The reason why I cannot communicate with non-set people anymore...

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During a re-lighting the DP and the Camera Operator end up arguing. The DP says sex is 90% work and only 10% pleasure. The Operator argues the opposite: 90% pleasure and 10% work.

They can't agree, so seek a 3rd party to arbitrate. The only person around is the Loader. They ask him his opinion. He asks them if he could speak freely, and they tell him to go ahead.

He answers, "Well, if you really ask my opinion, I'd say it's all pleasure, for if there was any work connected with it, you'd have me doing it!"

Mart Weiss

Snif

Strawberry Love

pic credits: Sara Galvao, May 2009

He was kinda like always
Little boy's freckles
Not so perfect smile
Eyes algae grass sea
And I don't know why
I that danced on that eyes' grass
I that embraced the leaves and branches of that look
I that swam and held my breath not to hurt his iris
And when I came up to catch my breath and good cheer and love pomegranates apples
Strawberries
I found him wallowing
In the darkness of my eyes.

Sara C

A bit of poetry from Halina Poswiatowska

Photo copyright:Demonmiss27, 'Lonely Rose', Deviantart

share with me
the daily bread of my loneliness
fill with your presence
the absent walls
gild
the nonexistent window
be a door
above all a door
which can be thrown
wide open

Some random things i've learned so far in London

1. Schneider lens!!!
2. The circle of confusion!!!
3. Kelly calculator!!!!
4. SD card!!!!

Photo no. 3: the busy life of a film student...

And this is what came with it...

The most travelled Chocapic Box in the whole World

Thanks to Sininho. .D

(I thought seriously of waiting till Saturday and go to Westminster take a photo of the box next to Big Ben, but... nahhh...)

Please, Gods!!!! I've a shooting!!!!

And it's been three weeks...

copyright Sara Galvao 2009

Am I enjoying myself? Well, I think I'm starting to. I mean, it's not like it's been all partying and having fun, but I feel getting used to the city and its lovely from-all-over-the-world inhabitants. Plus, so far the school has been quite exciting, and I really feel I'm learning loads of things, most of them very useful for my future. These week while hearing about Avid non-linear system I was wondering how perceptive was Fernando Pessoa when he wrote: Primeiro estranha-se, depois entranha-se. Yes, I know he was speaking of Coca-Cola, but he also had the experience of changing from one country to another, so he knew what he was speaking. Though I never felt that an alien here. I mean, it was my dream since I was twelve, it is like I already know the city by heart (well, the most touristic areas, anyway), but apart from the strange concept of good food that they have, is quite homely around. People are nicer than one could thought about, if you keep an eye for bargains you can even spend less in food and other stuff than I would in Portugal, and the respect they have for culture and nature is quite inspiring. Going to the park just to read is not being nerd around here, it's being NORMAL. And I love to feel normal once in a while, thank you a lot. :D

Sun in the streets of London....

copyright Sara Galvao 2009

I really, really must visit Scotland...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090402/tuk-snap-we-ve-got-a-ghost-photo-too-6323e80.html

Things I just LOOOOVE, here

1. Film schoooool
2. Charity shooooops
3. Marylaaaand biscuits
4. Blueberry muffins & cheaper doughnuts
5. Cheaper MacDonalds
6. Cheaper Internet (I mean, at home, in cyber cafes it's too way expensive)
7. Redhaired boys
8. The accent, my dear
9. Parks, huge parks
10. Plain streets
11. Museums, galleries and so on
12. The price of books
13. Free events
14. Squirrels and ducks
15. The five-minute sun moments
16. The riverside
17. Bargain hunting
18. Coats & any clothes in general you can imagine
19. People just don't care what you're wearing (a great opportunity to try on strange clothes)
20. Red buses!!!!

Things I do kinda miss from Portugal...

1. COFFEE, DECENT COFFEE
2. My family (ok, they should be the first item, but it's for the joke's sake...). Note: My family includes, of course, Dumas. :D
3. Internet piracy!!!!!
4. Good weather. Yeap, I know. But here it's never COLD enough, only rains...
5. Cheap raw beef.
6. Cheaper fruit.
7. Friends and so on.
8. Marco d'Almeida.
9. Crappy television. Here it's not crappy enough, just weirder.
10. Decent, well made food in general.
11. Normal traffic.
12. Milk that doesn't taste sweeter than sugar or fruitier than an apple.
13. Zebras and traffic walking lights that are understandable.
14. Garbage bins in the street.
15. Cheaper transportation, specifically trains.
16. Non-brick houses
17. Name streets that don't just vary st., ave., cl., rd., etc etc
18. Typical pastries...
19. Malls, big malls and supermarkets where you can buy anything within the same place
20. Chocapic!!!!

The truth, and nothing more than the truth (so I marry Clive Owen)

Day one, 14th October

1. Ratatuille is not that bad, after all...
2. Too many people in the train at 5 am, I'm afraid
3. Lovely comfy chairs at the Porto Airport.
4. Stansted is ugly and small. Weather: windy. Looking for the best coach deal to go to London . Terravista chosen. 14 pounds, both ways. The woman in the attendance was Welsh, or something. Hard time understanding unheard accents.
5. Easybus: 13 pounds, both ways. Damn!

6. One hour to reach the Big Smoke. Excited, but sleepy. Security rules? Why? What for? Security belts? Argh?

7. (one hour after) I think we're not in Kansas anymore...
8. Is THIS London?
9. You're f*cking kidding
10. This looks like any English city, whatsoever. Give me proof.
11. Look, there's a miniature of the Tower of London outside! Wow. Like Portugal dos Pequenitos in Coimbra. They're doing some building work there, though.
12. Wait a second... THAT IS THE TOWER OF LONDON! MY CAMERA, MY KINGDOM FOR MY CAMERA!
13. Tower Bridge, we're passing the Tower Bridge! I'm feeling excited!!!!!
14. Tate Britain, we've just passed Tate Britain! STOP THE COUCH!
15. Where the hell is Big Ben?
16. There it is... wait. No. False alarm.
17. I always though Big Benjamin to be like Eiffel Tower. You see it everywhere, wherever you are.
18. London Eye? London Eye! So WHERE THE F*CK is Big Ben?
19. BIG BEN!!! Photo, photo, photo! Flash, flash, flash!
20. Victoria Coach Station. Out and to Victoria Train Station. Out and to Victoria Underground Station. I think we're lost... where is the pub?
21. Shakespeare Pub (how appropriate!), drinking a terrible hot chocolate.
22. Daniel came and picked us up. Let's meet our room for the stay.
23. Meeting Alex and going out for a walk to... Covent Garden. ;D
24. Buckingham Palace. Who cleans this place?
25. St. James Park.
26. SQUIRRELS! LOADS OF FLUFFY SQUIRRELS!
27. Green Park and the Mall
28. Trafalguar Square. National Portrait Gallery. LET ME IN!!!!!
29. Picadilly. Wow. Everything is so smaller than it looks in the postcards...
30. Covent Garden. There are the musicians! And more building work. Gosh...
31. Cheap pizza. I think I can be happy here...
31. Looked like Daniel Radcliffe, but it's impossible.
32. Leicester Square. The premiere place. Odeon and stuff. Hum...
33. Going home to take some rest
34. Going out to meet the night life. The Roxy, at the Soho. New scheme to ride the bus without paying.
35. Great alternative music became boring electro. Let's go home to sleep... tomorrow I must do some DIY cultural tourism...

Trouble in the streets of London...

Well, how well did I do in my first visit to the Big Smoke? Not that well, I'm afraid. First of all, that city is f*cking big. Thank the gods it's plain, so you can walk everywhere, and if you're a sadistic as myself, you can try to go Victoria Station - Tate Modern in the morning, and then back (for lunch at the Victoria's Subway - which ISN'T the Underground), and then catch the bus to the British Museum (Tottenham Court Rd), then spend one and a half our inside looking at the mummies, catch the bus again to Notting Hill, walk all the way through Portobello Rd, and then decide to come back to Victoria by the Hyde Park. Then you'll know how mad I am.

And never, never, never, start eating cookies on Hyde Park. Take a close look to the geese & ducks. They're dangerous. They have teeth.

New Times Ahead

(no, it ain't the tagline for the new Potter...)

After www.saricesartisticas.blogspot.com, I decided to close it (after all, it was my university life blog, and I'm not there anymore... - easy on the copyright, Todd Haynes...)

And 'cause a new life has just begun (I hope), or is about to (next week my first time in London, then on March I'll close my old blog and open this one, officially), well... what the heck.