Repetition Works

"Repetition works, and stickers are a perfect medium to demonstrate this principle. As long as stickers are being put up faster than they weather or are cleaned, they are accumulating. For cities, it is a constant maintenance battle. Simple fact is, it’s a lot easier to put stickers up than to clean them off."

Shepard Fairey

To Own Is Not Enough

«A capitalist is not someone who simply owns machines, but someone who owns machines, deploys those machines in a production process, hires owners of labour power to use them, directs the process by which the machines are used to produce things, and appropriates the profits from the use of those machines. A collector of machines is not, by virtue of owning those machines, a capitalist. To count as a class relation it is therefore not sufficient that there be unequal rights and powers over the sheer possession of a resource. There must also be unequal rights and powers over the appropriation of the results of the use of that resource.»

Erik Olin Wright

Aeroporto de Lisboa há poucas horas

:D Para sempre no coração, até breve Punk Angel! =)

Big Tie, Small Tie

A primeira gravata foi retirada de um estêncil grande.
A segunda, de um estêncil pequenino (já bastante usado).

Both of these ties are quite fashionable, don't you think? ;)

Terminal Illness

“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness -- if you had little time left to live -- you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you... you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason -- or you will never be at all.”

Dan Millman

Actuar de forma inmediata sin censuras

"El término arte urbano funciona como un cajón de sastre que reune corrientes de actuación muy diferentes en origen, forma e intención. Desde el juego competitivo y sectario del graffiti hasta formas de arte abiertas al público general [...].
El punto común de estas diferentes corrientes se encuentra en que ocurren en el espacio público y por iniciativa exclusiva del artista, sin el control de ninguna institución. La adopción de esta metodología supone ventajas e inconvenientes: por un lado implica renunciar a los presupuestos del arte público y a operar en la ilegalidad, que conlleva persecución y precariedad. Pero, por otro, permite actuar de forma inmediata, sin esperas burocráticas, y contar lo que se quiera, sin filtros ni censuras."

Javier Abarca

Tout change

"Le changement est constant. C'est important de voir le changement. Tu fais une peinture un jour dans la rue et la fois d'après c'est différent ou ce n'est plus là. C'est quelque chose de changeant, ce n'est pas poli ou fini, comme une toile encadrée dans une galerie. Ça change tout le temps et ça ne restera jamais pour toujours. C'est aussi gratuit, immédiat et accessible. Quand je fais quelque chose sur un mur, je prends une photo mais c'est comme un cadeau que je fais à la rue, une relation et une collaboration avec l'environnement. Les gens passent et voient la pièce par chance. C'est comme la musique; tu peux acheter le CD ou télécharger le morceau, mais c'est toujours une expérience plus riche d'écouter et de voir la musique live."

"Change is constant. It's important to see change. You pass a painting one day in a street and next time it's different or it has gone. It's a changing thing, it's not polished or finished, like a framed canvas in galleries. It's always changing and it's never gonna stay forever. Also, it's free, immediate and accessible. When I do something in a wall, I'll take a picture but it's like a gift to the street, a relationship and collaboration with the environnement. People pass by and see the piece by chance. It's like music; you can buy the CD or get the download, but it's usually a richer experience to hear and see the music live."

David Shillinglaw

The Power of the Senses

Through the power of the senses there are no ordinary moments.

Uniquement les lettrages

"On aime le street art pour son côté sympa et consensuel alors que le graffiti a une mauvaise presse, les gens qui osent ne sont toujours pas acceptés. D'ailleurs les Américains appellent graffiti uniquement les lettrages, tout le reste est appelé street art. Il y a encore des gens dans le milieu de l'art qui refusent d'entendre parler du graffiti comme mouvement artistique et comme moyen d'expression à part entière. La plupart des artistes s'investissent à 100% dans le graffiti, vivent avec peu de moyens et voyagent beaucoup."

"People love street art for its nice and consensus side while graffiti has still a bad reputation, artists are not accepted. Besides Americans call graffiti only letters, everything else is called street art. Many people in art don't recognize graffiti as a real mean of expression. Most artists live for their art with few money and travel a lot."

Monsieur Plume

Rendidos à ditadura

"O projecto do mercado comum, tal como nos foi apresentado, é baseado no liberalismo clássico do século XIX, segundo o qual a concorrência pura e simples resolve todos os problemas. A abdicação de uma democracia pode assumir duas formas: o recurso a uma ditadura interna, transferindo todos os poderes para um homem providencial, ou a delegação de poderes para uma autoridade externa, que, em nome da técnica, exercerá na realidade o poder político, uma vez que, sob pretexto de uma economia sã, acabará por ditar a política monetária, orçamental, social e, em última instância, a política no sentido mais alargado do termo, nacional e internacional."

Pierre Mendès-France, 1957, citado por Aurélien Bernier, Désobéissons à l’Union Européene, 2011, p. 25.

Summer Fishing

Umas poucas horas de pesca com x-ato na mão.

Life is simple: it just takes patience and time. And a sharp scalpel.