Happy New Year 2011

The future is robotic
Photograph: Blutgruppe/zefa/Corbis

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"The robots are coming. The second decade of the 21st century will see the rise of a mechanised army that will revolutionise private and public life just as radically as the internet and social media have shaken up the past 10 years."


Marina Gorbis, futurologist and head of Californian thinktank The Institute for the Future.




The innovation is in our life everyday! And that is splendid! Innovation and creativity are in music too! Perhaps the most innovative art crossing the centuries. From classical, to pop-rock, jazz, alternative or electronic. There are wonderful composers, musicians, innovative projects. 


Now we have music using the latest Techonologies! Arcade Fire and Google maps, Gorillaz composing on iPad. So, we can say, dawn of the age of the Tech music! 


"Music is the poetry of the air", said Jean Paul Richter. Read some music quotes and choose the perfect one to begin the New Year!

Happy New Year with Music

View more presentations from G. Souto.

Did you find an inspirational music quote to add to the soundtrack of your life? 

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require." 

Edward Elgar

My idea? Just follow the music of your heart! Enjoy it!

Happy New Year 2011!! 

G-Souto

31.12.2010

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References:

Gina Souto, slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/GSouto

Dawn of the age of the robot

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Jose Saramago, the Portuguese Nobel of Literature

http://sic.sapo.pt

José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 died, June 18, 2010, at the age of 87. His ashes remaine in Lisbon.

He lived in Spain and Portugal, his wife is spanish. After Saramago death,  Pilar del Río, will come to Portugal as the new director of Fundação José Saramago. The fondation will continue to promote and preserve the study of the increadible literary work, correspondence and other works of the Portuguese Nobel Prize in Literature.



"Promover o estudo da obra literária do seu Instituidor bem como da sua correspondência e espólio e respectiva preservação".


Born to hard-scrabble origins, Saramago dropped out of school at 12 to train as a car mechanic. After different works, he began a self-taught  full-time writer in his late 50s.

José Saramago/ ©DR

Nobel Prize in Literature 1998

http://sol.sapo.pt

At the age of 87 Saramago was writing  a blog Outros Cadernos de Saramago that has a million followers at Facebook.

He said November, 29, 1998:

Começar a ler foi para mim como entrar num bosque pela primeira vez e encontrar-me, de repente, com todas as árvores, todas as flores, todos os pássaros. Quando fazes isso, o que te deslumbra é o conjunto. Não dizes: gosto desta árvore mais que das outras. Não, cada livro em que entrava, tomava-o como algo único.1)

José Saramago

Outros cadernos de Saramago, blogue

His message in this document is about the power of literacy!

Among his enourmous work, he wrote one book for children "A Maior Flor do Mundo" (2002)

The video is a animated version (2007) of his book. He is narrated and featured by José Saramago himself and it has a spanish version. The book can be find here

The animated movie won the best prize at "Animation at Anchorage Internacional Film Festival". He also has been nominated for "Goya 2008" as short film.

His novel "Ensaio sobre a Cegueira" - Blindness was adaptated to a film (2008) by Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles,  Festival de Cannes 2008.

Perhaps two good suggestions to introduce Saramago at school's curriculum talking about Portuguese Literature, the first (k-12) the second (secondary school)


G-Souto

20.06.2010
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Happy New Year

New York City Ballets

Paul Kolnik 2009

New York Ballets

Paul Kolnik 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html

Mudar o mundo é mudar os ponteiros onde se marca o bem e o mal. Não quer dizer pô-los ao contrário, mas dar-lhes andamento certo.

A vontade de transformar o mundo. Desgraçado do povo que não compreende isso: ele não tem génio. E triste do poeta que não sente assim, porque ele não tem simpatia pela vida. 

 

Agustina Bessa-Luís*, Mudar o Mundo

Opera Omnia, Dicionário Imperfeito, 

Guimarães Editores, Lisboa, Junho 2008





To my friends and colleagues
May we take the time to let them know
How much it means to us
To have them in our lives.

Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2010!


G-Souto
31.12.2009
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* Agustina Bessa-Luis, the best portuguese woman writer talking about the gift of Humanity to change te world with poets and writers spreading the word.