Mostra de Cinema e Video de Peter Brook

by Pedro Silva on January 14th, 2009

Godard provocou uma revolução no cinema quando demonstrou quão relativa pode ser a realidade de uma cena captada. Gerações de realizadores desenvolveram leis para a continuidade e regras para a consistência, com o objectivo de salvaguardar a realidade de uma acção contínua, mas Godard mostrou que essa realidade era apenas uma convenção falsa e retórica.

Ao captar uma cena para imediatamente destruír a sua verdade aparente, ele abriu uma brecha na ilusão morta para permitir uma corrente de impressões contraditórias.

in ”O Espaço Vazio”, 1968

Peter Brook

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De 27 a 31 de Janeiro de 2008 no Espaço Land

Tha Beggar´s Opera, 1953
Dia 27 Janeiro, 21:00h, duração: 1:30h

Lord Of the Flies, 1963
Dia 28 Janeiro, 21:00h, duração: 1:27h

The Marat/Sade, 1966
Dia 29 Janeiro, 21:00h, duração: 2:00h

King Lear, 1970
Dia 30 Janeiro, 21:00h, duração: 2:12h

The Mahabharata, 1989
Dia 31 Janeiro, 18:00h, duração: 5:12h

info: www.landterritorio.com

Japanese mythology

by Pedro Silva on March 12th, 2007

Picture: The Sun goddess emerging out of a cave, bringing sunlight back to the universe. Amaterasu (incarnation of the sun) from his left eye.

Japanese mythology is a very complex system of beliefs that embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion.The Shinto pantheon alone boasts an uncountable number of kami (Japanese for “gods” or “spirits“). The typical elements present in Occidental mythology such as cosmogony are important deities and the most well-known Japanese stories.

Mainstream Japanese myths, as generally recognized today, are based on the Kojiki, Nihonshoki and some complementary books. The Kojiki or “Record of Ancient Things” is the oldest recognized book of myths, legends, and history of Japan. The Shintoshu explains origins of Japanese deities from a Buddhist perspective while the Hotsuma Tsutae records a substantially different version of mythology.

One notable result of Japanese mythology is that it explains the origin of the Imperial family, and assigned them godhood. The Japanese word for the Emperor of Japan, tennō (天皇), means “heavenly emperor“.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mythology

Rocketeers

by Pedro Silva on January 16th, 2007

The rocket belt. It’s an enduring icon of the techno-utopian world of tomorrow we once imagined. For more than 75 years, the personal jetpack’s presence in comics, films, TV, books—you name it—has made us dream of being rocketeers, able to zoom around town like Superman without a cape.

In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, the Army began experimenting with a personal jetpack for the troops based on designs by Wendell F. Moore, the recognized father of the modern rocket belt. Moore’s company, Bell Aerosytems, was contracted to build the early prototypes, and using mostly off-the-shelf hardware, the “modern” rocket belt was born.

Unfortunately, at over one hundred twenty pounds and capable of only 21.5 seconds of flight time these rocketbelts were more useful in low-budget sci-fi movies than in the global battle against Communism. But, for about a decade, there were dozens of demonstration flights aimed at allowing soldiers to leap over rivers or scale enemy buildings with a single bound!

It’s not hard to see why the Army eventually lost interest, but, a few diehard pilots did keep the faith. In September of 2006 they gathered in Niagara Falls, NY for the first convention dedicated to the past, and future, of the rocket belt. WIRED SCIENCE dropped in to meet them.

See more in: www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/vaporware.html

www.planetgeek.org

by Pedro Silva on January 9th, 2007

O blog da ludologia foi ontem convidado a juntar-se ao projecto www.planetgeek.org, um agregador de blogs sobre tecnologia. Convite aceite com a maior satisfação e assim temos uma representação que envolve os estudo do jogo (videojogo em particular) na blogosesfera tecnológica.

Pedro Silva