Complaint about restriction areas.

Mr. Steve Jobs

CEO Apple and Pixar Animation.

Last month, I bought an iPad device. It´s amazing, I love the gadget and start to use it to do me things, surfing in the internet, read books, magazines and a lot of things that is really nice to do using this beautiful device.

But after some days, I discovered that for some things, my region (Brazil) is not able to do things, like download the movies or games. This thing really bothers me. I tried call to Aplle and talk about my problem, but they not hear-me and I was very upset.

I would like to know why the region is so important? Why the persons that live in Argentina could download the games and we here in Brazil cannot?

I am very disappointed with the Apple Store. They need to change the way of sell things and do not use more restrictions areas.

Anderson Rabelo

Curitiba, Brazil

Workaholic.

Michael is the most creative person that I know. He think very fast, and implement their ideas very fast also. When you not understand what he is saying, he stop and start explain with another point of view. You always understand what he say and what is the meaning of their thought.

At school, he does not a very applied student, their grades were normal, but when he likes some subject, until the professor he left behind. Michael works as an designer and his work is very ordered. He normally arrives late at work, and likes leave early, but if is necessary deliver some work, he spend the day and night working and goes home only after the product is ready.

Michael love computers and he likes to play games in front of the screen. He play many hours, and sometimes he lost the time to wake-up to start to work. If he could, probably he would work at home. Since I known him, he never request vacation, he is always ready to work. He is the most work-a-holic that I know.

Brave New World

Every single morning I surf the Internet looking for novelties about Modern Architecture. In fact, there are a lot of good websites and blogs showing new trends and different ways to see the worlds, throw the poetry of stones. I always ask myself how common people see the space around, and if they perceive cool buildings.

For me, the most interesting thing in Contemporary Architecture, in addition to esthetics, is the use of new technologies. Speccially here in Brazil, where we´re more accustomated to see them in other areas, as in automotive industry. Of course, our Economy doesn´t allow many "flying highs", but in an ethic point of view, the research in new technologies for architecture (for example in efficient kind of "skins"), can provide more sustanable buildings - and life - in the future, don´t you think?

Furthermore, considering that architecture is also a form of art, and not only building, when I started looking for some buildings in Europe this morning, I noticed people really enjoy interacting with them. Until the point they become real icons for their cities. And, as somebody said: "architecture is history told in stones", how kind of history about us will our grandchildren read in the future?

Examples of Contemporary Architecture with people´s interaction.

Paulo Coelho

"It says that we need a minute to notice a special person, an hour to appreciate it, a day to love it, but then a whole life to forget it" (Paulo Coelho). This is just one of many famous quotes written by this renowned writer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He attended a Jesuit School. As a teenager, Coelho wanted to become a writer but because his opposition to following a traditional path, his parents commiting him to a mental instituition from wich he escaped three times before being released at the age of 20. At his parents wishes, Coelho enrolled in a law school but one year later, he dropped out and life as a hippie, traveling through South America, North Africa, Europe, and becoming to Brazil Coelho worked as a songwriter, composing lyrics for Elis Regina, Rita Lee, and Brazilian icon Raul Seixas. He also worked as an actor, journalist and theatre director before pursuing his writing carreer. The diversity of people, places and emotions is also feature in Paulo Coelho's writing. He is the author of "The Alchemist", a book that record holder as the book with the highest number of translations in the world, and it was bestseller in many of this countries including Mandarin that reached number 1 among bestsellers in Dangdang, the largest on-line bookstore in China.

An interview with Paulo Coelho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2RvgpCie4

The planet is fine?

Have you ever though about the future of the earth and what is the meaning of life? Watch this video with the Geroge Carlin and understand the real meaning of living in the earth. [video]

Sandman

Do you know Sandman? The third of The Endless? Well, this guy is the Dream's King and he belogs to a large family of six brothers: Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delirium. The brothers have very diferent personalities, but in somethings, like the black hair and the white skin, they're similar. This King is also a caracter invented by Neil Gaiman.

Sandman is very powerful and he can't be killed. His power came from three objetcs: a ruby, a mask, that's like a had of a fly, and a sandbag. Take care, influenciate, create or destroy the dreams that we, humans have, are his mission.

Talking a little bit about Sandman as a caracter, if you have the opportunity to read the compleate version of his adeventures or the comics, you will notice that, all along the books, his design chance, but never the way that the stories are write. You also will never find a movie, or some extended version about Sandman, because, Neil Gaiman had never permited such a thing, and this is good, if you are the kind of person that, like me, think that stories need to have the begging, middle and end.

Cools Websites regarding Curitiba - Brazil

Hello everybody, today I will post some COOL WEBSITES for you enjoy news from Curitiba in English. The first movie that you will see is regarding the City Curitiba and the preparation for the world cup in 2014. The report is from CNN and they did it to show the city for anyone who does not know the city Curitiba.

The second movie that I will share with you is about the same issue, Curitiba and the people that live there. The movie show transportations, squares, botanical garden, theaters and a lot of places that you would like to visit when you go to Brazil.

1. Link to CNN: [click here]

2. Link to ted.com [click here]

3. Image to Tangua´s Park [click_here]