obvious: perspectives

Christmas, spitted paper balls, French toast and a kiss

Christmas’ eve. Abundant and plenty food, à la Babette; truths hidden behind that skin-toned make-up base she bought at Avon catalogue. Written speeches and dismissals delayed to the second day of the next month. For Lucinda, Christmas could be resumed on a little ritual of intersected memories.

Why do we use Christmas lights?

by sergio coletto

Candles, electric lights, shining ribbons… Why do we have this need for lightning Christmas? There are ceremonies that can explain the reason why there are so many lightning façades during these celebrations. After all, we live on a time when we have to know how we can deal with Watts’ wasting inside our more-and-more eco-friendly world.

Christmas, Coke and Santa Claus

by rejane borges

As the time went by, the real Christmas spirit — something that no one can blame us for not knowing at all — was overshadowed by Santa Claus. Then, Santa Claus was overshadowed by a soft drink, what was also overshadowed later by polar bears. That’s the power of media, able to change concepts and get round purposes. That’s what obviously happens with Christmas.

José Saramago - memorial of a genius

by miguel oliveira

José Saramago died in June 18th, 2010. Nobel Prize for Literature, genius of words, master of the text. Controversy, communism, atheism. A tribute to a person who marked the history of universal literature, to someone who shake the basis of History and common sense, and brought a new sense to the world and to the human being. It’s a history about a life and an unlosable work, an “Elephant’s Journey”.

Natural Disasters -- The Great Flood of Paris

by cátia fernandes

We live on days with high frequency of violent storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods… Exactly a hundred and one years ago, in 1910, Paris live one of its most remarkable natural phenomena — the flood which let the City of Lights in the dark under the Seine River.

Before you die you want to...

by alexandre romero

For demystifying death, fructifying the love for live and people, the “Before I die I want to…” project, by the Americans Nicole Kennedy and K.S. Rives, comes to sight. Lives captured by Polaroid, expressed desires and an engagement filled with encouragement and hope. This is one of the most altruistic social initiatives of the latest times, a cause at the democratic existentialism which won’t let anybody remain impassive.

Famous People in Jail... For Great Reasons

by diana guerra

The prison isn’t filled just by bad boys. These rioters were behind the bars for great reasons… even if, initially, it didn’t looked like that.

eight years waiting for Venus

by tajana

Guillaume Le Gentil was born in 1725, in France. He almost followed the path of the religious life, but he became an astronomer -- a job for which patience is required. And he proved to be a master of this virtue. In 1761, he launched to Pondichéry, a port at Coromandel's coast, south-eastward India. The aim was proceed to an astronomical observation of the... Read more