A Photographia Esquecida

Alec Soth Interview with Michael David Murphy for ACP

2009-06-03T10:02:00.000+01:00

Vanitas II

2009-05-28T15:07:00.001+01:00

De como no meio de "flores" a lucidez nos faz perder a cabeça...

Vanitas

2009-05-18T16:15:00.000+01:00

«(...)Se o quotidiano lhe parecer pobre, não o acuse: acuse-se a si próprio de não ser bastante poeta para conseguir apropriar-se das suas riquezas. Para o criador nada é pobre, não há sítios pobres, indiferentes.(...)» in "Cartas a um Jovem Poeta" de Rainer Maria Rilke

Isto do Twitter...

2009-02-18T11:53:00.004Z

...Alinhei nesta "coisa" do Twitter à pouco tempo, muito reticente,pois parecia-me ser um pouco patetice esta história de responder a uma simples pergunta:«What are you doing?» cuja resposta seria "seguida" por terceiros. No entanto dei logo conta da potencialidade que "isto" tinha para transmitir notícias telegráficas, logo que comecei a "seguir" os twitters de televisões como a BBC News, ou jornais diários como o nosso «O Publico».
Mas leiam lá isto:

«Retweeting is Killing Twitter, and More Histrionics

The utility of any service, I am thinking is directly proportional to the slope of the degree distribution of its network.

To explain:

When Twitter was first getting popular, it followed a power law in its degree distribution. A few people at the head, the rest distributed in an asymptotical curve downward, with fewer and fewer connections. In this type of power structure, retweeting made sense. It was a tool to progressively bubble discourse up the network to reach a wide distribution. A way of taking discourse out of a closed and small network, and open it up for seeding through the larger connectionist networks at will.

But as the power-law curve of connections on Twitter has now started flattening out, with more and more at the head, and more in the middle and a lot in the tail, retweeting is only serving to echo discourse that more and more people have already seen.

Today, nearly three quarters of the tweets I received were retweets. And most of those retweets I had already seen the original of. Just tonight, Facebook reverted their terms-of-service, and Mashable immediately tweeted it. Then four people on my follow list retweeted Mashable. Why? They have nothing to add, nothing to contextualize it, nothing to inform and nothing to say. They just say it.

I understand twitter is casual conversation, but it should be conversation. It should be people saying things, not resaying them. I understand the “collection” mentality that drives this. Here is something interesting: please also find it interesting. It’s the same culture that creates mix-tapes, makes DJ’ing such an amazing experience, makes us want to teach and inform people of things. But there are better ways of doing this.

It used to be people would curate links, provide meta-commentary and then drive quality content through that. Some people (Andy Baio, Jason Kottke) do this to great effect. But more and more, I’m seeing people that used to be noted for the quality of meta-discourse devolving into mirrors. And it’s mirrors upon mirrors.

Mirrors don’t add anything unless the quality of the glass is bad. And I’m afraid its becoming a veritable funhouse in Twitter land.

What I am most afraid of is what will happen during SXSW. I’m pretty much afraid to even look at Twitter:

@blah1: RT: @blah a party at Stubbs!

@blah3: RT: @blah1 RT: @blah a party at Stubbs!

@blah4: RT @blah3 @blah1 @blah a party at Stubbs!

I have a feeling while 2007 was Twitter’s coming out party at SXSW, 2009’s SXSW and the plague of retweeting is going to kill its utility for a lot of people. Me included.

Here are my suggestions then:

1. Twitter - please add a retweet filter at the software layer, like how we choose notification methods
2. Those that feel the need to retweet everything they find interesting, compile them instead into a twice-daily updated blog entry that you then tweet the URL to
3. Anyone who has a retweet ratio greater than 50/50 people should unfollow. Or said people should setup a separate “retweet” account. Make it opt-in.
4. People need to start being original again.

Rant over.»

Written by Ethan Kaplan
February 17th, 2009 at 11:29 pm

in BlackRimglasses http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2009/02/17/retweeting-is-killing-twitter-and-more-histrionics/

...pois é...

All I need - Radiohead

2009-01-22T15:04:00.002Z

Radiohead on iLike - Get updates inside iTunes

Campanha contra o Tráfico e o Trabalho Escravo, que ainda existe...

radiohead street spirit

2009-01-22T14:53:00.002Z

O vídeo, o digital, o preto-e-branco, a iluminação...
...e a canção

Now Be Thankful - by Fairport Convention - R Thompson

2009-01-22T14:21:00.002Z

Um hino de resistência dos que tem Fé contra todo o fundamentalismo, totalitarismo e todos os tipos de fanatismos intolerantes...

Re-encontrar

2009-01-21T13:45:00.002Z

Este blog vai mudar de aspecto e orientação. A actividade de colocar musica vai ser mais reduzida. Muitos dos links já não estão activos; vão ser revistos e substituídos.

Passou por aqui uma fase de crescimento, e uma aprendizagem, que terminou.

Mas inicia-se outra...

...esta é a mais profunda realidade explicada...

2009-01-19T01:21:00.000Z

Animal Collective - My Girls (Coachella 2008)

2009-01-07T11:37:00.000Z

M. Ward - Hold Time

2009-01-07T11:27:00.001Z

Grace Jones - Williams' Blood (live at Later...)

2009-01-07T11:16:00.000Z

Maps - Elouise (Live on Channel M)

2009-01-07T10:53:00.002Z

(Atenção! o som está baixo)

Still alive & kicking (3) Cresce uma nova vaga...

2008-12-01T18:25:00.002Z

Fotos colhidas no site do PCP

Still alive & kicking (2) «O operário»

2008-12-01T18:10:00.002Z

Fotos colhidas no site do PCP

Still alive & kicking

2008-12-01T17:54:00.004Z

Fotos colhidas no site do PCP

Love will tear us apart / Susanna and The Magical Orchestra

2008-12-01T17:15:00.001Z

José González - Love will tear us Apart(live)

2008-12-01T17:10:00.000Z

Nouvelle Vague - Love will tear us apart (LIVE)

2008-12-01T17:08:00.001Z

New Order -love will tear us apart (Joy Division cover)

2008-12-01T17:05:00.000Z

Um hino dos 80's «I'm In Love With A German Film

2008-11-27T19:47:00.001Z

...pois, estou muito nostálgico...
(e o original é muito melhor que a reedição feita agora pelos Pet Shop Boys)

Dubstar - Stars

2008-11-27T19:45:00.003Z

Bob Dylan - Cold Irons Bound

2008-11-27T19:03:00.001Z

Bob Dylan - Cold Irons Bound

Nitin Sawhney & Reena Bhardwaj - Nadia

2008-11-27T18:55:00.001Z

Blonde Redhead - 23

2008-11-27T18:47:00.001Z