"You're still ok for time, right?"

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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” E.E. Cummings

 

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... HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID!

 

Galeria de Heróis Will to Improve: Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai

Inicio hoje a Galeria de Heróis Will to Improve.

Pessoas que demonstraram uma vontade inabalável no avanço da Civilização e do Conhecimento Humano.

Pessoas que estariam dispostas a dar a própria vida, ou a deram, para que a Humanidade evolua. Pessoas que lutaram contra o obscurantismo em qualquer das suas formas.

Malala Yousafzai, paquistanesa de 14 anos baleada por talibãs porque queria ir à escola e aprender, simboliza bem a nossa luta contra o obscurantismo religioso e merece sem dúvida abrir esta galeria.
 

"Malala Yousafzai, de 14 anos, é hoje um símbolo de coragem. Foi baleada porque foi à escola, desobedecendo às ordens talibãs. Depois de uma cirurgia de sucesso, esta quarta-feira, Malala luta agora pela vida, enquanto as ruas do Paquistão e as redes sociais do Mundo condenam o ataque. O pior ainda não passou: se sobreviver, os talibãs prometem tentar matá-la novamente."

 

Ver notícia aqui e mais informação aqui.

 

Yes we can be heroes.

 

We can beat them, for ever and ever

 

 

Can you hear me, commander Neil?

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

Neil Armstrong

 

Rise heroes, rise!

 

Nicolas Silberfaden - From the series Impersonators 

"Due to the current economic, social and cultural crisis in The United States of America today, I have decided to do a photographic project consisting of a series of studio portraits of superhero and celebrity impersonators that live and work in the city of Los Angeles. Most of them unemployed Americans, they decided to suit up with their costumes and hit the streets, animate parties and events in efforts to make ends meet. Making them pose in their costumes against a colorful backdrop, I ask them to manifest feelings of genuine sadness – honest emotions that are a consequence of our current times. The result is a somber, striking visual image that contradicts the iconic nature of strength and moral righteousness typical in American superhero and celebrity imagery. Creating the illusion that Superman does exist – that he too was fallible and affected by America’s downturn." 

Los Angeles, CA. 2011