perspectives

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  obvious magazine

  Abandoned places - the planet without us

  Mill - Sorrento , Italy Have you ever wondered how would be the planet without humans? Parted some photographs that summarize well as an environment would be abandoned by the people but partially consumed by nature. Check out:...
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  marisa figueiredo

  Christmas table: from codfish to Eggnog

  Christmas is a time to reunite the family, but also a synonym of great meals and special traditions. Turkey surely has a distinct place throughout the world, mainly because of North-American influence. And the candies are a sweet temptation for those who can resist during an entire year. Well, who can say no to a Christmas pudding, corn-bread, egg lamprey and milk pudding?...
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  diana ribeiro

  The tree, the crèche and the Christmas spirit

  The streets are ornamented with uncountable lights. Commercial centers are overcrowded by people carrying bags and offers for relatives and friends. Santa Clauses multiplied for everywhere, followed by Christmas sounds. The Christmas tree and the crèche are common at this time -- but you're mistaken if you think you know everything about them....
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  rejane borges

  Naked girls reading: a book club for voyeurs?

  Reading is a pleasure, but there's nothing more annoying than a book club -- appointments when literary friends sit down, drinking a cup of tea and discharging intellectual observations about a certain kind of text. There are also torturing read out sessions. So, let's imagine an alternative available for this monotone program: a kind of book club which could be more intimate and relaxed: all its members would be...
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  isabella kantek

  Christmas, spitted paper balls, French toast and a kiss

  Lucinda takes the bumble gum off her mouth and glues the cardboard slab at the telephone booth's doors. "Busy". The record starts as the recorder is on. "Lorena, December 24, 1994". She was afraid of Christmas. And their fragile glass ornaments. And the turkey sat on the stainless tray and the ham with pineapple. And the sensation that joy last a little bit longer than a champagne glass (or...
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  sergio coletto

  Why do we use Christmas lights?

  The first registers of Christmas celebration go back to 336 AC, when Catholic Church, instead of prohibiting pagan festivities, converted them into Christian ones. The origin of what we now know as Christmas was placed upon the Sol Invictus -- a bunch of gods that were taken as the supreme divinity of Roman Empire....
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  rejane borges

  Christmas, Coke and Santa Claus

  In my family we were used to celebrate Christmas like the old times. It was quite predictable, as we went to church to pray, celebrate Jesus Christ's birth, watch the Christmas cantata, give a hug on friends... Then we got back home, and a comforting cozy-and-festive weather was waiting for us. That was Christmas like it was used to be, like we learned that it should be. There was...
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  miguel oliveira

  José Saramago - memorial of a genius

  José Saramago died in June 18th, 2010. We don't know if he had or not an appointment with God in Heaven, Hell or at the "disqualified Purgatory"; but we're definitely sure they both had to come to terms with the past. As a confirmed atheist, José Saramago has God as one of the fetish-subjects of his works. He liked to talk to Him, dissertating about his terrestrial representations with...
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  cátia fernandes

  Natural Disasters -- The Great Flood of Paris

  There are lots of advantages for Paris on being strategically placed on what concerns with Seine River -- but this location also turns it vulnerable to the freaks of Nature and its river... Just like what happened on January 1910. Seine River, apparently calm and controlled, is responsible for occasional floods at its sides, and turns Paris into a vulnerable point to the rising waters. It's no wonder why...
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  alexandre romero

  Before you die you want to...

  During our own lives, we watch an uncountable number of people passing us by. And, from them, we always take a vague trace of their inner battles. Mankind are always those who aren't close to us, more distant than the others, and the human being will always be some kind of rhetoric question that moves us everyday, building our individuality and becoming each of us unique....
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  diana guerra

  Famous People in Jail... For Great Reasons

  Nor everybody who is in jail are chronic riots: there were rebels with cause who were confused with bad boys for their contemporaries. From Nelson Mandela to Rosa Parks....
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  tajana

  eight years waiting for Venus

  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 transit of Venus -- a...
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  revista speculum

  Brief history of porn cinema - #2

  Those were the moments of expansion and definition of dogmas and clichés. Anal, orgies, gang bang, double penetration, the facials, gape and the importation of bukkake (with Japanese origin) dominated the way of telling the story. Movies like Deep Throat and Emmanuelle are part of the Bible of the current genre. With this, Europe -- with its Le ore, from Italy -- and Japan -- with its Joshikosei --...
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  revista speculum

  Brief history of porn cinema - #1

  When someone talks about sex with artistic tenor, the question concerning pornography and eroticism comes up to the mind of any person interested on this kind of debate. What would be eroticism? What would be pornography? Uncountable answers always come up, and the most common of them is the direct reference to the explicit in order to label pornography. The etymology of those words also helps to create a...
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  tajana

  Mathias Rust - the fall of an angel

  On May, 1987, happened one of those little facts which seems to provide a concrete shape to certain wishes and yearnings of the populations -- even if they are badly defined, still without the precise words or images. A symbolic and real action, at the same time, was required to make people say: that's what we needed, that's it! And he came as a crazy and incredible feat, rather...
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  rita novaes

  Public urinals: an art about to be extinct

  Paradoxically, my approach will be applied on a masculine perspective, once the object I intend to tack about the public urinal -- a masculine stuff. This equipment appeared on France on the 19th century, as it seems. As the time went by, its use was extended to the European cities and, subsequently, to the American continent. During a long time, it was a kind of urban symbol of civilization...
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  priscilla santos

  Evil Disney #2

  When the children are reunited around the fire in Peter Pan in order to learn about the North-American Indians history, we receive a beautiful explanation about the Redskins. Why do the natives say "how"? According to the song, it's because they're keen to learn (how? how?). That's ok. Why are their skins red? Let's talk about birth myths: once upon a time, a young native girl kissed a white...
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  priscilla santos

  Evil Disney #1

  In November 18, 2008, Mickey Mouse, the greatest Disney symbol, completed 80 years with suitable healthy. The octogenarian celebration happens in the middle of a hard work by the company in order to recover its image of beauty, fantasy and, mainly, good moral lesson brought by its works. Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, for example, stars of its channel, have been noticed by their scandals. High School Musical, for...
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  priscilla santos

  Face your pockets: belongings and its owners

  It's a full-of-meaning simple purpose: what do we have forgotten or lost inside our pockets? What these small (or not too small) pieces speak about who we are, our tastes and our quotidian? Through "Face your Pockets", those people and their little details are highlighted, helping to tell a little bit about the life of hundreds of people and their cultures at the native countries....
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  benjamin júnior

  Barbie Foot: female soccer tables

  The DMY internacional design festival is an event destined to new design talents. The 7th edition, which happened on June 2009 in Berlin, brought, as always, very surprising, keen and interesting projects. We won't speak about them here because they were sufficiently published. We will talk about a common object creatively reivented with a huge ammount of humor: the soccer tables. A young French designer had the original idea...
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  priscilla santos

  Away from the usual: new models for business cards

  The first calling cards appeared in France during the govern of the King Louis XIV, known as "Sun King", and they were, in fact, playing cards where people could write the name of the place where you could find them. As the time gone by, the idea was developed -- someone must have thought that wouldn't by worthy to have some playing cards missing in the game and created...
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  benjamin júnior

  The longest name

  Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. Don't even try to pronounce it. This huge word is written in Maori -- and it could refer to something noble and magnificent, as a splendid palace or an omnipotent god of an ancient civilization. But it is just the name of a small hill which lies at Hawke Bay, in New Zealand. Are you upset?...
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  benjamin júnior

  Meat balls grill

  This little kitchenware allows a new approach concerning about preparing meat balls, traditionally cooked in sauce. Thanks to it, you can cook them on coals, out of doors -- something forbidden to these delicious delicacies....
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  priscilla santos

  Quantae - unconscious particles

  Quantum is a concept used by the Quantum Physics and by the Quantum Mechanics to denominate the minor, the indivisible part of a quantitative phenomenon that, even small, keeps all the characteristics of that same phenomenon....
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  revista homem

  House (and others) -- Simpsons version

  Dr. House and Indiana Jones The Canadian Dean is a huge fan of Simpsons and many other things linked with the pop culture, as comics and series. But, besides, he is a talented guy who decided to create a blog where he can transport his favorite stars and heroes to illustrated characters in the Homer style. Yellow skin, big eyes and hands with four fingers!...
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  benjamin júnior

  Could Krakatau erupt again?

  The Krakatau, located on the islands of Java and Sumatra, in Indonesia, exploded with surprising violence on the 27th of August 1883. Reports at the time mentioned that for a day, rocks, lava and large columns of smoke were projected to high altitudes, followed by deafening explosions that could be heard thousands of kilometers away. Several tsunamis ensued, with waves that could reach up to 40 meters in height...
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  benjamin júnior

  Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons 2009

  One of the biggest hot air balloons gatherings takes place in France, every two years: the Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons. This year's edition was held last July 26th and boasted the presence of 329 aircrafts that filled the skies with multi-colored dots. It was their biggest take off ever! A few photographers captured some amazing pictures from the event....
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  benjamin júnior

  Photographs of clouds

  Looking at clouds and finding in them shapes seems to be very usual. We can all see in them what our imagination wants, although there are clouds that strongly resemble certain shapes and it takes little effort to see them. There are also clouds that are so unusual that they intrigue us. Some people see them as signs of UFOs or as messages from the beyond and wish to...
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  benjamin júnior

  Saint Martin Airport

  Saint Martin is an island with around 87 Km2 of area, located in the Caribbean’s. In spite of its small size, it is shared by two nations, the Northern part belonging to France and the southern section belonging to the Netherlands. It is therefore called Sint Maarten, in Dutch. But these geographical peculiarities are not what makes this island special, but rather its famous Princess Juliana International Airport, known...
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  benjamin júnior

  Massages for ocular fatigue decrease

  The intensive use of computer is a theme which starts worrying the most developed societies. In the last years, it highly increased the malefic ocular consequences caused by exhaustion. Once upon a time -- at least for some of us -- the cathode ray monitors (CRT) bombarded our eyes with a bunch of electrons. Although the popular "television" has always been connected to the computer, it seems that, luckily,...