Phoenix's new album preview!

No, actually I'm just kidding. 
But I just had to say this, because for me this is just a new song by Phoenix.


A friend of mine (I thank you eternally, Aninha!) showed me this song a few weeks or months ago, and I loved it. Happens that I lost it. I couldn't remember the name of the author, or the name of the song, and today I asked her again. She didn't remember it as well. So what did she do? She wrote "band that looks like phoenix" on Google and found it. Yeah, that's for you all see how Phoenix-y the band called "The Concept" is.

Four simple guys from Stockholm, Sweden (by the way, please remind me to write about a project in Sweden. I mean it, please write on my Facebook or something, I wrote it on my notebook to not forget, but it didn't work) made a new band and made new songs. Awesome songs. Totally Phoenix-y songs. A lot of people judge them saying they "stole" the chords, the voice, the drums, basically everything. So what? At least they can do amazing music, and you probably can't.

I hope you guys enjoy it, and I also hope you'll have an amazing weekend just like I will.

Happy beginning of Saturday (thank God!).

VM #2

FIRST OF ALL. THIS THING CALLED BLOGGER DOESN'T LIKE ME (actually it doesn't like the english version of my blog). I AM SORRY. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO GO TO THE PORTUGUESE VERSION OF THE BLOG TO SEE THE VIDEOS. THE EMBED LINKS ARE NOT WORKING AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHY (God, please, if you know why, just tell me or make this work, please!). I AM REALLY SORRY.


Here I am doing what I've promised! And I'm sorry I didn't post anything else during the week. But at least I now have more 2 ready posts for the next days.


So, starting with my love for snow and ski. I spent 9 days in Austria with some friends and Rotary, skiing. It was one of the best weeks of my entire life. I've never thought I was, someday, going to ski. I've never even been excited about skiing or something, but when the opportunities comes, we can't just let it go, we have to at least study and think about it. I miss skiing, I miss falling on the floor with my head and getting hurt, I miss getting up and thinking "fuck the pain, I'm skiing in Austria!" and continue to slize the mountains. And this video made me remember all the moments I spent over there.

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The making of "Hero," a drawing composed entirely out of 3.2 million dots. Incredible. 

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Have you ever thought about a floating park in the middle of the city? Right, me neither. But as we can see, Fernando Livschitz did. Oh, he did. He just criated one of the most amazing videos, in therms of special effects. Buenos Aires is not going to be the same in my eyes.

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One of my favorite effects + one of my favorite cities. It couldn't be better! Time lapse and New York City, how great are they together? Plus the colour effects, it is amazing, how it gives the colours a life! 

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Ps.: plus one of my favorite songs! "Sweet Disposition", by Temper Trap.

I admit: I'm a fan of skyliners. I not only think it's an incredibly dangerous sport, but I also think it's one of the most amazing things you can ever do in your life. I've done it, or, to tell you the truth, I TRY to do it and it does makes you feel better. You feel free, free for life, you don't have that fear to fall down, it is one of the things you can't die without doing. Just like bungee jumping. I'm still going to do it, I swear! And one more thing: look at this city. Paris must be awesome. I'm counting the days to drive to the city of light, just more 4 months and some days and I'll be screaming like a little child as soon as I step on Paris.

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And, as always, a video from the EF Language Centers. They made a lot of videos, each from one different city or country, and they're more than good. This one is from Sydney, a city that I'm still going to see, one of my favorite cities (I think I need to write a post about my favorite cities...) in the whole world. As some people, say, "Australia is Brazil with the english language", and I can't wait to see if it's true or not. 

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VM #1

FIRST OF ALL. THIS THING CALLED BLOGGER DOESN'T LIKE ME (actually it doesn't like the english version of my blog). I AM SORRY. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO GO TO THE PORTUGUESE VERSION OF THE BLOG TO SEE THE VIDEOS. THE EMBED LINKS ARE NOT WORKING AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHY (God, please, if you know why, just tell me or make this work, please!). I AM REALLY SORRY.

Every Monday, starting today, I will post 6 awesome videos I found on Vimeo. So, it can be called Vimeo Monday, or Video Monday, but not Vimeo's Video Monday, because then it would be a pleonasm, because Vimeo is all about Videos. Ok, enough, my brain is getting nuts.

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This is a video of a normal girl (and by "normal girl", I mean "not-professional, not an actress, just a teenager with a camera on her hands") who decided to film at least 5 seconds of her life every single day of the year of 2011. In the end, she just pulled all these short clips together and made an incredible video. I admit, I wish I had made this video. I've already had this idea (so as 74982364374 people in the world), but I wasn't lazy or something, I just couldn't do it, sometimes I forgot, sometimes I thought it wouldn't be a nice video or something like this. Wrong. I was wrong. 

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This is one of that kind of video you just can't explain why you like it. A notebook. And that's all.

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Oh, London... Now that I've already seen one of my favorite capitals (I still owe you a big post about my trip to London!), I can't stop thinking of it. Of how fast it was, and how excited I am to come back there, in 4 months.

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Because I'm a stop-motion lover.

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One of the most amazing bands in the whole world. A beautiful love story between a men and The Beatles. Couldn't been shown in better words, draws and remixes. 

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I love children. I love british people (and their accent!). But both? Too cute for me. 

Geepster.

I am a Geepster. A mix of both "ways of life", that's me. Or at least I think I am.
And you, what are you? A Geek or a Hipster?

Chris Martin's solo project.

No, it is not a Chris Martin's solo project. But I wish it was! Because then I would've known this sooner.

I'm talking about Mat Kearney. WHO? Yes, Mat Kearney.

The first time I listened to his song was watching the Google's Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review. I first thought "How can Chris Martin have a new song and I don't know about it?", but then I realised it wasn't Chris. It was Mat Kearney, one of my new favorite artists. It's incredible how their voices sound like the same, and even the melodies of Mat's songs sounds like Coldplay's.
But the thing is: why is Mat Kearney not famous? He has a wonderful voice, he makes amazing music but I've never heard of him. And know I want everybody to know him, because there is no way I'm listening to these great songs alone.
I can't tell you what's my favorite song, so I just made a playlist with some that I'd love you to listen to.


I have no idea why, but Blogger decided not to work with me. So I ask you to go to the normal version of the blog to listen to the songs. I'm sorry, I'm working on it, but this just doesn't work.

Life In A Day

This is actually just a copy from a post on Jason Mraz's blog. I just love this post and this film and I really would love to share with you.

"As I travel the globe, countries begin to feel geographically closer to one another. This has little to do with plate tectonics. What I’m beginning to see are more cases of people recognizing each other as if part of the same community. Like one big family. It’s as if humans were orphaned here on Earth and after years of asking questions finally have the means to share their findings and experiences.

While our iphone & ipad addictions may seem costly even insofar as it fragmenting the cultural paradigm, the transparency through these new tech formats is taking us to such great lengths that it’s bringing us around again.

Races and religions that perhaps never thought would mix now work together. People of completely different backgrounds and bone structure sit beside each other on airplanes. They holiday in the same tourist destinations. They surf the same waves, protest the same evils, drink the same water and if they choose, they share the same bed. A person’s accent or skin tone no longer offers a clue as to who may be standing in front of you. Stereotypes are fading as sure as our economies are collapsing. This I AM seeing.

And though we may still be far off from having the answers to solving the world’s crisis, tools such as the film embedded here bring us light years closer to understanding who, why, and what we are.

Life In A Day is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010. In my opinion it offers so much more than that. Consider yourself part of that future generation and be captivated by this extraordinary, endearing, non-bias, heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious view of our planet as it is right now.

Executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald."