Centro Cultural de Belém....

"Os Maias - Cenas da Vida Romântica"....

Uma tragédia burguesa empacotada em belas imagens e uma delicia de diálogos a atarem o presente. Sinceramente....gostei daquela cenografia que mostra pouco, mas liberta ainda mais. Quanto ao papel de Pedro Inês (joão da Ega)....soberbo. Duas horas e meia muito bem passadas no escuro do Fonte Nova.  

Um filme de João Botelho

Leonis Salladsbar....a pearl from the 1980`s

photo: Gert Wingårdh (click to enlarge)

Once upon a time at Fredsgatan, Göteborg, and like most interiors from the 80`s...gone long time ago. One of architect Gert Wingårdh early works. 
(1978 ?)....

Thanks Wingårdhs Arkitektkontor !! 

Grupo Compay Segundo at Konserthuset....

Göteborg, Konserthuset, October, 31

Beginning a concert with a sitting audience....and ending it with a dancing crowd is the best appreciation you can ever get. "El Grupo" knows how to perform, and old Compay was certainly up there keeping an eye on "los muchachos"

Best in show: "A caballo vamos pal monte"

Bryan Ferry at Lisebergshallen....

Göteborg, Lisebergshallen, October, 28 (photo: GP)

Think about a concept that worked in 1974....and still functions forty years later ! The elegant dandy with the seducing voice, still sings with the same charisma and feeling. Magical-rhythmical candy for our senses, and yesterday nothing of that was changed. One and a half hours of music was, by the way, a bit short for the money.

Paul Beard - keyboards

Guy Pratt - bass

Jorja Chalmers - sax

Cherisse Osei - drums

Jacob Quistgaard - guitarr

Steve Jones - guitar

Bobbie Gordon - backing vocals

Jodie Scantlebury - backing vocals
Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals

Best in show: 

"Oh Yeah" (such a great song), "Kiss and Tell", "Take a chance with me", "More than this", "Slave to love", "Virginia Plain", "Jealous Guy", "Avalon"....and all the rest !!

You never alone among books....

..but insufficient

Avant l`hiver....

Kristin Scott Thomas and Daniel Auteuil in a film by Philippe Claudel

Take a step aside from the main road....and you may find yourself wondering about the previous direction.

The changes over time....

Skogskyrkogården by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz (Woodland Cemitery)

..sometimes not for the better

The Skeleton Twins....

Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader

Another blow of fresh air from independent films....and some great performances from the two above. A very good film by Craig Johnson....IMDB

"Night on El Train" ....

Edward Hooper, 1918 (click to enlarge)

Take a close look at the position of her body ....and specially the legs !!

Jesus / Baby at Aftonstjärnan....

..the electrified Bjarton från the 1960's

..the telephone - microphone

(photo from another occasion)

Well....hope we meet again guys !!

Praia do Guincho....

click to enlarge

Praia da Parede....

Parede....

..and Café - Pastelaria Limo Verde

Better than this...?

Club Ariston, Mar del Plata, Francisco Coire, Eduardo Catalano and Marcel Breuer

A shop of dreams...

..the above photo must be prior to 1957, the year Portugal got their first television broadcast..

 ..Discoteca Universal at Rua do Carmo, 51 C, disappeared in the late 1970`s (?)

                    

..and 2009

Night and Day....

..at Avenida Duque de Loulé, 49

Modern simplicity...

Casa Aiola, Arrábida, 1960, by Eduardo Anahory

"Diplomatie"....

by Volker Schlöndorff, with Niels Arestrup and André Dussollier (when acting is highly above the story....)

tique taque....

Lisboa, 1957, by Victor Palla and Bento de Almeida

Stone, wood, iron, clay, mortar and glass....

First class merchandise....

In a consolidated historical village like Ponte de Lima....

..is this a bad joke, bad taste....or both ?

Rio Lima....

Ponte da Barca Modern....

More autumn....

Autumn

Peculiar window....

..Hotell Båstad

Buena Vista....

Båstad Modern....

Kastanjeallén, 1960`s

Parker Center....

LA, 1955, by Welton Becket & Associates 

(threatened with demolition, LA Conservancy)

Go ahead....

..make my day

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