1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
The amazon forest
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Brasília - A modernist dream city imagined and planned by Lucio Costa and the great Oscar Niemeyer.
53 anos da cidade de Brasília - video
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Brasília - A modernist dream city imagined and planned by Lucio Costa and the great Oscar Niemeyer.
53 anos da cidade de Brasília - video
Photos from the city construction - video
3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER
Oscar Niemeyer
Victor Prôa (fellow student) and his flower power
4. QUESTION OF THE DAY
5. INSPIRATION
"The term “flower power” comes from Allen Ginsberg (a man abundant of curious ideas). During the Vietnam War, peace protesters, also known as flower children, would give flowers to policemen, press and politicians.As Robert Plant once said, “How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?”
“Spring is very energizing to me,” David Hockney
“ The career of a sage is of two kinds:He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.” Lao Tzu
“Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?” W. D. Richter
“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” Leo Buscaglia
“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” John Lennon
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” Oscar Wilde
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” Max Muller
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” Sigmund Freud
“I’ll always pick you, the prettiest flower that I can find, even if it’s the hardest one to get.” Pon and Zi
“The time was ripe for Flower. The vibe was right.” Jody Watley
“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”Hans Christian Andersen
“Flowers are so inconsistent!” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I must have flowers, always, and always.” Claude Monet
“A weed is but an unloved flower.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself.” Robert Mapplethorpe
“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”Marc Chagall
“Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” John Ruskin.
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” Paul Cezanne
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” Honore de Balzac
“The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.” William Wordsworth
“Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.”F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”Jean Giraudoux
6. Flowers for friends
The story of this symbol in Portuguese culture is that Tourist Day was being celebrated and there were lots of carnations for distribution in the markets of Lisbon. An important restaurant was holding a party but because of the ongoing Revolution the manager decided not to open for the day. The carnations were given to employees that took the flowers home. One woman that was passing by was asked a cigar by a military. But she was a non-smoker. So she gave him the carnation and immediately he placed it in the barrel of the gun. Her name is Celeste Caeiro and she's known since that day as Celeste dos Cravos, Celeste of the Carnations. The gesture was then replicated and the carnations become a spontaneous symbol of the Revolução de 25 de Abril.
7. A thing I learned from my friends
"It is rare that I see something “As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” - Comte de Lautréaumont AKA Isidore Lucien Ducasse.
My house and work space is filled with objects, and the objects are related to each other in so many new ways....all giving rise to encounters. The antique, wood carpenter's plane snuggles close to the tip of a deer's horn and a horned, bull's head chestnut. The pewter porcupine's back, spiked with wooden toothpicks sits close to a small vial of lady's perfume, while a small, rubber frog peaks out at me."
My house and work space is filled with objects, and the objects are related to each other in so many new ways....all giving rise to encounters. The antique, wood carpenter's plane snuggles close to the tip of a deer's horn and a horned, bull's head chestnut. The pewter porcupine's back, spiked with wooden toothpicks sits close to a small vial of lady's perfume, while a small, rubber frog peaks out at me."
Thomas Pitre, a fellow student
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