pop-up and shout the alphabet

amazing pop-up book ;)

Adoro este filme baseado no livro de Phip K Dick, com o mesmo nome. Tudo feito em vectores!

Novo blog de fotografia

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perception and reality

There is a big difference between perception and reality. The way we understand our surroundings is so unique to us as fingerprints. What is real? Can we find reality in the earthly plane? What we see is what we believe, but what if what we see isn’t real?

When we wander the city streets, locked in our own bubble, we don’t see what goes on around us. We don’t perceive what we don’t find important, like the one legged beggar that greats us every morning or the women of the coffee shop that cleans the steps as we go by, we don’t see these things yet they exist and are more real then the music we listen to on our iPod that we know off by heart or the email we check on the train on our way to work. When we consider a subject as controversial as religion and spirituality, where what we see isn’t important, many of us don’t understand, but many follow it blindly. We believe in so many things that can’t materialize, why does spirituality baffle us so?

Living in a city is different from living anywhere else; we expect a certain kind of interaction with our surroundings and with the eclectic bunch of people that populate it. The first time a person is confronted with city life they or optimistic, they find great joy in the small details, as we grow accustomed we grow cold, we individualize, we surround ourselves with the artificial to be in contact with the world with out having to actually live the harsh reality. The city becomes a blur and we become alone.

We continuously circle the problem of reality, what is real? What do we perceive? Can there be a universal image of one place? And most importantly where are we going? What if the extreme artificiality finally consumes our life completely? Should we be scared?

Alice in Bummerland?

There has been big hype about this movie, I finally went to see it and was a bit of a let down. Being a Burton fan I felt like i wasn't watching a tim burton movie, the image was there the story wasn't, it was predictable and a bit boring.
too much fuss, good imaging, but lacking a good story