Jo Totes

Today the delivery man got me my Jo Totes bag! Also, today I'm waiting for my new Tamron lens, and I wasn't expecting the bag untill next wee so the delivery man has no ideia how he brightened up my day!

Wishlist

It's time for the Wishlist of the year, since my big Birthday is next month, and it is big due to the fact I'm turning 24 on the 24th of November! =D I want to do something diferent, something remarkable... I better not make plans too early. We'll see.

So let's get started.

I just finished reading "The Virgin's Lover", by Philippa Gregory. I'm in love with her writing and her ability of turning a true story into a beautiful romantic masterpiece, as it should be.

Because of that, I want all os the Tudor novels she wrote! (I've got "The Virgin's Lover" and "The Boleyn Inheritance")

The Other Queen


The Other Boleyn Girl


The Constant Princess


The Queen's Fool



Still, in the Tudor theme... All the "The Tudors" 4 seasons are welcome in my collection.



Do you know I have a weakness for little notebooks? Well... now you know. Any shape, any kind, any color. You name it.







Lace clothing. Classic, vintage, fit for a princess of the new and old times.







Classy/vintage/hardcore/pretty jewelry. It's never enough.





A camera bag from Jo Totes (that is already on it's way!)




Tangled merchandise. Can't help it... That's how much I love it.





I still got a lot to see in London... I want to go back there.




Toronto, Canada. Because I miss my family and I want to know more about the city.




Ink





Tamron 17-50mm. I can't wait to have this baby...




Left 4 Dead 2. Yes, I played it already. And I still want the official.




People. Please get me (or tell me where can I get... whatever) the Debra Morgan's sunglasses! I'm desperatly looking for some like these for so long.



And, obviously, some ShatTards merch! It would be lovely to have these 2 pieces... here is where you can find: Shay Carl Merch





And now I'll dream a little bit, ok?


XBOX 360. Please?




A Macbook Pro. My HP is almost retiring...



And that's all! It's not asking too much, is it? Oh... by the way, in my BDay I better see floating lights somehow! I don't care where... but I have to see them.

Bruno Ázera interviewed me

I had fun with this interview. It actually helped me know me a little more, about my convictions and what I am all about. Enjoy!

Click here to read my interview, by Bruno Ázera.

Warning: It's in Portuguese, but if you'd like to read it I'd gladly translate. Just ask.

October

October finally arrived and I'm still looking for an internship, or a job, here in Lisbon. For Christ's sake, is it this hard? Now I understand why people are so upset about it, specially recently graduated people.

I took a new self portrait today. The last one was taken in August so it was about time and for some reason this week I got inspired, so today was the day. I was supposed to play a little bit with manipulation on photoshop, and try to make some fairy dust around my figure but it came all crappy because the background wasn't dark enough and it would look really awkward if the dust was in color. So I just decided to add some kind of black smoke and that's it. I was satisfied with the result, even though I didn't put much thought into it.

Today I was approached by Bruno Ázera (click to visit his website) for an interview, since he is going to start interviewing photographers and I was glad to know I'll be the first one and I'm excited! It might be a little thing, but for me it is huge and I thank him for this opportunity.

My freaking birthday is next month already! I'll be 24 in the 24th! How cool is that. So... being my bday next month it means that I should be looking for a whishlist by now, and I already am. So in a few days I'll post it, like I do every year. (Oh my god! I just remembered of the floating lights that Rapunzel sees every year on her birthday! haha I'm getting obcessed... I should stop.)

That's it for now. Bye.

This is beautiful to me

"“Elizabeth tipped her head back at him, her dark eyes trusting, her mouth starting to curve upwards in a smile. “Yours?”
“Mine”, he said certainly and his mouth came down on hers and he kissed her deeply.”

“The Virgin’s Lover”, by Philippa Gregory.

Going back and my ancestors

I'm going back to my place in Lisbon tomorrow (wich is today... since it's 1.am already, blehh..), and flying in the 11th of September is kinda creey. Just sayin'...
Another summer break passed by, and it happened so fast that I still haven't knowledge it that well. I can't believe we're in September and a whole other season, a diferent one, is waiting for me. God permit that I succeed finding an internship, at least, or it would be awesome to get a job right away. But oh well... these times are harder than ever. Oh and may my research for my thesis goes well! I'm scared to death but excited about it at the same time.

One thing I always miss once I go back to Lisbon is the Azorean sunset... I never get tired of the amazing colors that it provides to the azorean people. These little details... people should be thankfull for them. I know I am...





Another super cool thing that I found this summer was that my dad's uncle and aunt have been keeping this pretty old photograph, taken probably in the 1910's (not sure). This is my great-grandfather's family, while he was still in the USA. Words cannot express the amount of feeling I had while looking at this photograph for the first time, the original frame on the wall!
We see a lot of old pictures online and stuff and feel amazed, wondering about the story behing it. But when we get to see the original with over a 100 years old, right in front of us, with our ancestors in it, it's a whole other feeling.

So to keep that image forever and ever for me and my family I took a picture of it and restouched it on photoshop, just to delete some mold spots and stuff but it's really well preserved for it's age, believe me.

So... my great-grandfather is the guy standing, in the right. The rest are his brothers and sisters (except the lady standing next to him, she's a cousin), and his parents. How cool is that!

Summer of 11 and self portraiture

I miss blogging about random stuff that no one cares about. I miss picking up my camera and carry it with me everywhere I go to shoot at random stuff. I miss the simple things, the pieces that when get together makes me who I am. I miss that. Among other things...

Stop the anger, the madness. Stop the hatred. Stop a whole class of bad feelings about someone, denegrating and destroying who you are and come clean. Just stop.

Anyways... basicly this summer has been good so far. It's been a hot summer, which means, a lot of beach time for me. I also have been doing some research on subjects about my thesis theme, and it's been fantastic finding the amount of information I gathered, and the number of diferent aspects about it. I couldn't be more excited and satisfied about it.

I also took another self portrait, and found a really good compilation of probably the first self portraits in photography history, which I found very fascinating and inspiring. Feel free to take a look and click HERE.

My favourite will have to be the first photographic self portrait ever taken! It's not in the compilation but there's the artist, by the name of Robert Cornelius. The year is 1832 and to me it's a perfect portrait.



Isn't it amazing?