

Reading manga in the office... one of the better things about scanalations over the internet haha. I could wish I would be in bed reading a good manga then drawing after but this all right.

Yes, i want one... just... because.

scraps from devart

Yes i want more capoeira in mangas and anime's. what up.

breakfast

melted butter spread all over the bowl
smashed whole wheat crackers to line it
finished up the little bottle of cheezwiz (none of that little red things, I hate that version of cheezwiz). i put hot water in to melt and get the bits all around inside the bottle and poured it over the whole wheat base. This made the whole wheat cracker mush together like a crust.
topped it with an egg
sprinkled 2 tablespoons of shelled pumpkin seeds (MUFA of the day)

Microwaved for 2 minutes * popped egg bubbles somewhere between minutes

The texture is like funnel cake, what with the crushed and mushed crust. The crust thing did happen and with a little patience I think I would have been able to scrape it off the bowl and put it on a decent plate. But this is the office and who has time for that im hungry!

Sassy water and coffee for drinks.

Ate the yolk last (saving the best part) leaving a sweetish (from crackers) taste with salty eggyness all around. Nummy. Ill do this again soon. Maybe tomorrow haha.

Just one half

yea let's keep it here for now. The other face should be behind it.
No to french kissing demons.

Demon's Half

Random. Basically I'm trying to put an image trail because the redo button of actual drawing is easier if you have reference.
Yin yang demon. I would say something about strange pickings and how weird it would be to actually have a good demon and evil ugly demon forever scratched into your skin but hey I plan to have Marz read this too.
Suggestions are welcome and updates are when you see them.
I don't have a scanner. I have 2 good cameras and they will suffice (and the art may suffer quality).
I won't even bother editing em through PS. Drafitty-draft draft ya know?




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