Singapore is the queen of Detail. The people that came from Malaysia, from Portugal, England, China and the fishermen that once lived in this former poor and undeveloped island.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
DETAILS
Singapore is the queen of Detail. The people that came from Malaysia, from Portugal, England, China and the fishermen that once lived in this former poor and undeveloped island.
SINGAPORE ENCOUNTER OF RELIGIONS
Singapore was and still it is the encounter of religions: From Buddhism to Hinduism and Catholicism and Islamism.
Eclipse on Tuesday 29 Ausgut
I hope you had seen there in the skies the beautifull eclipse.
Private Portuguese Joke: “ Ha coisas Fantasticas não há?” ehheheheheh
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
AMIGAS
So queria dizer obrigada as minhas amigas "S" Sofia, Sandrinha e Silvia e as Anas e Patricias... porque cada santo dia...Ha uma coisa que me faz lembrar de cada uma de vos!
Isso é uma coisa maravilhosa. Porque se sente mais do que se diz. Genuina.
Isso é uma coisa maravilhosa. Porque se sente mais do que se diz. Genuina.
MANNERS AND ETIQUETTE
I’m here for a new phase of my life around Asia. Discovering the beauties of cultural differences. What do you do when you meet new people for instance? Do you kiss them, do you give a hand shake, and do you bow yourself? This is one of the things I’m working on... International protocol, attitudes, manners and Etiquette. It is so important for people that work around the world to know this feature as breathing! I’m very glad to have spent time studying, mesmerising myself on it. Now I just need to go further and further around Asia behaviour, every day more globalized.
COLONIAL SINGA PURA
When Sir Thomas Raffles arrived to Singapore in 1819 to make the Island a Bastion of his empire - the British Empire, the city transformed into a hub for Southeast Asia which brought a huge amount of Chinese inhabitants for work. Now the city has more than 70 per cent of Chinese people. And the mandarin is the language spoken.
SINGA PURA
I have a Stunning view for my Hotel GALLERY; it is a wonderful hotel that it is at the same time an art Gallery, with a fashion restaurants and bars. You should check out on the net it worth it! I’m in the Glass Room. Singapore it is extremely beauty at night. The same freedom and the same comfort.
SINGAPORE
SINGA + PURA
Do you know that Singa is lion and Pura is city in the ancient Malay language?
So, city of the Lion here I am. A former poor island of fisherman is now a fishery of business, comfort houses, growing affairs city and a travelling Hub. Clean, as clean as I never have seen in my life (note I was never in Switzerland!)
Nice people, the Singapore Chinese are very open minded and very gentle. We find a very good food and a new race the Eurasians! That I will write about it these days!
Impressive city for her organization! You know me; I like organized things as much as I like the unpredictable. Both stunned me. I’m a paradox as a person so the differences, the black, and white and the colourful create a strong feeling inside of my perception. Organization is not boring it is a kind of freedom as well. We feel in Singapore one unusual freedom. 0% criminal rate.
Actually it is a Lion city as the way of being: it conquers her space at the same time offers comfortable surroundings for those who decide to live in it. I’m impressed. In Portuguese Singapore is writen in the right way> SINGAPURA
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Goodbye Thailand ... for now
One phase of my trip to Asia has gone! The Vacations one!
Now work is going to start in another Culture wit different eyes that already are changing me forever!
James Bond Island
This Island was the place where part of the movie the James Bond - the Man with the golden Gun with Roger Moore as 007. I was impressed how a movie changes a lace completely, comparing to the caves and the Phangang bay this was a touristic place where the boats stopped for the Scenery. However I loved the swim until the big rock in those light green waters. Natural
Caves at the Bay
We visited with the canoe some amazing and mysterious natural arcades and caves which lead us to beautiful secret places of echo and silence. The only sound we could hear was our own voice.
Patong Beach and Kata
Everything was still destroyed, no more arms or legs from the destroyed resorts in 2004 Tsunami but the scenery was quite provocative. Phuket and Patong beach are nothing more than beautiful sand and sea, reconstructed avenues and resorts, and a prostitution night with occidental guys and Thai girls, usually younger. Girls that they “rent” for a week vacation. It was nice to have stayed at Kata Beach were we found excellent seafood, a very nice relaxing environment and of course the sweet smiles of Thai people.
The Way to Andaman Sea
The Way to Andaman Sea!
After a good dive into the east coast we started the hard journey to go the other coast. First 4 hours by boat until Don Sak pier. After we took a kind of strange cab similar to the ones we saw in Bangkok usually called TukTuk. We arrived to Surat Thani and stayed there for one hour wanting the transfer to Phuket and Kata Beach where we planned to stay! We met an Austrian Girl very nice, Gaby, which helped us to have a less cavalry trip! But keep smiling and after all it was an excellent experience of cultural touches and inside conversation with locals.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Ines e David finalmente de Ferias
Verdade Verdade!!!!!!!
Depois destes tempos alucinantes
sim sim
Estamos Finalmente
de Ferias!
TAILANDIA
Queridos Amigos, aqui estou eu no meu novo caminho Asiatico.Saudades de casa? nem por isso, para dizer a verdade estou por aqui ainda de ferias na Tailandia com o David e claro que vou escrevendo com novidades. So dia 24 de Agosto comeco a trabalhar. Escrevam!
Korp Kun Ka
Korp Kun Ka
ISLAND OF KOH PHANGAN THAILAND BAY
Island of Koh Phangan, Thailand Bay: Beaches from the movies, comfortable sea that covers us like a warm blanket and makes us dream with freshness, calm and peace. Traveling makes me the person I am, makes me believe what always I had inside: runaway shoes, a discover woman from the XV century heart and admiration with the world we live in: What a beautiful world!
Bangkok
Bangkok is a traffic jammed city! Full of cars and people driving their motorbikes, mixed with taximeters and Tuku Tuku (motorbikes taxis) which grab the tourists around the city. The temples are full of life and we actually believe that are some angels living there. I was totally amazed with the klongs, the canals around the Chao Praya River that took me away from the city to get in a “Thai” environment. Another world, another way of being, another culture … and just another spirit too.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Achille Castiglioni
Grazie Achille
Um dos mais importantes nomes do design industrial do século XX foi Achille Castiglione. Produziu e criou mas de 150 produtos e desenhou para três dos mais conhecidos produtores de Design: A Flos para Iluminação, Zanotta para mobiliário e Alessi para produtos de casa. Estive no seu estúdio, na Piazza Castello, onde os aprendizes ainda se sentam na sua cadeira e falou a com a sua filha Giovana Castiglione que nos contou, na primeira pessoa, tudo sobre Achille, os seus protótipos, a sua historia e a sua simplicidade. Por Inês Blu Rodrigues, em Milão
Estamos no numero 27 da Piazza Castello em milão onde Achille Castiglioni e os seus irmão mais velhos Livio, com quem trabalhou até 1954 e Pier Giacomo, até 1968, instalaram o atelier. À entrada do estúdio há uma pequena escada que nos leva a um corredor que separa duas áreas principais, a sala dos protótipos e reuniões e a sala da criação e do arquivo de projectos. Fomos recebidos por uma senhora que gentilmente nos perguntou se falávamos o Italiano e nos apresentou Giovanna Castiglione, a filha de Achille.
Castiglioni estudou arquitectura no politécnico de Milão, onde também foi professor e que, segundo Giovanna, «levava um saco preto igual ao de Mary Poppins cheio de objectos que dispunha na mesa da sala de aulas. Do saco saiam brinquedos, estranhos objectos e diferentes tipos de óculos dos mais variados materiais como plástico, alumínio, papel ou feitos dos rolos antigos das maquinas fotográficas». Achille testava os seus alunos, punha-os a pensar e a imaginar sobre a função de cada um dos objectos. Giovanna, filha do seu pai, também nos testou na biblioteca do estúdio, onde nos punha na mão várias peças que tirava de um pequeno armário de vidro e nos fazia experimentar e adivinhar.
Achille Castiglioni acreditava no potencial do Design, uma visão um pouco neo-modernista, mas ao mesmo tempo integral, pois desenhava sempre com uma grande sensibilidade à forma, à produção e ao consumidor. As suas criações eram feitas de tanta precisão e criatividade que as coisas mais funcionais nasciam do obvio. Achille mostrava aos seus alunos, tal como Giovana nos mostrou a nós, que um objecto aparentemente humilde em forma e em material poderia ser um inspirador e inteligente protótipo de design, isto se levasse com ele a dose certa de humor, estética e função. Segundo Giovanna, «Ele dizia sempre aos seus alunos para se concentrarem no senso comum e para se focarem no objectivo». Um designer tinha a responsabilidade de primeiro analisar, se era ou não necessário construir alguma coisa, depois investigar de que forma e com que recursos e matérias o projectavam e só depois se desenvolvia o plano. A esta teoria Castiglioni chamou de «Componente de Design Principal».
Os projectos de iluminação que desenhou para a Flos demonstravam uma espécie de tecno-funcionalismo, onde nenhuma peça era incluída sem um propósito funcional. Influenciado pelo artista Marcel Duchamp, em 1957, Achille usou um assento de um tractor para construir um banco, o Mezzadro, que foi produzido pela Zanotta a partir de 1971. Este banco tornou-se muito popular em interiores High Tech.
Achille promovia que o designer deveria investir o seu tempo e energia no funcionalismo e não só na estética, «numa forma consistente de desenhar».
Depois da nossa visita ao lado esquerda do estúdio onde se expunham os protótipos, a sala de reuniões e a biblioteca, passamos ao lado direito do atelier divido em três salas de criação onde se espalhavam os seus projectos e se arquivavam os planos.
Este estúdio nasceu depois da segunda grande guerra, os irmãos Castiglioni desenvolviam produtos para manufacturas italianas, montavam exposições e trabalham em cenografia. Vivia-se uma época em que as manufacturas tinham sede de inventos e novos materiais e, essa combinação entre uma nova geração produtiva, a tradicional manufactura italiana e o boom de novos consumidores mais jovens, fez aumentar a necessidade do design e da criação.
Achille Castiglioni era, segundo Giovanna, um homem muito rigoroso mas a sua aproximação ao objecto como produto final era sempre com humor. Como por exemplo, o cinzeiro em espiral que desenhou para Alessi, era pratico, divertido tinha como objectivo que um cigarro de combustão lenta pudesse repousar todo o «tempo do mundo».
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Achille, um grande fumador, aquando a sua morte em 2002, nunca perdeu a sua energia, a sua boa disposição e a sua curiosidade pelo paradoxal. Fechámos a porta do estúdio trazendo um rolo fotográfico com os seus principais projectos. Uma lembrança desse grande nome do design Italiano Achille Castiglioni.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
MILAN
It was hard work in Milan but an amazing working experience where people fly about beauty, that sensations are substitutes for the projects where heart, sensibility and strongest feeling works along the mind and the personal intelligence and creation. Devotion!
ROSA 10
Go and read my weekly chronicles about fashion, design and trips at the site web magazine (ezine) Rosa10 at http://www.rosa10.com/cronica.php?cronica_id=55 this article about the woman in Madrid.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
LIFE CHANGES
I’ll be out of home for 7 months for a project implementation about productivity, color and design, following the work I do in my company www.blutsamp.com . Now I’m in Milan until the end of this month and then I will fly to Hong Kong as a base and “Asia in general” as destination. I will have to visit the Interior Design Fairs in Tokyo, Macao, Seoul and Bangkok and to research and write several papers about the project. The work will be followed by different Asian Companies and Universities. So if you want news just email me and you always find me here at this non static Blog that will be traveling with me.
I will keep as much as possible the English as main language, knowing that sometimes the language of a specific country where you are influences you to write differently. You know me, each day is a day and today it is a special day.
I made it! I had objectives for the 07.07.2007.
After a 2006, so complicated in terms of health. I made decisions. Continuing to be there for my friends, the real ones, who were with be in the good and bad moments and who surprise me with emails and SMS always when I’m not expecting it and even if we do not see each other for a long time. Learn how to do better choices. There were a lot of people in my life that were just personal expectations not reality “We cannot be friends of every colleagues, not every colleagues are our friends and there are plenty of people that do not like us and that we do not like, that’s normal, we cannot please everything nor everyone” . The real life always comes to the top of the water, so I toke out the cables of situations, places, people and work that were stilling my energy and polluting my mind. I toke difficult decisions, but life are made from them too. Other objectives were to be happy and honest with myself, to act in the present day as it was my last day, to be aware that we do not live forever so I would live the life I want for me and not the life the “others” could conceive for me, I would defiantly continuing writing, designing active projects, having new ideas, implementing new things, just continuing creating and being healthy!I HAD A DREAM and I’m following it everyday.
Carpe Diem my friends and thanks for your inspiration, I am very happy.
HOJE E O DIA 7 DO 7 DE 2007
Penso Noventa e nove vezes e nada descubro, deixo de pensar e mergulho em profundo silencio e eis que a Verdade se me revela
Einstein
Einstein
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