Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Hippo Pool

AVP - Kruger, South Africa, 2005

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A pearl from the ends of Africa. This "Scaterlings Of Africa" by south african Johnny Clegg, aka white Zulu, is a true journey through time and space, an african experience. Classic...

YouTube: "Johnny Clegg Scaterlings Of Africa"

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The Power of One (Original Theatrical Trailer)

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AVP - Kruger, South Africal - 2005

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Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Fab One

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Tuesday, 02 September 2014

Mozambique, 1955 ii

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From Peter Beard's first safari in Africa, more precisely in Mozambique.

Font: christies.com

More info:

Peter Beard + Quentin Keynes, Mozambique, 1955 

polaroid d'époque réhaussé 
signé, daté et inscrit à l'encre 
10.5 x 14.5 cm. (4 1/8 x 5¾ in.) 

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Thursday, 10 April 2014

Maputo

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Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Searching for Pancho

Architect, painter, sculptor, artist, portuguese, mozambican, whatever. A little of everything. Amancio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes aka Pancho Guedes, was born in Portugal in 1925 but it was in Africa that he left the vast majority of his work. In South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Angola but especially in Mozambique, where one can find numerous works. Most of them built in the 1950s and the 1960s in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo.

One of his most emblematic works, the residential building "O Leão que Ri" (transl. "The Lion Who Laughs"), 1956 , in Maputo , shows all his creative genius. I'm writing about it because of this video from Christopher Bisset titled "A Procura de Pancho" (transl. "The Search for Pancho"). A very well done mini documentary, where the south african student travels in Maputo in search of Pancho Guedes' work . A journey through the work of a single architect who has an equally singular work. One can breathe Maputo in every corner of the film...

*Images that follow below are all taken from the movie "A Procura de Pancho".

Prédio Abreu Santos e Rocha

Pormenor do Edifício "O Leão que Ri", Maputo

Apartamentos Prometheus

Pormenor do interior do Prédio Abreu Santos e Rocha

Padaria Saipal

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--------------------------------------- Crucify your mind - Rodriguez

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--------------------------------------- Hey Jude - The Beatles (1968)

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Monday, 24 February 2014

Beck is Back

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Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Secret Agent - Tony Allen

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Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Yes indeed

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Thursday, 02 September 2010

Noel Marshall 1931 - 2010

Tribute to Noel Marshall (April 18, 1931, Chicago -- June 30, 2010) He wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in the film Roar (1981), which also featured his then-wife Tippi Hedren, stepdaughter Melanie Griffith, and his sons Jerry and John from a previous marriage to Jaye Joseph. Roar was an accident-ridden film that featured tigers and lions. The film took eleven years and $17 million to make, and brought in only $2 million worldwide.
Marshall, who was married to Hedren from 1964 to 1982, was also an executive producer on two of her films, Mr. Kingstreet's War and The Harrad Experiment (both 1973). One of his later films where he was credited as executive producer was A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), starring River Phoenix. Previously he was executive producer of The Exorcist.
But his most remarkable film was undoubtedly 1981's Roar, a wildlife drama made whith his family and more than 100 lions, tigers, elephants and other wild animals. Both Marshall and Griffith were attacked by lions during filming.
A passion project or a personal folly on an epic scale, Roar was made over several years on the family ranch in California and advertised with the tagline: "There's never been a film like Roar - and there never will be again".
Marshall died of brain cancer on June 30, 2010.

(in News.Scotsman.com / Wikipedia)

Muisic by: Robert Hawk Florczak (Here we are in heden / Isn't it time) Roar the Soundtrack

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Friday, 09 April 2010

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Thursday, 08 April 2010

“A Ponte”

A great photo exhibition in Lisbon...

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AVP - Masai Mara, Quénia

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AVP - Samburu, Quénia

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AVP - Samburu, Quénia

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--------------------------------------- Pure magic

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--------------------------------------- Man versus elephants

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Wednesday, 07 April 2010

Life is just what happens to you,

While your busy making other plans,

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--------------------------------------- Pink Floyd

AVP - Lake Nakuru, Quénia

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AVP - Murchison Falls, Uganda

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--------------------------------------- Oil in Uganda: a blessing or a curse?

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--------------------------------------- Sudanese serengeti

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--------------------------------------- Generuk

AVP - Samburu, Quénia

Generuk, in Somali means "giraffe's neck."

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AVP - Lake Mburu, Uganda

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AVP - Murshison Falls, Uganda

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AVP - Murchison Falls, Uganda

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Wednesday, 03 March 2010

Hippopotamus Garden

AVP

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WWF

Fashion claims more victims than you think

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AVP - Masai Mara, Kenya, 2009

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Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you - ya
Standin' on your mama's porch

You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69

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AVP - Mombassa - Nairobi, Kenya, 09

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Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Lion charge

Pena não termos tido esta animação toda quando lá tivemos e demos um passeio despreocupado pelo meio do Kruger, certo Lebres?

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Monday, 22 February 2010

The New South Africa

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