Monthly Archives: October 2005

Off to São Paulo International Film Festival

This blog is on vacation. I’ve been watching films all day in São Paulo International Film Festival and will keep on doing that for two weeks. Back on November, 4. See you.

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All-TIME 100 novels

The Complete List from the TIME magazine of ALL-TIME 100 Novels. Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. How many I read from the list? Well… let’s talk about … Continue reading

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Military Posters of 20th century

Military Posters of 20th century: an excellent site with hundreds of posters. In this site you can find biggest in WWW collection of Military Posters: Russo-Japanese war, WW1, WW2, Civil Wars in Russia and Spain, Cold War. (via andreaxmas)

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Top 40 Magazine Covers

American Society of Magazine Editors Unveils Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years. I liked the choice of the winner, but not so much the other covers chosen. Here are the first 10: 1. Rolling Stone – Jan. … Continue reading

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Grand Illusions

Grand Illusions the site for the enquiring mind. With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. Funny things to look, games and articles. (via All about nothing)

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Tags…. Tagging…

Some links about tags and tagging…. tags…. Did I say that I love tags? Well, I love them. – Danah Boyd made a neat list of links about it: articles on tagging (help?). – Google Adds Tagging: Google has silently … Continue reading

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Jeff Wall

From Guardian Unlimited, Picture perfect: Since the 1970s, Canadian photographer Jeff Wall has worked as if he’s a cinematographer, using a cast and crew to create large-scale, dramatic images that can take more than a year to get right. But … Continue reading

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Japanese Girl

Japanese Girl Info hosts hundreds of early 1900′s postcards about Japanese ladies and geishas. (via Suzanne G.)

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Polly Chandler

Polly Chandler: lovely shots in black and white and colours. The images of “Color” gallery are great, but I liked a lot the Gallery pictures, like this. (via Vadiar)

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Alain Sechas

The French artist Alain Sechas makes some fantastic sculptures, works with neon and paintings. My favourites? I liked of all the cat sculptures. (via wmmna)

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