I am back to school. Two weeks ago I started to participate in the Austin Samba School weekly meetings at a gymnasium located in the campus of a former Texas Insane Asylum now transformed into a State Hospital. The school is also known as The Acadêmicos da Ópera. It is a vibrant community of dancers…
One month ago, while visiting some friends in Prague, we ended experiencing what has been the hottest day the history of the city. For being more precise, we should say, it was the day (2012-08-20) where the highest temperature measured with scientific instruments has been recorded. The fact can be checked in the wikipedia entry…
After more than 30 years riding bicycles, I had my first collision with a pedestrian last Wednesday in a street at the UT-Austin campus. The crash was hard, and although no major injuries were reported, I am still feeling some pains in my neck, my left hip, my back, and my left shoulder. I was…
This is a project I have been working on for a couple of years, very informally, and without any pressure and consistence. Let’s say, it was more like an initial idea, a possibility for a creative and collaborative piece. The sign men dance project invites ordinary people with cameras (in any resolution and in any…
The terms art brut and outsider art, refer to the kind of art that is created outside the limits of the art world institutions and the official culture. Although there are little differences between the two terms, both are used to describe the practices of individuals such as metal illness patients in asylums (art brut)…
In our way from Berlin to Prague the GPS signal was lost. Strangely we entered a sort of unknown zone where we the Garmin e-Trex GPS devise couldn’t connect to more than two satellites and as a consequence couldn’t calculate the exact location. I wonder why central Europe seems to be a zone for difficult…