The German agency Scholz & Friends literally thought outside the box and created a new package design for the Nike Air. Besides innovating in the form of packaging, which varies little in the visual and it always comes down to a cardboard box, the designers used the concept of Nike Air lightness to prepare a shroud of plastic filled with air. The packaging, which looks more like a bubble, allows to see its contents and protects the sneakers.
Jun 18, 2013
Fashion rapper
The rapper Stalley has just starred a Comme des Garçons Play editorial / campaign for Wish Atlanta shop. Grandma loved the rapper style that has lots of fashion information and a minimalist phtograohy and we indicates: is worth inspiring!
Click here to see the the rest of the collection : http://wishatl.com/store/CDG-Play-C155.aspx
There's so much so cool stuff (check black shirt emblazoned with eyes) that even the grandma girls are wanting the t-shirts.
Jun 17, 2013
Jun 16, 2013
Forasteiro - Tiago Iorc | A Music For Your Day
Who knows Tiago Iorc know the high quality of his music both in english and in portuguese. His voice, lyrics, melody and how he sing, makes Tiago a great singer. ( this music melody looks like the Paramore's song "Still Into You", but more "still" than the rock song")
"Forasteiro" music video was filmed in Austin, Texas, during the SXSW 2013 Festival and was release last Tuesday. The video shows the singer on street with people walking in front and back him and sometime "playing" with Tiago, check out:
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#WearYourWeapons #OccupyBrazil #ChangeBrazil
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It is early morning of June 16, a Sunday. Today Grandma lets other things aside to support a cause.
In recent days have happened protests in several cities of Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, against the bus fare increase, which stands today at around 20 cents more expensive. The event had great police repression which retaliated with rubber bullets and tear gas, raping, injuring and arresting dozens of protesters. The mass media little televised the event and considers the protesters vandals, the federal government has not taken part.
The point is not 20 cents, is dignity.
It is early morning of June 16, a Sunday. Today Grandma lets other things aside to support a cause.
In recent days have happened protests in several cities of Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, against the bus fare increase, which stands today at around 20 cents more expensive. The event had great police repression which retaliated with rubber bullets and tear gas, raping, injuring and arresting dozens of protesters. The mass media little televised the event and considers the protesters vandals, the federal government has not taken part.
The point is not 20 cents, is dignity.
Today I study at a federal university ( the best one in Brazil) and I spent 400 reais (aboat 200 dollars) per month just on transport on the path home-university-house. I work, but I have parents who can assist me financially.Yet I take 2 buses and 1 ferry per trip, the 3 crowded. On my way back home I sit on the ferry stairs because there are no seats left.
Now imagine another reality:
I studied all my life in public schools, I struggled and I entered in a public college through quotas, but I will not attend a public university because I can not afford the costs
If my whole family was sustained with one the minimum wage ( 678 reais) and I had the benefit of a university transport ticket , I would still be paying 200 reais (100 dollars) per month on transportation, yet it is almost 1 / 3 of my income. Even earning a scholarship from the university, only half of it would be spent on transport and I could not live in the university accommodations because my residence is not, according to the rector, far enough so that I have this right.
I'm not counting the expenses with study material and food. There's any refectory in my university, so we pay at least 10 reais a day for lunching,
I studied all my life in public schools, I struggled and I entered in a public college through quotas, but I will not attend a public university because I can not afford the costs
If my whole family was sustained with one the minimum wage ( 678 reais) and I had the benefit of a university transport ticket , I would still be paying 200 reais (100 dollars) per month on transportation, yet it is almost 1 / 3 of my income. Even earning a scholarship from the university, only half of it would be spent on transport and I could not live in the university accommodations because my residence is not, according to the rector, far enough so that I have this right.
I'm not counting the expenses with study material and food. There's any refectory in my university, so we pay at least 10 reais a day for lunching,
Brazilian economy grew (?) But it grew to benefit who?
Ok, class C grew, millions of people left the poverty line, but shouldn't this have happened before?
Brazil receives investment billionaires, but what will it profit if half of that money is rolled back into the coffers of the distinguished ministers, deputies and senators?
The bus fare increases more than inflation in recent years
So, there's something wrong here, isn't there?
Ok, class C grew, millions of people left the poverty line, but shouldn't this have happened before?
Brazil receives investment billionaires, but what will it profit if half of that money is rolled back into the coffers of the distinguished ministers, deputies and senators?
The bus fare increases more than inflation in recent years
So, there's something wrong here, isn't there?
What I want the most is them to protest, protest a lot and without fear, to see if it solves anything. But it is not breaking glass or raising political party flags.
About the police, I do not think anything else needs to be said. Also it would not surprise me if once more the Mounties tried to enter the Candelaria Church with a dozen horses as they did 45 years ago in the march of 100,000, during the military dictatorship.
Grandma supports the Occupy movement and Brazilian manifestations for a better public transport.
About the police, I do not think anything else needs to be said. Also it would not surprise me if once more the Mounties tried to enter the Candelaria Church with a dozen horses as they did 45 years ago in the march of 100,000, during the military dictatorship.
Grandma supports the Occupy movement and Brazilian manifestations for a better public transport.
Jun 15, 2013
Visione Artistica: Poetry on Iron by Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes
The exhibition of Rui Chafes, "Mysterious Flesh" at MAM ends tomorrow, it was incredibly made, physically and theoretically. In this post I will try to clarify the world of this great Portuguese sculptor.
Born in 1966 in Lisbon, Rui Chafes majored in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, in 1989, then went to Usseldórfia, where he attended Kunstak Ademie, under the direction of German artist Gerhard Merz. The choice of the German city came from his interest in German culture, which is common not only onhis visual work but also on other areas: he translated, for example, the "Fragments of Novalis" and refers to this text constantly on writings and quotes that accompany all his work.



"My sculpture is always like a knife to carry in your pocket, is not exactly the monument. Some sculptors speak more about the monumental place in the urban space, even if metaphorical, I speak mainly of people's pockets. Even my large sculptures could be tucked in a pocket and taken (...) " Rui Chafes about the functioning of his sculptures, truly amulets as "Pickpocket" which are small sculptures made from molds of the artist's hand.
The work of Rui Chafes is characterized by an singular imaginary that surprises us for the unusual shape and leads us to a world of contemporary fabulations in which the volutes of Romanticism accommodate themselves organically on the formal rigor of Minimalism, Chafes dominates the whole history of sculpture and adds his own components. More than a sculpture as a fetish object, kitsch, what interests him is the feel and concept of art as capable of restoring the lack of spirituality and sensibility of the contemporary world, so full of worries and anxieties. It is a work that challenges and excites in a silently way of wonder us how today's art is treated to be confused with the practices of the entertainment world.

“(...)the artist is the onde who finds because what interests him is the back of the world. Because he is not able to separate things and wants to be where the world seemingly hides, but that indeed is where it shows (...)” Rui Chafes about his conception of artist.




"The sculpture is not a body, but is rather a paradox in itself because it is the demonstration of an impossibility. I do not believe in the subject. I did not think the object is the end in itself. Therefore, the sculpture relates with losing, with the absence, the place thaat is not populated, but mainly because I do not believe the object is irreplaceable, irreparable, inescapable ... However it is the only possibility we have to demonstrate an idea. "Rui Chafes on the paradoxical carater of his sculptures.


A fantastic piece, "The Silence of..." is on display at MAM, Chafes below explains the concept of it:
"Started several years ago, "The Silence of ..." is a sculpture in progress, constantly growing. I write by hand, time is my friend. But, tired of words, I burn almost everything I write and enclose some of the ashes in steel boxes, sealed. Fire purifies and protects life, lets you work the iron and reduce to ashes the bodies and useless words. If writing can be an act of liberation, burn the words are too. Perhaps never decipher the secret of time that passes, never find an answer. Also a day, warm skin, covered by discrete and enigmatic throbbing veins, the skin where it rests gently on the fear of being afraid, will become a beautiful web of lines that tell the story of a long life: the story of all paths, turns and stops, the memory of the pain but also the memory of peace and the return of discovery and amazement. Then she will turn into pollen, carried by the wind, spread the flowering of memories and secrets.
(...) But the truth is that I hope my works are better than my words and you do not need them. Each work is always more complicated than our poor theories. Strictly speaking, the only contribution that an artist should bring the debate is his work. The words may guide, but should never be an excuse or justification. Moreover, everything is possible: there are artists who like to talk and there are those who hate, some want to talk, others can not even trying; ones love to write and others express themselves by silence. "
"Andrej son of Andrej son of Andrej" is another work on construction by Chafes. Since 1999, the artist discards sculptures on the Atlantic coast, in the region of his studio which is also where he spent his childhood. He gives these works back to nature or the unsuspecting passerby who be interested, as if he wanted introduce a anonymous art, where what matters is the flow of energy exchange between him and the worldby making them return to the place where belongs.
A secret and a dream kept inside a classical , sacred and timeless arquitetura. "The dream of Giorgio De Chirico" is an immersion on Italian art, where the Renaissance architecture covers the work of De Chirico, a solitary modernist artist, author of paintings where the tension of loneliness dominates the metaphysical painting. So does work the black sculpture of Chafes, it floats within the architecture as white marble, a spirit, a ghost looking at the viewer through small openings. Restless and tense, waiting for an event that disarticulate the world around it, a world that thrives on the pursuit of harmony and perfection. Stand alone as Donatello's David, but black and shapeless as the lines of Capogrossi paintings, this sculpture emanates centuries of Italian art.

Rui has recently been awarded the Prize for Best European Artist of 2012 by ARCO-Madrid, and has participated in important international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennial (1995) and São Paulo (2004). Outside Portugal, held solo exhibitions in institutions such as the SMAK (Gent, Belgium), the Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany), Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center (Copenhagen, Denmark), the Fondazione Volume! (Rome, Italy) and Fundação Eva Klabin / Breathing Project (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), and several of his works are part of the collections of museums such as the SMAK (Gent, Belgium), the Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany), the Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Arnhem, Netherlands) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain).

"This idea of the artist being removed from the world is, to me, essential. I do not want nor need advertising. Unlike other artists, I refuse to talk to the television, taking portraits of me, all this kind of promotion and I am very careful in interviews. I live a reserved life, away from the public images, and so I want to continue. To me the only thing that counts is the work, the sculpture, its evocative power in people. Everything else, all the effort of spectacle and social imposition is ephemeral and I do not live from it. It's a matter of mental and emotional hygiene." Rui Chafes about his position in the art world.
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